MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Phil Schiller’s Macworld Expo 2009 Keynote

Mac Daily News ^ | 01/06/2008

[Swordmaker]

Live Coverage of Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller's Macworld Expo 2009 Keynote

• Welcome announcement. Please silence iPhones...

• Still waiting for Phil...

• Phil Schiller takes the stage to healthy applause. (The protest failed).

• Phil: Thank you so much.

• Talks about successful openings of Apple Retail Stores around the world.

• No black mock turleneck. Blue jeans and a blue button-down open at the neck. Casual Phil.

• 3.4 million visitors pr week to Apple Retail Stores.

• 9.7 million Macs sold last year.

• Phil has 3 things for today.

• Phil announces iLife '09.

• iPhoto 09: Faces: face detection; automatically finds the face and lets you tag it.

• Then uses that info to find the same face in other photos.

• Also "Places." Shows Google map that shows all the places you've taken your photos.

• Places uses GPS found in some cameras and, of course, iPhone. Auto locates (geotags) each photo.

• Works with Google's street maps and satellite maps, too.

• Facebook and Flickr now built right into iPhoto.

• Slideshow Themes ("great new feature"): Some very cool themes (Classic, Ken Burns, Scrapbook, Shatter, Sliding Panels, Snapshots), each of which can be saved directly to iTunes for syncing to iPhone, iPod touch.

• Photo books updated with more themes and higher quality.

• Schiller demos iPhoto '09 new features.

• The audience seems pretty wowed by face detection. It seems to work well.

• Use maps to se all of the photos you've taken in a particular place.

• iPhoto demo proceeds past its expiration date...

• iMovie 09...

• Apple has added a bunch on features that should please everyone (this time).

• Precision editor, advanced drag & drop support, animated 2D and 3D travel maps, video stabilization, and dynamic themes.

• Editors can pull out audio and video and lay audio under other video clips.

• Randy Ubillos, Chief Architect - Video Applications, onstage demoing the product.

• iMovie 09 editors should watch Randy's demo when Apple puts the keynote online.

• Video stabilization works well in the demo.

• Video effects: x-ray, aged film, cartoon, vignette...

• Indy Jones-style travel maps take viewers from one place to another visually.

• iMovie 09 demo ends.

• Phil back onstage with GarageBand 09.

• "Learn to Play" - Artist Lessons, US$4.99 each: famous artists teach you how to play instruments. Music teachers worldwide faint en masse.

• Sting, Norah Jones, Chris Martin, John Fogerty, and many others featured.

• iLife 09: US$79, up to 5-Macs family pack goes for $99. Ships "late January." Mac OS X Leopard required.

• Phil debuts iWork 09.

• Keynote 09. The best presentation app gets even better.

• "Magic Move" - moves objects like, um, magic. Actually, quite cool.

• Text transitiosn like swing, shimmer, anagram (text "Bush' to "Obama" demoed).

• Crane move (as in Hollywood camera crane or jib) lets viewers fly over charts with proper perspective. Bbar graphs can "grow," etc.

• Keynote Remote is 99-cents in iTunes App Store. Control Keynote with your iPhone,

• Pages 09. 40 new templates (certificates, much more), full screen view, dynamic outlines, MAil merge with Numbers, MathType and EndNote.

• Numbers 09: Table categories

• 250 functions, function view, advanced chart options... 

• iWork 09: US$79, up to 5-Macs family pack goes for $99, $49 with new Mac. Ships today.

• New "Mac Box Set" - Mac OS X Leopard, iLife, and iWork for $169.

• Phil announces iWork.com: "We're going to announce a beta so we can get feedback." MDN Take: MobileMe lesson learned. 

• Share iWork docs online. Demo time...

• Create a document. Notify the viewer(s). The doc goes to iWork.com, so doe the viewer. The viewer sees what looks like, for example, Pages, but it's really in Safari via the cloud. Slick.

• Multiple users can add notes, edit docs - like Google Docs, but from Apple.

• Customers can sign up for free during beta period; eventually, it'll be a pay service.

• Phil: One more thing...


• The new 17-inch MacBook Pro.

• The world's lightest and thinnest 17-inch notebook.

• 0.98 inches thin, 6.6 pounds, 17-inch (duh) backlit LED display, 1920x1200, 700:1 contrast ratio, 60% greater color gamut than previous 17-inch MacBook Pro.

• Matte display lives. Now shaddup. A $50 anti-glare option will be available for the 17-inch MBP.

• 140-degree H/120-degree V viewing angle.

• Mini DisplayPort, USB, FireWire 800, MagSafe, 39% larger Glass Multi-Touch™ trackpad, up to 8GB memory, 9400M and 9600GT NVIDIA graphics, 320GB HD standard, 256GB SSD option.

• "Our longest Battery Life. Ever."

• Non-removable battery lets us use all available space. Removable battery = wasted space.

• 17-inch MBP's battery lasts up to 8 hours on a single charge and can be charged 1000 times.

• Battery is recyclable and can run up to five years.

• Battery life using discreet graphics(9600GT) = 7 hours, integrated graphics(9400M) = 8 hours.

• One base config for US$2799. Ships in "late January."

• Phil plays TV ad for new 17-inch MacBook Pro. Recharge Apple's new 17-inch MacBook Pro up to 1,000 times, over 5 years, 3X as long as batteries in other notebooks.

• One last thing...

• iTunes Store has sold over 6 billion songs. 75 million accounts with credit cards. 10 million songs available.

• New pricing: $0.69, $0.99, and $1.29 per song. Starts in April.

• Starting today: 8 million songs will be DRM-free. By the end of next quarter, all 10 million songs will be DRM-free.

• Songs are 256 kbps AAC and you can upgrade your entire purchased library to DRM-free iTunes Plus.

• iPhone's access to iTunes Music Store is no longer just on WiFi, it's now over 3G as well.

• Same price, selection, and quality via 3G as with Wi-Fi and via personal computer.

• Tony Bennett out to perform. Big time.

• End of keynote: Apple left their heart in San Francisco.


[Troll_House_Cookies]

Whatever helps you sleep at night. I’m done with this thread, but do appreciate the discussion, sincerely. I’m going home my Commodore 64 with the tape drive, gonna pop in the word processing program and bang out some angry letters to Apple’s board, then I’ll print them on my dot matrix printer and head to sleep.

Until we meet again.

[dayglored]

> Whatever helps you sleep at night. I’m done with this thread, but do appreciate the discussion, sincerely. I’m going home my Commodore 64 with the tape drive, gonna pop in the word processing program and bang out some angry letters to Apple’s board, then I’ll print them on my dot matrix printer and head to sleep.

Sounds good. Don't forget to backup your docs to a spare cassette, you never know. ;-)

> Until we meet again.

Yep. See ya then...