“Yesterday, just in case you were not online, was Apple’s annual WWDC event,” Hillel Fuld writes for Tech N’ Marketing. “The enhancements Apple made to iOS, Mac OS, and the entire Apple ecosystem were, yes I am using this word, revolutionary.”
What is really interesting is that the new iOS, with all its features will essentially lead me and many other users to delete different apps that prior to iOS 5, provided a certain functionality that is now part of the operating system itself,” Fuld writes. “The following is a list of app categories, represented by one example, that will surely suffer from the new and integrated features in iOS 5, which Steve Jobs announced yesterday:”
1: Boxcar (Notification Apps)
2: Dropbox (Cloud syncing apps)
3: WhatsApp/Kik (Free messaging apps)
4: QuickPix (Camera- enhancing apps)
5: Instapaper (Read later apps)
6: Twitpic (not an app)
7: Remember the Milk (Reminder apps)
8: Photoshop Express (Photo Editing apps)
9: Echofon/Tweetdeck (Twitter apps)
10: Instagram (Photo Sharing apps)
11: Pulse (Reader apps):
12: iChromy (Browsers)
13: Wifi Photo (Wifi syncing apps)
14: Dictionary (Translation apps)
15: Gmail (Web app)
16: Find my iPhone
17: iTunes: “For the first time ever, you can now own an iOS device, without a computer. No more need for iTunes and all that wasted syncing time. You can set up the device wirelessly, back up your files wirelessly, and sync your device wirelessly. This is huge. I have two words for you, Apple. Good riddance. And here are some more words I have been waiting to say for a long time. Bye bye iTunes, hello wireless syncing. I don’t know you yet but I think I love you!”
Much more in the full article here.
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