All the key points you need to know from WWDC, in words & pictures

WWDC rages on in San Francisco, but the keynote — and all the major news announcements from Apple — have come to a close.

Here are the big talking points from Apple’s developer conference this year:

• Behold, a new MacBook Air is born. And lo, it cometh with Ivy Bridge processors and a 512GB solid-state drive.
• The MacBook Pro got skinnier and prettier with a Retina display.
• Some other new MacBooks are a lot more affordable than the Retina-display model, and they include those crazy quad-core Ivy Bridge processors, too.
• The iPhone’s Game Center has now arrived on the Mac, as well.
• OS X Mountain Lion has 200 new features. Here are the really important ones.
• Looks like Apple has been taking notes from Google when it comes to browser wars. Safari’s updates are quite Chrome-esque.
• Finally, it’s iOS 6 time!
• iOS developers are practically printing money — $2.5 billion since last year’s WWDC, in fact.
• iOS 6 will bring a whole new maps program with some pretty slick features.
• Siri also got some much-needed fixes and cool upgrades.
• Apple gets obscenely snuggly with Facebook in these new social-mobile integrations. Great news for iPhone addicts who are also Facebook addicts.

Now, if you’re the more visual sort of learner, we’ve also got a play-by-play in photos. Here’s how the keynote went down:

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