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Apple WWDC blow by blow report
Mac Daily News ^ | 06/08/2009

Posted on 06/08/2009 12:13:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker

Posted in reverse order, read from the bottom up!

• No "One More Thing." Event ends.

• Schiller recaps todays announcements...

• iPhone 3GS new ad now playing...

• iPhone 3GS available in over 80 countries.

• iPhone 3GS available June 19th.

• Current iPhone 3G stays on market. 8Gb model only. Now just $99.

• iPhone 3GS: $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB. WHite and black versions.

• iPhone 3GS goes from 6hrs. to 9hrs. for Internet/Wi-Fi, from 7 to 10hrs. for video, from 24 to 30hrs. for audio, from 10 to 12hrs. for 2G talk, still 5hrs for 3G talk, of course.

• Nike+ support!

• VoiceOver on iPhone: Will read aloud whatever you touch on iPhone's screen.

• Built-in digital compass, New Compass app, Integrated into Maps, Orient to heading.

• Voice recognition: Control iPod. Ask iPod "What's playing now" to find out, etc.

• Voice dialing. Hold down the Home button. Waveform appears onscreen. Sa, "call [insert name here]" and it calls that person.

• Send the video via email, YouTube and/or MobileMe, too.

• Send the video via MMS (when carrier support arrives).

• You can trim the vidoeo with a tap of your finger.

• 30 frames per second VGA video with audio, Auto focus, Auto white balance, Auto exposure.

• Does video, too. • Autofocus, Manual tap to focus, too. Autoexposure. Macro mode. Improved low light sensitivity.

• New 3 megapixel camera.

• Back is glossy, not matte.

• Open GL/ES support and 7.2 Mbps HSDPA support.

• Introducing the iPhone 3GS. The "S" stands for Speed.

• Apps available: iPhone 50000+, Android 4900, Nokia 1088, BlackBerry 1030, Palm 18.

• Mobile bowser usage: iPhone 65%, Android 9%, Java, 8%, Symbian, 7%, Other, 9%.

• Phil back on stage...

• Devs, test your apps.

• Paid devs get the Golden Master see today. (That would include us.) ;-)

• iPhone 3.0 available worldwide on June 17.

• Adios, rock dudes.

• Guitar player looks like Sawyer from Lost. Demo snafu. Sucks for them. We can imagine the coolness, though. Now, get off the stage!

• Line 6 and Planet Waves show off their stuff: guitars and amps: Connect Amp to iPhone to Guitar and iPhone adds effects.

• Zipcar's Luke Schnieder. iPhone app shows nearest Zipcar locations. Unlock the car you find with your iPhone from the Zipcar app. Crowd loves it.

• PASCO: Add PASCO senors to iPhone to input data. Spark app (science forkids. Forstall in "scientist" garb (with goggles and ear protectors on) holds ballon. PASCO sensor inputes balloon's pressure into iPhone live. Demo didn't quite work. Moving on.

• Can buy additional game levels using in-App purchasing. Nice.

• ngmoco's Star Defense game demoed.

• ngmoco's Neil Young (Cue up the obligatory: no, not that Neil Young).

• Optional TomTom car kit attaches iPhone to windshield. Recharged iPhone via dock connector. Suction cup dock, basically.

• TomTom works in landscape and portrait modes. Coming "this summer."

• TomTom announces first navigational turn-by-turn app (voice directions) in Apple's App Store.

• ScrollMotion. Book store: Kindle competitor. 50 major mags, 170 daily newspapers, 1 million books.

• Oh, duh, but, but, I just bought a Pre. Sorry, you've just died. Just like your battery.

• Airstrip CC app for medical community: EKG over 3G. Push notify your doctor. Doc monitor's patient's stats remotely via iPhone.

• Devs show what they can do with 3.0. Gameloft up first. Asphalt 5: Racing game with music from your music library. "Console quality"

• Devs show what they can do with 3.0. Gameloft up first.

• Embed Google Maps into apps. Offers panning, zooming, current location, geocoding. Devs can build turn-by-turn apps.

• Push Notifications for things like breaking news, sports scores, etc.

• Accessory support. This is going to be big. Glucose monitor example.

• P2P support: Auto. finds other iPhones, connects - great for gaming.

• iPhone 3.0 offers developers over 1,000 new APIs.

• Find My iPhone: Service for MobileMe members. Shows you map of where your iPhone is located. You can send command to remote wipe your iPhone.

• New feature: Find My iPhone.

• iPhone 3.0 adds support for Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Greek and Korean.

• HTML 5 support in Safari for iPhone.

• Autofill. Hallelujah!

• iPhone 3.0 supports HTTP streaming audio and video. Bitrate and data quality adjust to connection speed.

• Tethering. No AT&T mentioned. Later this summer, too? Un-hallelujah. :-(

• Tethering. Share your iPhone's Internet connection with Mac or PC, USB or Bluetooth, seamless. 22 carriers.

• Tethering. Hallelujah!

• iTunes Store rentals and sales over 3G for TV shows, movies, music vids, audio books, iTunes U - with support for parental controls.

