Live coverage of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ WWDC 2007 keynote address in reverse chronological order:
• Jobs wraps up, says thanks. End of keynote presentation.
• Companies (Goolge, Salesforce) already building iPhone apps this way right now
• So, build iPhone apps via built-in web services
• Can email, direct dial, link to Google Maps, etc. from web app.
• Showing corporate address book database with LDAP – took one person less than a month to code. Looks just like a built-in iPhone app.
• Showing samples of iPhone apps that run within Safari.
• Apple has come up with secure solution: Web 2.0 and AJAX apps – behave just like regular apps on iPhone using full Safari engine on iPhone. Devs can go live on June 29 with iPhoen apps.
• Opening iPhone platform to developers …
• One Last Thing: iPhone – Ships June 29th at 6pm local time.
• Public beta of Safari 3 released today.
• Safari 3 (for Mac and Windows) -Tabs can be dragged around to be reorganized, dragged off into new windows (lower case “w.”)
• Demos Safari for Windows which has built-in Google and Yahoo! search.
• Safari “twice as fast” as IE 7, 1.6x faster than Firefox 2 – Apple now has the most innovative and fastest browser on Windows.
• Jobs debuts Safari for Windows (Duck! Was that a chair coming from the direction of Redmond?)
• Safari market share up to 4.9%
• One More Thing: Safari – 18 million users.
• Leopard retail prices: “Basic version = US$129, Premium version = $129.” (laughter) One version contains everything. 
• Devs get free Mac OS X Leopard preview today.
• Jobs: “That’s just 10 of over 300 new features.”
• Time Machine backs up locally or via network – preview via Quick Look, restore file or entire Mac with one click.
• Plug drive onto Airport Extreme Base Station and use Time Machine on multiple Macs.
• Time Machine: One click ease-of-use.
• Phil puts his mouth on photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, sticks tongue out as Ballmer is wont ot do (laughter).
• Sharing video – All Quick Look files work with iChat Theater. Collaboration on documents via iChat.
• Keynote presentaion via iChat demo with Phil Schiller.
• Tabbed chats, iChat Theater and Backdrops
• iChat gets better audio quality with AAC-Low Delay codec
• iChat: Photo Booth features in iChat
• Use Safari to make Dashboard Widegts from web pages using “WebClip”
• Over 3,00 Widgets now – Dashboard a big hit.
• Dashboard: Movie Times Widget from Apple – search times, see trailers, buy tickets (Fandango).
• “Spaces” – moving quickly between spaces features drag and drop ease. Birds eye view of all Spaces.
• Boot Camp runs XP and Vista at native speed. Complement to virtualization products from other firms. Apple working with Paralles and VMWare to help them with their virtualization products.
• Leopard will integrate Boot Camp – no more CD burns for drivers.
• Boot Camp – 2.5 million downloads to date.
• Core animation is automatic animation.
• “Core Animation” – easy to use, easy to add to apps.
• Loading 4GB photo – 64-bit did it in 0:28, 32-bit in 0:81 seconds
• Conducting 32-bit vs. 64-bit shootout…
• First mainstream operating system to be fully 64-bit.
• Mac OS X Leopard is fully 64-bit. Single Leopard version runs 32- and 64-bit apps. side-by-side.
• Quick Look capable of full screen
• “Quick Look” – live file previews – works with popular filetypes – plug-ins allow for other file types to be added.
• “Back to My Mac” – .Mac serves as central hub – browse other Macs over network via Cover Flow
• Smart search incorporated into new sidebar.
• View folder contents via Cover Flow in Finder.
• New Finder with new sidebar – easy to browse network
• Stacks can function as application launcher. Stacks – clean up desktop.
• QuickTime vids in Stack.
• Stacks are folders in Dock – fan out or via grid. Instantly get contents of folders.
• Stacks demo…
• Buh-bye brushed metal UI. Leopard gets consistent UI.
• Leopard features new Desktop, photrealistic, Stacks, menubar changes depending on Desktop, new Dock.
• 300 new Leopard features – We’ll see 10 of them today
• 22 million active Mac OS X users currently. 67% using Tiger. 23% on Panther. Rest on older versions.
