WWDC 2006 Keynote - Live Coverage
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Apple's World Wide Developers Conference commences on the 7th of August, with Steve Jobs giving the keynote presentation at 10am Pacific. It is not anticipated that there will be a live video broadcast of the keynote and so MacRumors will provide live coverage on this site.
| 12:01 pm | 23" Cinema display only $999 |
| 11:45 am | http://www.apple.com/xserve/ http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html |
| 11:38 am | 30" Cinema display now only $1999 |
| 11:33 am | http://www.apple.com/macpro/ |
| 11:25 am | That's all folks - thanks for watching Special thanks to our sources on the floor for continuous coverage |
| 11:25 am | Thank you for coming over 1000 engineers on site new mac pros in hands-on sessions |
| 11:24 am | Leopard to ship in coming Spring |
| 11:24 am | start taking advantage of all this tech so your apps are awesome when they all come out |
| 11:24 am | all tech included in Mac OS X Leopard developer preview TODAY |
| 11:23 am | backup and recovery of entire digital life |
| 11:23 am | Spaces - whole new way and of course, Time Machine |
| 11:23 am | revolutionary tech of tiger to the next level - spotlight, dashboard, webclip developer tools with dashcode xcode 3.0 released today giant leap in xcode |
| 11:22 am | new universal access parental controls dramatically enhanced Boot camp 1.0 next gen of front row photobooth ichat didn't talk about ical - moving to multiuser |
| 11:22 am | core animation |
| 11:22 am | full 64 bit top to bottom |
| 11:21 am | these are just 10 of the many new features in Leopard |
| 11:21 am | really excited about it |
| 11:21 am | ichat theater demo over |
| 11:21 am | "life at apple is a rollercoaster" - Steve |
| 11:20 am | "A lot of fun" - rollercoaster |
| 11:20 am | motion backgrounds |
| 11:20 am | if you can do photos, you can do VIDEO too. :) |
| 11:20 am | Phil changes to Times Square |
| 11:19 am | Schiller changes his background - no green screen - steps out of frame, set the background, automatically masks out background |
| 11:19 am | Backdrops - wouldn't it be great if you could be somewhere other than where you are? |
| 11:19 am | showing the "virus" Mac vs. PC commercial |
| 11:18 am | great for remote client collaboration on projects |
| 11:18 am | transitions & effects work |
| 11:17 am | Keynote presentation the same way - done across iChat video connection |
| 11:17 am | Schiller in little window on side of screen |
| 11:17 am | Schiller showing photo stream while talking to steve |
| 11:17 am | demo'ing iChat Theater |
| 11:17 am | amazing real time effects "it's a little weird" - steve |
| 11:16 am | having fun with filters |
| 11:16 am | jay leno look |
| 11:16 am | photobooth effects |
| 11:16 am | ichat video conference with Phil Schiller |
| 11:15 am | demos |
| 11:15 am | show keynote presentation backdrops |
| 11:15 am | show slides to family and friends iphoto slideshow that you can talk over |
| 11:15 am | ichat theater |
| 11:14 am | make it better - multiple logins, visibility, animated icons, video recording, and tabbed chats |
| 11:14 am | 10) seriously enhance iChat |
| 11:13 am | WEBCLIP: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0574.jpg |
| 11:13 am | DASHCODE shot: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0572.jpg |
| 11:13 am | DASHCODE ICON: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0571.jpg |
| 11:13 am | just created 5 live widgets on stage |
| 11:12 am | dashboard demo over |
| 11:12 am | WIDGETS: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0568.jpg |
| 11:12 am | NOTES: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0564.jpg |
| 11:12 am | MAIL TEMPLATES: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0563.jpg |
| 11:11 am | NYT bestseller list widget - you can now make your own just from the NYT web page |
| 11:11 am | turn top 10 download page into a widget - now you can do it yourself |
| 11:11 am | live widget of a section of a web page |
| 11:10 am | doing another demo |
| 11:09 am | with about 4 clicks, widget created |
