Apple’s uncharacteristically detailed announcement didn’t just confirm that the WWDC would be a Stevenote: it also told us what he’d be talking about. Here’s what has been shown off. We’ll be updating this page throughout the keynote as the news is announced
Bjork is set to release her new album Biophilia as a multimedia project, comprised of teb separate iPad apps. It’s an intriguing move from the pixie-like Icelandic songstress, though there is still no confirmed release dates or pricing for Bjork’s new songs/apps. An innovative app album Biophilia will be Björk’s seventh album to date, with the title itself meaning “love of life or living systems” and a whole host of music and video production talent lined up to help out on the project, including feted director, Michel Gondry. Biophilia is set to be premiered as a multimedia live extravaganza at this year’s Manchester International Festival (MIF), were she has a three-week residency throughout July
Although it’s been rumoured for years that Apple will somehow finally fully embrace the cloud, it’s only lately that it feels Cupertino’s moving in the right direction. Apple’s rumoured to have splashed out $4.5 million on the iCloud.com domain , is said to be striking deals with a number of record labels (in stark contrast to the gung-ho approach taken by Google and Amazon for their respective cloud-based music services) and has even posted a job advert for a ‘Media Streaming Engineering Manager’. And on 31 May 2011, Apple confirmed that it would be unveiling iCloud, “Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering”, at WWDC 2011 . Latest rumours also suggest that iCloud could be free to Mac OS X Lion users .
Apple’s uncharacteristically detailed announcement hasn’t just confirmed that next week’s WWDC will be a Stevenote: it’s also told us what he’ll be talking about. So what can we expect? New hardware? Probably not Apple doesn’t usually tell us what Steve Jobs will introduce
We’re expecting big things from Apple this year: the iPhone 5 is imminent, some rumours suggest we’ll see the iPad 3 as early as this autumn and there’s a new version of iOS, iOS 5, in development. So what can we expect from the next generation of Apple’s mobile OS? Let’s ask the internet. iOS 5.0 release date isn’t until September…