• Jobs: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was the most succcessful release in Apple’s history
• Entire 3-D game world covered in 20GB of texture. Thanks, John.
• John Carmack id games – first time showing new next-gen game tech…
• Taking about simultaneous EA game releases coming in July
• Electronic Arts (EA) coming back to Mac in big way…
• Otellini, “Working with Apple has been one of the best things that’s happened in my career, but the best is still to come.”
• Intel CEO Paul Otellini takes stage re: Mac’s smooth Intel transistion.
• 5,000+ in attendance today. Largest WWDC in Apple’s history.
• Steve Jobs takes the stage.
• Parody “Get a Mac” ad playing. PC guy pretends to be Steve Jobs, says “I Quit.” Audience laughs.
• Apple’s online storehas gone offline. We’ll be back soon. We are busy updating the store for you and will be back shortly.
• Getting close to the start…
• Please DO NOT RELOAD this page manually to minimize server activity due to expected high traffic. Thank you.
• Several banners are shrouded in black and should be revealed as Jobs’ keynote ends.
• People are in the process of taking their seats…
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• Keynote is scheduled to begin at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT.
this is going to be MW: good
“Hold on to your butts.”
– Mr. Arnold
i want a video feed, damn it!
I just can’t wait.
Let’s the real WOW begins.
MW “enough” as in “It will never be”
Wake me up when September ends.
So now we will see all of the Lepoards spots.
Somebody get Steve Ballmer a chair to throw.
Investigate what’s installed in EFI for your own privacy.
MDW: early. It’s much too early to be waiting here. Come back at 1PM EST.
How exciting
What about a whole new way of interaction ? gestures !! Fingerworks Keypad ?
http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/06/prediction_mult.html
As a pre-emptive measure, employees at Microsoft’s Redmond campus are being asked to stand up as they work today. All office chairs were moved to a secure, undisclosed location over the weekend as a safety precaution pending today’s WWDC keynote announcements.
Why not a live podcast via iTunes?
Where’s my chair?
He, he, nice little greeting for MDN too
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Been looking forward to this.
“MacDailyNews Note: Nik Fletcher has created an AppleScript that will automatically open 10 sites that will be covering today’s keynote in separate tabs of your default browser.”
Yeah, that’s what we need, lets all just tie up the servers as much as possible so that no one gets fresh content and productivity is clobbered all over as people hit refresh refresh refresh on all the sites desperately trying to get some tidbits of info 5 minutes before their colleagues (who, by the way, are actually being productive.
Here’s what I recommend – pick your favorite site for the Keynote coverage, they all do auto refresh, set the page on a tab in your browser, then check that tab no more frequently than every 10 minutes. Use those 10 minutes to be productive at work.
Unless you’re a student on summer break. Just go take a nap, and when you wake up, all the news will be there for you.
HSNetworkGuy – agreed, I thought opening all ten didn’t make sense. I can see opening 2 or 3 if you really must know as fast as possible. But, since I just graduated and haven’t started my job yet, I will likely watch minute by minute, even though it would be far more effective to just wait for the QuickTime video later today or tomorrow.
Ok children, refreshing, refreshing your browser is bad, hmm ok?
So don’t…hmmm, don’t refesh your browser ok? It, hmm.. it, overloads the server ok?
No Squirt For You:
lol !!
(thanks!)
Have pity on me. It’s now 12 am in Sydney and I am going to bed. I will have to wait till tomorrow eveing after work (19 hrs away) before I can watch the QT video on the Apple site.
Aaaaaaargh…..
the paper died!!! AAAGGGHH!
or rather, man, can’t wait to see what wwdc brings
best WWDC Ever!!!
@ MDN:
Thanks for providing links to other live coverage. That shows me that, even with all the creative advertising angles on your site, you’re still Apple fans at heart.
Or just don’t want your servers to go down. ;D
Spoiler alert.
The surprises are C.B.Radio and the iPhone Shuffle.
Does anyone know accurately how long apple usually take to post the video of the event?
