This year’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) Keynote saw Apple emphasize “consolidation” around Continuity and related items more than “1001 new capabilities”. Make everything work better rather than make many new things.

With that thought, however, there were three new OS announcements: OS X El Capitan, iOS9, and watchOS. The important point was that these new OS announcements all focus on extending the Apple ecosystem across all of it’s devices. Previous announcements have seen OS X start to gather the look and feel of iOS. Now iOS is starting to get some of the feel of OS X. watchOS is getting a bit of both.

You can watch the entire keynote at: http://www.apple.com/live/2015-june-event/


….but, probably the most important bit from WWDC so far is that Apple intends to ensure the widest array of hardware will run the new OS releases. Here’s the list

…from:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/if-your-mac-or-ithing-runs-yosemite-or-ios-8-it-can-run-el-capitan-and-ios-9/

If your Mac or iThing runs Yosemite or iOS 8, it can run El Capitan and iOS 9

Apple doesn't drop hardware for the first time in a long time.

by   -  Jun 8, 2015 2:48pm CDT
If your Mac can run Yosemite, it can run El Capitan.

Here's some good news for just about everyone: For the first time in many years, neither iOS nor OS X drops any current hardware from the system requirements list. If your device can run OS X Yosemite (or Mavericks, or Mountain Lion), it can run OS X El Capitan. If it can run iOS 8, it can run iOS 9. For your convenience, here's the complete list of Macs supported, pulled from this developer support page:
        • iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
        • MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
        • MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
        • MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
        • Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
        • Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
        • Xserve (Early 2009)

And here's the support list for iOS 9:

        • iPhone 4S, 5, 5C, 5S, 6, and 6 Plus
        • iPad 2, third- and fourth-gen Retina iPads, iPad Air, iPad Air 2
        • All iPad Mini models
        • Fifth-generation iPod Touch