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Apple WWDC 2009
VentureBeat's liveblog of the keynote speech at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. Keynote begins on Monday, June 8, at 10am Pacific.
Bertrand Serlet on-stage to talk about OSX
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"What a sharp contrast" ... with Windows
- Anthony Ha
Oh snap!
- Anthony Ha
"Microsoft has dug a big whole for itself with Windows Vista."
- Anthony Ha
Lots of old technology still in Windows 7
- Anthony Ha
"Windows 7, same old technology as Vista. Fundamentally, it's just another version of Vista."
- Anthony Ha
Snow Leopard: Refinements, technologies, Exchange
- Anthony Ha
For Finder, did not change the Finder user interface, but rewritten using Cocoa. "Lots of little benefits, lots of little touches."
- Anthony Ha
More about the dock: We've built Expose into the dock. You just click and hold on a tile, and then select the window you want.
- Anthony Ha
I still wish for a tree view in Finder.
- jnman
Preview works faster.
- Anthony Ha
You can draw a Chinese character, and the computer will guess what you're trying to draw.
- Anthony Ha
"Today we are shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows."
- Anthony Ha
handwriting recognition for trackpad!??
- Parth Awasthi
Using SunSpider JavaScript framework, Safari 4 is "multiples of IE8 speed."
- Anthony Ha
ok, but Safari 4 is, right now, slower than Opera 10 and Chrome for Mac... and needs lot of RAM... I'll give it another try, though
- Luca Filigheddu
Snow Leopard feature: crash resistance. Number one cause of crashes on OSX is browser plugins. WIth crash resistance, crashes don't affect your other windows.
- Anthony Ha
"We have an all new Quicktime in Snow Leopard. We call it Quicktime 10."
- Anthony Ha
ColorSync and HTTP streaming
- Anthony Ha
User interface of QuickTime player changing too.
- Anthony Ha
what???
- vale valverde
Random note to PR people ... now is not a good time to be sending me pitches. I am slightly distracted ...
Импорт Свинины, Mat Morrison, John E. Bredehoft and 7 other people liked this
cnet has us outnumbered here. six of them to our three.
John E. Bredehoft, DGentry, Dan Hsiao and 6 other people liked this
Yeah, but we have more people *per site*, right?
- Anthony Ha
i see you wore your fancy tie today, anthony
- Eric Eldon
Well Eric, if Steve shows up, I want to be dressed for the occasion. Plus I needed something to match Paul's cowboy hat.
- Anthony Ha
and i wore the new shirt my mother bought me.
- Dean Takahashi
getting closer!
- Susan Beebe
The End. No Steve.
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:(
- zsafwan
Absolutely no mention of his name or anything, as noted by Paul Boutin
- Anthony Ha
thanks for hosting
- Tyler Gillies
I know they said the S stands for 'Speed' but anyone else think it really is a tribute to Steve?
- JR
walt: could be
- Tyler Gillies
Terrific job, Anthony! Thanks for being there for us.
- Eric Johnson
Great job, Anthony! Thanks for the coverage.
- Keith Bourgoin
thanks for the coverage
- Sudha Jamthe
Thanks for keeping us all up to speed!
- t0rx
The iPhone 3GS will be available for $199 starting June 19. Old iPhone price cut to $99. some rumors do come true http://venturebeat.com/2009...
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Swaroop and zsafwan liked this
WOW
- zsafwan
and 2 years on AT&T... no deal.
- Daniel Sims
Tell more about iphone 3, plz.....
- Tony Bishopo
www.1yearloan.net, it helps you!
- Tony Bishopo
iPhone OS 3.0 available June 17.
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ugh, why not today?
- TheHenry
Because it's not ready? :)
- Ian Betteridge
No idea..... logistics i bet......
- Roberto Bonini
NOW!!!
- Valley
I don't mind the 17th because I was expecting to have to wait for much longer before getting my hands on this.
- Mayuresh Walke
Snow Leopard available for all Intel Macs past and present.
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Pricing: SNow Leopard of $29
- Anthony Ha
That's for Leopard users
- Anthony Ha
uh!
- alieb
$49 family pack
- Anthony Ha
AWESOME!
- jnman
Not $129? Sweet.
- DGentry
Snow Leopard available this September.
