However, I am by far no expert, and I AM definitely a fan boy. Apple is one of those companies that I love, and yes, I do see that they can mess things up (for example iCloud). If a company makes ten decisions and gets two wrong, and still manages to make a billion, okay, I can forgive that. However let's get into why this keynote was such a big win for me and by me I mean me.
Let's start with iCloud:
Now iCloud, as far as a normal iPhone user is concerned, comes down to an iPhone back-up and photo storage. Apple starts you off with 5GB, and we all know that there's very little we can do with that.
Dropbox @ Free: 2GB, $10/month: 100GB, $20/month: 200GB $40/month: 500GB
Google Drive @ Free: 15GB, $2/month: 100GB, $10/month: 1TB
iCloud Drive @ Free: 5GB, $1/month: 20GB, $4/month: 200GB
iCloud @ Free 5GB, $1.66/month: 10GB, $3.33/month: 20GB, $8.33/month: 20GB
So if you are already someone who pays for the seamless life, this will prove to be a big upgrade, should it work; it will be what iDisk was promised and what Dropbox is. All you devices, with all your files, and you don't even have to think about it.
The next big thing "Health" and "Healthkit"
Where to start...
So I like going to the gym, but I LOVE going to the gym with my iPhone. Why? Cuz there is an App for the gym machines, I can play out a workout at home; walk into the gym, plug in and start, how cool is that?! I love Nike running shoes, guess what? There is an app for that too! I go running, the app knows how far, number of steps, and all the other relevant health stuff. I have a blood pressure unit, and yes, there is an app for that, when I take my blood pressure, it knows. Now, let's say you have seven odd devices that know things about your well being, yes, that's good, but now Apple comes and says, you know, you don't have to read from the seven apps you have in order to know what's going on with you, why not just take this one app, and tell your other apps to feed it the information. Do you understand what just happened there?... It's like the Hobbit all over... the best thing about these, for the people with other devices, the manufacturers can still build their devices to other platforms, nothing is "forced" on anyone. All Apple is saying is build your devices, build your apps, and we will have this app on the sideline that will pull it all together. So it does not matter to Apple who the maker of the device is, once there is an IOS app for it, we are happy. This opens the door to any player.
Have a read from 9to5mac. This brings us to Homekit.
Homekit...
Homekit...
Now this is what I've been waiting for. Let me restart.
Drives up to my gate, "Hi Siri, I am home with one guest car."
The drive bay for my car opens, along with the bay for the guest car, because I fix cars, and I have an area for them. Because, I don't use the front door when I have a guest car, the side door unlocks. Now before any of this happens, I have to use touchID; the AC comes on, and the GE small fridge, drops the temperature 15 degrees for when I offer my guest a cold coke.
Not too long after, my wife comes home with the kids. As she enters the yard, the front door unlocks, the AC in the bedrooms turn on, and the water heater turns on. And that people, is just for starters. My word, I hope Apple does right by this. Just like Health, there are 100's of apps which offer to control some devices, but again, what we are missing now is the integration, and this is what Apple is looking to do. Let the manufacturers do what they do best, we trust that Apple will just tie it all in.
"Home Kit provides seamless integration between accessories that support Apple's Home Automation Protocol and iOS devices, allowing for new advances in home automation. By promoting a common protocol for home automation devices and making a public API available for configuring and communicating with those devices, Home Kit makes possible a marketplace where the app a user controls their home with doesn’t have to be created by the vendor who made their home automation accessories, and where home automation accessories from multiple vendors can all be integrated into a single coherent whole without those vendors having to coordinate directly with each other.
- Home Kit allows third-party apps to perform three major functions:
- Discover accessories and add them to a persistent, cross-device home configuration database.
- Display, edit, and act upon the data in the home configuration database.
- Communicate with configured accessories and services to get them to perform actions, such as turning on the lights in the living room."
Some things that already work:
No I am not done...
Continuity... Now if nothing else works in the set, being able to answer my iPhone from any other IOS device. Too Long.. Too Long... Take my money Apple. Again this is talking to the person that is quite literally, a part of the Apple lifestyle. Everything thing just works... Only, being able to move from the Desktop to the iPad to the iPhone... love it! That is something you should expect from Apple Products. That is they flow seamlessly into one another.
Continuity... Now if nothing else works in the set, being able to answer my iPhone from any other IOS device. Too Long.. Too Long... Take my money Apple. Again this is talking to the person that is quite literally, a part of the Apple lifestyle. Everything thing just works... Only, being able to move from the Desktop to the iPad to the iPhone... love it! That is something you should expect from Apple Products. That is they flow seamlessly into one another.
Now you need to understand that they is one fundamental, background here, that is Trust, people that use apple products, really do trust them. So when you pass your figure over the TouchID you KNOW that no one but the phone knows that it you, not even Apple. So people know that when they have all this data synced, it is with that trust in mind that no one else other than who you say can see the information, is really that.
Again these are the main things for me, i don't know how our local banks will handle TouchID for or when they do make the move to iPhone apps. Metal for gaming, that to me is icing on the cake. the new programming language, Swift, if this works like it should, this is bring a younger generation, into programming, more so if Apple makes its push into the education market. nothing beats "writing code" and seeing what it does as you write it.
Ahhhhhh one more thing...
Some quick links:
MacBreak Weekly 405
Apple IOS 8 Preveiw
Apple Swift
"Hi Siri you may now prepare my bath"
Again these are the main things for me, i don't know how our local banks will handle TouchID for or when they do make the move to iPhone apps. Metal for gaming, that to me is icing on the cake. the new programming language, Swift, if this works like it should, this is bring a younger generation, into programming, more so if Apple makes its push into the education market. nothing beats "writing code" and seeing what it does as you write it.
Ahhhhhh one more thing...
Family Sharing... this like when Netflix give us "profiles". as it is now, My son, my wife and i and are the main users. i am two accounts, one US that i use gift cards with and one local that is linked with apple and my CC. Now, my son needs to try every app, i mean really, my wife, i don;t understand, she never goes into the app store, so i am guesting that it must be my son. Now i no longer have automatic downloads on because i would have 10 free apps every week, that i never picked. Music, my wife love music, now if you know my wife she is more black than me, the first thing she would download is 2pac, now we have 3 kids, Dear mama, can only play that number of times. so now that every one can share music books movies or download their own and have their own profile, all i need to do is approve stuff when someone tries to buy something. I really really like that.
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/family-sharing/Some quick links:
MacBreak Weekly 405
Apple IOS 8 Preveiw
Apple Swift
"Hi Siri you may now prepare my bath"
