For a rather small company, Apple has been introducing plethora of new Software and Hardware products at an amazing rate. Neither Microsoft, nor any other company have kept pace with Apple in the past few months. Here is a short list of the important products that they have released in the past few months
Snow Leopard 10.6.3 update: Apple released this upgrade package for the OS X, their main Operating system, a couple of months back This massive 480MB+ update fixed many many problems and it also added many improvements and optimization to the OS X 10.6. You get the detail of what they did in that release here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014
iOS 4, the new handheld device operating system was announced shortly after, The iOS 4 SDK and a new version of the XCode was also releases, so their Mobile developers could continue working on new software projects targeted to the newly released iPad and iPhone. iOS 4 will be released with iPhone 4 and the iPad version will be readied by end of August of this year. Here is a great article outlining it:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/
iWork Mobile: Apple has ported all the iWork components from OS X to iOS 4, so now Pagers – Numbers & Keynote available for iPad. What is not clear is this: Will iWork Mobile work on the iPhone as well? If sop, would it only run on the new iPhone 4? I have a feeling that iPhone 3Gs will be able to run it.
iWork Site: The site which is Apple’s Cloud for storing & sharing iWork documents is up in Beta format and I tested it and it works fine. You can store your data in the cloud the data can shared with those that you invite them to inspect or collaborate with you. For the time being, iWork.com is free. But I am sure that one the system is out of Beta, it will be on a pay format. We all know Apple, right? they nothing for free!
OS X 10.6.4 + Security Update 2010-004: Another update for the OS X and an accompanying security update that was available to all 10.5 and 106 version of the OS, including the OS X server 10.5 and 10.6.
Safari 5: Apple has released a new version of Safari that seems to be more compatible with the HTML5 than any browser on the market. The WebKit rendering engine has also been updated. Here is a list of new and improved functionality in Safari 5.0
iTunes 9: Apple has updated iTunes to a totally new release of 9.0 so it will be compatible withe iPad and the new iPhone 4. Some modification also has been done to the application itself.
iBookStore: Apple has added the iBookStore to it’s online stores. Now Apple can sell books directly to their iPad customers. There is a possibility that Apple will be offering Audio Books on iBookStore.
WWDC10: Apple held its World Wide Developer Conference 2010 on June 7. I attended the occasion and had close to 17 hours of training courses. I had 7 hours of iPhone developers and 10 hours of OS X development (Core Graphics – Audio and OpenCL). What was strange in this years WWDC was the fact that Steve Jobs didn’t contain one word about Mac and OS X development. The entire keynote was about iPhone 4 and iOS 4.