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SAN FRANCISCO – "How many developers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
With that geeky joke (the answer? "None, that's a hardware problem"), Apple's Siri voice-control system opened the company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. But the real star of the show was a razor-thin new MacBook Air that Apple called its most beautiful computer ever.
Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage after the warm-up jokes ended, to begin with a bit of hype about the popularity of software on Apple's gadgets. The App Store has some 650,000 apps and over 30 billion downloads to date, he said.
He quickly segued into the real highlights of the show: the updated Mac computers.
"Today we're announcing new changes in our notebook lineup, and new versions of our OS and iOS," Cook told the assembled programmers and enthusiasts from around the world who gathered at the Moscone conference center for what some called "the biggest event Apple has held in years."
New software isn't much of a surprise: Apple has used its WWDC to announce new iPhone software for the past few years.
More interesting is the next-generation MacBook Pro, unveiled by Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing.
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SAN FRANCISCO – "How many developers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
With that geeky joke (the answer? "None, that's a hardware problem"), Apple's Siri voice-control system opened the company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. But the real star of the show was a razor-thin new MacBook Air that Apple called its most beautiful computer ever.
Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage after the warm-up jokes ended, to begin with a bit of hype about the popularity of software on Apple's gadgets. The App Store has some 650,000 apps and over 30 billion downloads to date, he said.
He quickly segued into the real highlights of the show: the updated Mac computers.
"Today we're announcing new changes in our notebook lineup, and new versions of our OS and iOS," Cook told the assembled programmers and enthusiasts from around the world who gathered at the Moscone conference center for what some called "the biggest event Apple has held in years."
New software isn't much of a surprise: Apple has used its WWDC to announce new iPhone software for the past few years.
More interesting is the next-generation MacBook Pro, unveiled by Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing.
...
http://news360.com/article/56533074
Shared via News360 for Windows Phone 7. Learn more at http://news360app.com.
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