MacDailyNews’ coverage of Apple’s Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote presentation by Steve Jobs:
• End of keynote.
• Mayer plays another song…
* Mayer finishes song – thanks Jobs.
• Intros John Mayer who plays live…
• Jobs thanks Apple employees and their families for their support
• Standing ovation
• Jobs quotes Wayne Gretzky, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it’s been.”
• It’s Apple, Inc. from now on.
• Changing company name! Apple Computer, Inc. is no more
• Apple shooting for 1% share of market = 10 millions phones by 2008 “and we’ll go from there.”
• Sigman exits stage
• Not an Apple MVNO – “multi-year exclusive partnership” with Cingular.
• Stan Sigman, CEO of Cingular, onstage… blah, blah, blah, and blah…
• Apple shares up 8% to $92.42
• Available to buy at Apple or Cingular stores
• Cingular exclusive in U.S.
• Europe by Q4 2007, Asia in 2008
• Ships in June – Jobs: “FCC approval takes 2 months.”
• 4GB iPhone – $499, 8GB – $599
• Palm shares shed 2.6%
• Jobs: “We have filed over 200 patents for all the inventions in iPhone and we intend to protect them.”
• 5 hours battery life, 16 hours for audio…
• Showing iPhone accessories….
• All of the other smartphones don’t look so “smart” now, do they?
• Research In Motion (RIM) shares plummet 6.5%…
• Steve listening to music, Phil calls, music fades out, Phil asks for photo, Steve finds it and emails it to him while talking. Hangs up – music fades back up and resumes playing.
• More iPhone demos with Schiller…
• Jerry Yang – Yahoo! – onstage: wants an Apple iPhone
• Google CEO and Apple board member Eric Schmidt takes stage: “If we merge the companies we can call it Applegoo, but you can actually merge without merging.” Working well together…
• Jobs’ best keynote in many years – audience is mesmerized and amazed…
• AAPL up $4.21, or +4.93%, to $89.68…
• Location aware – with Google Maps, Jobs finds Starbucks nearby and taps to call – orders 4000 lattes – “oops, wrong number” and hangs up – (laughter)
• View multiple webpages – cool effects – Exposé- and CoverFlow-like
• Wow. Just wow. How are they going to make enough to these?
• Zooming on webpages via touch
• Mail on iPhone looks just like Apple Mail – full or split-screen
• Push IMAP email – like Blackberry
• Connects to any POP3 or IMAP email
• Free Yahoo IMAP (and POP) email for all iPhone customers
• Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
• Safarti web browser
• Dashboard Widgets
• Google Maps – directions, satellite images…
• Photos – portrait and landscape – turn the device and it displays the image correctly – zoom in and out with a touch
• SMS messaging – QWERTY keyboard on touch screen
• Conference calls… Speakerphone mode…
• Demoing working iPhone… “first public iPhone call” to Jon Ive
• Touch your music
• Visual voicemail
• Quad band GMS+Edge, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
• UI looks amazing
• Apple has reinvented the phone
• Bulit-in speaker
• Video looks high quality – WOW!
• Apple iPhone features two-megapixel camera
• Proximity sensor automatically shuts off screen when you bring it up to your ear
• Ambiant light sensor saves power
• Accelerometer – knows if it’s in landscape or portrait position
• iPod dock connector – headphone jack – device dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches
• Works like magic – no stylus – Multi-Touch – multi-finger gestures
• Fully syncs with iTunes
• Runs desktop class apps – not crippled apps – and full networking
• iPhone runs on Mac OS X – five years ahead of everything…
• Apple shares up 3.5% to $88.48
• Multi-Touch’ technology
• Revolutionary user interface – patented – years in development
• Called “iPhone” – it’s an iPod + mobile phone + internet communicator all in one device
• Internet communicator…
• New revolutionary mobile phone
• Widescreen iPod with touch controls
• introducing 3 revolutionary new products today…
• Next up… Jobs: “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years.”
• $299 – ships next month (Feb.) – taking orders starting today
• You can use the Apple TV’s hard drive or stream them from the computer
• More content demos – TV shows – photos – music…
• RDF in full force…
• Demos movies playing – shows CoverFlow-like menuing
• Shows perfect live streaming movie trailers from Apple.com
• Apple TV works with Apple Remote. Autosynce from one computer.
• “iTV” now named “Apple TV”
• Stream content from up to 5 computers – Intel inside (duh)
• 802.1b,g,n – 720p – 40GB hard drive inside – stores 50 hours of video
• Same form factor – wirelssly transmit audio/video to your TV
• Let’s talk about iTV
• Shows new iPod ad…
• Talks about Zune’s low market share – shows Zune logo going up in flames
• Over 250 movies on iTunes Store now…
• Jobs: iTunes sales NOT slowing – sales are up
• iTunes Store – over 2 billion songs sold – 5m songs per day – 4th largest US music seller – just passed Amazon, Target (#3) is next
• Jobs: “So, 2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac, but this is all we’re going to talk about the Mac today. We’re going to move on to some other things and, over the course of the next several months, we’re roll out some awesome stuff for the Mac. But, for today, we’re gonna move on.” [UPDATED for accuracy after reviewing keynote video.]
