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iFans is here to cover the WWDC 2012 Keynote occuring today at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern). You can participate in the discussion in this thread and read the liveblog here. Have fun and enjoy the excitement.
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08.00: | Mic check 1, 2, 3. | -Joe Rossignol |
11.54: | That’s it, the event’s wrapped-up! I hope you enjoyed it! | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.53: | “The products we make combined with the apps that you create can fundamentally change the world. Really, I can’t think of a better reason to get up in the morning.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.53: | “Ultimately it’s why people choose to come to work at Apple and work with Apple. To do the very best work of their lives. To create products that empower people to do great things. To make a difference in the lives of so many people around the world.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.52: | “Let’s review… the new MacBook Pro. OS X Mountain Lion. The best OS X yet. iOS 6, with 200 new features. The world’s most advanced mobile OS.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.52: | It releases this fall with support for the 3GS and iPad 2 or later. The beta for iOS 6 releases to developers today. Tim Cook is back on stage. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.51: | “When building maps, when we looked around we saw that the best apps for metro transit were done by 3rd party developers.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.48: | “We’ve added ‘lost mode’ to find my iPhone.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.48: | Notice the “redesigned stores” feature. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.47: | “And that’s turn by turn.”
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11.46: | Yes, it’s the voice of Siri that tells you where you should go.
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11.46: | “The last thing I’d like to show you is turn by turn.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.45: | It looks like an HDR image. Really nice.
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11.45: | “Let me choose another place. How about the Sydney Opera House?” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.45: | Huge applause all around the room as this announcement happens. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.44: | “This is being rendered in realtime.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.44: | 3D is beautiful.
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11.44: | There’s a satellite view just like that on Google Maps.
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11.42: | “You can ask questions like where can I get gas.”
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11.42: | I no longer even care about Android.
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11.41: | Yep!
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11.41: | Tell me it’s voice navigation please …
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11.40: | “We’re also building a traffic service.”
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11.40: | Yelp is integrated.
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11.40: | Farewell, Google.
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11.39: | Hello new maps. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.39: | What was that app they showed in the screenshot? | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.38: | “We were surprised at how many kids with autism have been using the phones, but there are controls in apps that you don’t want them hitting.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.37: | “We set out to make the most accessible devices.”
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11.37: | The demo for Passbook is over and now we’re going to accessibility and guided access. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.36: | Very nice skeumorphic user interface. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.35: | “Let me give you a quick demo of passbook.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.35: | “We’ve created templates to make this easy for devs.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.34: | “When you get to the movie theater or the airport, you have to fumble around to find the pass. This organizes them.”
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11.34: | “Next are some great enhancements to mail. Starting with VIPs. It allows you to mark someone who you really want to be notified about. VIPs have a star, and we have a VIP mailbox. We’ve added a flagged mailbox as well.” “We’ve made it easy to insert photos and video right from the compose window.” — It’s about time this was added so that I don’t have to go into the Photos app just to get my media.
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11.33: | Sorry if things are running a bit slow, we’re getting lots of traffic. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.31: | Photo Stream time.
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11.31: | “We’re also adding fullscreen support in landscape.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.30: | “We also adding the ability to upload photos right from Safari to your favorite websites.” Woah, it’s just like a regular browser now! This is very, very nice.
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11.29: | “We’re adding iCloud tabs, and offline reading list.” Say goodbye to Readability and Instapaper?
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11.29: | “Next up is Safari. Safari is the best and most popular on the planet. About two thirds of all mobile traffic comes from Safari in iOS.”
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11.28: | “Also, we’re unifying your phone number and Apple ID. So if someone calls you on your phone number for Facetime, you can answer it on your iPad or Mac. And we’re doing the same thing with iMessage.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.28: | Forestall is going to talk about FaceTime now. Firstly, it’s available over cellular. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.27: | “You also get fine grain control over which phone calls you can receive.” ”You can also set up repeated calls — if someone calls a second time in 3 mins, it will come through.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.26: | “I can see many of you are like me and you’ve been awakened in the middle of the night — this tells your phone not to bother you. The messages will still come to your phone, it just won’t light up the screen or make a sound.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.26: | “Next up is something we’re calling do not disturb.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.26: | “If you choose reply with message, you can choose any of these, or if you choose remind me later, you can be reminded in an hour… or remind me when I leave, which will set up a geofence and remind you when you leave the building.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.25: | “You’ve probably been in a meeting where you can’t answer it right then… on iOS 6 there’s a new control for an incoming call, slide it up to reply with a message or be reminded to call back later.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.25: | So far, this event is really good. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.25: | “Next, some nice enhancements to the phone app.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.25: | “Also your Facebook events will appear in calendars, and birthdays.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.24: | “But we didn’t stop there. We’ve integrated it with the App Store. You can like apps, and see what your friends like. Same with movies, TV, and music.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.24: | There’s an API for Siri! Yes! | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.23: | Very nice shortcuts.
