So WWDC is starting today, excited to see some updates. I'm a little worried about this huge "flat icon" rumor that has been "confirmed". Now we're going to have to update all of our apps with new icons right? That's going to be a lame week! But I guess that gives me an excuse to add other updates to my apps if I need to send in a update for the icon anyways :) Heh. What are your thoughts? Excited as a user and worried as a developer? Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

Free Buzztouch t-shirt to the person that nails the 'big' news to come out of this one. Remember the words of chief bottle washer, change is good! Updating some key apps for folks this summer so if change is required the timing is good.

Your on! Apple announces direct buzztouch integration, submit your app to itunes from buzztouch. I'll DM you address for that shirt when I win this one. ;) Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

Ha! Nice one buddy.

Lol @MrDavid. I think we'll see a new device - some sort of wearable tech to make me feel like my Pebble is already obsolete!

I think it will be a pretty ho-hum WWDC. I think the biggest announcement will be iRadio. I am curious about the "give developers more access" quote from Tim Cook.

I don't know - I think Tim Cook knows he needs to come out in a big way to give the market confidence that he's the right man for the job. Not sure what that big way might be, but surely he knows it's time for Apple to make a splash again.

They are streaming it live so could be a pretty big announcement as they don't usually stream it.

I didn't know they were streaming! I want a pebble so bad. I just don't want to buy one and have apple release one right after LOL. Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

OK. We have wearable tech (Chris1 has a t-shirt already so he is out of running - teehee) and we have iRadio.

missed the announcement - what's the wearable tech?

He's listing our predictions so far in this thread :) David https://buzztouchmods.com

oh lol - I was like, I just loaded the Apple page and it said starting at 11:00PDT - where's the secret stream!

my question is, what's the prize for the first person to create a plugin using a new iOS7 feature? :) Granted, I'm still trying to figure out a Passbook plugin for iOS 6...

btw, I was wrong - it's 10:00am PDT. (11:00 my time) :)

If the plugin market gets the rumored filters we heard about from susans developer emails (like compatible for 6.0, 7.0, etc) then the winner gets to have the sole plugin spot in the compatible for 7 category. :-p Passbook - I tried using it, but it just never seemed to be useful enough for me. Haven't heard much about it so I thought it was a flop - do many people use that feature/app? Trying to find that livestream ha! David https://buzztouchmods.com

Or on your AppleTV

Thanks Red Dog. Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

I think Passbook is too complicated for most apps to take advantage of. But for a business, it can be a powerful tool to increase sales. If I can get a plugin made, it will make things much easier. But, I also have a lot of other things to do in front of that project - lol.

@RedDog - on the AppleTV, huh? Maybe I need to put a TV in my office and hook up my AppleTV to it! Not sure my new boss would go for that...

Haha. I have 20 on my desk waiting for a tech to take and install in classrooms. I'm thinking I should "test" one today ;-)

I think the biggest news will come in the form of new interface design. WWDC is as much about iOS as it is about OSX, and I bet both operating systems are getting a significant design change. That's not too terribly exciting for most consumers, but this is a developer's conference. My "one more thing" guess would be the SDK for AppleTV. I've been thinking about that since my first AppleTV a year or so ago, when I wondered why there aren't any apps on it. This is just a guess, though - rumor mill has been pretty quiet on Apple TV. However, I think it would be smart if they announced a true apple television that would be available to buy in Q4, but the SDK is available now - developers have time to begin designing, coding and ready for the launch. That wouldn't be so outside of history, either, as the first iPhone was announced in January, but not available to buy until June of that same year. Start thinking about Buzztouch on your television!

