MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s ‘Latest Creation’ Event via a special “lite” page which took place on Wednesday, January 27th at 10am PT | 1pm ET | 6pm GMT/UTC | 6pm BST | 7pm CET.
Updates in reverse chronological order:
• End of event.
• Jobs: “This is a magical device, at a breakthrough price.”
• Jobs: iTunes Store: Over 12 billion downloads and over 125 million accounts with credit cards
• iPad intro video beign shown
• iPad Case doubles as a stand
• iPad Keyboard Dock – Apple keyboard with dock
• iPad Dock – lets you use the iPad like a picture frame
• WiFi models ship in 60 days; WiFi+3G models ship in 90 days
• WiFi+3G iPad: 16GB – $629, 32GB – $729, 64GB – $829
• WiFi iPad: 16GB – $499, 32GB – $599, 64GB – $699
• Sign up to be notified of iPad availability
• iPad starts at US$499
• All iPad 3G models are unlocked and use new GSM micro SIMs
• Apple hopes for international carrier deals within June/July time period
• Free use of AT&T WiFi hotspots nationwide
• No contract – cancel anytime
• Activate right on iPad
• 3G Plan 2: AT&T Unlimited data for $29.99/mo.
• 3G Plan 1: AT&T 250MB of data per month for US$14.99/mo.
• Jobs back onstage: All iPad models have WiFi, but some also have 3G
• 2:14 pm ET: AAPL at $204.13, -1.81 (-0.88%)
• iWork for iPad: US$9.9 for Pages app, $9.99 for Keynote, $9.99 for Numbers – pick and choose what you want
• Onscreen keyboards adjust depending on task; numerical keypads, functions, etc.
• Apple obviously put a lot of work into iWork for iPad
• iWork looks like a new suite – lots and lots of capabilities – with Multi-Touch™ goodness
• If Jeff Bezos isn’t sweating…
• How much? How much? How much?
• Apple Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Phil Schiller onstage to intro iWork for iPad.
• 1:58pm ET: AAPL at $202.6,6 -3.28 (-1.59%)
• iBooks is a great eBook reader and a great online bookstore all in one app – uses the ePub format
• Apple partners with Pengiun, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hatchette Book Group
• Jobs back onstage to intro Apple’s new app: iBooks – an eBook reader – pages flip, very cool
• App Demo: One of our favs, MLB.com At Bat: Live fullscreen game video
• App Demo: EA’s Travis Boatman: “Need For Speed Shift” game: “Building for the iPad is a little bit like holding a HDTV screen a few inches from your face.”
• App Demo: Brushes
• Tap to zoom, pinch to resize, etc.
• Video inside NY Times stories plays
• MacDailyNews Take: Amazon’s Kindle hardware, which wasn’t much to speak of in the first place, is dead
• App Demo: The New York Times
• App Demo: Gameloft shows FPS “Nova”
• 1:40pm ET: APL at $203.43, -2.51 (-1.22%)
• Green Cred: iPads are arsenic-free, BFR-free, Mercury-free, PVC-free system, Highly Recyclable
• iPads have built-in App Store, of course. iPad apps will be “front and center.”
• SDK includes “iPad simulator” for devs to run the iPad apps on Mac
• New iPhone SDK supportsiPad development; available for download today
• Runs all iPhone apps unmodified; can also “pixel double” to run all apps full screen
• Scott Forstall on stage to talk about apps
• Battery life: 10 hours VIDEO with over a month standby
• Accelerometer & Compass
• Speaker, Mic, 30-pin Dock Connector
• WiFi 802.11n
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 16 – 64GB Flash storage
• Jobs: “It’s powered by our own silicon. The 1GHz Apple A4 chip. It screams.”
• 1:30pm ET: AAPL $201.45, -4.49 (-2.18%)
• 1/2-inch thin, 1.5 pounds
• Movies demo -they look great
• 9.7-inch IPS display with capacitive Multi-Touch™
• On screen keyboard
• Photo
• Email
• Movies and TV shows
• Slide to unlock – like iPhone
• Google Maps
• iTunes Store built right in. YouTube in HD.
• Very thin. Best web browser you’ve ever had.
• We think we have something better… And we call it the iPad.
• No, it’s not a netbook because they aren’t better at anything
• Things like Web browsing, email, photos, video, games, music, etc.
• So, is there going to be thrid category of mobile devices between MacBooks and iPhones? If so it has to do things better.
• Apple is now a company with revenue of over $50 billion annually
• Jobs: Apple is the largest mobile device companyby revenue in the world, bigger than Sony, Samsung, etc.
