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• One more thing. Just kidding. Keynote ends as Jobs leaves stage.
• Jobs intros iPhone teams, offers applause.
• Showing new iPhone 3G ad.
• Available on July 11th.
• iPhone 3G 16GB - $299 (comes in choice of black or white).
• iPhone 3G will sell for US$199 for 8GB (black only)... MacDailyNews Take: Let the bloodbath begin.
• iPhone 3G to roll out in 70 countries within the next severeal months.
• iPhone 3G features built-in GPS.
• 2G talk time is up to 10 hours from 8 hours. 3G talk time is 5 hours. Web surfing - 5-6 hours via 3G, Video= 7hrs., Audio=24 hrs.
• iPhone 3G is 36% faster than the nokia N95 and Treo 750.
• Jobs: 3G approaches WiFi speeds. We're also really proud that we're doing this with great battery life -- standby time is 300 hours.
• Jobs demos the syrupy slowness of EDGE.
Vs. 3G - much, much faster.
• iPhone 3G - blk back, metal buttona, flush headphone jack, much better audio quality, same excellent display...
• Jobs: "Apple sold 6 million iPhones until they ran out a few weeks ago."
• mobileme costs: $99 per year with 20GB of storage.
• Moment of silence, please: .Mac is dead. Okay, that's enough: mobileme replaces .Mac. iPhone 2.0 offers 60-day free trial, .Mac users auto updated to mobileme.
• Send iPhone photo to the library of your choosing.
• Move an iCal event on your computer and how it shows up on your iPhone in seconds
• Schiller demos mobileme web app: Photos also work - looks and works like iPhoto. iDisk supported.
• Apple's Web 2.0 (Ajax) suite for mobileme (me.com)
• On Mac, mobileme works with iCal, Address Book and Mail. On Windoze, it works with Microsoft Outlook.
• Schiller, "mobileme stores your info up in the cloud so you can get to it anywhere using any of your devices -- Mac, PC, iPhone -- it will push information up and down to keep everything up to date all the time."
• Push email, contacts, and calendars: Everything is up-to-date wherever you are.
• mobileme: Phil Schiller demos...
Calls "ActiveSync," "ActiveStink." (laughter)
• Also, for teachers: Ad Hoc: develop iPhone apps in a class, have it certified, then register up to 100 iPhones for use.
• Enterprise can distribute private aps via company's intranet by first authorizing phones on their own network and then distribute them via iTunes.
• App Store to be available in 62 countries.
• App Store will notify users when apps are updated. FairPlay DRM will wrap applications.
• iPhone 2.0 Software release "early July." Free for all iPhone owners, US$9.95 for iPod touch owners.
• Parental Controls, language support...
• Steve Jobs back: new SDK features: Full iWork doc. support, bulk delete/move in Mail, Save emailed photos into photo library...
• Push notification service for all developers from Apple. Better than WIndows Mobile (not too hard). Maintains performance and preserves battery life - available in Sept. Will work for WiFi and over cellular networks.
• Digital Legends Entertainment now to demo "Krull" - cool game coming in September.
• MIMvista demo: mediacl imagine app. Ready at App Store launch.
• It's a festival of demos, ladies and gentlemen!
• NeXT up: Modality with two new medical apps.
• MLB's "At Bat" shows today's games, stats, live game info (runners on base), score, pitch count, etc.
• MLB.com up for demo: "real-time" video highlights - moments after play happens, it's on your iPhone. Cool.
• Mark Terry from Moo Cow Music demos "Band" - virtual instruments. Piano keyboard (puts Microsnot's Windows 7 vapor demo to shame). Coming within 3 weeks of App Store launch.
&bull: "Enigmo" game get water into vessel with moveable paddles and tools and "Cro-Mag Rally" caveman racing game. Both in App Store at launch for $9.99.
• Pangea demoing two games.
• Associated Press demoing an app - read AP news, location-aware, so you get local stories of interest. Submit news tips to AP.
• Next: TypePad demo: mobile blogging app. Post via iPhone, use camera, post photos, etc. A free app at App Store launch.
• Netx is "Loopt" demo. A location-based app - shows where your friends are located, etc. Free at App Store launch.
• Auctions lets you search for items, bid, etc. on eBay.
• Next up: eBay's Ken Sun with "Auctions" app.
• Super Monkey Ball will be available at App Store launch for US$9.99.