- Anthony Ha
afront to Microsoft :-)
- olafzanger
$29 = sure upgrade
- Parth Awasthi
Near-final developer preview available today.
- Anthony Ha
All that cheering was for "$29"?!
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken Yes.
- Anthony Ha
yeah and cool price!
- Luca Filigheddu
$29 means developers can count on their users having it. That's worth a cheer in a room full of developers.
- Kevin Fox
What's the price for non-Leopard users? And PowerPC?
- Ian Betteridge
@Ian They didn't say.
- Anthony Ha
@Ian INTEL only. PPC is dead.
- Jamie
It's likely $129, as it's replacing Leopard. I don't know if it's really worth even $30 for Leopard users: what's the wow factor?
- Mark Trapp
They haven't been offering upgrade prices for MacOS X until now, every release has been a full-price upgrade. Having done it for 10.6, it would be very difficult for Apple to make future upgrades be full-price. So the developers cheering was possibly not so much for the $29 price as that Apple has permanently removed one barrier which kept users on older releases.
- DGentry
DGentry: I don't think there's much precedent being set. 10.0 -> 10.1 was free, and there were discounted point releases throughout the Classic lifespan. They could just as easily bump the price back up to $129 for 10.7 and justify it by saying "but look at all the feature's we're including, it's like a whole new OS, and it's still cheaper than Windows!"
- Mark Trapp
I'd forgotten the 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade, but not many users were on the platform then. I suppose you're right that Apple could raise the price right back to where it was, but it still seems like a reason for developers to be hopeful they won't have to worry quite so much about supporting older releases.
- DGentry
I'm glad Snow Leopard will be available for USD 29. That seems like a fair price.
- Rick Cogley
Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting!
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No, Thank you!
- Ross Miller
you're welcome. was well worth it!!!
- Tyler Gillies
from email
Fantastic coverage!
- Ryan
Awesome job, Anthony.
- DGentry
yeah, thanks everybody
- Dean Takahashi
iPhone 3G [s] on-sale on June 19
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International rollout throughout the summer
- Anthony Ha
New iPhone ad
- Anthony Ha
"now with video"
- Anthony Ha
couldn't hear- when's the new iphone available?
- metalerik
Need more detail. UK?
- t0rx
@metalerik 6/19 in US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK
- Dan Byler
thank you for coming, etc. etc.
- Anthony Ha
thanks @dbyler
- metalerik
@yan they flashed through the list very quickly. pretty sure it will be in June for UK, but don't hold me to that.
- Anthony Ha
Nothing on apple.com yet :(
- t0rx
@Dan cool, thanks!
- t0rx
July: Bulgaria, Columbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Uruguay
- Dan Byler
UK on the 19th. Pic on gizmodo.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
@Anthony thx very much for the great service
- olafzanger
@Dan thanks
- Anthony Ha
August: Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Guinea, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, U.A.E., Venezuala
- Dan Byler
yes, thanks @anthonyha
- metalerik
New version: iPhone 3GS
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Stands for "speed" most powerful version of iPhone
- Anthony Ha
YAAAAAAAY
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Launching a messaging applcation, 2.1 times faster, loading SimCity, 2.4 times faster, viewing Excel attachment, 3.6 times faster
- Anthony Ha
And that's against an iPhone 3G running 3.0
- Anthony Ha
ustream at 23000 users
- olafzanger
SunSpider javaScript benchmark is 3x faster
- Anthony Ha
Average of up to 2x faster.
- Anthony Ha
yeah BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Tyler Gillies
"iPhone 3G [s]"? Steve really was out of the office the last 6 months. That branding wouldn't have passed his muster.
- Kevin Fox
@Christopher Believe it's the same physical design.
- Anthony Ha
JOY
- Parth Awasthi
Brand-new built-in camera
- Anthony Ha
i agree with kevin there.....
- Roberto Bonini
sweet!
- Manuel Arroyo
iPhone has 3.5 times more mobile photo uploads in flickr than anything else.
- Anthony Ha
3 megapixel auto-focus camera
- Anthony Ha
+1 Kevin
- Blake
Pre parity?
- Ken Sheppardson
Photo of golden gate bridge looks good.
- Anthony Ha
3megapixel? Wow, that means the camera in the iPhone is only two years behind the competition!
