At its annual developers confab in San Francisco today, Apple unveiled a wide variety of new products and software updates. June 10, 2013 10:58 AM PDT CNET's live coverage of Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote At its Worldwide Developers Conference today, Apple gave the world a glimpse of the next products in its pipeline, with the next version of its Mac operating system leading the way. After years of giving OS X cat-related names (Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and so on), the company has moved on, choosing California-themed titles for future versions of the OS. And the first in that new line is OX 10.9, which will be known as Mavericks. Named after the world-famous surfing competition held near Half Moon Bay, Calif., Mavericks will be available today in a preview for developers, and for everyone else this fall. The new OS will feature improved battery life, many new applicaoions, better power management, tabs in Finder, and the ability to add tags to file names so they're more searchable. As well, Apple has built the ability to use multiple displays into Mavericks, giving power users (such as the developers who have filled WWDC to capacity) more screen real estate, and more multi-tasking capability. Apple's newest version of Safari was announced at WWDC today. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) The next new product is an updated Safari, Apple's browser. The latest Safari will feature a new home screen with top sites, a what's known as Reading list, a tool that lets users keep scrolling from the end of articles to the next stories on a site. And on the performance side, the next Safari has Nitro tiered JIT, Nitro fast start, background tab optimization, and better memory usage. Maps Given Apple's lost relationship with Google, the company has been forced to develop -- with very mixed results -- its own mapping tools. And now it is bringing Maps to OS X. The newest version of the tool features 3D maps, and the ability to get an instant estimated time to arrival for any address in a calendar event. Apple's new Maps tool allows users to get an instant ETA for any address in a Calendar event. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Stay tuned for further product announcements from WWDC.
At its annual developers confab in San Francisco today, Apple unveiled a wide variety of new products and software updates.
CNET's live coverage of Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote
At its Worldwide Developers Conference today, Apple gave the world a glimpse of the next products in its pipeline, with the next version of its Mac operating system leading the way.
After years of giving OS X cat-related names (Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and so on), the company has moved on, choosing California-themed titles for future versions of the OS. And the first in that new line is OX 10.9, which will be known as Mavericks.
Named after the world-famous surfing competition held near Half Moon Bay, Calif., Mavericks will be available today in a preview for developers, and for everyone else this fall. The new OS will feature improved battery life, many new applicaoions, better power management, tabs in Finder, and the ability to add tags to file names so they're more searchable.
As well, Apple has built the ability to use multiple displays into Mavericks, giving power users (such as the developers who have filled WWDC to capacity) more screen real estate, and more multi-tasking capability.
Apple's newest version of Safari was announced at WWDC today.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
The next new product is an updated Safari, Apple's browser. The latest Safari will feature a new home screen with top sites, a what's known as Reading list, a tool that lets users keep scrolling from the end of articles to the next stories on a site. And on the performance side, the next Safari has Nitro tiered JIT, Nitro fast start, background tab optimization, and better memory usage.
Maps
Given Apple's lost relationship with Google, the company has been forced to develop -- with very mixed results -- its own mapping tools. And now it is bringing Maps to OS X. The newest version of the tool features 3D maps, and the ability to get an instant estimated time to arrival for any address in a calendar event.
Apple's new Maps tool allows users to get an instant ETA for any address in a Calendar event.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
Stay tuned for further product announcements from WWDC.
