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Phil is wrapping up now...
Available June 19 in USA, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, UK
iPhone 3G 8GB will be $99
price: $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB
New accessibility features
Nike+ support [wohooo, can your hear that? it's the sound of my old Nano dying]
Hardware encryption built in [business people are wetting their pants]
Improved battery life: 9 hours on wifi, 10 watching video, 30 hours of audio playback, 12 hours of 2G talk time, and 5 hours of 3G talk time
built-in digital compass, with APIs
Voice Control: voice dialing - in any app, hold the Home button for a few seconds and a voice control dialog shows up, commands you can says are displayed "floating" in the background, works with the iPhone like "Play all songs by the Killers" or say "what's playing now" and the iPhone will talk back and tell you
you can trim the videos right from within the app... [still nothing new, that's what leaked weeks ago]
does VIDEO too...30fps, VGA with audio. Auto focus, auto white balance.
OpenGL|ES 2. for games
7.2MBps HSDPA for data
new camera, 3mpx, autofocus, auto exposure, auto white balance, "tap to focus", improved low-light sensitivity, Auto macro (as close as 10cm)
everything is 2x-3x faster... app launching, web browsing
iPhone 3GS. as in Speed.
same form factor
lots faster
NEW IPHONE
Phil Schiller is back on stage.
Some more blah blah on how iPhone has changed the mobile phone landscape.
Yeah, iPhone OS 3.0 demos are over... pƒƒƒƒƒew!
upgrade is Free for all iPhone customers, $9.95 for iPod touchers
available worldwide June 17
[proof? the demo is not working and they won't leave the stage]
[these demos are dragging too long... they feel like just filling time]
The zipcar iPhone app is impressive, because in the Apple's spirit: simple and efficient
Linathael is starving, I'm not since it's 8:37PM here and I had pizza with the kid just before the keynote...
I am starving...
Hurry up, if one considers that Steve will soon take the stage and talk for another... 30 minutes, it will be a long keynote
[ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THE IPHONE OS 3.0 APPS ]
Some devs are now coming on stage to tell how great and amazing iPhone OS 3.0 is...
Now push notifications:
generic service for all devs
can push text alerts, badges for homescreen icon, and custom alert sounds
Maps:
now google maps can be embedded in any iPhone app
corelocation can be used to do turn by turn guiding apps
Accessories: now devs can access hardware features and the iPhone/iPod connector, or via bluetooth. Standard protocols or custom ones.
In-apps micropayments: only for paid apps (no way to have a free app that does paid content... meaning that you cannot do a free ebook reader and have paying books for download)
The iPhone OS 3.0 SDK brings about 1000 new public APIs.
Find My iPhone: if you loose your phone, and you have a mobileme account, log into mobileme suing any browser and it will show you where your phone is on a map.
If you lose your phone, you can send it a message from online or your home phone, it'll play a sound whether or not you left it in silent mode.
or you can send it a remote wipe command that will delete all the data.
if you find it after a wipe, just restore it from iTunes.
Adding new languages to iPhone OS: Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Greek and Korean (now more than 30 total)
Safari on iPhone: javascript is 3x faster than on OS 2.2.1
autofill can remeber your login/passwords, picks your details from contacts
HTML5 support [yeah but that's webkit]
Tethering: allows you to share you iPhone internet connection with a computer.
works on Macs or PCs, over USB or Bluetooth.
"seemless experience" [goodbye my old faithful NetShare"]
22 carriers will support it at launch. No AT&T at launch.
iTunes Store: rent or purchase videos right on your iPhone and download them OTA.
Works for audiobooks and iTunes U too.
Works also with parental control [no more R rated movies for your teenage kids...]
Landscape display/keyboard mode coming to all apps...
MMS depending on carrier support [who the f*** wants MMS, which is a crippled way of doing outrageously pricey emailing??? appart from said carriers]
iPhone wide search: can search in mails even on server, spotlight is available for all apps
Now to iPhone OS 3.0
more than 100 new features
cut/copy/paste: works in all apps including all 3rd party apps, can Undo, has public APIs, all Cocoa touch controls can use it
[where is the BIG NEWS???]
Hmm back to the mike...
some devs are talking about how great push notifications and streaming video are in iPhone 3.0
(now playing a video about iPhone dev)
Scott Forstall is on stage, iPhone time!
Tremendous dev support blah blah 1 million SDK downloads blah
more than 50 000 apps on the app store blah blah
1 billion downloads
FORTY MILLION iPhone OS devices (that's iPhone+iPod touch)
available in september right before Windows 7
Snow Leo only on Intel Macs, $29, family pack for $49.
End of Leopard.
All done Apple style, drag an Exchange contact folder from Address book, drop it in iCal on a time slot and boom! you have scheduled a meeting and invited people.