- Ian Betteridge
Tap on items in a photo to focus on them.
- Anthony Ha
Better light sensitivity.
- Anthony Ha
this year is 12MP year
- olafzanger
Can use this camera in your applications.
- Anthony Ha
Camera also captures video.
- Anthony Ha
Guess it's not a video camera then? EDIT: hah! They zoomed me!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
30 frame per second VGA
- Anthony Ha
Oh yeah, it also does video.
- Kevin Fox
For a point-and-shoot, anything above 3 megapixel is a waste
- Daniel Sims
except for digital zoom
- olafzanger
RIP Griffin Clarifi
- Dan Byler
Video stored right alongside your photos in the Pictures application, can scroll along video with a timeline, edit it with the tap of a finger.
- Anthony Ha
Send video in an email ... if my carrier supports it ... CURSE YOU AT&T
- Anthony Ha
must have device
- olafzanger
I'm loving it already
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Another feature: voice control.
- Anthony Ha
front facing camera?
- Tyler Gillies
Hold down home button, and voice control interface pops up. Displays the wave form of your voice.
- Anthony Ha
"iPhone: kill Flanders!"
- alieb
@tyler Same location on the phone, I believe. Is that's what you're asking?
- Anthony Ha
Can call people, play music, ask your iPhone what's playing now?
- Anthony Ha
"Play more songs like this" to create a genius playlist
- Anthony Ha
Built-in digital compass
- Anthony Ha
anthony: so you can do video chat
- Tyler Gillies
So voice control is 3GS only?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
@Stephen sounds like it ... all these features are iPhone 3Gs
- Anthony Ha
Wish I knew how to punctuate 3GS, 3G [s], naming FAIL
- Anthony Ha
Can tap maps to orient them to the direction you're facing.
- Anthony Ha
Not to be confused with the Apple 2GS
- Ben Vierck
Are they going to hand out 3GSss's
- Ken Sheppardson
... scribble live does not load (not found error) oh dear TC
- olafzanger
Support for Nike+ devices
- Anthony Ha
Hardware encryption
- Anthony Ha
... ustream not running the last 10min either
- olafzanger
Improved battery life
- Anthony Ha
I'm still getting ustream video, olaf
- Ken Sheppardson
Up to 9 hours of Internet WiFi surfing, 10 hours of video, up to 5 hours of 2G talk time.
- Anthony Ha
@ken, thx, had to reload page
- olafzanger
"most environmentally friendly phone we've made yet"
- Anthony Ha
Dammit, I wanted to wait a year before buying another phone, but this is going to be hard ...
- Anthony Ha
Pricing: $199
- Anthony Ha
That's for 16GB
- Anthony Ha
blah wanted cheaper phone
- Tyler Gillies
$299 for 32 GB
- Anthony Ha
@Tyler wait for it ...
- Anthony Ha
any front-facing camera for videoconferencing?
- Stephane Groud
Current 3G, 8gig iphone now priced at $99
- Anthony Ha
$99 iPhone pricing starts today.
- Anthony Ha
too bad the pre sucks anyway
- Tyler Gillies
And you've used one, right Tyler?
- Ken Sheppardson
For what I need it to do, my Pre is just fine. Background apps are great too. :)
- JA Castillo
ive seen enough demos
- Tyler Gillies
so no video chat? :(
- Tyler Gillies
Phil Schiller back on-stage
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iPhone is amazing, blah blah blah
- Anthony Ha
yeah...... we know about that......
- Roberto Bonini
2/3 of all mobile browsing is done on iPhone or Ipod touch
- Anthony Ha
15 minutes left? Done with desktop and 3.0 software talk...?
- Ken Sheppardson
Android store approaching 5,000 apps, BlackBerry just broke 1,000 compared to 50,000 apps in iPhone
- Anthony Ha
Someone once told me that one of Phil's nicknames at Apple is "Barney The Dinosaur". I've never been able to listen to him talk since then in quite the same way :)
- Ian Betteridge
I want to be able to do 2-way videoconferencing with Skype. Come on, give us a new iphone!
- Stephane Groud
Hmm, how come he didn't put the number of WinMo or Nokia apps up there?
