WWDC Keynote Report
Here are my edited notes from Steve’s Keynote this morning.
- 9:56 AM - I’m seated in the Presidio room for the keynote. We have no internet access.
- 10:02 AM - Keynote starts with a commercial where the PC guy pretends to be Steve Jobs and announces he’s quitting.
- 10:03 AM - Steve Jobs gets on stage.
- 10:04 AM - This is the biggest WWDC ever in the history of Apple
- 10:04 AM - 950,000 Developer Connection members
- 10:05 AM - Steve talks about the Intel transition
- 10:06 AM - Steve introduces Intel CEO Paul Otellini, presents him with an award. Paul says working with Apple is the best thing that ever happened for Intel.
- 10:08 AM - Game news. EA is coming back to the Mac, introduces Bing Gordon Co-Founder & CEO of EA. Starting in July, several games including Command & Conquer 3, Need For Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be available for the Mac. Shows demo of harry potter; graphics look awesome. In August, sports games will be released simultaneously on the Mac.
- 10:13 AM - Steve introduces John Carmack, owner & CEO of ID. First public showing of Mac development. Incredible graphics of a virtual world with full motion.
- 10:16 AM - 22M active Mac OS X users, 67% using Tiger, 23% running Panther, 10% running older systems.
- 10:17 AM - Leopard. 300 new features. Demonstrates 10 new features.
- New desktop. Trnaslucent menu bar; new 3D dock. Stacks - clean up desktop. Consistent appearance. Active window more promintent. Stack icon appears in the dock and lets you pick any item, including new download folder. Downloads will be redirected to a new download folder. Reflections of icons appear when window is dragged behind dock. Multiple stacks can be created. Stacks can act as an app launcher.
- New Finder! New sidebar. Can now search other computers and servers. new “back to my mac” feature added to .Mac. Shared computers. Cover Flow. New smart searches. Finder looks a lot like iTunes. Back to my Mac lets you connect to your remote computer via .Mac over the internet.
- Quick Look. Instant preview of files without opening an application. Can add support for new applications via plugins.
- 64 bit. Entirely 6 bit up through Cocoa. One version runs both 32 and 64 bit.
- Core Animation. Automatic animation for applications.
- Boot Camp. Complement to Parallels & VMware.
- Spaces. Multiple desktops.
- Dashboard. 3000+ Widgets. Added movie time widget. WebClip lets you make a widget from any web page. Dashcode ships with every copy of Leopard.
- iChat. New iChat Theater lets you present applications in a chat. Slide shows, movies, etc. can be shown over the internet. Uses Quick Look technology - anything that supports Quick Look can be presented via iChat Theater. Backdrops & Photo Booth effects.
- Time Machine.
- 11:06 AM - Copies are available to attendees after keynote. Basic, Premium, Business, and Ultimate versions all cost $129. Audience cheers. Only one version for $129, a swipe at Vista’s confusing versions.
- 11:08 AM - One more thing. Safari 18.6 million safari users, 4.9% market share. Safari is moving to Windows! Twice as fast as IE7. 1.6% faster than Firefox. Public beta for Windows & Tiger available today at http://www.apple.com/safari.
- 11:15 AM - One last thing - iPhone. Available June 29. Developers? Innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices. Full safari engine in iPhone lets you write Web 2.0 & AJAX apps that integrate perfectly with iPhone services, instant distribution via your own server. Run securely on the iPhone. No SDK - use standard web apps. Scott Forstall demonstrates iPhone apps. Apple directory application, accesses LDAP directory using standard web services, has native iPhone look & feel. Can use built-in iPhone services, such as making phone call, compose email, built-in google maps application.