[makes me almost want to schedule meetings again]
Exchange support built right into Snow Leopard's main 3 apps: Mail, iCal, Address Book
Demo time...
In mail, all you have to do is enter a password and you have all your exchange stuff in there... you get your invites, your exchange contacts, shared and personal calendars...
Now onto Exchange integration [note that until now nothing new has been introduced, we more or less knew all about what has been presented, except the "new" laptops... nice trick to keep the juicy bits for the end]
Introducing OpenCL for graphic cards
it's an open standard... the geek squad cheer and clap
Now onto the core technologies of Snow Leopard.
64 bits all around -> LOTS of RAM can be used
most Snow Leo apps are 64 bits
Multicore: to take advatage, Snow Leo introduces Grand Central Dispatch. Language extensions, multicore engine, object oriented framework, new system-wide APIs, tools -> allows to better do multithreading without the headaches
Direct video editing into the Quciktime X player, with new controls/UI... and it seems it doesn't have to be "quciktime pro" which means "FREE"
According to Ars technica's Jaqui Cheng, "A PR was just sent out from Apple that says Snow Leopard will be available in September and for $29."
YEAH baby $29!
Demo time: the dock and finder
A new magnifier can enlarge your thumbnails within Finder [enlarge your thumbnails NOW!]
Can play movies or browse pages in PDFs right in the dock icon
Stacks get an upgrade: can drill down into folders, get scrollbars
Click on a dock app's icon and Expose shows you all that app's open windows
Quicktime X:
64bits, quicktime (QT X) hardware acceleration, http streaming, colorsync
new user interface [yeah the one that leaked everywhere]
safari4 will have "crash resistance": if a plugin crashes, safari stays alive
Preview is faster.
You can draw Chinese (Japanese?) ideograms on the trackpad [neat!]
Mail is faster: 2.3x for moving messages, 1.9x for searching
safari4: super fast rendering and javascript
First, refinements:
Finder has not seen major overhaul, but more suited to a 100% cocoa future: the base code has been rewritten, the UI stauys the same.
The Dock has now "built-in expose" [reminds me of the Win7 thingy that shows previews in the taskbar]
Installation is 45% faster and lighter (less disk space used)
Leopard was about new features, Snow leopard is all about refinements, core technologies and... Exchange support.
“Windows 7, same old technology as Vista.”
OS X Leopard is the best selling software Apple has ever released. Users love it, the media love it; best OS written for vast majority of consumers. Compared to Vista's failure.
Bertrand Serlet is going to talk about OSX and Snow Leopard.
Now the updated MacBook Air:
1.8GHZ for $1499 (-$300)
can go up to 128GB SSD for $1799 (-$700)
Backlit keyboard for the whole family
the 123"macbook has FW800 too... it's more like a 13" MacBook Pro
New macbook too:
13"screen (the new one)
SD card slot
up to 8GB RAM and 500GB HDD or 256GB SSD
New 17"model too:
2.8GHz, 500GB hard drive, keeps ExpressCard slot ("for high-end audio products"), at $2499
that's $1699 for the 15" MBP: 2.53GHz, 4GB, 250GB, 9400M graphics, SD card slot
and Highest-end is $2299 for 2.8GHz, 500GB hard drive, 9400M + 9600GT
The new MBPro:
15" screen
built-in battery for up to 7hrs battery life, supposed to last 1000 charge cycles or 5 years
"gorgeous display": 60% greater color gamut, super thin, SC card slot
configure up to 3.06GHz Intel Dual Core processor with 6MB Level 2 Cache
Up to 8GB of RAM
Up to 500GB of storage 7200rpm, or SSD up to 256GB
Price Starts at $1699
He's detailing the advances made for the new laptops: new built-in batteries, unibody design...
NEW MACBOOK PRO
Now he's talking about laptops... maybe we WILL see new laptops today?
"Bertrand Serlet, Scott Forstall will also talk during the keynote"
Now 25 million OSX users, explosive growth, tripled since 2007
Mac, iPhone/iPod touch all part of that growth
phil schiller on stage.
welcomes the audience...
"great week ahead, 5200 devs from 54 countries"
There is a I'm a mac/I'm a pc ad running: PC is trying to convince Mac to not innovate at WWDC 09.
Lights out... and ACTION!
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen -- welcome to WWDC 2009 -- please silence all cellphones and PAGING DEVICES"
As we don't have anyone physically present at the Keynote, we'll be updating this coverage from various sources... many thanks in advance for those who are bodily attending the event and reporting to the unlucky masses.
Hello people... Moose here.
The Apple Online Stores are down... means we're going to have new products today.
as a reminder about the keynote time for all our readers around the world:
10:00 - Pacific Time
13:00 - Eastern Time
18:00 - London
19:00 - Central Europe Time
02:00 - Tokyo
Get ready, less than 5 hours before the beginning of the keynote