BUSINESS
May 29, 2012 | By Salvador Rodriguez
Apple has confirmed the keynote speech for its 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference will take place on June 11 at 10 a.m. PDT. The San Francisco conference is intended to provide developers that work with company's platforms with direction regarding Apple's future plans, but the keynote speech is typically used as one stage to introduce its next big product. The Cupertino-based company confirmed the event's time by updating its developers website with an official image of the conference as well as a schedule.
BUSINESS
March 22, 2013 | By Salvador Rodriguez
The next version of Apple's mobile operating system may feature a simpler user interface now that Jony Ive, the company's hardware design guru, is leading the team that is designing the way the software should look. Although the changes to the look of iOS 7 are expected to be "pretty conservative," the Apple operating system may start moving toward a more "flat design" that the Wall Street Journal reports would be "starker and simpler. " The Journal cites unnamed third-party developers who say they have spoken to Apple employees.
BUSINESS
April 24, 2013 | By Salvador Rodriguez
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company typically showcases the next versions of its mobile and Mac operating systems, has been set for June 10-14. At the conference, Apple is expected to unveil the next generation operating system for the iPhone and the iPad, iOS 7, as well as the next version of its Mac computers' operating system, which could be called Mac OS X 10.9. From time to time, Apple also uses WWDC to introduce users to new products. Last year, Apple announced the MacBook Pro with Retina display, a high-end laptop with an ultra-high resolution display, and in 2010, the company used the conference to announce the iPhone 4. There's no word yet on what, if anything, Apple may announce this year.
BUSINESS
May 15, 2012 | By Salvador Rodriguez
Rumors of a redesigned MacBook Pro are growing more rampant as an annual Apple conference draws nearer, with the latest development being that the new models will include improved Intel chips. The revamped MacBook Pros are expected to include Intel's powerful Ivy Bridge processing chips and will be unveiled at next month's Worldwide Developers Conference starting June 11, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The article is backed up by other reports that say scree nshots have appeared on the Web showing benchmark results for a MacBook Pro model not currently on the market running the Ivy Bridge processor.
BUSINESS
July 13, 2012 | By Salvador Rodriguez
The MacBook Pro with Retina, the star of last month's Worldwide Developers Conference, has finally seen an improvement to its shipping time from Apple's online store. After launching June 11, the MacBook Pro with Retina quickly sold out and saw its shipping time jump up to an estimated waiting time of three to four week before arrival. Now that time has finally been cut, but sadly, it's just a slight improvement of one week. MacRumors reported the improvement late last night, saying the change was first seen in Apple's Asia-Pacific market.
BUSINESS
April 25, 2013 | By Salvador Rodriguez
It took only two minutes for app developers to buy every last $1,600 ticket to Apple's annual conference when they went on sale Thursday morning. Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference has sold out every year going back to 2008, but this year tickets sold out faster than ever before even though the company gave developers only one day of notice before they went on sale. About 5,000 people usually attend the conference. Tickets sold out so quickly it prompted a few users to joke that Apple should follow in the footsteps of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and hold the conference twice on separate weeks. Wouldn't mind if Apple took a page from Coachella's book and made WWDC two separate weeks.