News Round-Up: Apple’s Big WWDC Event

Apple has just wrapped up one of its semi-annual engine-revving events, and the Internet has just about explodedwith that special admixture of excitement, anticipation, adulation, sarcasm and disappointment that has become the unique web response to any Apple product announcement.

The keynote speech of the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), where Apple developers the world over gather in a cramped conference room to be pitched by Apple executives on the worthiness of writing programs for Apple products, has come and gone. Tim Cook has left the stage in San Francisco, waving a cheery goodbye, sincerely wishing developers “the best week of [their] lives”; all of the rumors and hype and fabrications and product whispers have either become official features that you will soon be able to download or purchase, or else disappeared like so much flatulence on a windy day.

Here, we have collected everything that Apple announced that is of any consequence, listed and insta-analyzed for your convenience.