• Spotlight search as well: search across apps, etc.

• Search system-wide: calendars, music, notes, email.

• MMS support. Finally. AT&T will be ready with support "later this summer."

• Landscape keyboard works in email, notes, and messages.

• Cut, Copy and Paste. Works with across apps, Udo suppot, Developer APIs, Cocoa Touch support for text.

• iPhone 3.0 = major update to iPhone OS. More than 100 new features.

• Video ends.

• 40,000,000 (40 million) iPhone OS devices, BTW.

• Amazing developer stories video being played.

• Crossed 1 billion downloads in April (9 months from store's opening).

• Over 50,000 apps in Apple's iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

• Scott Forstall takes the stage to talk about something called "iPhone." (whatever that is.)

• $49 for the family pack for Leopard users.

• Announces: Snow Leopard, available in Septemeber 2009 for US$29 for Leopard users. Crowd goes wild. We already knew it ;-)

• Requires MS Exchange Server 2008

• Supports locations, rooms for meeting scheduling.

• Schedule a meeting by dragging contact(s) out of Address Book into iCal time slot and voila!

• Mail auto-discovers Exchange and provides Spotlight support for Exchange, too.

• Exchange demo...

• Exchange support is now built into Mail, iCal, Address Book.

• Open CL: Hardware abstraction, C-based language, Automatic optimization, Numerical accuracy.

• Open CL. Use GPU power with this open standard.

• Grand Central built into Snow Leopard for multi-core processors. Efficient muti-threaded apps.

• All major Mac OS X apps are 64-bit Snow Lep.

• Serlet retakes stage.

• Apple press release states: Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available in September for US$29

• In Snow Lep, Stacks handle content - navigate folder hierarchy in Stacks.

• Craig Federighi, VP, Mac OS Engineering takes stage.

• Modern foundation, hardware acceleration, ColorSync, HTTP streaming. New UI.

• New QuickTime X (10).

• Safari 4.0 on ACID 3 = 100/100. IE 8 on ACID 3 = 21/100.

• Microsoft sucks (MDN Ed.).

• Fastest javascript vs. Chrome2, Firefox 3, and, of course, the slug known as IE 8.

• Safari 4 now out of beta. Safari 4.0 ships today.

• Mail lauches 1.8x faster, searches 1.9x faster, moves messages 2.3x faster.

• You'll get over 6GB of space back going from Leopard to Snow Leopard (Buh-bye PPC code).

• Installs 45% faster.

• Expose now built into Dock.

• Finder retains UI, but rewritten base code.

• Snow Leopard - refining more than 90% of Leopard.

• Have fun defragging and screwing with the Registry, as usual, sufferers.

• Windows 7 - same old tech as Vista underneath.

• Bertrand Serlet takes stage to tak=lk Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Makes fun of poor Vista.

• Apple's most affordable notebook lineup ever and the world's greenest, too.

• $1799: 2.136GHz Core 2 Duo. 2GB DDR3, 9400M grpahics, 128GB SSD.

• $1499: 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo. 2GB DDR3, 9400M grpahics, 120GB HD.

• Updated MacBook Air models, too!

• $1499, 2.53GHz Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM, 9400M graphics. 250GB HD, SD Card slot.

• $1199, 2.2GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM, 9400M graphics. 160GB HD, SD Card slot.

• Introducing the 13-inch MacBook Pro which also gets the same built-in battery. 7 hours life. SD slot. Up to 8GB memory. FireWire 800 port.

• If you want ExpressCard slot, the 17-inch is your model.

• $2299: 2.80GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HD, 9400M + 9600M GT, SD Card Slot

• $1999: 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR3, 320GB HD, 9400M + 9600M GT, SD Card Slot.

• Now starts at only US$1699: 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD, 9400M graphics, SD Card Slot)

• Up to 8GB RAM

• Up to 3.06 GHz Dual Core, 6MB L2 chace.

• No ExpressCard, now SD Slot.

• Up to 7 hours battery life, 1,000 recharges. 3X less waste

• Schiller debuts new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Lithium Polymer Battery, built-in (like 17-inch MBP).

• Explosive Mac growth over the past two years.

• Now 75 million OS X users.

• Phil Schiller takes the stage.

• "Get a Mac" ad starts things off: Hodgman welcoming everyone to WWWDC.

• House lights go down...

• Please silence your iPhones announcement...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
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To: Poser
Ubuntu... Still free.

Except for all the labor involved in setting it up, or setting it up the way you want it.

(And yes, I'm a heavy-duty Linux user - all of my intel Macs triple-boot, and I use (& administer) Linux workstations and servers at work.)

21 posted on 06/08/2009 1:15:02 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: Swordmaker

Wow, $99 iPhones. I might get me one of those in a couple months. I hate to switch from Verizon to ATT, though.

I probably pick up a 13” MacBook (now a MacBook Pro) sometime next year.

But right now, I can download Safari 4.0 for free. I glad its out of Beta, I heard it was blazing fast.


