Notes in reverse-chronological order:
• One more thing. Just kidding. Keynote ends as Jobs leaves stage.
• Jobs intros iPhone teams, offers applause.
• Showing new iPhone 3G ad.
• Available on July 11th.
• iPhone 3G 16GB – $299 (comes in choice of black or white).
• iPhone 3G will sell for US$199 for 8GB (black only)… MacDailyNews Take: Let the bloodbath begin.
• iPhone 3G to roll out in 70 countries within the next severeal months.
• iPhone 3G features built-in GPS.
• 2G talk time is up to 10 hours from 8 hours. 3G talk time is 5 hours. Web surfing – 5-6 hours via 3G, Video= 7hrs., Audio=24 hrs.
• iPhone 3G is 36% faster than the nokia N95 and Treo 750.
• Jobs: 3G approaches WiFi speeds. We’re also really proud that we’re doing this with great battery life — standby time is 300 hours.
• Jobs demos the syrupy slowness of EDGE.
Vs. 3G – much, much faster.
• iPhone 3G – blk back, metal buttona, flush headphone jack, much better audio quality, same excellent display…
• Jobs: “Apple sold 6 million iPhones until they ran out a few weeks ago.”
• mobileme costs: $99 per year with 20GB of storage.
• A moment of silence, please: .Mac is dead. Okay, that’s enough: mobileme replaces .Mac. iPhone 2.0 offers 60-day free trial, .Mac users auto updated to mobileme.
• Send iPhone photo to the library of your choosing.
• Move an iCal event on your computer and how it shows up on your iPhone in seconds.
• Schiller demos mobileme web app: Photos also work – looks and works like iPhoto. iDisk supported.
• Apple’s Web 2.0 (Ajax) suite for mobileme (me.com)/
• On Mac, mobileme works with iCal, Address Book and Mail. On Windoze, it works with Microsoft Outlook.
• Schiller, “mobileme stores your info up in the cloud so you can get to it anywhere using any of your devices — Mac, PC, iPhone — it will push information up and down to keep everything up to date all the time.”
• Push email, contacts, and calendars: Everything is up-to-date wherever you are.
• mobileme: Phil Schiller demos…
Calls “ActiveSync,” “ActiveStink.” (laughter)
• Also, for teachers: Ad Hoc: develop iPhone apps in a class, have it certified, then register up to 100 iPhones for use.
• Enterprise can distribute private aps via company’s intranet by first authorizing phones on their own network and then distribute them via iTunes.
• App Store to be available in 62 countries.
• App Store will notify users when apps are updated. FairPlay DRM will wrap applications.
• iPhone 2.0 Software release “early July.” Free for all iPhone owners, US$9.95 for iPod touch owners.
• Parental Controls, language support…
• Steve Jobs back: new SDK features: Full iWork doc. support, bulk delete/move in Mail, Save emailed photos into photo library…
• Push notification service for all developers from Apple. Better than WIndows Mobile (not too hard). Maintains performance and preserves battery life – available in Sept. Will work for WiFi and over cellular networks.
• Digital Legends Entertainment now to demo “Krull” – cool game coming in September.
• MIMvista demo: mediacl imagine app. Ready at App Store launch.
• It’s a festival of demos, ladies and gentlemen!
• NeXT up: Modality with two new medical apps.
• MLB’s “At Bat” shows today’s games, stats, live game info (runners on base), score, pitch count, etc.
• MLB.com up for demo: “real-time” video highlights – moments after play happens, it’s on your iPhone.
• Mark Terry from Moo Cow Music demos “Band” – virtual instruments. Piano keyboard (puts Microsnot’s Windows 7 vapor demo to shame). Coming within 3 weeks of App Store launch.
&bull: “Enigmo” game get water into vessel with moveable paddles and tools and “Cro-Mag Rally” caveman racing game. Both in App Store at launch for $9.99.
• Pangea demoing two games.
• Associated Press demoing an app – read AP news, location-aware, so you get local stories of interest. Submit news tips to AP.
• Next: TypePad demo: mobile blogging app. Post via iPhone, use camera, post photos, etc. A free app at App Store launch.
• Netx is “Loopt” demo. A location-based app – shows where your friends are located, etc. Free at App Store launch.
• Auctions lets you search for items, bid, etc. on eBay.
• Next up: eBay’s Ken Sun with “Auctions” app.
• Super Monkey Ball will be available at App Store launch for US$9.99.
• Dev SEGA on-stage to demo Super Monkey Ball: 110 stages and all four of the classic monkeys in just 8 weeks!
• Quotes from devs and others, like NY Times Pogue: “You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform, Windows, Mac OS X and iPhone.”
• ‘Tis easy to write an application and test it via iPhone Sim right on your Mac.
• Let’s just say that the exciting stuff is yet to come…
• Demoing Interface Builder and debugging.
• Xcode, iPhoen Sim demo.
• SDK in iPhone 2.0 offers same APIs and tools that Apple uses internally.
• Forstall out to show SDK, new apps.
• Works with Cisco to built in secure VPN.
• iPhone enterprise video being shown…
• iPhone 2.0.’s enterprise features include Exchange support, including push email, push contacts, push calendar, auto-discovery, global address lookup, remote wipe.
• 35% of the Fortune 500 involved in working with iPhone SDK beta.
• iPhone 2.0 software has 3 parts: Enterprise, SDK, and New Features.
• Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller on hand to help with the presentation.
• Next version of OS X is called “Snow Leopard.”
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage.
• Lights dim, people cheer…
• Here we go…
• Announcement: Please turn off your iPhones…
• 9:54am PDT: It’s going to take a bit of time to get everyone seated. Bo Diddley tune playing.
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Other live WWDC keynote coverage included:
• Apple Gazette
• Ars Technica
• CNET – Tom Krazit
• Engadget
• Fortune
• Gizmodo
• MacNN
• MacRumors
• Macworld
• The Mac Observer
• TechCrunch
• TechzTalk
• TUAW
Do I have the strength to not listen to the WWDC updates, or wait till the video coverage is released?
No – have your cake and eat it!
Words from some blog come to my mind:
Take what man makes and use it, but do not worship it, for it shall pass.
RIP RIM, Long Live iPhone.
I am too excited to work… I guess it must be my innergeek.
Damn, these keynotes expectations are driving me NUTS!!! Can’t wait!!!! i shit my pants!!!
ahhh!!! I can’t wait, its 10 AM central time, I can’t wait til noon for all of this to go down!
*goes on the record* I am SO excited.
at&t;is down here is NJ… can’t make calls on my iPhone, EDGE internet still working though.
I wish apple would stream this live to apple tv!!
Universal landscape keyboard here we come!
I’ll finally be able to put the Notes widget to serious use (which I also wouldn’t mind seeing improved on a few levels).
@R2
When I first got my iPhone, I wished all the keyboard instances would be rotatable to give the bigger landscape mode as well. But over time, I have learned to like the portrait version as you can move much faster between the keys. However, I am fully in favor of the “option” to rotate on all keyboards.
Does anyone think today will be “snappy?”
The AT&T;store says all iPhones are temporarily out of stock.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phones/pda-phones-smartphones.jsp
Apple Store is OFFLINE!
The MAC only I-Work suite will now have a cute little staple character to guide MAC lemmings through the convoluted help system when they make memos in Pages. Nice “innovation”, Apple, but I prefer the paper clip in Microsoft Office. You heard it here first.
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