Apple WWDC blow by blow report

Mac Daily News ^ | 06/08/2009

[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...

[Swordmaker]

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[Star Traveler]

Hoo-boy! Thanks for the report...

[Mr. Blonde]

See this is why I’m glad I’m not on AT&T, the chances of me fighting the urge to upgrade my iPhone every year would be impossible.

[itsahoot]

Now 75 million OS X users.

Niche market move on, nothing matters Windows 7 is an Apple killer.

Just wanted to get in in before the Windoze crowd shows up. :)

[Wyatt's Torch]

Announces: Snow Leopard, available in Septemeber 2009 for US$29 for Leopard users. Crowd goes wild.

This is just for the standard edition right? What about the deluxe, enterprise, suprimo, ultra-professional, and gee-whiz tiers of the OS like Microsoft has?

[Cyropaedia]

Thanks, Swordmaker!

June 19th. I'm already counting the minutes. Voice controls... wow.

This model will completely leave the Pre in the dust...

[ctdonath2]

When’s the OS 3.0 upgrade available for iPod Touch?

[MediaMole]

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.

Considering how well MobileME has worked, this will either do nothing or wipe every iPhone in a one-mile radius.

[trtdenver]

I did pretty good going from iPhone 2.5 to iPhone 3G. Due to the ability to “jailbreak” iPhone 2.5, the secondary market stayed strong. In fact, I sold my iPhone 1 on eBay for $390 and then got the iPhone 3G for $299. Won’t be able to do that going to 3GS.

[Richard Kimball]

Considering how well MobileME has worked, this will either do nothing or wipe every iPhone in a one-mile radius.

Now that's funny.

[jalisco555]

• New 3 megapixel camera.

That's a bit disappointing. And no video?

Thanks for the summary. No Steve Jobs for now, I guess.

[Richard Kimball]

Oh, you're going to have to get one. It's got a compass in the stock a thing that tells time.

Had one for a year. Love it.

[jalisco555]

Wait, I checked Apple’s site and it does do video. Me want!

[Richard Kimball]

It’s got video. Doesn’t come with Steve Jobs, though.

[jalisco555]

It’s got video. Doesn’t come with Steve Jobs, though.

Right, I saw that on Apples website. Maybe version 4 contains the Steve Jobs app. Actually, I was hoping he'd make an appearance at the conference, just so we could see how he's been doing.

[TXnMA]

Thanks for the great update!

When I retired, I got rid of my "ball & chain" (wristwatch & cell phone.) Now, however, I have so much personal stuff going, I may be forced to relent and get an iPhone -- unless Apple finally gets off dead center and comes out with my "Dream Newton"... (Actually, the iPhone keeps getting closer to a fit -- except its screen is too small for my graphic/cartography archaeology needs...)

[Swordmaker]

Other editions? They’re $29, too.

[Stat-boy]

“Tethering”

Hmmmm.... now I am very interested.

[Poser]

Ubuntu... Still free.