- Ian Betteridge
It's a shame they're touting # of apps. Should celebrate quality, usability, etc first & foremost. 80% of my iPhone app usage is within a small handful of very useful apps
- Dan Byler
Because there is no cohesive, unified WinMo or NokiaApp store
- Jonathan Disher
Or maybe because Apple's number wouldn't look that impressive next to them :)
- Ian Betteridge
i have to say, using winmo apps on my old phone was a royal pain in the ass. jailbreaking my first iphone was easier and more convenient.
- Jonathan Disher
More iPhone developer showcase
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Last thread was getting kind of long.
- Anthony Ha
Next up:ngmoco
- Anthony Ha
New game called Star Defense
- Anthony Ha
These developer showcase demos are getting boring, too... Bring on real information, Apple.
- Christopher A. Wichura
Coming soon: "More iPhone developer showcase 2: Return of The Jobs" :)
- Ian Betteridge
Tower defense game
- Anthony Ha
@Christopher At least you don't have to transcribe them.
- Anthony Ha
those thread ... formerly called Chat
- olafzanger
New content and feature packs for StarDefense sold via in-app purchase.
- Anthony Ha
If they did Little Big Planet for iPhone I would actually cry.
- Ian Betteridge
Star Defense is launching today, 3.0 features aren't available yet of course.
- Anthony Ha
Next up: Pasco
- Anthony Ha
... so the iPhone 3.0 won't launch today?
- olafzanger
Starting to feel like I'm watching movie trailers -- first few were fun, but fatigue is setting in.
- Anthony Ha
@olafzanger They're messing with our minds :)
- Ian Betteridge
Spark application for exploring different science experiments.
- Anthony Ha
So how much do you have to pay to get your app mentioned in an Apple conference?
- Daniel Sims
quit f-ing with us apple
- Tyler Gillies
I believe the iPhone 3G hardware was announced around 2:35PM last time... are we getting close?
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
... be differentiative ... and you get your show
- olafzanger
Collecting data using the accessory feature.
- Anthony Ha
wonder how much tom tom is gonna be
- Tyler Gillies
@tyler I hope it is cheaper than an actual Tom Tom
- Valley
Am I just bored to death because I'm not a die-hard Apple fan?
- Ken Sheppardson
Next up: Zipcar
- Anthony Ha
ha, zipcar, remember, iPhone starts my EV.
- olafzanger
Can embed Google Maps into the Zipcar iPhone app, so you can see nearby Zipcar locations.
- Anthony Ha
@Ken, there's a noticeable decrease in excitement in the room.
- Anthony Ha
games are gonna kill iphone. did anyone buy an iphone because its a good gaming platform?
- Tyler Gillies
what is a zip car?
- Manuel Arroyo
Apple should cap these demonstrations to 3-4 companies.
- Anthony Ha
wonder if Better Place will end up on stage today :-)
- olafzanger
Anthony: You think they're setting us up for Jobs to walk out and talk new hardware?
- Ken Sheppardson
is jobs speaking today?
- Tyler Gillies
@manuel: it is a shared car, one you don't own
- olafzanger
Carrie Fischer is coming out in her outfit from Return of the Jedi with new Iphone hardware!
- Shannon Burns
jobs IS apple
- Tyler Gillies
OK, that was kind of cool: can unlock a car using his iPhone (I have to use a separate fob to unlock my car for CarShare)
- Anthony Ha
Line 6/Planet Waves is next. Demonstrating controlling a guitar using your iPhone
- Anthony Ha
... our fleet at Swisscom is unlocked by phones since years
- olafzanger
i'll care about zipcar when i get an actual car from it ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Have they done anything to nip the Pre in the bud yet?
- Ken Sheppardson
andy: good point
- Tyler Gillies
@Andy Yeah, but that also means there will be lots of news coverage to the effect of "Jobs *not* on stage.
- Anthony Ha
anthony: also good point
- Tyler Gillies
Use iPhone to select and adjust amps
- Anthony Ha
oh lol thought zipcars was a game. shows my ignorance
- Tyler Gillies
@olafzanger Haha you should ask MG about that, since it was his idea to start using FriendFeed for Apple events.
