Apple CEO Tim Cook emailed a customer Monday after the keynote and promised that big things are planned for the Mac Pro desktop line in 2013.
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To avoid some confusion, Apple has also removed the 'NEW' label that previously hovered above the updated Mac Pro on it's online store.
And I was mistaken in saying in my Monday posting that the Mac Pro got Ivy Bridge chips as part of its update. The 2012 Mac Pro still has a Xeon processor like before, now with a higher clock speed. The Mac Pro is available in single quad-core and dual six-core Xeon processor configurations.
As for new features in iOS 6 developers are excited about, Passbook has the buzz. Skip to 93:07 in the keynote video to see details on this. It looks like a 'privileged' native app class, kind of like Newsstand, where the in-app purchase isn't a subscription, but purchases function like a real-world coupon or admit pass. Very cool.
Other iOS 6 features of interest to media types: FaceTime works over cellular connections now, your iCloud account's photostream can be shared in various ways, and more low-level access to the device's camera (allowing for some interesting apps in the near future).
Now that retina displays have come to Mac OS X as well as iOS (with the third-generation iPad), web content producers will need to make changes to site code and come up with new picture assets in order to ensure that early-adopters not only have the best possible experience, but have an acceptable experience. If old assets aren't handled well in the code, standard-resolution art on high-DPI displays looks worse than it should.
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