An impressive stat before we dive into it, Apple holds 575,000,000 digital wallet accounts with payment cards, so they still hold first place.

iOS 7
Sir Ive's influence is nicely apparent throughout this total overhaul. "The biggest change to iOS since the iPhone." Nicely refreshed from the bottom up, it is a welcome departure from the dated looks. It's what the iPhone 5 should have launched with, sadly it won't be released until autumn this year (unless you're a developer). One especially cool thing is the motion-based depth illusion it creates, making the content appear to hover in front of your wallpaper.
Some nice new features were announced today too:
-AirDrop for device-to-device beaming,
-control center  (Android sends greetings from many releases ago), 
-multitasking improvements with smart updates, 
-new features for Safari, 
-a new Photos app with auto-organisation and shared photo streams, 
-lots of Siri updates, including better voices, phone setting changes, wider support for services, wikipedia searches, bing (?!?) search results {guess they like MSFT more than Google now, perhaps until Windows Phones catch up in market share},
-Facetime Audio calls over WiFi
-Activation lock (if iOS device is lost, it can be remotely erased an only reactivated with your user account)
-iOS in the Car, with 94% support of features,
-App Store now also includes 'Apps Near Me', showing popular apps for the area, and FINALLY automatic updates of apps,
-a rebuilt Music app,
-and also introducing iTunes Radio (following Google's All Access music service), ad-free with iTunes Match and free with ads to others. Sadly it will take until this fall for this to hit the vast install-base of iTunes users across all platforms but just to the USA. 

Check http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/ for more info and http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/includes/videos/features.html#video for the video featuring JI.

Also announced, OS X Mavericks, named after the largest waves surfable. This release has another strong focus on technology and addresses needs of power-users. 
-Finder tabs, file tagging, proper support for multiple displays, up to 72% less CPU utilisation, compressed RAM, etc.
-Another nifty feature is that you can look up directions in a new maps app and send the route to your iPhone where it pops up as a push-notification.
-In calendar it shows predicted weather for a location, and adds calculated travel time based on chosen method of transportation to the time of the appointment.
-iCloud Keychain in OS X Mavericks and iOS 7

iWork is coming to iCloud in the browser on Mac and PC, joining Google Docs, and MSFT Office 365, but much smoother formatting and better integration with the desktop. Document handling is actually better than Office 2010/11; very impressive in-browser experience. This is in developer beta from today and will see a wider release later this year.

Hardware announcements: 
-Mac Pro sneak-peak with a gorgeous case design (9.9"x6.6" tube) presented by Phil Schiller with a cool "can't innovate any more, my 4$$" and the first computer coming out of their new USA manufacturing hitting shelves later this year
-MacBook Air spec-bump update
-newly designed AirPort Extreme & TimeCapsules sporting 802.11ac.

Throughout the keynote quite a few side-stabs were taken against the skeuomorphic design elements from yesteryear, a little in bad taste some might say, but hey, seems they are really happy with their new iOS 7 designs, and rightly so.

Check http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/ for the keynote video.

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