- Anthony Ha
anthony: good point unless they have no news on a new iphone... In that case, they might as well talk about Jobs ;-)
- Stephane Groud
Poor MG... ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
@Anthony :-) next year on wave
- olafzanger
If we are getting new Iphone hardware... we are running out of time
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Next up: a hack that lets you get a zipcar free if you play the secret riff via line6 app
- Dan Byler
Time to start a new thread Anthony, this one's getting long :)
- Ian Betteridge
whats wrong with long threads?
- Tyler Gillies
thread killers back off ;-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
god forbid you have to read for 2 minutes
- Tyler Gillies
I have to scroll all the way back up to comment. Silly FF, not having a comment button at the bottom of threads! :)
- Ian Betteridge
I like how he referred to it as the 'current' iPhone 3G.... fingers crossed.... what's next?
- JR
ian: the permalink always has comment button at bottom
- Tyler Gillies
its epic how much these demos are failing
- Tyler Gillies
iphone 3gs!!!!
- Tyler Gillies
Just to be clear, looks like AT&T is going to be late on MMS, and is not initially going to support tethering: I missed the list of carriers for tethering (too busy staring at computer screen), but Gizmodo caught it: http://i.gizmodo.com/5283334...
Surprised they'd delay on features that can make them a killing
- Dan Byler
now just where are those new iPhones? i wish i were backstage.
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I haz them... in my mind
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Showcasing developers for iPhone OS 3.0
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First up: Gameloft
- Anthony Ha
Asphalt 5: 3D racing games.
- Anthony Ha
alright.
- Valley
Can play iPod music while in your "car stereo"
- Anthony Ha
Looks fun, though kind of nerve-wracking for a bad driver like me.
- Anthony Ha
Includes 3.0 features like peer-to-peer racing and in-app purchase.
- Anthony Ha
Next up: Airstrip Technologies.
- Anthony Ha
Doctors can use their app to see patient information
- Anthony Ha
Can look at readings of all a patients' vital signs, even if you're away from the hospital ... real-time data.
- Anthony Ha
I foresee HIPAA lawsuits from using client names in the notifications service like that
- jakebf
Ability to drill down into data to make medical decisions
- Anthony Ha
yeah, i hope a doctor doesn't lose his iPhone. I guess that's why Find My Phone is in play.
- Valley
Next up: ScrollMotion
- Anthony Ha
Already sells books in app store, made deals for magazines, newspapers and more than 1 million books
- Anthony Ha
Copy-and-paste text from a book, then email to yourself. Useful for reports ... though I don't do much class-related reading on my iPhone
- Anthony Ha
sweet
- Valley
Though Scroll Motion adding textbooks to the app store as well (another way iPhone competes with Kindle, in this case KindleDX)
- Anthony Ha
Next up: TomTom
- Anthony Ha
Route-planning application using real-time data.
- Anthony Ha
so let's see, if they have HD Navigation with traffic updates
- olafzanger
Optional accessory: Tom-Tom car kit
- Anthony Ha
Holder, securely dock your iPhone, enhances your GPS signal, built-in loudspeaker, microphone for hands-free calling, play your music in car stereo, power your Iphone as you drive.
- Anthony Ha
oooww sweet
- Valley
... switch on my EV and direct me to the next Charging station :-?
- olafzanger
I wonder what "enhances your GPS signal" really means.
- DGentry
@DGentry: I'll bet it means that the mount includes its own (stronger, more power-hungry) antenna and uses the accessory API to transmit the better data to the app
- jakebf
Gameloft's 3-D racing game, Asphalt 5, makes it look like the iPhone is successfully graduating into the 3-D games era.
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Ha I figured those guys would get your attention.
- Anthony Ha
iPhone 3.0 software has cool features like "find my iphone" and computer tethering http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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More about iPhone OS 3.0 on developer side
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recap: in-app purchase.
- Anthony Ha
recap: free apps remain free, you can't hit them with fees later.
- Anthony Ha
recap: peer to peer connectivity.
- Anthony Ha
well, they want less free apps. that the way to put it
- olafzanger
recap: apps can control accessories.
- Anthony Ha
now I'd like a keyboard -- makeing it a the value of a netbook
- olafzanger
Please God, let them make a decent keyboard
- Ian Betteridge
recap: apps can talk to accessories using dock or bluetooth.
- Anthony Ha
@Ian Presumably someone else could do it now.