I hope that Apple will make this keynote speech available at the iTunes store like they did with the MacWorld Expo SF keynote last January. I’m just going to get off-line to avoid all of the traffic. 😀
Better bolt down the desks in Redmond too!
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Nnnnggggg the pressure.
Was just getting ready to settle in for WWDC when along comes urgent work.
Shit! The only down side of being self employed
Aaahhhhhh
Marc:
It normally takes Apple 2-4 hours after the event to post the video.
To GranitW
Thanks, guess i’ll just watch the live blogs, dont think i can wait another 2-4 hours even after waiting months already!
Attention, Steve Ballmer. Please take your seats.
Where is the wonderful converage? “People are in the process of taking thier seats…” other sites are way faster and are, so far, 13 minutes ahead!
where are these other sites with such better coverage?
please, do tell
Other sites with better coverage?
Have you been to Engadget?
They’re updated every 5 seconds with fruitful commentary and pictures of what’s being said.
I don’t normally care for Engadge otherwise but nobody’s fscking with their Keynote coverages.
Honestly, I am somewhat disappointed. After all the hoopla about “Leopard’s Secret Features”, we don’t get many newly previewed, mind-blowing features.
1. New Desktop
2. New Finder <— Stacks are new.
3. Quick Look <— New
4. 64-bit
5. Core Animation
6. Boot Camp
7. Spaces
8. Dashboard
9. iChat
10. Time Machine
I am more interested in the “one more thing”: Safari for Windows. Apple is invading Microsoft’s stronghold! It seems Apple is secure enough not to feel threatened by Microsoft’s monopoly on office apps.
Weak. Very, very weak. That keynote SUCKED something fierce. What the fsck are the secret features? COME ON DAMMIT!!!!
Most traders on Wall Street are scratching their heads going, Whaa? That’s it? There was nothing earthshattering in this keynote.
AAPL price has fallen below Friday’s close ($124.49), and taken out this morning’s low ($123.75).
Watch to see if AAPL continues to plummet, or whether it stabilizes near Friday’s low of $122.29
Well that absolutely was the worst keynote I’ve ever seen. Where are the new features in Leopard? Outside of the Finder, it was a repeat of last year for the most part.
And don’t give us the BS about security with the iPhone, its all about one thing. AT&T doesn’t want someone writing a VOIP app for the iPhone. Its nothing more than an expensive toy now.
Safari in Windows is so that Windows users can sync with Safari in iPhone.
OSX Leopard Basic — $129.
OSX Leopard Premium — $129.
WWDC digs at Ballmer and Microsoft — Priceless!
Meanwhile, deep in a certain Redmond CEO’s office…
“GODDAM SAFARI ON MY OS!!!” *THROWS CHAIR AROUND OFFICE* “AMY!! AMY!! GET ME MORE CHAIRS NOW!!!!”
Meanwhile, across the entire open source community…
“Oh shit man, no way….”
iWork? iLife?… Really should have been at the January show.. When the hell are they coming out then?!
Anyway, there were no products launched, the Apple Store going down was just for show.
Leopard looks freaking awesome, everyone was whining about the Finder, well there ya go.
No word on iWork 07???? Anybody know anything???
So the top secret feature is Safari for Windows?!?
Lamest WWDC keynote ever, what a disappointment.
No new hardware, no new features (Stacks and Quick Look? Come on…), what the fsck was that?
Lame, totally lame.
Get over it guys, the keynote was good, it’s a developer thing not a product launcher. Patience comes to those who wait.
Overall, a very very dissapointing WWDC!
iPhone is going to bring Safari to the mainstream, it is necessary for a Windows version of Safari since a very large percentage of Windows users will own an iPhone.
apple store has new UI/look
Safari for Windows is good news. Now how about iChat for Windows so we can chat with all our Windows friends?
theres a new meu bar on the apple site holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@wandering Joe,
Yeah, we know it was a developer thing, but WWDC is normally a product launcher too.. Besides, we saw 80% of these features last year, and the new ones really shouldn’t have been classified as “top secret.”
Yeah. Apple.com looks pretty cool now. Very TNG.