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11.23: | “We’ve been working to create the best Facebook experience on a mobile device.” Integrated like Twitter. Login from settings, share from apps like photos or Safari. Locations from Maps. iTunes store, Game Center… integrated with Notification Center. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.22: | Uh huh, they’re integrating Facebook.
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11.22: | Oh look.
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11.22: | Yep!
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11.22: | “We’re now taking local search around the world.”
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11.21: | Now, what about the iPad? Hmm. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.21: | Siri has some new customers. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.21: | Many more.
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11.21: | “We’re adding Italian.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.21: | “We’re including Canada… eh?” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.20: | Apple has partnered with a lot of great car manufacturers. “And we’ve added something called Eyes Free. We’re working with car manufacturers to include a button that will bring up Siri — so you can keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road. A number of manufacturers have committed to delivering this in the next 12 months.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.19: | “You can now Tweet just by talking to your phone.” Very nice.
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11.19: | “And those are just a few things Siri has learned in iOS 6.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.19: | “One other thing Siri learned: how to launch apps. Play Temple Run… and it’s just like that.” Finally.
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11.18: | This thing has a really nice user interface. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.17: | “You can watch the trailer.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.17: | “We’ve partnered with OpenTable — I can tap here to make reservations.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.17: | This is a demo of Siri finding restaurants using Yelp and other services’ ratings to score things. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.16: | I wonder if you can tell her to set you a reminder for a game. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.15: | Digital cards for players is fun. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.14: | “What is Buster Posey’s batting average?” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.14: | “The first thing that Siri has learned in 8 months is all about sports. ‘What was the score of the last Giants game?’” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.13: | Demo time for Siri. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.13: | “Siri has only been out 8 months, and it does so much for you. Siri is fantastic. But she’s been studying up. Here’s what she can do in iOS 6.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.13: | “iOS 6 is a fantastic release. It has more than 200 new features, starting with Siri.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.13: | “I’m happy to announce iOS 6.”
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11.12: | “All of this results in some very satisfied customers. More than 75% of our customers check the ‘very satisfied’ box, and our competition has less than 50%.”
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11.12: | “Next is Game Center. We have more than 130m people using it. They submit 5b scores every week.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.11: | “Nearly half of all the photos come from iOS 5.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.11: | “Next is Twitter. We integrated Twitter directly into iOS 5. They’ve seen a 3X growth increase on iOS.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.11: | Next is iMessage. A 140m users. More than a 150b messages.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.11: | “Since we introduced Notification Center, 81% of apps are using it.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.10: | “Almost all of our users are running iOS 5… now if you compare that to the competition. They released a dairy product, 4.0, about the same time as we released iOS 5. About 7% of their users are running it.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.09: | “We’ve sold more than 365m iOS devices through March.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.09: | Scott Forstall is out to talk about iOS! | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.09: | “That’s Mountain Lion.” No release date yet? Okay. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.09: | “Finally, for those of you who buy a new Mac, your upgrade is free. And today devs get access to a near-final preview.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.09: | “This is for upgrades from Lion and all the way from Snow Leopard. And it will upgrade all of your personal Macs.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.08: | Nice pricing!
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11.08: | “Mountain Lion is also a fantastic release for developers, with over 1700 APIs.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.07: | “Those are a few new features… get your apps ready for China.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.07: | “We’re improving our Chinese input method. Providing a new Chinese dictionary. In Safari, we’re adding support for Baidu.”
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11.07: | “One area I want to highlight — features we’re adding for China.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.06: | 200 new features in OS X Mountain Lion. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.06: | The “OS X Racer” won. Now, on to more important things.
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11.05: | He’s playing CSR Racing with Craig, head to head. It’s a new game that isn’t out yet. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.05: | A racer is on stage? Oh cool.
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11.04: | “Here you can see my Game Center account.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.03: | “So the first thing I’d like to do is show my Mac screen, and my Apple TV.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.03: | “I’d like to give you a little demo.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.03: | “We support turn based and head-to-head gaming, across platforms.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.03: | Game Center time.