- Anthony Ha
recap: embed Google Map service in your apps
- Anthony Ha
Excellent, selling an iPhone peripheral no longer requires special dispensation from Apple.
- DGentry
recap: turn-by-turn directions in applications.
- Anthony Ha
recap: push notifications.
- Anthony Ha
Forestall has used the word "incredible" to describe at least twice, probably way more than that.
- Anthony Ha
Also "awesome" and 'fantastic"
- Anthony Ha
New "Find my iPhone" feature
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30 Rock clip about losing your phone.
- Anthony Ha
Having lost my phone once I'm happy for this feature. how does it work? GPS? Loud ring?
- Kevin Fox
"Find the bastard who stole my phone" ?
- DGentry
Available to MobileMe customers.
- Anthony Ha
LoJack for iPhone!
- Mark Trapp
Log into browser and it will show yo on a map where your phone is.
- Anthony Ha
@Kevin GPS!
- Ross Miller
Sweetness!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I wonder if that will be worldwide, or US-only?
- Ian Betteridge
The phone is *inside* the house!
- Kevin Fox
You can also send it a message that plays an alert sound, even if it's in silent mode.
- Anthony Ha
Presumably you have to have Location Services turned on?
- Tinfoil 2.0
At last, Apple can track its customers down to 3m range :)
- Ian Betteridge
Ian: it's based off of GPS, so presumably if you can get Mobile Me in your region, you can use it
- Mark Trapp
I want an app to find my keys and wallet too
- Anthony Ha
Find my kid.
- Michael Markman
Uber C00L!
- JR
Anthony: Glue them to your phone.
- Kevin Fox
Can also send a remote wipe command to phones that are lost or stolen.
- Anthony Ha
And other people with iPhones. Welcome to the social.
- Ken Sheppardson
You'd need to implant GPS and 3G into your kid...
- DGentry
Star Trek TNG had this feature for communicators.
- Michael Markman
Damn! limited to mobileme customers!
- Paul T Maurer
Is this enough to make me sign up for MobileMe? ... Not sure yet.
- Anthony Ha
It is standard Exchange behaviour, so it was clear that they want this too for mobileme
- olafzanger
Argh, sorry if my blogging seems a bit slow, FriendFeed seems to be choking a bit.
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Make Scoble work faster - he powers the servers by pedal-power, you know.
- Ian Betteridge
hahaha
- Manuel Arroyo
Actually its a little known fact that friendfeed comments carry a slight electrical charge. The datacenter containing the ff servers is surrounded by a strong magnetic field, and with the new real-time interface the comments move fast enough to generate a small amount of current each time they pass in and out of the datacenter. So type more comments people, friendfeed needs the juice!
- DGentry
More new stuff from iPhone
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in iPhone 3.0, JavaScript runs three times faster.
- Anthony Ha
More language support: right-to-left languages, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Thai. Now support more than 30 languages in iPhone OS 3.0
- Anthony Ha
All languages have portrait and landscape keyboards.
- Anthony Ha
Forestall: Tether your iPhone to your computer
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22 carriers supporting at launch.
- Anthony Ha
Awesome!
- Ross Miller
Including Windows PCs, which is nice
- Ian Betteridge
Notice they didn't say anything about AT&T being one of those 22...
- Christopher A. Wichura
I'm guessing AT&T will require an additional $10-20 a month for tethering access.
- Kevin Fox
Presumably this will be an extra-cost option for the carrier.
- DGentry
ohh yeah, AT&T is going to turn the tethering into a premium service thing for sure.
- Manuel Arroyo
Forestall: More about iPhone OS 3.0
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Going over the new features (discussed back in ... March, I think?)
- Anthony Ha
Sounds like a recap, yes. e.g. copy/paste, undo
- Ken Sheppardson
Cut copy paste, undo support, Cocoa Touch text controls including cut copy and paste iin apps
- Anthony Ha
Your iPhone 3.0 preview coverage - http://friendfeed.com/iphone-...
- Ken Sheppardson
Yes, to be clear, this is mostly recap for now, I'll still blog but start a new thread when there's an announcement.
- Anthony Ha
More landscape support and MMS
- Anthony Ha
29 of carriers in 76 countries when iPhone OS 3.0 launches
- Anthony Ha
AT&T will support MMS later this summer. Lots of skeptical laughter from the crowd.