Anybody ever use passbook? I have a few times. Kinda sucks in my opinion. My bet: Since Apple's huge sell-off and 35% devaluation of their stock they are being purchased by Google, and there will be a new reality series on FOX chronicling the transition. XL shirt please. Tim

That would be interesting - but I don't think all that forward-thinking. Interactive TV just hasn't taken off like people thought it would. Maybe Apple can change that - Google certainly couldn't. TV is just too passive of an activity. Now, if they can get video chat to work properly, it might become a powerful medium. But you need something like Skype that can work across platforms - the SmartTV market, although young, is very fragmented. An OSX overhaul would be nice. Perhaps they can finally get true integration between iOS and OSX, without sacrificing the application power of a desktop.

lol @Tim.

I am looking forward to it. I have doubts about any product release, because Apple usually keep their product announcements for the press in and usually at WWDC, they have software releases. I know it sounds mad (as an iOS developer), but I'm more looking forward to OS X instead of iOS! Although chances are that i'll be downloading iOS 7 today and tomorrow I can show it off to my class friends. I'll be watching this live in 20 mins: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/

5 more minutes Annandale! You're right, it's unlikely... but we all like to hope something big will happen! Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

Don't worry, I'm watching it now!

Aww what is this! It's telling me available shortly, and you're already watching? Grrrrr. You should do Teamviewer and let me watch (joking of course) haha! I'll keep refreshing... :) Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

Great...am watching Live in Singapore 1am....cheers....

David - same here :(

Ah - need to use Safari

SAFARI. HAHA! Thanks Chris. Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

Great...am watching Live in Singapore 1am....cheers....

dang - WWDC sold out in 71 seconds. lol.

Oh...fantastic...

Talk about hype for a opening store, how do they manage to get me excited for a store I can't visit? apple magic! Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

haha no kidding

wow - can I get that check? :)

5 billion in the last year? I'm doing something wrong! David https://buzztouchmods.com

Sea Lion... that would have been cool. David https://buzztouchmods.com

lol - yeah. Much better than Mavericks

well, looks like I won't need TotalFinder anymore.

@Chris TotalFinder will be happy to hear that. Tags = I need that. Cool. David https://buzztouchmods.com

oh thank God - I can finally unsubscribe from that forum complaining about the problem with multiple displays!

Now I just need a utility that can turn all my keywords into tags for my existing files... :)

Okay - now I do need that TV for my office! :)

LOL. Always one feature that is missing right? OK just tell us how long the battery lasts, stop beating around the bush! David https://buzztouchmods.com

And there goes LastPass ...

@Chris It sounds like you're suggesting Apple is inventing things that already exist? :) I don't know why, I just do not feel safe having my passwords synced on every device... lol! I'll keep my sticky notes for now. Calendar is beautiful, but Google Calendar is too integrated for me to move. Maps... let's see! David https://buzztouchmods.com

lol - yes it seems like a lot of that. But still welcome additions. I've been using LastPass for a while now - I've always felt pretty secure using it. Much More so than using the same password across multiple sites.

let's just hope my 2009 macbook will support Mavericks.

I KNEW IT. New Macbook Air. Looks like they are hitting this battery life issue very hard. I like that :) I think apple has a 5 year support thing? You might just be right in line. I bet 2008 won't be supported but 2009 will. Cross fingers? David https://buzztouchmods.com

Yeah - it's either that or ramp up my BT work! Especially since I can't get a new Macbook without my wife getting one too. ;)

okay - so you made it a cylinder to be harder to upgrade?

"Can't innovate anymore my ass" David https://buzztouchmods.com

I'm a little confused at what this is? David https://buzztouchmods.com

"Can't innovate anymore my ass." - Phil Schiller LOL New Mac Pro = My 2013 Tax writeoff :)

I don't like this cylinder design I think. David https://buzztouchmods.com

LOL The previous version they put next to it looks so much better! But design put aside, much more power in this one huh? :) David https://buzztouchmods.com

smaller also = harder to upgrade

I like portability in my laptops and tablets - I don't mind if they let my desktop stay "big", it's under my desk and out of my mind anyways, and I won't be dragging it around to the library - so I don't see the need for them to make them smaller and smaller. I think they're going to get to iOS 7 soon :) David https://buzztouchmods.com

yep yep

okay - i guess iWork for iCloud will save me a couple seconds. Not much more if their promises about improved performance hold up though. Why not just open documents in the OSX version?