| 11:09 am | comic strip - dilbert want a widget of that strip use Webclip - button in safari to make a widget of that comic strip |
| 11:09 am | active desktop? |
| 11:08 am | for the users: way to turn any part of any web page into a widget |
| 11:08 am | *debugger* |
| 11:08 am | full javascript logger |
| 11:08 am | also ships with parts library - search fields, etc. drop into your widget and you're done |
| 11:07 am | great visual editor for CSS |
| 11:07 am | all the hard part done - modify it to produce the widget you're looking for RSS, podcasts, etc. |
| 11:07 am | to help that along - 1) For developers: dashcode helps to design, develop and debug dashboard widgets templates |
| 11:06 am | one of our favorite features of tiger not only because of starter widgets, but because of all the fantastic 3rd party widgets - over 2500 available today |
| 11:06 am | 9) dashboard |
| 11:06 am | only 3 of the really cool features added to mail |
| 11:05 am | "it's that easy to create ToDo's" - checkbox |
| 11:04 am | demo of ToDos |
| 11:04 am | easy to create notes |
| 11:04 am | notes stand out in mail |
| 11:03 am | Notes demo |
| 11:03 am | very easy to send rich mail |
| 11:03 am | photo browser window to help find images to add |
| 11:03 am | can drag & drop, or start with a previously done mail message and edit to add in stationary |
| 11:02 am | compose new message pick a stationary - showing the options shipping in leopard finds some photos - drop and move around |
| 11:01 am | brings up mail |
| 11:01 am | demo |
| 11:01 am | one system-wide to-do tracker |
| 11:01 am | any app can contribute and create to-dos ical tied into it |
| 11:01 am | checkbox on emails to create to-do |
| 11:00 am | can take any incoming mail message and turn it into a to-do |
| 11:00 am | priority, alarms, etc. |
| 11:00 am | To Do list - want something more powerful than just notes to keep track of things select something - can make it a "to do" item |
| 11:00 am | adding it to leopard - new special mailbox called "notes" to keep them separate |
| 10:59 am | Notes: used to send email to myself to make notes of things to take care of - must be a better way to do this |
| 10:59 am | "boom" and send it out including lots of templates |
| 10:59 am | can send like that to anyone and will look like this on the other end |
| 10:58 am | stationary: photos, email - would be great to apply stationary and have it look incredible in mail - industry standard html email |
| 10:58 am | really great things - new creative things stationary added notes added to-do's added |
| 10:58 am | major enhancements - mail |
| 10:57 am | next up: the big one |
| 10:57 am | still clean, understandable. |
| 10:57 am | one of the things users like to do is speed things up - voiceover speeds up flawlessly |
| 10:56 am | crowd is very impressed |
| 10:56 am | voiceover voices are very natural |
| 10:56 am | TIME MACHINE screen shot: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0502.jpg |
| 10:55 am | SPACES LOGO: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0521.jpg |
| 10:55 am | new voiceover is incredible - sounds like a real person reading. |
| 10:54 am | using Apple boilerplate info from bottom of press releases |
| 10:54 am | best way to show this: "voiceover" - demo text to speech |
| 10:54 am | better ways to navigate the system |
| 10:54 am | rails supports - closed captions for quicktime |
| 10:53 am | focusing on access for leopard |
| 10:53 am | OS X is great - we want everyone to have a chance to use it |
| 10:53 am | lots of power to easily add rich interactivity to your apps |
| 10:53 am | written in half the lines of a typical screen saver to produce better results |
| 10:52 am | zoom, fly camera around where you want |
| 10:52 am | all you have to do is specify a start and an end, and it figures everything out automatically |
| 10:52 am | demo is a screen saver |
| 10:52 am | very easy to work in - move items around on their own layers albums of photos, videos - just scratching the surface |
| 10:51 am | demo icon for it is same as other core items, but purple |
| 10:51 am | core animation handles everything in between - color, size, opacity, all kinds of things |