- Anthony Ha
Search messages on mail server, not just those downloaded to phone.
- Anthony Ha
AT&T couldn't make it in time :-)
- olafzanger
If AT&T is going to be late, and they're "this summer" that kind of suggests we'll be getting iPhone 3.0 before then... like now maybe?
- Ian Betteridge
Rent or purchase movies and TV shows from your phone (I think that's new.) But why?
- Anthony Ha
"Fine-grain controls" for parents for movies, TV shows, and apps from app store
- Anthony Ha
With the preview back in March, you'd think 3.0 would launch about... well... now.
- Ken Sheppardson
Tethering!!!!
- Ross Miller
@Ken, that's what I'm kind-of hoping :)
- Ian Betteridge
I'll bet ATT wants to charge for MMS... but even if not, it's crappy that MMS won't be ready in the states until summertime.
- JR
So the iPhone now takes the place of a MiFi?
- Ken Sheppardson
Our newest wwdc post: Take that, Microsoft. Apple cuts price of new Mac OS coming in Sept. to just $29 http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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Scott Forestall takes stage to talk about iPhone
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this should be big.
- Parth Awasthi
Developers downloaded free SDK more than 1 million times
- Anthony Ha
Finally, i've been waiting for this
- Manuel Arroyo
More than 50,000 apps in the app store.
- Anthony Ha
this is gonna be interesting...
- Luca Filigheddu
Already sold more than 40 million iPhones and iPod touches
- Anthony Ha
1 billion apps downloaded, yadda yadda.
- Anthony Ha
Video of smiling developers ... slightly creepy.
- Anthony Ha
I guess since it's a room full of developers, eh?
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken it's better now that the developers at talking. At the beginning, it was just a lot of still, smiling faces.
- Anthony Ha
@Anthony nice work—your coverage here is one of the best I'm following
- Dan Byler
Random observation: Every featured developer (there are maybe 4-5?) in the video is a white man.
- Anthony Ha
@Dan Thanks! I'm slowing down a bit since the video is pretty fluffy ...
- Anthony Ha
@Anthony a well-deserved break for your fingers
- Dan Byler
They made the video more diverse by featuring people from aorund the world talking about their favorite apps.
- Anthony Ha
Anthony: I wonder what the real developer pool demographics look like. Would be interesting to ask Apple.
- Ken Sheppardson
...although I doubt they have stats...
- Ken Sheppardson
did you notice that they did not talk about extended capabilities of HTML5 when announcing safari 4. Will there be something more about that coming while on iPhone chapter? http://twitter.com/olafzanger
- olafzanger
Serlet: talking about new technologies in Snow Leopard
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Point is to "take advantage of the power of silicon."
- Anthony Ha
All major Snow Leopard system applications running in 64-bit mode.
- Anthony Ha
Talking about multi-core ... how Moore's Law has become about more and more cores.
- Anthony Ha
Grand Central Dispatch: supposed to help with threaded programming.
- Anthony Ha
Comparing threads in Leopard to Snow Leopard ... in Snow Leopard, when Mail is busy, it uses more threads, when it's idle it uses less. (unlike Leopard, which uses same amount of threads either way)
- Anthony Ha
OpenCL, an open standard, for using graphics technology for non-graphics purposes.
- Anthony Ha
Fitting their Mac laptops into businesses ... what's missing for now is Microsoft Exchange.
- Anthony Ha
Built Exchange support into Mail, iCal, Address Book in Snow Leopard -- just input your email address and passcode.
- Anthony Ha
Demo of Exchange support. All your folders, notes, and to-dos imported into Mail immediately.
- Anthony Ha
I wonder what that really means though. I have "exchange support" in Entourage, but only to the extent that the IMAP+LDAP services in Exchange can replicate the facilities that Outlook users expect. I cannot schedule meetings, for example.
- DGentry
Integration between apps -- if you have a meeting invitation, it will show up in both iCal and Mail.
- Anthony Ha
You can schedule meetings in iCal DGentry
- Jamie
Drag a contact from Address Book into iCal to schedule a meeting.
- Anthony Ha
Can also schedule meetings in iCal taking advantage of information about availability of people and rooms in Exchange.