Just think of all of the other things you could be doing now that you saved those couple of seconds? Innovation at its best! Is that powerpoint thier showing us? David https://buzztouchmods.com

That's totally powerpoint LOL. David https://buzztouchmods.com

Oh OK - gotcha, it's in a browser, that's pretty impressive. LOL firing up chrome, I laughed out loud! David https://buzztouchmods.com

okay - now maybe all those churches that can't afford Mac's can finally display Keynote presentations!

yay!

HERE IT COMES... David https://buzztouchmods.com

Air drop on iPhone

it's beautiful. So beautiful. David https://buzztouchmods.com

wow - just wow

Oops

Awesome...

so what's new for developers though?

We're about to find out I think! God it's beautiful. David https://buzztouchmods.com

well there goes the 'native' look of my new calendar plugin! lol

well there goes the 'native' look of my new calendar plugin! lol

Talk about transitioning to the home screen and apps, very smooth. Better reject that plugin binary and redo the entire look Chris. LOL. David https://buzztouchmods.com

....and how much of this will NOT run on my iPhone 4?

The messages, the bubbles are a tad too close for my preference, almost looks like their touching. Still beautiful, but that's going to bug me. David https://buzztouchmods.com

oh finally - more room for apps in a folder

hmm - i liked the rounded button better. The square look is too much like Android

Really? I kind of like this, but I'll be impressed if they do what the jailbreak community did with themes. There goes the millions of flashlight apps, and my plugin! David https://buzztouchmods.com

Looks very Google-y to me. But I'm just watching the live blog with still photos.

yay - sooo glad it integrates with iCloud keychain. Would have been disappointed if it didn't, but super glad it does.

Get on that live stream, pictures don't do this justice. David https://buzztouchmods.com

I like the Control Center swiping from the bottom. No more worrying about wearing out the home button with so many double clicks. (or failed attempts at double clicks, lol)

Not limited to 8 tabs, about time they fixed that! David https://buzztouchmods.com

again - way to innovate with things already invented by others

@Stobe I agree, the Control Center is pretty awesome. I'm wondering if developers can add stuff to it? David https://buzztouchmods.com

That's what I'm wondering too. Doesn't look like it though.

so far I haven't seen anything new for developers

CC was an android thing already? Either way I'm not surprised. David https://buzztouchmods.com

I was talking about tabs syncing across all your devices

and my iPhone 4S is out...

Ahhh gotcha. Airdrop, for a second I thought Apple took Drop Box, but it looks like it's not the same. Looks cool. Not sure if I'll use it much. David https://buzztouchmods.com

Theres no way I can store 3 years of photo's, I run out of space by my second year with the size each picture takes up. Moments looks cool. New interface looks cool. David https://buzztouchmods.com

he's got the limited edition 1tb model. :)

How did he manage to get his hands on of those? :p I want more information for developers, let's see it! David https://buzztouchmods.com

ha! they fired the woman behind Siri! Probably because she went public about it.

Oh no! My stream froze.

I heard she told users that the iphone was second best when you asked what the best smartphone was, I bet that's why they fired her. ;) The new voices sound fluid, I like it, but I wonder if it's truly fluid? David https://buzztouchmods.com

@Red Dog, refresh! You're missing it! David https://buzztouchmods.com

time will tell. Looks like Apple is trying to convince me to upgrade my car now too...

LOOK. THEY REMOVED THE ONE APP PER PAGE SEARCH. David https://buzztouchmods.com

auto updates of apps should help us as developers

except that users will be upset for those apps that introduce bugs with updates.

Yeah auto-updates will be nice, I won't have to spam users with push. ;) I can't tell if they actually removed the one app per page search, if they did, we should expect some better download stats in cliche app searches or massive categories I would think :) David https://buzztouchmods.com

Bye bye Pandora?

yep - a lot of reinventing the wheel in this WWDC

no more selling iPhones on ebay?

and here we go

NYC will be happy to hear that. What was it, 40% of crimes there are iPhone related? David https://buzztouchmods.com

nice - native barcode scanning

Today Chris! Today!

