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hey everybody Ashley's gathered with TechnoBuffalo giving you the TLDR the too long didn't read or i guess the TLD w the too long didn't watch on the WWDC keynote today it's a two-hour long keynote so if you don't have the time here are the bullet points on what you missed it was a jam-packed keynote Tim Cook took the stage gave us some facts and figures on all of the money they've been giving to developers they've got built 50 billion app downloads I mean just billion was thrown around a lot during the keynote and then he wanted to talk about OS 10 the newest version of max operating system will be called OS 10 Mavericks they have offered us multiple display integration that allows displays to act independently of each other so if you've ever found yourself wanting to use Mission Control in one window but wanted to stay with your browser open in another window you can now do that another big piece of news for OS 10 users was tabbed finder so if you've ever found yourself with multiple Finder windows open you can now have one cohesive Finder window with all of your different areas of note in tabs you're going to be able to tag files very helpful for anybody who's ever wanted to search for files across time but with the same theme so maybe I want to find a picture of CES from a few years ago I can do that now with tags we also saw as we normally see at WWDC hardware refreshes and this time around it was the macbook air so the macbook air a lot of people were crossing their fingers for a Retina update we didn't quite get that this year but we did get a huge increase in battery life so the 11-inch MacBook Pro is going to go up to 9 hours of battery life as opposed to five before and the 13-inch macbook pro because it has a bigger battery is actually going to go up to 12 hours of battery life as opposed to the seven it had available to it before that's a pretty big leap and leads me to the conclusion that it's pretty obvious Apple is actively working on bringing retina to the macbook air it's just going to take time because they have to make sure that the battery life is sustainable for something like retina there was also a hardware unveiling something I was hoping to see this year at WWDC and Apple made my wishes come true the Mac Pro a new refreshed Mac Pro finally showed up at WWDC and it's kind of insane it's amazing it's this little tiny thing they showed its 18 of the size of a regular mac pro which is a huge Tower and they have added Thunderbolt ports they've got the you standard USB they are rocking two video cards by default in there by AMD it is going to be incredible they showed off a little bit of the specs it was a sneak peak so they didn't give us the full details I would have bought one today if I have the ability to but unfortunately we're going to have to wait till fall to check out these super powerful and super tiny Mac Pro and of course the big news the most anticipated part of WWDC this year for many of you iOS 7 was unveiled we got a pretty big taste of it it is a lot flatter for sure jony ive has busted out the steamroller and he's also removed all of the brushed aluminium the felt the wool the stitched leather it's all gone you will not see any of that stuff in iOS 7 as I mentioned in my expectations post last week it was a subtle shift and a subtle change in some ways if you've used an iphone for a long time it will be a big change for you I think but if you have used android or windows phone it might be a little bit less of a shift it might be something you're a little more use to finally multitasking you have these lovely notifications everything's a little bit different Siri now has men and women voices which is really cool I would like to see Apple license glados's voice I would like to see GLaDOS telling me how to run my iphone but I don't think they'll do that but if you do Apple you're welcome for the great idea apple also announced iTunes radio it is a radio service similar to pandora they also have the same similar sort of fee structure but it's a little bit different so if you have itunes but you don't have itunes match that's 25 bucks a year you will get an ad-supported version of iTunes radio if you subscribe to iTunes Match which is 25 bucks here you get an ad-free version of iTunes radio so it's sort of a value add to itunes match the real question is is the functionality and the service similar to pandora and can genius provide an equivalent algorithm to Pandora's Music Genome Project those are the two big questions about iTunes radio I'll be really curious to try it out I'm sure we're going to be giving it a test run as soon as we have access to it so stay tuned for that but at the end of the day it will be really interesting to see how many users leave pandora and come to iTunes radio because they're already using iTunes Match that's it for the WWDC TLD w i guess too long didn't watch we will see you guys for recaps all over III show floor but for now I got to start 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