• Dev SEGA on-stage to demo Super Monkey Ball: 110 stages and all four of the classic monkeys in just 8 weeks!
• Quotes from devs and others, like NY Times Pogue: "You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform, Windows, Mac OS X and iPhone."
• 'Tis easy to write an application and test it via iPhone Sim right on your Mac.
• Let's just say that the exciting stuff is yet to come...
• Demoing Interface Builder and debugging.
• Xcode, iPhoen Sim demo.
• SDK in iPhone 2.0 offers same APIs and tools that Apple uses internally.
• Forstall out to show SDK, new apps.
• Work with Cisco to built in secure VPN
• iPhone enterprise video being shown...
• iPhone 2.0.'s enterprise features include Exchange support, including push email, push contacts, push calendar, auto-discovery, global address lookup, remote wipe.
• 35% of the Fortune 500 involved in working with iPhone SDK beta.
• iPhone 2.0 software has 3 parts: Enterprise, SDK, and New Features.
• Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller on hand to help with the presentation. Bertrand Serlet will show off Snow Leopard - sneak peek.
• Next version of OS X is called "Snow Leopard."
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage.
• Lights dim, people cheer...
• Here we go...
• Announcement: Please turn off your iPhones...
• 9:54am PDT: It's going to take a bit of time to get everyone seated. Bo Diddley tune playing.
• 12:51pm EDT: AAPL: 182.92 (-2.72, -1.47%) | NASDAQ: 2459.78 (-14.78, -0.6%)
• 9:50am PDT: 10 minutes!
• 9:10am PDT: 50 minutes!
• 9:02am PDT: Barron's: Apple: Welcome To 3G Monday
• 8:59am PDT: AAPL: 182.787 (-2.853, -1.54%) | NASDAQ: 2459.08 (-15.48, -0.63%)
• 8:54am PDT: Wired: What's Good for Apple Is Better for Everyone Else As Apple prepares to launch the iPhone 2 on Monday, competitors like Palm and RIM are not worried. On the contrary, they are licking their chops, preparing for a surge in sales, even though Apple expects to sell millions of new iPhones worldwide.
• 8:43am PDT: Washington Post Blog: Will Apple's WWDC break Twitter?
• 8:35am PDT: 1 hour and 25 minutes to go!
• 11:33am EDT: AAPL: 181.67 (-3.97, -2.14%) | NASDAQ: 2463.90 (-10.66, -0.43%)
• 8:28am PDT: AP: Apple spent $390K lobbying government in 1Q
• 8:20am PDT: Bloomberg: Apple Cuts iPhone Forecast on Production Delays, Barron's Says (Thanks to MDN Reader "Stephen")
• 8:17am PDT: Reuters: Samsung launches iPhone lookalike Omnia (Thanks to MDN Reader "Carlos")
MacDailyNews Take: "It runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile software." 'Nuff said.
• 8:14am PDT: Reuters: Apple iPhone encore expected (Thanks to MDN Reader "Judge Bork")
• 8:11am PDT: SF Chronicle: Jobs expected to ring in Apple's new iPhone
• 8:08am PDT: LA Times: Apple CEO Steve Jobs to unveil new and improved iPhone (Thanks to MDN Reader "Sandy")
• 7:58am PDT: NEWS.com.au: Second coming of the Jesus phone (Thanks to MDN Reader "John O.")
• 7:49am PDT: Apple stores offline worldwide.
• 7:48am PDT: MacDailyNews: RUMOR: Apple to debut 'Mac Fusion' developer machine (with image)
• 7:42am PDT: BBC: Apple expected to unveil iPhone 2 (Thanks to MDN Reader "Brawndo Drinker")
• 7:37am PDT: USA Today: It's presto, change-o as new iPhone is unveiled
• 7:27am PDT: NY Times: Apple Watchers Look for a New iPhone (Thanks to MDN Reader "Fred Mertz")
• 7:20am PDT: Find the WWDC Keynote video as soon as it's published via iTunes Apple Keynotes podcast [Attribution: Macworld UK]
• 7:12am PDT: BusinessWeek: iPhone 2.0 Takes on the World
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• Ars Technica
• CNET - Tom Krazit
• Engadget
• Fortune
• Gizmodo
• MacNN
• MacRumors
• Macworld
• The Mac Observer
• TechCrunch
• TechzTalk
• TUAW
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• Keynote is scheduled to begin at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT. |