• 50 million visitore to Appel Retail Stores last quarter
• 250 millionth iPod sold a few weeks ago
• Review some things 1st: 284 Apple Retail Stores
• “Good morning and thnak you all for coming.” – Jobs
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage to big applause.
• Please silence iPhones… Lights dim…
• Read as if delivered by Shatner: May. Die. The. Waiting. Is. Excruciating.
• Uncle Walt in San Fran, not Boca as we previously advised.
• Oodles of press. Excitement is palpable. Dylan on PA system.
• 12:52pm ET: AAPL off $1.02 (-0.50%) to $204.92
• Jonathan Ive has been spotted, but no word on one Mr. Steve Jobs, yet…
• “Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger arrives in a black Cadillac Escalade,” Jim Goldman reports for CNBC.
• 9:38am PT: And much of “The Mac Web” grinds to a crawl, if not a halt.
• 12:30pm ET: Apple Inc. (AAPL) currently down slightly by $1.56 (-0.76%) to stand at $204.38 in NASDAQ trading
• 9:30am PT: Just just 30 looong minutes to go!
Here’s a creepy thought for you. It kinda makes sense that Michael Dell will also be glued to his computer, reading the live blogs from the Apple event. kinda like a deer staring at the headlights of the Mack truck bearing down on him. Only this would be the headline ” Dell becomes roadkill. Run down by a Mac truck on the Information Super Highway!
Dell… technologies little speed bump on the information super highway.
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This is pretty exciting. I know I should get a life, but right now, all I want to know, is what Stevo is going to bring to the world. There’s just no one in the world that defines the future like Apple.
Got yer popcorn?
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Don’t ya’ mean a MAC truck.
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One day the technology will be there for us to watch these events live. Oh wait.
Defective by Design’s own Steve Jobs is protesting Apple’s use of Digital Restrictions Management on the device.
iPad!
There’s got to be more to it than this.
iPad — far better than iSlate (easier to type too).
@Tommy Boy: Limiting it to “chosen few” heightens the hype
Thank Dog for MDN — Macworld’s live update died…
He’d better pull out a “one more thing” here… it’s just a big iPhone so far….
Yappari, just like I thought – so far, I am not very interested in the iPad… I’ll just keep using my iPod touch – it seems to be able to most of what he is saying about the iPad, and I already have it! Now, an 11″ MacBook – a REAL Mac, would surely interest me!
I am not seeing this. It is, as others have said, a giant iPhone.
Just wait… there has to be a moment coming where we see what this can do that the iPhone and iPod Touch cannot, otherwise, what would have been the point in its creation?
There’s not even any new multi-touch gestures?
And apparently it can’t run multiple third party apps at the same time, are you kidding me? Which means iPhone 4.0 probably won’t, either.
I feel like I’ve just been told Santa Clause isn’t real. Fsck me for falling for the hype.
No widescreen, no sale! I hope my mind will be changed somehow! Sigh!
@dotar – “…what this can do that the iPhone and iPod Touch cannot, otherwise, what would have been the point in its creation?”
There you have it; what is the point? I feel about like this the same way I did about the Cube – what’s the point? If it does games great, it will probably sell – but, alas, I am not a gamer… If the price is right.
ENOUGH with the Kindle jabs already. Kindles are fine.
Yawn! No widescreen, no sale!
iPad? Why not iKotex?
Still nothing that says “BUY ME”… the iPhone or Touch is a LOT more portable than this.
What am I getting that so many of you aren’t. I have an iPhone 3GS and it’s great for many things. However, it’s to small to be a reader and even the games, as fun as they are, are limited due to size. People are looking for portability. Trust me, I am an older college grad student and I hear this and see this in the younger gens. It’s portable but a helluva lot better than the iPhone/iPod touch. 0.5 inch thick and 1.5 lbs? Are you kidding me. Slips into a bag a purse, won’t even notice it. You may all be geeks as I am and, perhaps desire more power, but the average user is going to love this.
Think of all the people who would love to use an iPhone but the screen size is too small; the elderly, those with vision problems, etc. A larger iPhone without the phone capabilities is going to be perfect for those folks. Depending on price point, I may ditch my iPhone and go with the iPad combined with a regular cellphone; I really don’t make that many calls on my phone anyway, most of my iPhone use is checking the Internet and using the apps.
I am surprised at the harshness here. That’s a B-u-tiful form factor in my opinion. What have you seen that’s as fine? Yes, it is a big iPhone, but netbooks are selling like crazy – that’s what John Q Public wants.