Apple WWDC 2013: From iRadio to iO7, what to expect

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Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC) begins today in San Francisco. From iOS 7 to Apple’s rumoured iRadio service, here’s a look at what to expect at the conference today. WWDC starts today and goes on till 14 June.

iOS 7: The next edition of Apple’s mobile software for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads is likely to be shown off today.

The biggest change that is expected is in terms of designs. 9to5mac, had reported in the past that Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive seems to have gone for a complete design overhaul. The report states that, in software design meetings with Apple’s iOS designers, accompanied by Apple’s Human Interface vice president Greg Christie, Ive has shared his reasoning behind his distaste for the texture-heavy (skeuomorphic, a recording app will have an old fashioned microphone) interfaces heralded by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and former iOS chief Scott Forstall.


iRadio: Apple’s rumoured music streaming service which has been dubbed as iRadio by the tech industry is also likely to be launched at the conference. According to reports, Apple has already signed deals with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group for music licenses as it gets ready to launch the music streaming service which will rival Pandora, Google’s music streaming service.


MacBooks: According to a report in MacRumours report which quotes, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo as stating that the MacBook Air could see an update by late in the second quarter with Apple’s MacBook Pro moving to an all-Retina lineup early in the third quarter.

The MacBook Air series is likely to see upgrades with faster processors and WiFi. A report in DigitalTrends, states that the new Apple lineup will come with Intel Haswell chips.


OS X 10.9: The next level of Mac OS X is also likely to be previewed at the conference. There haven’t been too many leaks around this, and other than the fact that it will be named after a big cat, not much is known. What we are likely to see is more integration with iOS 7. According to the report on The Verge, Siri and Apple’s maps could be part of the new OS.


The iWatch: One more thing was a trademark of Apple’s late founder and CEO Steve Jobs, who would pretend to be leaving the stage but then pause and add ‘one more thing’ and end up showing awesome Apple products.

Will Apple’s Tim Cook bring back the one more thing at WWDC? The one product that could be a part of this is the iWatch, a smart watch device that Apple is supposedly working on it.

Apple CEO Tim Cook had hinted that the company too was working on wearable computers. “It’s ripe for us all getting excited about. I think there will be tons of companies playing in this,” he said.



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