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11.02: | AirPlay Mirroring time. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.01: | Your Mac will back itself up when sleeping now. I imagine there being a Time Machine in the cloud a few years from now. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.01: | “Wouldn’t it be great if our computers still worked for us when we weren’t working? Now it can.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.00: | “I want to introduce you to a new technology in OS X that we call Power Nap.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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11.00: | Remember that Tweet sound that’s very similar to the one you hear walking into Disneyland? Yep, it’s here. | -Jacob Penderworth |
11.00: | “And if I want to Tweet something, I can summon a Tweet sheet right here.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.58: | “But sharing works well in full-screen apps too.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.58: | Tabview will show your tabs from Mobile Safari. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.58: | Very smart. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.57: | “You can zoom in and out, but what happens when you zoom further out? I’m pulled into Tabview — I see all my live tabs.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.57: | Woah, Tab View is really nice.
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10.56: | “We also have a new feature we call tabview.” Demo time. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.56: | It’ll also sync your bookmarks and history. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.55: | iCloud Tabs.
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10.55: | It now has the omnibar like Chrome. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.55: | “Next is the new Safari.”
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10.54: | Hehe, I don’t see Facebook integration here. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.54: | “Next is sharing. Links, images, video… and now in Mountain Lion you can share right from the app where you’re working. There’s a share button on the toolbar. Twitter… just like that.”
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10.54: | “Even in Microsoft Word.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.53: | Oh, and Siri would like to introduce herself … to the Mac. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.52: | Yep, it’s a more native version of Growl.
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10.52: | “Sometimes when you’re using your Mac, it needs to get your attention. Everyone had their own way of doing it. It could be disruptive.”
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10.52: | We know most of this already from testing the Developer Preview, but the final release always has some new stuff. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.51: | “That’s just a little preview of life in Mountain Lion with iCloud. Next up is notification center.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.51: | Craig’s showing off Documents in the Cloud now. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.50: | I sure hope they fixed the bugs in Messages because the beta had a lot of issues. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.49: | “If you’re sitting at your Mac and your phone buzzes, you can respond right there.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.49: | “We have a great little notes app. We support images and links. And of course you can open notes in separate windows. But the huge one here is Messages.”
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10.49: | A new dock? Since when? | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.48: | “So this is our first look at Mountain Lion. We have a gorgeous new desktop image, and gorgeous new glass dock.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.48: | “We have a developer SDK, so you can add support [for Pages, Numbers, etc.].” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.47: | “We’re also bringing integration with your documents, with a feature we’re calling Documents in the Cloud.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.47: | “And we introduce three new apps: messages, reminders, and notes.”
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10.47: | “With Mountain Lion we built support for iCloud right in. When you sign in with your account, we configure all of your apps and your content is up to date across devices.”
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10.46: | “Mountain Lion is a major new release with hundreds of new features. I’m going to detail just 8, and we’re starting with iCloud.”
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10.46: | There were 26 million copies of OS X Lion sold, not Mountain Lion. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.45: | “Lion was our best selling release ever. 40% of users are on it. And that was in 9 months. Now we’re here to announce Mountain Lion.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.45: | “We’re on our 8th major release of OS X. It’s the power of Unix with the simplicity of the Mac — over 60 million users, over triple what we had a few years ago.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.44: | Craig Federrichi is on stage now. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.44: | It’s software time!
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10.44: | “It’s simply the best computer we’ve ever made.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.43: | Available today.
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10.43: | That’s actually not too bad, but it still might be out of your price range. I want an iMac with that display. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.42: | Yep, expensive.
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10.42: | “With the new MBP, we set out to design something extreme. That meant we could design the best computer for today, and the future.” Huge applaud, Phil returns to the stage. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.41: | “It truly takes an obsessive approach to make a product this meticulously engineered.”
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10.41: | “In most fans the blades are positioned symmetrically, but we positioned ours asymmetrically, which makes it quieter.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.40: | “By not purchasing standard parts, we can create a product that’s more elegant and more efficient.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.39: | Jony Ive: “It’s built for extreme performance, but it’s remarkably portable. We changed our approach to the design of the display. We eliminated the need for a separate cover glass.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.39: | It weighs exactly 4.46 pounds. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.38: | “It’s incredibly powerful, and yet remarkably portable.”
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10.37: | “When you change things, you open up a whole new world of design.”
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10.36: | “Of course, we made a video.” – Naturally. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.36: | Dual microphones. Wow, this is crazy. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.36: | “The best stereo speakers we’ve ever put into a notebook.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.36: | Bluetooth 4.0. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.35: | It has two Thunderbolt ports. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.35: | “Let’s take a look at the ports. SD slot, HDMI, Thunderbolt, USB 2 and 3 on both sides, headphone, magsafe… thinner.”