Face Time audio. VOIP. Bye Bye Line2 also

iPhone 4 and up for iOS 7 - not bad. Girlfriend has 4S so she'll be happy to hear this. David https://buzztouchmods.com

Loves the activation lock...really powerful...

yep - i have another year on my contract, so that's good.

now the question becomes ... what is the deprecation list? :)

So this update only leaves out the IPT 4G users. Bummer.

Yeah - I ditched my iPod and doubled with my iPhone 5 as my music player. David https://buzztouchmods.com

and now time to get some lunch...and lose my jailbreak

ya, but there's a lot of kids out there with IPTs, and most are probably 4Gs. (got one in my house)

not bad - we broke 125 posts in this thread - lol

Heh, this is one update losing jailbreak should be worth for! 2 and a half hours gone like that. @stobe I never thought of that, IPT's would make a lot of sense for kids. Lunch time here too... fun watching and commenting together. iOS7 beta for developers is for download today... can't wait. David https://buzztouchmods.com

Nice presentation. I wish Craig was head of Apple, because he has humour that Tim Cook doesn't! By the way, Johny Ive is British! I feel proud. I saw him once in Oxford.

@Chris - whoa! talk about a big thread.. looks like BT should add pages to threads as the next update :) takes a while to scroll down now. David https://buzztouchmods.com

Enjoy your lunch. Is my sleeping time here at 3am. Haha

Lol no kidding.

It would be nice to have newest post on top.

It'll be on my phone as soon as the Apple dev center starts working

lol - yeah it's being overrun it seems - no surprise there

Site will not load for me, lol, this was expected. David https://buzztouchmods.com

They're obviously updating the site, and also right now there must be huge demand for that site.

yeah - not looking forward to what the download rate must be once i do get the download started!

My internet always drops so I'm really hoping for a non-corrupted smooth download. Crossing fingers. Refreshing. F5 F5 F5 F5. David https://buzztouchmods.com

The Apple.com website looks great

@MrDavid I dont know if its been mentioned, but there's no point in your plugin anymore. Sorry.

@Annadale LOL! I mentioned that in this thread yup, flashlight is integrated into iOS now - LOL. :-( David https://buzztouchmods.com

wonder what happens when you use a flashlight app and then turn on the native flashlight? :P

1500 new api's Kittsy is going to be a busy boy making pretty stuff tra la la la

wow!! what a thread. pretty good stuff coming ahead with Apple! can't wait

Challenge for Kittsy: 1500 new plugins before iOS8. @chris we will find out soon. lol! David https://buzztouchmods.com

Can't wait I've always hated ugly nav bars and and boring tableviews. @david how did the new nav bar button turn out

@kittsy sorry I meant to email you back. Haven't added the image yet but managed to make a cool color scheme with the first code you gave me. Will send you a screenshot of it all done soon, both the new code and image code! Might also have a tiny bug report for you ready ;p David https://buzztouchmods.com

Man you guys have been busy today. I have been looking forward to this update for awhile now. iOS 7 is the first version released since Scott Forstall got shown the door at Apple and Tim Cook shook up his management team. iOS 7 is the un-Scottify version of iOS. Looking forward to even better things in iOS 8.

Ok, just so I can say I had the 150th post... :)

Darn, I was trying to get that 150. That's okay, 200th is mine. Please keep talking. Haha. @nad I wonder what steve would think of the new iOS7, I wish he could have seen it. David https://buzztouchmods.com

lol. So, did anyone win the t-shirt? :)

Nothing about buzztouch in keynote so I lost the shirt. I just sent you an email chris with your plugin live in the app store :) @Stobe, totally want to buy that buzztouch color code chain from you, do you still have one of those hanging around? David https://buzztouchmods.com