• Shows Windows Vista “ad” spoof with Hodgmen – major surgery to upgrade.
• Retails stores – over 50% new to Mac
• Jobs thanks developers…
• Talks about Intel transistion over last year
• Steve Jobs appears onstage
• Announcement: Welcome to Macworld 2007 keynote…
Hold you horses, Jobs is going to announce a return to the G4 and G5, because they are sooo much faster than Intel’s offerings, and he got a slide to prove it…
Hold you horses, Jobs is going to announce a return to the G4 and G5, because they are sooo much faster than Intel’s offerings, and he got a slide to prove it…
Yogeshimac
Chennai, Kolkutta + 5:30 GMT so 10:30pm (I think).
thanks warney..
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OMG 10.30 pm…i have to wait a long time it seems..GREAT
here its 8.45 am january 9 ..boo hoo
OMG, if you guys want to see a snorefest where Billy Gates stumbles through the last 10 mins just watch this. http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0701/29031/CES.asx
For another take on the above mentioned snorefest http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/2007/01/bill_gates_at_c.html
Jobs Almighty, why do they insist on letting Gates give these talks? There is no doubt the man is a shrewd business man but he’s also a world class putz.
Mac4life, favorite blurb from the column: “Gates offered slim pickings there: IPTV, TV via the Internet, for the Xbox 360 gaming system and a high-capacity computer, using Windows Home Server software, that will bring corporate interconnection to home computing networks. In the Microsoft tradition of product announcements minus the products, both are coming out later this year.”
Leopard out in the wild!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6240569.stm
I’ll be somewhere in the audience…they’ve moved the Keynote from the usual Esplanade Ballroom to Moscone West (across 4th Street from the main Moscone complex) so they can accomodate more people without having to use the remote viewing rooms they did last year (those were set up in North Hall, and North is being used for exhibits again — it’s like we’re back in the Golden Age of Mac).
Looking forward to coming home and reading all the takes…
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Thanks for the continued coverage MDN.
guys don’t you feel sleepy its 1 am for gods sake
Wow, what a piece of crap CES Keynote. Literally, piece of crap.
Windows dude: “Look, I can use a Xbox controller with my PC to view virtual maps” “Cool, ain’ it?”
Windows dude: “Look, I can have real video as my desktop wallpaper” “Cool, ain’t it?”
Windows dudette: “Look, I can play “UNO” (her favorite game, btw) with another gamer on my Xbox” “Cool”
Windows dude:” We’re No. 2 in mp3 players!” “Gonna sell 1 million, too” “Cool”.
Bill Gates” “Now, you partners, go forward and innovate so that we can incorporate it into our products and claim it as ours or maybe we’ll just buy you out.” “Thanks…..SUCKERS!” Enjoy the CES. Good night.”
From the blog…
“Instead, the crowd got the head of the sponsoring Consumer Electronics Association lauding Gates’ charitable work and showing a retrospective of all the wacky, “humanizing” things he’s done at past CES shows: dressing up, and dancing, as Austin Powers, for example.
Gates’ lack of news or sagacity was doubly troubling for the elaborate protocol required to get in, including making people sit in the auditorium 90 minutes ahead of the speech – without so much as wireless connectivity so they could make use of the time. “
MS and Bill Gates have no taste. No taste or class. I sometimes wonder who are the true cultists. Apple fans or Windows fans. At least Apple delivers on its vision, MS and Bill Gates instead exhort you to drink the kool-aid inorder to distract you from your impending tech nightmare.
hey guys when it going to show here down under? melbourne… Thanks guys
Paul
Paul, Google is your friend… Try “World Clock”…
It starts at 9am (Tues) in SFO, so that would be 6am (Wed) here in NZ, so probably a couple of hours earlier than that in MEL… 4am on Wed in Melbourne.
Thanks so much, l`ll look for it..
Paul
i`m waiting……3 MORE HOURS….
come on baby….
If there is a phone, it should be called Clarus.
MOOF ! ! !
Big news is Steve retiring or “leave of abscence” as they call it…the one more, one more thing.
First the one more thing to get people buzzing, then the one more thing of him retiring.
2nd big news is lack of any really new products (lots of updates) – as in where´s the iPhone that has been rumored for years? It could be the “first” one more thing – just a prototype to be okayed by the FCC, but not ready for 3-6 months.
3rd big news is Apple stock drops like a rock on the Steve news….no matter how much he says how much is in the pipeline.
please…so many pessimists in this crowd. It’s going to be a good day.
Good morning fellow Apple enthusiasts! Man what a day! The sun’s shining, birds are singing…there’s something special in the air, and I’m not talking about the after effects from my dinner last night. I’m so excited, thank Jobs I’ve got a busy morning to help the time go by.
Have a great day everyone!
OBill: You forgot to add, “Patience, young padwans!”
I am stunned at the number of posts on here this AM (EST). WTF. Get back to work you slackers (joking for those who haven’t had their morning coffee yet).
Can;t wait!
And of course the stock will drop…it always drops right after. Then it bounces right back once all the short sellers make their cash.
Patience, schmatience – bring on the circus! 😀
Hmmm, it seems the force is not with my emoticons this morning.
Let’s try that again…focus…focus…and…
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