Posted on 01/10/2006 9:04:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
I was going to take a walk, but finally tracked down the scheduled time for Jobs' keynote (9 AM) and figured I'd better hang out. Any minute now. I wish I had a webcast address, I'd like to see it. Of course, the bandwidth will be swamped...
Previous Jobs' keynotes have run around 1 hour to 1:30.
12:25 PM - "We've got a new release of Mac OS X Tiger ... 10.4.4 ... you can download it today, it's got all these new widgets."
:'D
I"m a little jealous, I suspect Swordmaker is seeing this live... just a weird hunch...
That MacRumors page is fastest, just text, newest on top 'blog style, reloads auto:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/10/livekeynote/index.php
"Jobs said that Apple sold 14 million iPods this holiday season, compared to 4.5 million for the 2004 holiday season -- that averaged to more than 100 sold every minute. The total number of iPods Apple has sold since the music play was first introduced in 2001 -- 42 million."
14 *million* iPods... 14 *million* iPods... 14 *million* iPods...
Yipes! I don't want to hang here that long.
12:30 PM - "Something incredibly new: Photocasting. This is Podcasting for photos."
12:31 PM - "Wouldn't it be great if every time I updated a photo album, people subscribed to it would get the latest photos?"
As long as it wasn't someone's "moon" photos a la the fax machine pranksters...
Pick one up for me too, thanks ;)
12:32 PM - It works through .Mac. You can set a password. "Whenever there's a change, those changes will get downloaded right into their subscription album. They can make their cards with them, they can set their desktop pictures with them... We use industry standard RSS, so anyone can subscribe - you don't even need a Mac."
12:33 PM - He's going to give a demo. The best one-line explanation: Imagine grandparents who have their screen saver set to be photos of the grandchildren. Every time the parents update the album, gramma's slide show automatically starts showing the new pix.
[the .Mac service is actually getting pushed pretty hard in this keynote]
ha ha....
Just looking in the iTunes Music Store at all the SNL stuff... they have the "Weekend Update - Steve Jobs" on Volume 2 of the skits....
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewVideo?id=115643036&p=114370477&s=143441
Welcome.
"9:41 am Animated themes for movies, real time effects, new audio tools. Moving to iMovie demo."
Heh...
I suspect he always goes through everything in minute detail, and the "just one more thing" announcement is generally a foregone conclusion. I've never followed one of these closely before.
"9:45 am Next Up... iDVD. Widescreen menus."
9:46 am 3rd party DVD burners supported.
[and on to...]
9:47 am Garageband. New podcast studio. Podcast artwork track. over 200 free jingles and effects. speech enhanccer. use iChat for remote interviews.
9:49 am Recording - "Hi, I'm Steve, welcome to my podcast of Super Secret Apple Rumors"
9:49 am he's got "Pretty good sources in Apple"
[speaking of which... Steve wanted to bulldoze a 1920s-era mansion (which is a wreck) built by a copper baron, in order to construct a modern house more in line with the needs of his family. This got shot down, it's now considered some sort of historic structure; he should have had it torched, and then asked for the building permit]
http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/10/steve-jobs-keynote-live-from-macworld-2006/
12:48 PM - "Hi, I'm Steve and welcome to my weekly podcast, Super-secret Apple Rumors." (huge laughs) "I have some pretty good sources inside Apple, and the next iPod is going to be HUGE, like 8 pounds ... See you next week."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/10/livekeynote/index.php
"At long last, support for third-party DVD burners has finally come to Apple's DVD creation software, iDVD. 'Magic DVD' is a new feature that lets you create a DVD using drag and drop techniques, rather than having to manually assemble your project. Also, you can produce wide-screen menus for your DVD content."
"9:53 am Great 5 apps in iLife... but something new..."
9:54 am New App to share photos, movies, music, blogs, content... iWeb
9:56 am Any browser can view it.
12:56 PM - It's published through .Mac, natch. "Looks great in Firefox. Any RSS reader can subscribe to your blog."
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