Apple = Embrace, Extend and Extinguish
Hahahahaha!!! It worked for M$!!
Disappointed as well. Really hoped, as I think many others did, there would be something of a product launch like iWork , but it is the WWDC after all…. Too bad.
Having said that, the new look of the Apple store is nice.
Well, that was fast. AAPL dropped $3 in a hurry, now reaching the $121 mark and may go down to the $120 level.
If AAPL breaks that level, look for support at the June lows of $117.90.
If the selling gets extreme (e.g. there’s a huge market sell off, with panic selling), look for support at the 20-day exponential moving average (on the daily chart) near the $116.25 level.
For those of you who missed out on buying AAPL, this price dip is a buying opportunity.
Cramer on CNBC is saying to wait until tomorrow, though, to buy AAPL. (Note that Cramer is positive on DELL as well.)
“Get over it guys, the keynote was good, it’s a developer thing not a product launcher. Patience comes to those who wait.”
That’s not an excuse. Precisely because it is a developer thing, Apple must show what the secret features are. Developers need time to be ready to release apps that use OS features. Steve needs to highlight what those features are, how they affect software development and in turns, how they benefit users.
I think those secret features are not ready for prime time and we won’t see it until 10.6.
Just installed Safari on my Windows machine at work. It has a long ways to go. Completely mangles checkboxes.
Don’t a lot of Mac users complain because Firefox doesn’t look native on OS X, well, Firefox looks 100 times more native on OS X than Safari looks on Windows.
I definitely won’t be using this often. It is fast though.
Bored, bored, bored, God I’m bored. Wake me when something actually happens.
Menu transparencies, supercolourful desktop background, eye candy everywhere, dynamically updated file icon previews based on an plugin system… Start your photocopiers, indeed! Someone felt a bit insecure while designing Leopard’s GUI, it seems.
Safari on Windows is just an iPhone developers thing. It ought to help web developers to check Safari compatibility for, say, banking and the rest of the usual suspects.
I don’t know. I have a new brand spanking Mac Pro and the latencies I noticed while on a Powermac G4 1 GHz are just as present in the new gear. All those new features better be instantaneous in action or else! Spotlight’s search as you type is a pain in the ass enough.
This was a very blah presentation. What are the chances of new hardware arriving soon? I’ve got some friends waiting for the new iMacs to appear, and I don’t know what to tell them.
Well, as was the case last year, MDN’s WWDC coverage was shite, with lousy support for the added traffic that could have been expected by even a Vista user. Well, at least the ad banners still worked, so no skin off your noses, eh! Keep up the good work, NOT.
Magic word “where”, as in where was the quality support for one of the year’s major events?
>”And don’t give us the BS about security with the iPhone, its all about one thing. AT&T doesn’t want someone writing a VOIP app for the iPhone.”
Never thought of that. Good point……. An iPhone with a VOIP app doesn’t need a service contract of any type.
But then the same would apply to any open to developers smartphone, wouldn’t it? The phone networks probably have the means to stop VOIP working whatever the smartphone capabilities, so still…
I just realized (or more accurately – came to my senses about) something in my previous post:
A VOIP app doesn’t matter one bit – WHY? You still need access to AT&T’s network and you are going to buy a contract/service agreement for that. Why run a VIOP app on top of everything? Yeah, I suppose you could make free unlimited international calls and/or minimize your other call expenses……so then again maybe it does have merit.
Either way, you WILL be paying for a service contract regardless. Anyway………
These comments have made my day. To see all the juvenile whooping and Ballmer bashing turn to howls of outrage that Daddy hasn’t come home with the surprise he’d promised was hilarious. Hype & hubris walk hand in hand with Jobs. Watch the press turn on him, especially at the end of the month when they finally realize that the iPhone is more gimmick than useful gadget.
Secret Features Anyone??????
Wait!!! That features are so secret that you will not know you have it in Leopard, even after the purchase.
Wonder why there were not too much punches at microsoft (I admit that John Hodgeman was great) this time, is Apple loosing its fun side??
Where is the downloadable HD Keynote for us Apple TV users?