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10.35: | A lot simpler on the port situation and it finally has an HDMI.
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10.34: | Oh my.
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10.34: | “The fastest RAM, the fastest graphics.” I see lots of dollars here. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.33: | “Here are a few of the things on the inside. The fastest CPU we can put in. Quad-core i5 or i7.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.33: | “It’s dominated by a battery — it takes tremendous work on battery tech to drive this hardware.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.33: | “Before I take the bottom off, isn’t the bottom pretty?”
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10.32: | “So all throughout, this display is a breakthrough. But inside is just as amazing.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.32: | Diablo III!
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10.32: | “Autodesk is working on a new version of AutoCAD.”
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10.32: | “Now applications do have to be updated for this new display. We’ve been working with some key developers. Let me give you some examples. Adobe Photoshop.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.31: | Now, what’s the GPU in this thing? | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.30: | “And we’re updating our professional apps too. Aperture.” Darn, they’re going to be huge downloads. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.30: | Now, where’s that Retina TV? | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.30: | “Mail has been updated, Safari, iMovie, iPhoto. You’re going to see a clarity and level of detail you’ve never seen before.”
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10.30: | OS X has been updated to support this new resolution and pixel density.
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10.29: | “Let me go up to the slides and tell you some more about this product.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.29: | It’s the world’s highest resolution notebook display. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.29: | The resolution is 2880 by 1800 pixels at 220 pixels per inch — wow. It’s a 15.4-inch display just as the rumors had claimed. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.28: | It’s 0.71 inches thin, which is almost as thin as a MacBook Air. It weighs under 4.5 pounds, making it the lightest Pro ever. It has a Retina display — the most beautiful thing you’ll ever see on a notebook. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.27: | “Let me go up to the slides and tell you some more about this product.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.26: | “It’s thinner than my finger. It is a breakthrough in engineering.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.26: | Schiller boasts that this new MacBook Pro is “the most beautiful computer [Apple has] ever made”. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.26: | Oh hello, Retina.
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10.25: | “With the MacBook Air, the team did something bold. There were aggressive in embracing new tech. They also got rid of stuff that trending out. That enabled them to do something bold. So we’ve been asking the team to think about what would make the next gen MBP?” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.24: | “So what’s next? Let me make room on the slide.” A new model is coming! | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.24: | “Across the board, MBA and MBP updated today. Faster processors, graphics, memory, storage, USB — nobody turns over their entire line as quickly and completely as we do at Apple.” Really? Hmm, okay. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.24: | The new MacBook Pros are also available today.
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10.23: | Battery life is still 7 hours. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.23: | No pricing changes. The 15-inch MacBook starts with a quad-core CPU. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.22: | No Retina displays, it seems. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.22: | “As you might expect, we’re updating the IO too. USB 2 and USB 3 too.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.22: | Very, very nice.
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10.21: |
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10.21: | “We also have a really nice update to the MacBook Pro. Our customers really care about having the speed for their music, video, and design.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.21: | They will start shipping today. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.21: | That’s a very generous upgrade, Apple. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.20: | Still just the 11-inch and 13-inch models. “As you know, it comes in 11 and 13 inch.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.20: |
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10.20: | “We’re updating the Facetime camera — 720p camera.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.20: | They’re adding USB 3.0, which is “up to ten times faster than USB 2.0″. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.19: | (Speaking of the SSD) “It’s so zippy and quick, but now we’re making it even faster.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.19: | Flash is getting cheaper by the month and hard drives are really going out fast. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.18: | Oh yeah! ”With Intel turbo boosting, up to 3.2Ghz.” That’s speed. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.18: | “It’s revolutionized the notebook. It’s a breakthrough. Everyone is trying to copy it. They find it’s not so easy. Our customers love them.” “We’re going to update it with some really great features and updates. New CPUs — Ivy Bridge. Up to 2GHz dual core.”
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10.18: | Hmm, I feel like we may not see an actual refresh on all Macs and just the portable ones.
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10.17: | “We have some really nice updates to each of them. Let’s start with the MacBook Air.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.17: | “Today we get to talk to you about the MacBook lineup. We are so proud of this lineup — it’s the best in the industry.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.17: | Schiller: ”Good morning everyone.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.17: | “Let’s get right to it. I’d like to invite Phil Schiller on stage to talk about changes in our notebook lineup.”
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10.16: | “We want to deliver more innovations so you can take your ideas even further. Today we’re announcing new changes in our notebook lineup, and new versions of our OS and iOS.”
