As the end of the year approaches
not, it is an opportunity to look back a little to take stock of
the past year on the iPhone, iPad and Apple news.
In 2012, the first real year without Steve Jobs, Apple was not stingy with
novelties. OfiOS 6at theiPhone 5passing through theiPad miniand the arrival of Retina
on Macs, there have been numerous successes, but some failures, notably with
Plans have come to darken the picture a little.
Moving forward to a year of Apple in nine key steps:
Focus on education
From the start of the year, Apple confirmed its intention to make its mark
in education.During a
conference in New York, Tim Cook launched with great fanfare the second
version of iBook, but also the Mac application
iBook Authormaking the creation of interactive content accessible to all
for the iPad. The icing on the cake is the new application
iTunes U available here for iPhone and iPadwas also presented during
of this conference (seeour article
ici.
The die is cast, Apple has every intention of making education its
new warhorse.
A few weeks later, the apple company broughtsome changes on
the iBook Storeby offering, for example, the possibility of offering codes
promos for discovering books and free updates. Here again,
the desire to develop reading and culture is felt.
L ‘application
iBook 3will be offered a little later in the yearas seen
ici.
App Store: the mark of 25 billion downloads is
crossed
Every day, more and more of us download
applications on the App Store. This year,
the symbolic bar of 25 billion downloadswas crossed.
To celebrate, Apple offereda
huge $10,000 iTunes cardto a happy Chinese. The lucky guy!
2012: The year of acquisitions?
Throughout the year, Apple has made corporate acquisitions. There
first was that of Chomp, an Application search engine that will inspire
later in the year the redesign of the App Store.
The Authentec company is alsofallen
in the pursefrom the firm to Apple this year. Specialized in
fingerprint recognition, the acquisition of this company foreshadows
probably the addition of security functions at Apple, via readers
fingerprints.
iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad mini: Apple is expanding into the iPad market
tablets
The least we can say is that 2012 was a year rich in
new on the iPad side. Presented on March 7during a
conference, l’iPad 3, or
rather the “new iPad” seen herebrings Retina display for the first time
on a tablet, but also 4G which will prove incompatible with
European standards.
Contrary to what one might have thought, the new features on the iPad side are not
don't stop there and over the months,the rumor of the iPad minin’a
only swells to become real!
It was finally in the month of October thatthe little one
tablet was presentedduring a conference which reserved its share of
surprise since a new version of the iPad Retina (4th version) has also
appears!
iPhone 5: a year of rumors
Very early this year we started talking aboutiPhone 5. the debate has been going on for a long time
lively about its name. So it is in the month ofMarch that we start talking
of the 4Gfor the next iPhone model.
It was around the same time that
the battle between Apple and other manufacturerswill begin to impose the
nanosim format. Apple will eventually achieve victory on this point and
will offer this nanosim in the iPhone 5.
While some expected it for June,iPhone 5 will not show
the tip of his nose only in September. However, the leaks were
particularly numerous this year and we already knew almost everything at the time
of the announcement.
Among these rumors, thatsomething new
connectorwhich today equips iPhone 5, iPod touch 5, iPad mini and
iPad 4 is probably the one that has caused the most ink to flow. Since this
connector has joined Apple's entire mobile range with the name "Lightning"
Arrival
4 inch screenalso made a lot of noise this summer.
After stolen photos, rumors and leaks of all kindsIt is
finally on September 12 that Tim Cook unveiled the iPhone 5 but also
l’iPod touch 5.. The iPhone 5 will finally be released on September 21.
Plans: the failure of the year
As soon as it was released, Plans was the subject ofmany reviews.
In addition to the disappearance of Google Maps and Street View, the application does not have
convinced users, even worse, it disappointed them.
Well aware of this, Tim Cook wrote a letter of apology
claiming that Apple worked every day tothe improvement of
Plans. From
Google Maps returned to iPhonevia
an application to install from the App Store, it is much better than
the previous one!
We will probably have to wait for iOS 7 to measure progress, but this
failure precipitated the departure of Scott Forstall and causeda
profound reorganization in the upper echelons at Apple. By the way,
Johny Ive, the designer who until then worked on Hradware also takes
responsibility for the iOS interface. This can give rise to hopes of good
changes for next year!
A big update on Macs
It was in June that Tim Cook presented the latest version of OSX which will be released
end of July. At the same time, the first laptop computer equipped with a screen
Retina was supposed to make an appearance. Finer, more beautiful and with higher resolution
Incredibly, the 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina is coming out in June. You will have to wait
later in the year to see its 13-inch version arrive.
At the same time as the iPad mini, Apple presented the Mac Book pro Retina 13
inches as well as a whole new range of iMacs so thin they
seem incredible. The same evening Apple also presented the new Mac
mini.
App Store, iTunes, iOS, OSX… On the new software side
It is in April that we begin totalk about iOS 6 and
d’iTunes 11. If the first were to be presented during the traditional
WWDC conference in June, we will have to wait until September and
the announcement of the iPhone 5 to hear about the second.
As is now tradition, the WWDC opening conference
is an opportunity to present the latest version of iOS. In 2012, Tim Cook did not
not failed and the new promising OS was presented with its new features and
the announcement of Maps without Google Maps.
On the application side and after releasing iTunes U at the start of the year, it is
tower ofl’application
Podcast to appear in June..
With the arrival of iOS 6 in the fall, the App Store has also been revised in
depth and we saw the emergence of some new traditions such asthe free application of
the week.
IOS 6 which will be released on September 19 did not only bring the new look of
l’App Store. Plans,Passbookand so on, the OS
hadmany others
surprises to reveal that we could see here
Apple and Samsung: the war continues
Throughout the year, the two giants have continued to clash in front of
courts around the world. It was in the US that the fighting was the most
spectacular. After havingfailed to find one
accordSamsung and Apple clashed in court and it's finally
Apple who won the first round winningthe extravagant
sum of a billion dollars.. But be careful, the call was made by
Samsung and we will see the continuation of these clashes in various courts
from the beginning of 2013.
Along the way, we were able to enjoyof prototypes
d’iPhonerevealed during the American trial.
In England, on the other hand, things worked to the advantage of Korean and
Apple was forced to publisha message on his
site internet.
This confrontation is not without consequences since this year,Apple started to
distance itself from Samsung as a supplier.
And in 2013?
Obviously, this article only covers the main points of the year
elapsed, but should be sufficient to approach 2013 with full knowledge of
cause.
What can we expect from 2013?Time will tell, but
we can already bet on an iPhone 5S or why not an iPhone 6, iPad 5 with,
I hope for a revised design and maybe even an iPad mini Retina.
But that's another story, we'll come back to it later.
week !
And now it's your turn:what do you remember from 2012?
What do you expect from 2013?
