WWDC Live Discussion Thread: All today's BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS are HERE!

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Senior vice president of Worldwide Product, Phil Schiller is
heading up the WWDC discussion. Bertrand Serlet and Scott Forstall
also partaking in the discussion.

Schiller announces that there are 75 million users of OS X. Yeah!

A billion apps have been downloaded on the iPhone.

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All new 15" MBP. Oh crap, I'm going to be broke. I had prepared to buy a new iPhone, but I listened to all the naysaying bloggers who said there wouldn't be new hardware announcements. They're improving the monitor (increased color gamut) and bringing that improved battery from the 17" over to the 15".

Only saving grace for my pocketbook? Still not Nehalem, as far as I can tell. If it was, I'd be buying it on release date. Now I might still hold off until the Nehalem architecture makes it into the MBPs. They did lower the standard config prices, $1699-$2299 (vs. $1999-$2499). Wonder if the academic price will still be $100-$200 lower.

17" saw a speed bump as well in processor speed. I'm seeing this overall now as an incremental rev.

13" gets new screen, and the rebranding to all aluminum = MBP just happened.

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Brand new 15" Mac Pro

$1699 15" MBP: 2.53GHz, 4GB, 250GB, 9400M graphics
(Up to 3.06 Dual Core CPU. Up to 8GB of RAM. Up to 500GB 7200RPM HD. Or, 256GB SSD)

* unibody design
* brand new display
* 60% color gamut increase
* SD card slot
* Most users will get 5 years undiminished battery life. Battery lasts
up to 7 hours. 1,000 charges.

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17" Macbook Pro also gets an update: 2.8GHz CPU, 500GB HD with
Express card slot.

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13" MacBook also gets a facelift with the new display, SD card slot
and improved battery life.

However, now they are calling the 13" Macbook a MACBOOK PRO
with a starting price of $1,199 on up to $1,499. 8GB of memory,
up to 500GB or 256GB SSD drive with backlit keyboard and Fire Wire 800.

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Macbook Air also getting an upgrade of its own. Configurations
up to 2.13GHz CPU at a $1,499 to $1,799 price point.

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SNOW LEOPARD:

$29 Ship Price ($49 Family Pack). Available September.

Apple building upon its widely popular Leopard OS X.

Refinements * Technology * Exchange

Apple refined over 90% of core OS pieces in Snow Leopard
You recover over 6GB disc space with Snow Leopard Install
(whose install is 45% faster)

* Built Expose into the Dock (click and hold on a Dock icon and Expose shows all of the app's windows)
* Viewing images and PDFs now faster
* Mail is 2.3x faster
* Trackpad can draw Chinese Characters
* Stacks better handles content such as scrolling, drilling into folders.
* Finder lets you magnify thumbnails on the fly
* Ability to wade through multi-page documents and play videos right through Finder.
* Full 64-bit. It's twice as fast and can make use of unlimited RAM (up to 16 billion GB)
* Mail, iCal, and Address Book now all support Exchange

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Safari 4 FINAL goes live TODAY. Will also ship with Snow Leopard with included
enhancements:

* Crash resistance (sandboxes plugins)
* 50% faster 64-bit JavaScript
* Faster Quicktime with new streaming method

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LMAO I've been updating the gruber thread, will chime in here!

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Thank God for Safari 4 final. Hopefully it won't be as bug ridden as IE8. I really regret putting that on my desktop at home. It won't even render Google Maps in "Compatibility Mode".

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Wooohooo, new Quicktime. Glad I held off updating to QTPro

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SNOW LEOP TO SHIP SEPTEMBER FOR $29!

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How ironic, they just showed Google Maps render nearly instantly on Safari...
Wonder what my academic price will be

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I can't believe they are going to refresh the whole Macbook Pro line and not frigging add BluRay. PLEASE APPLE WAKE UP.

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Eh...the best news I've heard so far is the return of FireWire to the MacBook 13-inch MBP.

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Sam, I agree about BD. However as I mentioned earlier I think this is really just a minor refresh, so it doesn't surprise me that BD didn't make it in there. Also, when BD first hits Apple I'm be it will be a CTO option on the Mac Pro (and maybe the iMacs) before it hits the portable line.

