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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Exchange/ActiveSync... for the rest of us... bi-directional sync iPhone, Mac, and PC... Mail, iCal, Address Book, Outlook, Gallery app... integrated iDisk with send capability... AJAX apps on me.com
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I love how Schiller demonstrated a feature that you've been able to do since last September with web gallery and .Mac. I've been sending photos from my iPhone to web gallery for over 8 months now. Nice "new" feature. I do like the added features though. It looks as though MobileMe will be sweet indeed.
- James
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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Apple is going to make us wait another 3-4 weeks for these apps I imagine. I've been waiting since October Steve. Come on and deliver already!
- James
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.
- Leo Laporte
ReadWriteWeb has another round-up of ways to get your Apple fix, unique here is a list of Twitter users who will be updating - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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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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What I'm really hoping to hear more about is whether or not Apple plans to provide businesses with an application platform/SDK like the Starbucks prototype pictured here. No one's talking about it, but as a member of the Microsoft Surface team, this is the kind of stuff that could be game changing for us as we take our 30 inch iPhone like tables into the commercial business.
- Jerome Holman