Apple iWatch To Be Retailed Around $300

Investment firm, UBS, believes that the upcoming “iWatch” from Apple is expected to become a best-selling device with consumers, reaching sales similar to the iPad. UBS said in the note to the investors that Apple could sell 21 million smartwatches in the first year alone, and 36 million iWatch units in the second year.They have predicted the price tag of $300 for the anticipated wearable device.Overall, the iWatch is expected to give substantial growth to the shares of Apple.

“We are more confident that Apple will be introducing the iWatch before the holiday season following WWDC’s introduction of HealthKit, recent healthcare hirings, the acquisition of LuxVue Technology, and optimistic comments from Eddy Cue at the Re/Code Conference,” UBS analyst Steven Milunovich wrote in the note, which was picked up by AppleInsider.

In terms of dollars, UBS also thinks that the iWatch will add $6.5 billion in revenue to Apple’s bottom line in 2015, and $11 billion in 2016. The firm also believes that the iWatch will sell even better than the iPad, initially.

“We expect iWatch sales to roughly track iPad unit sales — similar penetration rates would mean higher sales,” he said. “iWatch might do better because the customer base is larger than when iPad launched and the ASP might be less. On the other hand, iWatch is the first product to be worn, which might not appeal to all users.”

Cupertino-based tech company is falling under pressure to come up with a wearable device that would either match or overpower what competitors are offering. As WWDC 2014 is approaching soon, Apple has already placed much investment in health monitoring functions by incorporating such features in the recent iOS 8 software update.

The iOS 8 unveiling might have coincided with iWatch development, which uses the health functions similar to what was mentioned earlier. At this time, iWatch actual specs — if there are any — remains sparse. Even so, more information may be available in the following months leading up to the iWatch’s eventual inauguration sometime later this year.

Apple iWatch To Be Retailed Around $300

Apple Unveils iOS 8, the Biggest Release Since the Launch of the App Store

Apple has officially wrapped off iOS 8,at its  WWDC 2014 developer conference in San Francisco on Monday.The update includes some noticeable user interface and design changes from iOS 7 while maintaining the same design language.It is considered as the biggest update to Apple’s mobile operating system since the company launched the App Store in 2008.

Apple’s iOS 8 is indeed a huge update since the company launched the App Store in 2008. It stands out with being as much about end users, as it is about developers. Ordinary users will note new features like the new Health hub application, Siri’s expanded functionality, the added support for custom keyboards, for widgets (limited, but still… widgets on iOS!), interactive “actionable” notifications… Developers, on the other hand, will have to master the new Swift coding language, work on embedding TouchID where appropriate, and so much more.

Tim Cook describes iOS 8 as “a huge release” that actually has two stories: one with a ton of new features for end users and the other rich on new capabilities for developers. Starting with the user side of things, you can now respond to incoming messages directly from the notification drop-down, and you no longer need to exit the app you’re already in.

We have filtered out few remarkable features of iOS 8 from Cupertino giants.
Health is the new app announced by Apple to venture into the fitness tracking space.The concept is similar to Apple’s Passbook app, the iPhone’s virtual pocket for things like airline boarding passes, movie tickets and coupons. The Health app will be able to pull in data from other third-party apps such as Nike to keep all your health-related information in one hub.

Developers will use a service called HealthKit to integrate their apps with the Health app.

 

HomeKit  will essentially turn the iPhone into a remote control for the home.It will allow users to users to control locks, lights, cameras, doors, thermostats, plugs and switches via one iOS 8 app, without the need for multiple apps to control each device or function.Although iOS 8 doesn’t come out until the fall, the beta test (available now) will encourage developers to create software and products that will work with HomeKit.

 

Interactive notifications lets users to directly from the pull-down notification center in iOS 8, without leaving the app you are currently in. The new system in iOS 8 was demonstrated with an eBay widget in the pull-down notification center, which informed the user on the progress of a guitar bidding process. You can place your bid straight from the notification center, too, which adds interactive elements to the widget experience, and increases their usage tremendously.

 

Quicktype is an alternative keyboard in iOS 8 with suggestive typing with context awareness. Typing learning is private to the device so not shared or accessible by others; securely implemented.

Family Sharing feature allows to set up your family as a “unit,” so that you can share calendars, reminder lists, and also purchased media — allowing a family to download content across six family members who share the same credit card. If a child in that family wants to buy an app, the purchase can then be authenticated by an adult family member from their iOS 8-powered devices.

 

Siri is the closer for iOS 8, and it’s a pretty big one. You can now activate Siri without touching the phone, which I have actually been praying for since she arrived, by simply saying “Hey Siri.” Siri also now has Shazam integration, the ability to purchase content from iTunes, streaming voice recognition, and comes in 22 new dictation languages.

New Mail features and Gestures control

Mail might not be the most used communication application anymore, but that didn’t prevent Apple to intro a few enhancements, like the ability to send up to 5 GB attachments via iCloud Drive, and gesture navigation. With a swipe gesture you can now send an email to the trash, flag it, or see more details about it.

iMessage is the most used app on the iPhone, hands down. So they’ve spent some time working on the way we message each other.With Group Messages, you can name the thread, add and remove people, and set Do Not Disturb on a per-person basis within a thread.Apple has also added audio messages, which you can send by swiping left on a little beacon on the right of the typing window.

