AAPL dipped below $152 right after the Stevenote, but has crept back up a little. Nothing earthshattering announced today (some small surprises), but definitely a few new things to juice profits.
Let's Rock... the two questions on everyone's minds of course are... will there be any surprises, and how does Steve look? AAPL = $157 and change with 3 minutes to go.
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Enterprise: 35% of Fortune 500 participated in beta
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SDK after 95 days: 250,000 free downloads - 4000 applications accepted into paid program so far
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SDK Demos: Sega Super Monkey Ball, eBay, Loopt, TypePad, AP, Pangaea Software (Enigmo & Cro-Mag Rally), Band, MLB, Medical apps (Modality, MIMvista), Digital Legends Entertainment fantasy game
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10:50am Pacific... $AAPL < $180 - Wall St. apparently doesn't care about apps
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11:00am Pacific: $AAPL back up to $178+ after dipping to $176+
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push notification service for non-running apps - mechanism to multitask with minimum draw on performance and battery
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New end-user features: live contact search, iWork doc support, Office doc support, bulk message delete & move, image save, scientific calculator, parental controls, language support.
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iPhone 2.0 software available early July (free for iPhone, $9.99 for iPod Touch)
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App Store: FairPlay, wi-fi or iTunes downloads (or via cell net if under 10MB)
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In the first year... 6 million sold... ran out a few weks ago... extremely hugh user satisfaction
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Bwana McCall (Bwana.tv) will be streaming live from a remote location during the event on Monday, June 9, 2008 - http://live.bwana.tv
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Andy Ihnatko, Moltz, and I will stream live video commentary during the keynote at http://twitlive.tv. Following the keynote, Chris Breen will join us with added commentary. We begin at 9:30a Pacific/1630 UTC Monday.
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Mac Fusion? - http://www.tuaw.com/2008... - looks like the 7.7" footprint of AppleTV and Time Capsule, rather than the 6.5" footprint of the Mac mini (and AirPort Extreme).
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Apple's so well covered now that the small updates to iPhone and all existing products are now ho-hum. Expectations are so high now that Steve can't expect to take 20 minutes and show us iPhoto any more. :-) So... I hope he stays focused and continues to introduce the things that will advance the platforms, both OS X and iPhone. But don't expect anything wild.
- Louis Gray
3G iPhone, Handheld MID device with OS X, iPhone App Store
- Akshay Dodeja
this event will be all about iPhone 3g, I don't expect any other big news. Steve wants to sell iPhone first. Than again this is Steve's show you can never be sure about what he is gonna do.
- ahmet bulent
Twitter and Summize seem to be up to something to help Twitter users track the Stevenote [via Dave Winer]... http://friendfeed.com/e...
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Twitter is linking to a Summize search for 'wwdc OR apple OR iphone OR "steve jobs"', which can be fed to RSS or back to Twitter. Re-blasting every Stevenote-related tweet back out to thousands of users doesn't seem to me to be a good recipe for stability on a peak traffic day. But having Summize as a go-to place for relevant tweets is otherwise a reasonable strategy to offload Twitter.
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