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New Opportunities For Developers With Mac OS X Lion, IOS 5, And ICloud
By Joe Purcell
Expert Author
Article Date: 2011-06-07
Announced on Monday at the World Wide Developer's Conference, Apple's new OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud are set to be released this year. With hundreds of new features, many new opportunities are to come for developers.
Mac OS X Lion will have new mutli-touch gestures, full-screen applications, mission control, resume for applications, auto save, document versioning, AirDrop file sharing, a revamped version of Mail, and more. The multi-touch gestures include rubber-band scrolling, page and image zoom, full-screen swiping, and more. The full-screen option will be available for all applications. Mission control gives a "bird's eye" view of applications, dashboard, expose, and spaces all at once. These are just a few of the 250+ features that will come with OS X Lion. The OS will be available as an upgrade in the app store in July for $29.99.
iOS 5 has over 200 new features for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Some of the main ones are a notification center, iMessage, Newsstand, Reminders, Wi-Fi Sync, AirPlay (for iPad 2), and much more. The Notification Center puts all the alerts in one place on the lock screen. iMessage supports free unlimited text and media messaging to anyone with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. The Newsstand organizes subscriptions to newspapers and magazines. Reminders is an advanced task application for organizing to-do lists and setting reminders, even setting location-based reminders. iOS devices can be synced to a computer over a Wi-Fi connection, and videos can be watched simultaneously with AirPlay.
All this can be tied together with iCloud. The new iCloud service will syncronize data from applications that tie into the iCloud API. Of all new features from Apple this year, iCloud will prove a major one. Upon release only a few applications will tie into the service, such as iTunes, iPhoto, and iWorks to name a few, but the service is open to developers for making applications that can sync as well.
With these new opportunities, Mac developers will have an exciting few years ahead. Demand for objective-c developers will certainly rise and put them in the spotlight.
About the Author:
Joe Purcell is a technology virtuoso, cyberspace frontiersman, and connoisseur of Linux, Mac, and Windows alike.
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