Everyone expected new devices, however the WWDC, Apple’s world developers conference has brought other less visual but probably more important novelties. We tell you which ones.
Three have been the great novelties of those of Cupertino during the developer conference that takes place between June 2 and 6: the new OS X Yosemite operating system, the iOS 8 update and the iOS 8 SDK, with more than 4,000 new APIs.
OS X Yosemite is the new version of the operating system for Mac. Visually the change is noticeable, cleaner, with a redesign of the icons and fonts to give consistency with respect to other devices of the brand. The toolbars are more focused on content and the notification center aims to give the user at a glance everything they need to know about the weather, the stock market, social networks, and more. For its part, iCloud Drive takes center stage in the new Yosemite, integrating directly into the Finder and working like any other folder. Finally Safari has improved the navigation bar, modifying the classic bookmarks and showing the thumbnails of all open pages in a single tab. They have also improved privacy control with independent private browsing windows and standard compatibility with DuckDuckGo, a search engine that does not track user information.
Regarding iOS 8 , Craig Federighi, Apple’s vice president of Software Engineering explained that “it offers easier, faster and more intuitive ways to use the device, with fantastic new features such as iCloud Photo Library, a new Messages app, the QuickType keyboard and the new Health app “. And it is the biggest update of the operating system of those of the apple since they launched the App Store . It includes new features to share messages, photos, videos, etc. more easily and, depending on the brand, the New predictive writing is “smarter and more personalized” because it intelligently takes context into account, but everything that the system learns is never sent to the cloud.
The last of the novelties that Apple has presented has been the software development kit for iOS 8, the SDK. It is the largest version in history with more than 4,000 new APIs with which to create new applications and improve the user experience. The SDK also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes performance, and Swift, a new programming language . And if that weren’t enough, it includes two frameworks that seem the key to the future of applications for Apple, HealthKit and HomeKit, dedicated to the health sector and the management of devices at home, such as doors, heating, lights, and so on.
