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Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

post #1 of 14
6/7/08 at 2:23am
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I am so looking forward to Steve Job's keynote address this
upcoming Monday. Unfortunately I will be at work.

It would be great have someone in this forum area, available
to watch the address, be able to post information as it is
announced.

Anyone here willing to start a new thread on Monday and tackle
this job?
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post #2 of 14
6/7/08 at 5:14am

Re: Anyone going to watching Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

I don't think there's a live stream anywhere, but Engadget does a great job with 2-3 minute updates and pics posted. Easy enough to repeat their coverage.

Steve Jobs keynote live from WWDC 2008 - Engadget
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post #3 of 14
6/7/08 at 9:49am

Re: Anyone going to watching Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

I use Macrumors.com to keep up. They even have an iPhone version that updates every minute with pics and info.
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post #4 of 14
6/7/08 at 6:13pm

Re: Anyone going to watching Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

I will have the following on rapid revisit f5 refresh rotation:

Engadget
Macrumors
Ars-Technica
Gizmodo
Macentral
TUAW
AppleInsider
Digg

That shoud keep me well informed.
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post #5 of 14
6/8/08 at 1:56am
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Re: Anyone going to watching Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

At this point there are rumors that the phone will go on sale
THAT DAY (tomorrow) or Friday.
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post #6 of 14
6/8/08 at 6:37am

Re: Anyone going to watching Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
At this point there are rumors that the phone will go on sale
THAT DAY (tomorrow) or Friday.

I sense a Fedex rumble
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post #7 of 14
6/8/08 at 7:28pm

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

I usually have about three tech blogs constantly refreshing during these. One of my colleagues is attending the keynote tomorrow, so we'll have an iChat conference going on as well (probably text only...not enough bandwidth on Moscone's Wi-Fi for an audio chat.)
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post #8 of 14
6/9/08 at 1:28am
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Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

Well, I'm planning to get on line at the store the moment
this thing goes on sale.

My hope is that it will be made available online first so that
it would save me the hassle.
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post #9 of 14
6/9/08 at 5:19am

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

Given the reticence on Apple's part when it came to availability of the first iPhone, I definitely will not be waiting in line. I walked into the Apple Store two hours after it went on sale last year and bought two of them without having to wait more than a few minutes. I fully expect availability to be similar for the new device.
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post #10 of 14
6/9/08 at 10:49am

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

Well, 45 minutes into the keynote and so far it's pretty much been a rehash of the iPhone developer info they presented a few months ago, augmented by some extra demos. The Engadget blogger is clearly getting frustrated.

They've already announced they will talk about Snow Leopard after the iPhone info.

I think sometimes the WWDC talk is way overhyped (even for an Apple event) - after all, it is an event for developers.

OTOH, the Apple Store IS down, so something's coming. Besides the new phone, rumors (with convincing pics) surfaced yesterday of a new Mac aimed at developers called Mac Fusion. Looks like a Mac Mini squashed down to Apple TV height.
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post #11 of 14
6/9/08 at 10:53am

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

BTW, Apple finally put up a permanent Keynote podcast on iTunes last week. Subscribe to it, and each new Stevenote will be downloaded into your iTunes library automatically (within a day or so), for your Mac-PC/iPhone-iPod/Apple TV viewing pleasure.
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post #12 of 14
6/9/08 at 10:56am

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

And they're at the 55 minute mark and are STILL demoing iPhone apps. Ryan at Engadget is getting downright pissy now.
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post #13 of 14
6/9/08 at 11:14am

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

They're finishing up the iPhone SDK talk. They'll be running a push service for devs, where devs can push updates to their customers via an Apple service which maintains a persistent IP connection to all iPhones.

Steve also said they now have Contact search (finally), support for iWork as well as MS Office docs. Bulk delete & move (again finally), improved calculator w/ scientific view, enterprise app distribution, etc.

iPhone software version 2.0 available in early July. Free for iPhone, $10 for iPod Touch.

And the iPhone talk is done. He's introducting Mobile Me - the .Mac replacement.
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post #14 of 14
6/9/08 at 11:17am

Re: Anyone going to watch Steve Jobs on Monday 6/9?

OK, I see Ron's started a new thread, so I'll quit here.
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