Apple showed up at the
Worldwide Developers Conference with a
host of new offerings, but the one that could make or break the company’s vast
mobile fortunes, iOS 7, stood out the
most. As expected, Apple has torn itself away from skeuomorphic iconography and
design.
In fact, all corners of iOS
have received spit and polish. Besides changing the look of the core apps to a
ore minimalistic interface- even the slide-to-unlock lockscreen has been dumped
for a pull-the-screen-up style lockscreen-Apple has added a Control Center
Apple also launched !Tunes Radio, a music streaming service like
Pandora, besides showing a new version of Siri, which can now do both male and
female voices. The OS is currently in beta and is available for registered
Apple developers. There’s still a lot that could change between now and the
final version, and it will be interesting to see how Apple reacts to some of
the initial criticism.
In addition, Apple also
showed off the new OS X Mavericks operating system for its desktop products.
The new OS brings deeper integration with iOS as well as the desktop versions
of Apple Maps and !Books. There was also an announcement for !Work for !Cloud,
which brings Google Docs-like productivity apps for word processing, spreadsheets
and presentations through Safari.