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10.16: | “That’s a great reminder of what it’s all about. And why we do what we do. We’d like to thank everyone in the dev community for the incredible apps you’ve done for us. Thank you.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.15: | Lots of thanks to developers for making such great apps and yes, the video is now over. Tim is back on stage. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.14: | “We looked at the data that was out there, and the obvious choice was the develop for iOS.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.14: | Mother, speaking of her daughter: “The iPad become a toy for her, but it was a tool for me.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.13: | “Apple has made it easy through the SDK to stretch our imaginations.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.13: | Airbnb founder: “When we started, it was us renting our apartments, now we’ve given all these other places a way to come together.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.12: | This video is rather long.
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10.12: | “Over the last few years, we’ve had hundreds of people here.” ”Airbnb makes it easy to do bookings. We don’t think of it as a business.”
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10.12: | “When the iPad came out, everything changed. We were able to do medical learning. With the processing power, we could push the boundaries.”
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10.10: | “Teaching anatomy to kids who are levels behind and don’t know English was a challenge before.”
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10.10: | “People say ‘your app has changed my life.’”
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10.09: | I wonder why every single major corporation is suddenly trying to make a special video that looks like they contribute good things to the ecosystem. Maybe it’s supposed to touch people. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.08: | “Walking in the forest allows my brain to switch off and start dreaming… but I couldn’t find my way.”
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10.08: | Some nature sounds and a forest.
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10.08: | “We’ve prepared a video to highlight just a few of these. Let’s roll it.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.07: | “Nothing makes us happier to see devs around the world using our hardware and software to share their latest and greatest ideas… there are heartwarming stories out there.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.07: | “Despite these numbers, what we do together is much more important than any numbers could reflect. Our goal has always been to do great work, and make a difference in other people’s lives.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.07: | The App Store will be available in more than 150 countries. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.06: | “It’s an economy in itself. It operates in 120 countries around the world. And I’m pleased to announce that we’re adding an adittional 32.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.06: | “We’ve written checks for over b for you guys.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.06: | “I’m happy to announce a new milestone — customers have downloaded 30b apps.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.06: | “This compares to just a few hundred of our competition.” — Eh, not really, but we’ll let that pass. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.05: | “These are 400m accounts with credit cards, and quick buying. This is the store with the largest number of credit cards on file anywhere in the world. And we have 650k apps in that store.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.04: | “It’s the most vibrant app ecosystem on the planet. We now have over 400m accounts on the App Store.”
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10.04: |
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10.04: | “I’d like to get started this morning by giving you a few updates on the App Store.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.04: |
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10.04: | “It’s the longest running developer conference we know of anywhere — it sold out in just an hour and 43 minutes! This is truly a worldwide conference.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.03: |
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10.03: | “It sold out in record time.”
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10.03: | “This is our 23rd WWDC — it’s older than a lot of you are.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.03: | “We have a great week planned for you, and some really cool stuff to show you this morning.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.03: | Huge applause, Tim Cook enters.
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10.02: | “Has anyone been using the new Samsung? Not the Galaxy, the refrigerator.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.02: | “I see lots of familiar interfaces in the crowd. Looks like Instagram finally accepted Facebook’s friend request.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.01: | “Hello, welcome to WWDC! I was asked to warm up the crowd, which will be easy because it’s 75 degres.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
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10.00: | And the lights are going down, the music is fading. | -Jacob Penderworth |
10.00: | All right, it should be starting anytime now. | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.57: | “We’ll be beginning shortly.” | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.56: | They’re now telling everyone to turn their electronic devices on silent. | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.55: | Five minutes until the scheduled starting time. | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.48: | Okay, Coca-Cola consumed, salad was delicious, and now I’m staring at my computer screen. Everybody ready? 12 minutes! | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.44: | Some upbeat indie music is playing; Imagine Dragons, according to The Verge. | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.43: | Looking closely, it seems to be two MacBooks (I think) and two water bottles. | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.42: | Oh, what have we here?
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09.41: | Apparently there’s some Gotye-sounding stuff playing. I sure hope it wasn’t Somebody That I Used To know — that song is so overplayed. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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09.34: | Some of The Shins music is playing right now on the speakers inside the big room. | -Jacob Penderworth |
09.32: | The doors opened four minutes ago and people are rushing in. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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09.00: | One hour, folks. | -Jacob Penderworth |
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08.18: | There’s a whole list of pictures on the MacStories liveblog. | -Jacob Penderworth |
08.18: | More pictures:
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08.17: | The inside of the Moscone is packed.
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07.16: | Good morning all! It’s 7:16 AM here in California and the lines outside of the Moscone Center are already pretty long.
(Image via MacStories) | -Jacob Penderworth |
