iCloud, Mac OSX Lion and IOS 5 steal the spotlight at WWDC

Well today was a fairly predictable day at WWDC, apple talked about what it said it was going to talk about and nothing more. So those expecting a Iphone 5, a new macbook air or a iwork 11, well, today was not that day.

WWDC was all about the iCloud, the new update to OSX Lion and the update to the moblie OS, iOS5. If you where following rumors at all, pretty much they where all hit on.

Mac OS X Lion is basiclly a update with a few cool features. The coolest of these features is resume, where you can quit a app, and when you open it back up it starts in the same place as you left it. Other features like auto save and expose seemed cool. The price point is only 30 bucks and the new OS will be out in July in the Mac App Store. So it seems if you don't have snow leopard you won't be able to skip to Lion.  It will be interesting to see how they deal with that situation. 

iCloud is basically a push service for your devices. So when you buy some songs on your computer, they appear on your phone to. For those with non itunes stuff, you can pay 25 bucks to have itunes scan your library and match the songs with their itunes counterparts. Overall, it seems pretty cool. You can also sync your contacts, calendar and photos to. MoblieMe is dead and has been replaced. 

And of course, IOS 5 was introduced. Main feature updates where a improved notification system (now it works kinda like the Android one), a do to list included in the calendar (kinda like tasks in gmail) and a speedy camera app. ISO 5 comes this fall (along with a new iphone I'm thinking)

Overall, WWDC was pretty chill. Mostly just some needed updates and no real shockers or new hardware which is kinda disappointing. Hopefully Apple has some real cool tricks this summer.