Group messaging allows us to name the threads, add and remove participants, set personalized Do Not Disturbs, and leave threads. Not only that, but you can easily record and send a voice text, stream a video, or share your location mid-convo, and all can be done within the new messaging app.

Spotlight is the new iOS 8 search function now enables you to search for almost everything, like news, apps installed on the device, points of interest, and even iTunes songs.Overall, it drags in more data from additional sources, and makes the overall search feature better, faster, and easier to use.

iCloud Drive is a Dropbox-like (or Google Drive-like) service for storing and sharing of files and multimedia, as well as syncing them across OS X, iOS, and even Windows devices. Apple also announced two new iCloud plans: 20GB for $0.99 a month and 200 GB for $3.99 a month.

 

Photos app is receiving the next “massive” update in iOS 8. You can now store more photos in the cloud than you can have in your device alone, thanks to the new iCloud Drive service.And not only do these devices sync edits, photos, and devices, but they have new Smart Editing features that let you do some pretty amazing edits to both Photos and Videos.

Apple has added a more advanced search within the Photos app that includes auto-suggestions from more recently taken photos, recently viewed, etc.

 

Handoff is an extension to AirDrop means that you’ll be able to start an email on any Apple device and pick up where you left off on another Apple device. The feature will work with Apple Mail, messaging through iMessage, tab syncing through Safari, and it will even allow you to make and receive calls on your Mac, while the call is run through your iPhone as a relay. Handoff will make it very easy to connect your Mac to an automatic hotspot created on your iPhone, too.

 

 

 

 

Apple Unveils iOS 8, the Biggest Release Since the Launch of the App Store

Apple WWDC 2014 Slides Leaked : Showing iPhone 6

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2014 takes place on June 2-6, 2014 in San Francisco. We are already aware that Apple has plans to unveil iOS8 and OS X 10.10 in this year’s WWDC. But what keeps everyone curious is that, is there going to be any announcement about an iPhone 6 in the conference?

Recently, we have been seeing quite a few mock-ups, designs and shells of iPhone 6 leaked on the internet, and now a few of them appear to be fake ones. If you are wondering how we can even be so sure those were not real, here comes the evidence – another leak. A video containing WWDC 2014 slides which appear to be captured behind the show stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Yes, we got details out of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 even before it take place.

The leaked captured video contains slides showing front of an iPhone 6, then the back of the phone and finally sides too. The device on the slides appears a silver white device with rounded edges that look more like the recently launched iPads.

That said we have quite a few questions popping out of our mind. Could this be the real deal after all those rumors and fake leaks? Could the Apple be planning to unveil the first hardware at the Worldwide Developers Conference since the iPhone 4?

The device in the leaked video containing WWDC slides looks in line with few of the recent leaks (of course not all). But it brings up another question; if Apple unveils iPhone 6 at the WWDC then it will contradict earlier rumors that the device will be released in September.

We don’t have to wait to know any further as the WWDC 2014 takes place today and we’ll get more details to compare with the rumors to be sure if there is going to an iPhone 6 release this month.

Apple WWDC 2014 Slides Leaked : Showing iPhone 6

Time and Date announced for WWDC Keynote

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference otherwise referred to as WWDC, kicks off in but 2 weeks’ time and earlier of the event’s commencing, the fruit company has simply updated its official WWDC app for WWDC 2014. As you may expect, the full app has been given the quality iOS 7 makeover, emphasized throughout by a neat orange tint, and if you’re coming up with on heading right down to the event, it provides all of the knowledge you’ll want.

Last time around, Apple flung in quite few new options with apprise to the WWDC app for 2013; however the new edition 2.0 is basically unchanged apart from the said UI tweaks. It is, however, plenty a lot of pleasing on the attention due to these minor changes, and is currently additionally in-keeping with the remainder of the company’s mobile OS.

Speaking of that, iOS eight is predicted to be the most topic of language, and from what we’ve detected, there’s abundant to seem forward to. The star of the show, apparently, are going to be the Health book suite, which is able to enable users to count calories, monitor diet and alternative fitness and wellbeing-related aspects, however we’ve additionally spotted that there’ll be a individual iTunes Radio app, Shazam combination with Siri, and a bunch of alternative exciting additions and alterations. For a lot of information, see our feature-length post on what we all know up to now concerning iOS eight, that we’ve connected at the foot of this post.

OS X, for the meantime, also will get on the schedule, and like iOS seven last year, is about for a dramatic style overhaul which will see planate UI parts and cleaner, shriller lines. It’s predictable that we’ll see 1 or 2 different new options besides, and if something, we’re keener to examine what OS X 10.10 has future than its mobile counterpart.

Along with the discharge of the updated WWDC app, Apple additionally took the chance to verify that Apple’s huge keynote can occur at 10am at the Moscone Center on Mon, June 2nd, with Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook possible to create the massive announcements.

We’ll keep you rationalized on any WWDC-related information till that point, thus keep tuned!

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Time and Date announced for WWDC Keynote