| 10:50 am | start space, goal space, & keyframes |
| 10:50 am | thousands of layers - text, images, video, openGL, almost anything |
| 10:50 am | time machine built on core animation |
| 10:50 am | allows you to dramatically increase the production value of your applications |
| 10:50 am | "CORE animation" sorry :) |
| 10:49 am | 6) more animations |
| 10:49 am | what you're looking for is often right there without doing a search |
| 10:49 am | prepopulated with recent stuff you've been doing |
| 10:49 am | adding recent items to spotlight |
| 10:49 am | making it a great app launcher |
| 10:49 am | specify file type and other dev requests will be added in leopard |
| 10:48 am | advanced search - lots of feedback from devs |
| 10:48 am | if at home with several macs, you can search them all and search workgroup servers at the office |
| 10:48 am | enabling spotlight to search OTHER machines if you have permissions |
| 10:47 am | one of the great features of tiger - instantly search for any file by all sorts of things making it even better in leopard |
| 10:47 am | 5) spotlight |
| 10:47 am | built in to leopard |
| 10:47 am | spaces lets me create collections of apps for different tasks that's intuitive |
| 10:46 am | can drag info from one desktop to the other |
| 10:46 am | "very cool" |
| 10:46 am | Steve showing how to use multiple desktops for different jobs - working on web pages, etc. |
| 10:45 am | TIME MACHINE LOGO: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0489.jpg |
| 10:45 am | CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS FOR MAC PRO: dual 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), SuperDrive, $2499 |
| 10:45 am | Mail & Safari |
| 10:45 am | create different spaces for different clusters of apps to work together |
| 10:44 am | "space" |
| 10:44 am | 4) Virtual Desktops |
| 10:43 am | next gen front row & photo booth built into leopard |
| 10:43 am | front row - access to all of your media from across the room sitting on your couch |
| 10:43 am | 1/2 million downloads will ship as part of leopard |
| 10:43 am | reaction to boot camp has been good |
| 10:42 am | shipping all as part of leopard boot camp will be included |
| 10:42 am | 3) deliver complete package some really cool beta software now |
| 10:42 am | absolutely the best way to back up everything you have, store everything, and find what you need that you thought you didn't |
| 10:41 am | jumped right to photos |
| 10:41 am | iphoto demo of rolling to the past |
| 10:41 am | moved to backup system |
| 10:40 am | can find entire roll of deleted photos back in time |
| 10:40 am | works in iPhoto |
| 10:40 am | series of windows receeding into the distance |
| 10:40 am | can search for documents in the past |
| 10:39 am | great for finder - but can work with 3rd party apps as well |
| 10:39 am | it is that easy to go back in time and restore what you want to restore |
| 10:39 am | desktop "warps" back to place in time |
| 10:39 am | file previews without going through full restore |
| 10:38 am | devs are impressed |
| 10:38 am | finder windows "warping" forward |
| 10:38 am | can go back a day - or two days |
| 10:38 am | timeline on right-hand side |
| 10:37 am | visual representation of moving through time |
| 10:37 am | finder windows move through timeline on the side of the machine through time - very cool to watch |
| 10:37 am | instantly back |
| 10:37 am | with time machine, you can get those files back by entering a date or time |
| 10:36 am | finder windows important stuff |
| 10:35 am | ever had time where you work on a doc and you do a save as and overwrote the wrong one? |
| 10:35 am | coolest part - and reason we call it that - whole new way of backing up files |
| 10:35 am | backup to HD, or server |
| 10:35 am | can restore everything, or just one file at a time |
| 10:34 am | can be right where you were when the HD drive |
| 10:34 am | automatically backs up mac you change a file, it automatically backs up photos, music, documents, files folder, everything then you can restore everything |
| 10:34 am | plan to change all of that Time Machine |
| 10:33 am | how many use automated software to stay always backed up? only 4% |