22 posted on 06/08/2009 1:15:04 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (A Community Organizer is the 21st century version of a Ward Heeler.)
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To: Swordmaker
Thanks for the recap !

$29 for Snow Leopard sweeeet !


23 posted on 06/08/2009 1:18:29 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Poser

I built my own computer using post-it notes and 3-day-old coffee. My OS has 4 lines of code, counting the notes.


24 posted on 06/08/2009 1:22:13 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (US out of GM... NOW!)
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To: Swordmaker

I’m playing with Windows 7 Ultimate now and I find it to be catching up to OS X Leopard. Just as I expected, Snow Leopard will be out on or before the date Windows 7 is out.

And it’ll be much better.

And it’ll be much cheaper.

All versions.

Again, Microsoft needs to learn to lead a moving target. Then again, Microsoft just needs to learn to lead, period. Right now they just follow.


25 posted on 06/08/2009 1:22:51 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: jalisco555

Re: no video?

Read the next couple lines up. VGA video at 30 fps.


26 posted on 06/08/2009 1:30:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: SlowBoat407

I built my own computer for $218 using a PC magazine article from January. It took me 25 minutes. Then I spent about 25 minutes installing Ubuntu and Open Office, both free. It works great.

Done.


27 posted on 06/08/2009 1:30:38 PM PDT by Poser (Typed on my Woot-off $169 Asus Web Book (Linux of course))
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To: Swordmaker

I own a fire breathing iMac. This is my first Mac and I have had it for about 8 months. For me, it’s been the best computer experience I have ever had. Remarkably, I did not turn gay or lib.

However, the iPhone has me confused, so I’ll wait and just suffer with the do nothing cell that I have.

Besides, I am still upset that I can’t transfer my iPod from the PC to my new iMac... and keep all the tunes I have loaded onto the darn thing.


28 posted on 06/08/2009 1:34:40 PM PDT by Gator113 (I live in "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Imam Obama told me so.)
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To: Swordmaker

Well, Apple just took away ExpressCard - which I use for accessing lightning-fast SATA drives - and swapped in an SD card reader instead (which, as a DSLR user, I’ll never use).

Grrrr - so what is Apple’s proposal for accessing SATA drives? Buy a 17” MBP?!?

(Also, I need to check if matte screens are available again on 15” MBPs....)


29 posted on 06/08/2009 1:35:35 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: jalisco555; Richard Kimball
The iPhone 4G will allow you to project a 3D hologram of Jobs directly from your device, - the way R2-D2 did with Obi-Wan in the original Star Wars...
30 posted on 06/08/2009 2:02:07 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Swordmaker

Safari 4 has new UI that wasn’t in the beta. I think it’s a preview of some Snow Leopard UI elements. SL’s Finder was described by developers as having an effect where, when you sort the contents of a folder, the icons slide around into their newly arranged order rather than just instantly jumping into that order. Similar effect in Safari 4: when you hit Cmd+up or Cmd+down to scroll to the top or bottom of a page, it now scrolls very quickly to the top or bottom, instead of just instantly jumping there.

New RSS button, tabs now hang down from the bookmarks bar rather than float, tab list button is better integrated into the tab bar... there are a few other things too.

On the whole, nice upgrade from the Safari 4 beta.


31 posted on 06/08/2009 2:09:23 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: Swordmaker
Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available in September

Just as the last of the PowerMacs get off of AppleCare.
32 posted on 06/08/2009 2:10:26 PM PDT by Gomez (killer of threads)
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To: antiRepublicrat

“much cheaper”

Not when most people have to install it on their over-priced Apple PC’s.


33 posted on 06/08/2009 2:13:31 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Gomez

Snow Leopard is Intel only.


34 posted on 06/08/2009 2:19:06 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: mowowie

Anti-Apple trolls would be much more entertaining if they bothered to at least update their talking points.


35 posted on 06/08/2009 2:20:35 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: Gator113
Besides, I am still upset that I can’t transfer my iPod from the PC to my new iMac... and keep all the tunes I have loaded onto the darn thing.

There are guides and software that will let you transfer your iTunes library from the PC to the Mac. I did this myself a few months ago, when I went from a PC to a MacBook.
36 posted on 06/08/2009 2:23:45 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: ctdonath2

It’s available the same day the update is available for the iPhone: June 17.


37 posted on 06/08/2009 2:27:48 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: Swordmaker
Safari 4 is a screamer !

38 posted on 06/08/2009 2:40:47 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Terpfen
Snow Leopard is Intel only.

I know. I was just being cynical about the timing.


39 posted on 06/08/2009 2:45:44 PM PDT by Gomez (killer of threads)
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To: Terpfen
Safari 4 has new UI that wasn’t in the beta.

I went back to having the tab bar separate from the title bar. I approve.

SL’s Finder was described by developers as having an effect where, when you sort the contents of a folder, the icons slide around into their newly arranged order rather than just instantly jumping into that order.

Sounds a lot like editing the home screen on the iPhone.

40 posted on 06/08/2009 2:50:38 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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