- Anthony Ha
dragging the contact into iCal is cool... would love a tight integration with Tungle
- Luca Filigheddu
Craig Federighi, VP of Mac OS Engineering talking a bit more about Snow Leopard
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Within Stacks, you can drill right into subfolders without leaving Stacks.
- Anthony Ha
Magnification controls in Finder, can also scroll through PDFs and watch videos while looking at files in FInder.
- Anthony Ha
You can now use Expose and click on individual applications icons, then it brings up all windows related to that application.
- Anthony Ha
You can now drag a media file from one application over the icon for another application, then drag it into the right window (say moving a video into a email)
- Anthony Ha
Showing off super-fast loading times for Google Maps in Safari
- Anthony Ha
Showing off Top Sites view in Safari ... even shows which sites have changed recently, using a blue star.
- Anthony Ha
Can flip through web browsing history in a Spotlight-type view.
- Anthony Ha
Trim and share videos in Quicktime -- includes a visual timeline.
- Anthony Ha
OMG! (no, just kidding. I'm practicing for later.)
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Schiller: "I'd like to begin with a section on the Mac."
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Talking about how much he loves the new MacBooks
- Anthony Ha
Brand-new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro
- Anthony Ha
Live audio - http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
- Ken Sheppardson
Uses same lithium-polymer battery as 17-inch MacBook Pro
- Anthony Ha
Over 1,000 recharges before capacity starts to diminish -- about 5 years of life
- Anthony Ha
Most companies may never need to change the battery in their notebook
- Anthony Ha
New SD card slot
- Anthony Ha
there is some backround noice that sounds like typing on the u-stream. very distracting
- olafzanger
"Most all our Macbook Pro customers have digital cameras today." ... now they can import their photos directly from the memory card, rather than futzing around with USB cards.
- Anthony Ha
Up to 3.06 GHz dual core
- Anthony Ha
The Ustream is unrelated... sorry Anthony... just thought I'd post the link... :-/
- Ken Sheppardson
Good addition of the SD card slot but not an advancement, standard issue on many laptops now
- Phil Sheard
Starts at $1699
- Anthony Ha
@Ken You'll pay for this!!!
- Anthony Ha
17-inch will also be 2.8 GHZ, like the highest-end version of 15-inch MacBook Pro
- Anthony Ha
It's not MY video/audio ... :-O :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Its so awesome that you're livestreaming this on ff, thank you.
- DGentry
All of these are shipping today.
- Anthony Ha
SD card takes the place of the ExpressCard slot? That sucks.
- Mark Trapp
13-inch notebook also getting upgraded with the new battery, display, and SD card slot.
- Anthony Ha
I wonder if there can be some sort of trade-in program. I have a great 15" mac and would prefer the SD card slot. I'd do an even swap with someone who wants the expresscard slot instead. :-)
- Kevin Fox
13-inch notebook can also experience up to 8 gigabytes of memory
- Anthony Ha
Don't see the SD as a betterment. Better battery life and $1699 is good though.
- Parth Awasthi
13-inch MacBook pro also includes FireWire 800
- Anthony Ha
"With all these features ... deserves the name MacBook Pro." Starts at $1199
- Anthony Ha
I was just in the process to change my old 13" Macbook with something new... great
- Luca Filigheddu
13" have firewire?
- Stephen Pickering
$1199 for the 13 inch sounds wonderful
- Benjamin Golub
(Re: price), OK I'm convinced.
- Anthony Ha
@stephen yes.
- Anthony Ha
Sweet!
- Stephen Pickering
13-inch Macbook pro available today.
- Anthony Ha
13" could make a nice travel computer.
- jnman
New price for the 17" ?
- Luca Filigheddu
Luca: USD2499
- alieb
Updating Macbook AIr too, now starts with 1.86 GHz Core 2 duo processor, starts at $1499
- Anthony Ha
Has he mentioned "matte screen", or "anti-glare screen"?
- Scott Ludwig
Schiller: meets EpeatGold and Energy Star Version 5 environmental standards. "World's greenest lineup of notebooks"
- Anthony Ha
ok, same price for the 17" then... What about SD for the 17"? Any mention?
- Luca Filigheddu
17" still has the ExpressCard slot.
- Kevin Fox
just published on the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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