Notes of Interest Surrounding WWDC Announcements
- June 9th, 2009 - 11.49 pm UTC
- Apple News, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, MacBook Pro, MobileMe / .Mac, WWDC 2009, iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.x
- Alex Brooks
With so many announcements being made by Apple at the WWDC 2009 keynote some smaller items are often overlooked. Now the initial hype has died down these tidbits can be looked into further.
Apple has posted a web page covering several features of Mac OS Snow Leopard, some of these were discussed during the keynote but many are unknown as some were not even present in previous builds of the operating system due for release in September.
Also the presence of ZFS in Mac OS X Snow Leopard server appears to have vanished, it was initially listed as a major new feature of Snow Leopard server.
During the keynote Scott Forstall demonstrated the use of Geolocation to enable iPhone and MobileMe users to find their iPhone anywhere in the world via the “Find My iPhone” feature. But Apple didn’t mention that it intends to release an iDisk app which will enable iPhone users to view and share files stored on their MobileMe iDisk’s.
Despite the iPhone 3GS being identical in appearance to the iPhone 3G one little piece of information on the Apple website states that the screen now has a fingerprint resistant oleophobic coating.
Finally Apple appears to have sacrificed a digital audio port on the 13-inch MacBook Pro to allow for the new FireWire 800 port and SD card slot.
Comments
GianPaJ 10th June 2009, 01.21 am
What about “Multi-Touch gestures in older Mac models” ?
It says: “All Mac notebooks with Multi-Touch trackpads now support three- and four-finger gestures.”
ALL? does somebody know more info?
Robert 10th June 2009, 02.37 am
I keep seeing that the new macbook 13 inch pro has an SD slot. What is that good for. For example does it act like an SSD? Can you use time machine with it? Can it run devices or peripherals?