Apple today introduced its new operating systems for Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 for iPhones and iPads at the WWDC 2014 event in San Francisco. But that’s not all with iCloud, hands free Hey Siri, fresh Safari and new entries like Health and HealthKit the WWDC event has a lot to offer to developers and Apple Fans.
OS X Yosemite:
The first highlight of Apple’s most awaited World Wide Development Conference is its new computer operating system OS X Yosemite that aims to establish more links between Apple’s phone and computer OS.
The new OS X 10.10 aka Yosemite has new slightly darker look, translucent total and menu bar, totally revamped UI and refurbished apps. Yosemite has OS spotlight search as the front and center system that provide an alternative to Google.
iOS 8:
Along with new OS for Mac Apple also introduced its new Phone operating system iOS 8 which will be available for consumer this fall. The new iOS 8 brings interactive notifications to iPhones and iPads like swipe notifications options with accept and decline buttons.
The new iOS gives easy access to contacts as it opens the entire contact list with 2 tap on home button, mail, safari and app store have also been revamped to give iOS 8 a total makeover.
Hands Free “Hey Siri” with Shazam:
Now Apple’s famous voice recognition system Siri has a hands free phrase “Hey Siri”. The updated voice recognition system if Apple’s response to the Ok Google in Android devices that was first launched with Moto X last year. Siri is now linked with Shazam to play your favorite video with just a voice command.
Safari:
Apple claims that its browser Safari is now better than ever with a new interference that enables the browser to adopt new iOS8 and OS X Yosemite. The new Safari gets better browsing with search options available as soon as you type a search term, it has better sharing options and it takes less power to do job.
iCloud:
The new iCloud Drive is Apple’s version of Google drive and popular app Dropbox that stores your files and photos into the cloud. Although, it has been long coming the iCloud drive is certainly a welcome move as users might prefer to use an integrated cloud service rather than going through the trouble of using an outside software for the same job.
Apple might be coming late in the cloud drive business but it can easily dominate the space if it takes good use of its already integrated system.
Health:
The rumor about Apple’s Healthbook were doing rounds for quite a while but all that didn’t seem to come true in WWDC 2014. However, Apple did release a “Health” app that is as per Apple a simplified Dashboard display of your health and fitness data. The pictures released at the WWDC event show that Health measures your heart rate, blood sugar and cholesterol level it also keep the count of burnt calories.
HealthKit:
Alongside Health, Apple has also introduced another feature called HealthKit for developers who can access the information stored in “Health” via HealthKit in order to use it in Health or Fitness App. HealthKit’s easy sharing option allows various Apps to share and store health and fitness data. In coming days we may also see HealthKit as a medium between patient and doctor to share health data digitally as some medical majors confirm to be working on HealthKit based apps.
