What is new in El Capitan? Here is a quick summary based mostly on Apple's announcement page: http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/
- Split Screen to look at two apps in full screen view.
- advanced Mission Control to organize your windows.
- cursor finding capabilities - it can get big with a shake
- updated spotlight - you can move and size the spotlight window, search many other kinds of content (from the internet) including transit information, and use natural language for queries.
- mail has many updated features:
- full screen features enabling cut and paste across multiple threads
- just like in iOS, we can now swipe to delete messages
- more context sensitivity for adding contacts and events based on email messages
- Notes is a much more fully featured app that some say will be able to compete with Evernote. Images fit right in to notes, and there is an attachments browser.
- Photos
- 3rd party filters
- 3rd party plugins for photo editing
- location editing for a photo or an event is now possible (again)
- Safari
- Pinned sites for favorite websites
- Air Play for web video (without sharing your whole screen)
- The ability to mute all or other tabs
- Maps
- Public Transit information
- time-based planning for a future trip
- Better language support (for non-English languages)
- Performance
- Metal graphics performance comes to OS X
What is new in iOS 9? https://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/
- A news app
- An update to the Notes app (which matches new features in OS X Notes) including an attachments browser, checklists, and sketches
- Maps
- Transit, matching OS X features
- A new nearby feature to find shopping and restaurants
- Passbook becomes Wallet
- your rewards/loyalty cards can in many cases will be part of Wallet.
- A double-click to the home button activates Apple Pay.
- Carplay - major updates enabling using car knobs and applications from automakers.
- Features for new iPads
- Slide-over to have a 2nd app on the right 3rd of the screen.
- Split view to have two apps shown 50/50
- Picture in Picture - watch a video while using another application!
- Quicktype:
- Shortcut bar - Icons for cut, copy, paste, and fonts
- Easy text selection - using multi-touch gestures on the on-screen keyboard to do text selection
- Keyboard shortcuts - for external hardware keyboards
- Siri - is supposed to be much more intelligent
- context aware regarding photo and video information
- can create context-aware reminders, based on what application you are currently using.
- Deep search within apps
- guesses for caller ID for unidentified callers?!?
- Performance
- power-savings across built-in iOS9 apps will enable longer battery life - 1 hour is claimed
- built-in iOS9 apps use metal for faster performance
- iOS updates stream and require much less free space to enable updates
- 2-factor authentication for your AppleID means your old
- Android migration
- Migrates much of your content automatically
- Helps you re-download (or buy) applications on your Android device.
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