Last week, Apple announced the finalists for the 2022 Apple Design Awards: 36 apps and games in six categories: Inclusivity, Delight and Fun, Interaction, Social Impact, Visuals and Graphics, and Innovation.
Today, the company announced two winners (one app and one game) in each category for a total of twelve 2022 Apple Design Award winners.
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and finalists:
Today’s keynote was a fast-paced affair that covered a lot of ground including upcoming updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. If you didn’t follow the live stream or announcements as they unfolded today, you can replay it on Apple’s Events site or catch it on YouTube.
The keynote video can be streamed here and on the Apple TV using the TV app. A high-quality version will also available through Apple Podcasts as a video and audio podcast.
Whenever Apple holds a keynote event, the company shares a variety of numbers related to things like user counts for certain products, software performance improvements, and customer satisfaction. With the company announcing the future of key platforms like iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, there was unsurprisingly a lot of data mentioned during today’s WWDC keynote.
We’ve collected some of the most interesting numbers shared on-stage during the keynote:
Apple has now opened 17 developer academies around the world
According to Tim Cook, “many millions of developers” engaged with last year’s online-only WWDC
There are now 34 million registered Apple developers
Dictation is used 18 billion times each month. That’s a lot of words
Improved Maps will launch in 11 more countries later this year
According to Apple, over 130 products are in the pipeline with support for the Matter home connectivity standard
98% of cars sold in the United States now support CarPlay; and according to a survey, 79% of U.S. buyers would consider a car with CarPlay integration
Mac Numbers
The second-generation chip in the Apple Silicon family, called M2, features:
20 billion transistors, 25% more than M1
100 GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50% more than M1
Up to 24 GB of unified memory
Up to 18% better performance than M1
1.9x performance compared to a 10-core laptop chip while using 1/4 of the power
Up to 35% better GPU performance than M1
Specifically, Apple says it offers 25% better graphics performance at the same power, but up to 35% at max power
40% more Neural Engine operations than M1
The new MacBook Air with M2, announced today, comes in 4 colors
It’s 20% thinner, weighs 2.7 lbs, and is 11.3mm thick
It has a 13.6” display with thinner borders
The display supports 500 nits, which is 25% brighter than before, and 1 billion colors
It has a 1080p camera with twice the resolution and twice the low-light performance
The Air has a 3-mic array and 4-speaker sound system
It supports up to 18 hours of video playback according to Apple’s benchmarks
It supports 67W fast-charging, so you can charge up to 50% in 30 minutes
It starts at $1199
As for the new 13” MacBook Pro, also carrying the M2 chip:
It’s 40% faster than the previous model
Supports up to 24 GB of unified memory
Supports up to 20 hours of video playback
This is not a number, but it comes with the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar!
Starts at $1299
The M1 MacBook Air continues to be a product in Apple’s lineup, and it now starts at $999.
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next:
Members of the Club MacStories+ Discord community can join us Monday through Thursday for live recordings of AppStories. In addition to covering everything announced at WWDC, we’ll be taking questions from the audience and releasing that as part of the extended AppStories+ version of the show for subscribers.
We’ll also be doing two daily app giveaways during WWDC in Discord and two more in MacStories Weekly on Friday.
At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send important security notifications to employees from Kolide’s Slack app.
Collectively, we know that organizations can dramatically lower the actual risks they will likely face with a structured, message-based approach. More importantly, they’ll be able to engage end-users to fix nuanced problems that can’t be automated.
Honest.Security is one part guide and another-part manifesto that defines a user-first approach to security and IT compliance. It’s not just Kolide’s north star but also an aspirational roadmap. It’s our positive contribution to counterbalance the worrying upward trend of human-hostile cyber security, device management, and workplace surveillance philosophies that we’ve seen reach a fever pitch as organizations adapt to the long-term term prospects of remote work.
Our thanks to Kolide for sponsoring MacStories and all of our WWDC coverage this week.
Early today The Iconfactoryreleased their latest app, a simple web server utility called WorldWideWeb. Solidly developer-focused in scope, the app serves files from a local directory to an automatically generated URL, making these files available to any device on your local network. While there are sure to be more inventive use cases for such a utility, its general purpose is for testing simple websites built on the Web’s greatest primitive: HTML.
WorldWideWeb’s killer feature is simplicity. The app’s entire main interface consists of two tiny sections: in the first you select a folder, and in the second you start or stop the web server. When the server is activated, a URL is generated. The app uses Bonjour to make the address available to any device on the same Wi-Fi network as the host. Just copy and paste the URL or press the ‘Open in Browser’ button to view the website natively in a web browser.
It’s been about seven months since I reviewed macOS Monterey and nearly a year since I first used it. With WWDC starting next week, I wanted to revisit some of the features Monterey introduced and consider what has lived up to the hype and what hasn’t....