When they move their MBPs to the Nehalem chipset (probably late 09/early 10), that's my guess as to when they'll put BD in their mobile products as a CTO option, but my guess is that BD will be a CTO option on the Mac Pro around the time Snow Leopard is released. No basis on my conjecture, just a gut feeling.

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How funny will it be if there is so much time spent on Snow Leopard and new Macbook Pros that there is no new iPhone? =p

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Not gonna happen. They are competing full on with BD via iTunes HD downloads. Unless they see they are losing sales, they won't do it. How many people buy Windows instead of Mac OS just for the BD support?

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45 minutes in and they ahvent mentioned iPod or iPhone once. What a difference a year makes.

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Full Exchange support in Snow Leopard.

This will guarantee I'll update on release date. Normally I hold off because it takes time for Digidesign to certify the newest OS for Pro Tools (which I use for music creation). However I use the laptop more for work than fun [unfortunately] so I will be updating to Snow Leopard ASAP to get Exchange support and just hope that PT8 will continue to work on it. If not, I can use PT8 on my Vista box (ugh) while waiting for Digidesign to patch.

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Sam, don't jinx it!

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That's ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the room called DVD. It will happen, eventually.

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If this were Jobs's announcement, he'd probably hold it off as a "One more thing"...

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$29 price just confirmed.

iPhone is up now. thats it for the Macs. No Blu unless its an afterthought or omt

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Now the iPhone:

* To date 40M iPhones/iPod Touches sold
* To date 1B apps downloaded
* Now more than 50,000 apps on the App Store

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Dev preview of Snow Leopard out today!

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40 frigging million iPhones and iPod Touches. Beat that Nintendo and Sony!

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Landscape mode improvements /yawn

MMS improvements, yay! The dipshits at AT&T won't be able to until late summer. That's the first time I've heard of someone actively BOOOing at an apple keynote.

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Announcing the new iPhone 3.0 Update:

- Available June 17th. FREE for iPod users. $9.99 for iTouch users.

OS 3.0 update with 100 new features that include:

* MMS: one app to send text and multimedia
* Cut/copy/paste/undo (works across all apps)
* Landscape mode in Mail/Notes/Messages, MMS support
* Enhancements to iTunes -- rent and purchase movies, TV shows, music and audiobooks right from your phone.
* No WiFi in area? Share WiFi from iPhone to Laptop
* Tethering Support
* Autofill: optionally remember your usernames and passwords to easily log into your favorite websites
* iPhone OS 3.0 runs javascript 3x faster than iPhone OS 2.2.1
* Peer to Peer Gaming automatically and seamlessly finds other player and gaming begins.


* "Find My iPhone" a service available only to MobileMe customers on iPhone OS 3.0. If you lose your phone,
you can log into MobileMe on any web browser and it'll show you on a map where your phone is via Google Map.
* If your phone is lost or stolen, you can send it a remote wipe command that will delete all of your data (mail, contacts, etc).
Once you find phone it will be restored from a backup. Books download directly through the app. Readers can copy a part
of the book and email it without ever leaving the application

* The SDK that comes with 3.0 brings a thousand APIs, including In App Purchase that allows vendor transactions
from within the app.
* Cocoa touch control to allow you to embed Google Map service including satellite right into your app.
* Push text alerts, numerical badges for homescreen icon, and custom alert sounds.

The 3.0 updates allow such new exciting software as:

* ScrollMotion -- creates digital books for the App Store. Books download directly through the app. Readers can copy a
part of the book and email it without ever leaving the app.
* Tom Tom turn-by-turn Map directions. The improved accessory framework allows a more accurate GPS, speakerphone,
the ability to play iPhone media on car stereo, and even charges it.
* "Plus Network" -- head-to-head play anytime, anywhere. The game is launching today for $5.99
* Spark application allows students can connect Pasco sensors to collect, display, analyze science data.
* Zipcar is the leading car sharing services with over 300,000 members and cars all over the US and UK.
Zipcar app locates you and shows you all the available zipcars near you via embedded Google Maps.
* Line 6/Planet created an app that allows users to control their guitar and amp from your iPhone.
Adjust parameters and knobs, control what digital model you want to play.