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…
AAPL up 6.5%
Is now, no new ipod?
And then they shoot themselves in the foot.
1. This is not revolutionizing the mobile phone market…it does not change the cell phone paradigm…it is EXTREMELY cool, but a 2 year contract for the privilege of these prices…
2. Not many people are going to shell out $600 for anything they find at Cingular. It may actually be worth that, but charge that money for an unlocked phone and let us choose the GSM network.
3. Cingular is truly awful and that experience will slime up the iPhone. Can you see the support at your local Cingular store?
4. Something not mentioned is that all that data costs money…if this qualifies as a Smartphone, then it is a reasonable $20 for unlimited data. If it is considered a PDA, then you are talking $45. If it is a tethered device (a computer), then unlimited data is $60. This is ON TOP of your voice plan.
5. And finally…six month vaporware.
I’m afraid this thing is the next Cube…brilliant design and features but won’t sell to the general public.
This phone is a Mac. It’s really thin, portable, and runs OS X. It’s the thin Macbook everyone was talking about.
Thats the end of MacConsumerExpo
What the heck are you talking about Ray? They just announced a Mac that fits in your friggin pocket! What more do you want?
Let’s face it, as great as the iPhone looks, in the real world, it will never be THE smartphone unless it features some sort of integration (or at least basic compatibilty with) Microsoft (ugh) Office. You need to be able to open and edit Excel and Word…of course, Keynote compatibilty would be cool…whatever happened to iWork 07? or iLife? or Leopard???
I don’t even care about a phone, and I had tears in my eyes–tears, I tell you, looking at those photos. Maybe I won’t get one “soon”–partly because I recognize that I’m too plugged in already with my laptop. Or is there such a thing? But I know I will eventually. Really, the most exciting thing for me was just the (typical Apple) combination of audacity, elegance and innovation in that iPhone interface. And the brilliance of bringing Google, Yahoo and Cingular onstage and on board. So much for Microsoft saying just today that Apple “doesn’t partner well.” I’m just a girl geek, but yeah, I’m impressed. And the name change makes sense. “Computer” is SO 90’s . . . . Well done, Apple!
MDN word: good. And it is all . . .
Hmmm…could Steve be holding back on new computers until Leopard ships? Maybe that’s when we’ll see a 12in MBP and some of the other rumored stuff…
And I’m not ready to rate this as a “disappointing” Expo — I’ll wait and see what some of the featured products on the floor are…
Nothing new on apple site?
and nothing else…DOH!
I want my Nintendo Wii
Cool phone. I’ll buy an unlocked one from Europe next year. Apple TV, so what!
What about Macs? How about iLife 07, iWork 07, OSX 10.5?
This should have been one of those one more thing announcements latter this month. The keynote should be about Macs.
no
iweb 07
leopard?
oh shit..no nothing on computers!!!
@ Ray,
Sorry you didn’t get the memo, it’s no longer Apple Computer, Inc. It’s now Apple Inc. Besides, This Apple Phone is more loaded than the early G3’s
iPhone is on Apple’s site now.
NEW SITE
There IS no one more thing.
The reaction from me is “meh”, because I wanted to see something great and new Mac-wise. The iPhone is great and all, a fantastic device indeed, but personally I wasn’t looking forward to that. Now everything we got was iPhone and Apple TV. And the Paramount partnership.
No new Macs, not even updates? No Leopard? No new iPod?
Maybe this (the omission of Mac and OS X news) was a deliberate move from Steve, to put the emphasize on “Apple Inc., the makers of all kinds of multimedia devices” instead of “Apple Computer, the makers of, well, computers”.
So when are we going to hear all the folks who predicted Jobs’ leaving issuing their corrections? I’m waiting… (crickets chirping)
hey! where’s my 8-core MacPro?
I’m ready to buy it!
Caruso, it’s also WiFI device… so what does the data cost while on a wireless network? What a bunch of sad sacks…I, for one, am so stoked I can’t see straight. I’ll gladly shell out $600 bucks for a Mac that fits in my pocket!
It’s going to take a while before I can get an iPhone – long enough to see a number of carriers scramble to get on the bandwagon. Phonemakers will be scrambling too … ’07/’08’s going to see interesting developments.
For people expecting more from this Macworld Expo, has there ever been an expo where Steve announced many revolutionary products at once? Apple always releases “insignificant” upgrades and updates before and/or after the expo and reserves the expo for the biggest announcements to get the most bang for the buck. It simply makes no sense to release a bunch of other products ATM since the hype for (Apple)tv and iPhone will drown the news. It makes a lot more sense to release newer (non-iPhone) iPods and Macs later to give them more visibility because Apple always relies on the initial impacts of such announcements.
Personally, I think Apple would have an Apple event before the month ends.
Apple did say that 2007 was going to be exciting. And we’re only 9 days in, so maybe a special event will happen every month? That would keep people excited all year long. I’m excited to see what else will come out, including Leopard, new mac’s, etc.
“So when are we going to hear all the folks who predicted Jobs’ leaving issuing their corrections? I’m waiting… (crickets chirping)”
Leaving, dying, arrested . . . blah, blah, blah.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for admissions of stupidity. Cowards have no honor. Obviously, Fraud (the troll)really was one.
Speaking of crickets, did anyone record Michael Dell’s earthshattering speech?
Ah… I made 7 bucks a share today for sitting on my ass. =)
Thank you, Steve. Nicely done. ^_^
-c
MMW: ‘human’ (interface, done right)