| 10:33 am | dig a little deeper - most that say they are are manually dragging files & folders into another drive not really secure |
| 10:33 am | only 26% of users back up in any way whatsoever |
| 10:32 am | we all know we should, but lots of people don't |
| 10:32 am | how to combat loss of information on hard drives - backups |
| 10:32 am | 2) Time machine |
| 10:31 am | can run 32 bit apps side by side with 64 bit - no emulation, no translation full support, top to bottom |
| 10:31 am | did in a completely 32 bit compatible way |
| 10:31 am | have a fully native 64 bit UI carbon app |
| 10:31 am | in leopard - giant leap forward - extend support all the way through UI framework into applications |
| 10:30 am | previously at unix layer |
| 10:30 am | 1) support for 64 bit applications |
| 10:30 am | major things in leopard demo: |
| 10:30 am | don't want photocopiers started too early |
| 10:29 am | top secret features not being shown, just not letting you know what they are. |
| 10:29 am | what we can't show: |
| 10:29 am | we're working on Leopard giving preview of Leopard today |
| 10:29 am | "money isn't everything" in R&D |
| 10:29 am | Jobs back on stage |
| 10:28 am | if you can't innovate, impersonate (shows pic of Elvis impersonator) |
| 10:27 am | making jokes - crowd laughing |
| 10:27 am | redo windows logo to have an aqua feel |
| 10:27 am | mail, calendaring, address book moved search to top right of screen wow - the innovation |
| 10:26 am | RSS |
| 10:26 am | elegant and powerful |
| 10:25 am | spotlight |
| 10:25 am | specific screen shots of Tiger vs Vista |
| 10:25 am | they actually seem to have done that... |
| 10:25 am | "Redmond - start your photocopiers" |
| 10:25 am | poking fun at Redmond |
| 10:25 am | Betrand takes stage |
| 10:24 am | What's our competitor been doing for the last 5 years? Vista... |
| 10:24 am | lots more announcements during the next week |
| 10:24 am | you guys have done a phenomenal job |
| 10:24 am | apps that run on both PowerPC & Intel - now over 3000 UB apps All of us at Apple want to say "thank you" |
| 10:23 am | enabled amazing transition to occur in 210 days 86 million lines of source code ported to run on a different chip pretty amazing |
| 10:23 am | software team did a magnificent job moving it to Intel |
| 10:23 am | we have a 6th major release - Tiger on Intel |
| 10:22 am | Apple's most successful software product ever. |
| 10:22 am | majority of users lots of critical acclaim best and most advanced computers |
| 10:22 am | 5 major releases - starting in spring of '01 progressions of software - 19 million active OS X users |
| 10:21 am | OS X - what have we been doing? |
| 10:21 am | software |
| 10:21 am | Jobs back on stage |
| 10:21 am | compare to latest dells - beats everything in the category, performance/price $3293 for a comp Dell $2999 for standard config of xServe |
| 10:20 am | entirely built to order up to 1 million configurations |
| 10:20 am | up to 5 terabytes of storage |
| 10:19 am | amazing performance - new features, more space, adds redundant power supply |
| 10:19 am | with smaller chip, footprint, easier to get faster chips in 5x faster than machine it replaces |
| 10:19 am | still 1U footprint |
| 10:19 am | built on Xeons - quad performance similar to specs of Mac Pro |
| 10:18 am | xserves - entirely new |
| 10:18 am | incredible - performance and value |
| 10:17 am | one more product xserve |
| 10:17 am | nobody else could pull this off |
| 10:17 am | transition finishes today - just 210 days |
| 10:17 am | joins rest of great products to intel |
| 10:17 am | crowd erupts in applause |
| 10:17 am | starts shipping TODAY |
| 10:16 am | proc speed - all quad, up to 3ghz 16 GB memory 2 TB storage graphics up to radeon x1900 or FX4500 wireless BT & Airport up to 5 million configurations |
| 10:15 am | BTO options |
| 10:15 am | crowd VERY happy |
| 10:15 am | $1000 more to get close from Dell |
| 10:15 am | "usually more expensive" - great product to bust that myth |
| 10:15 am | previous fastest was $800 more than that |
| 10:14 am | 2.6 Ghz dual 256 MB ram Superdrive $2499 |
| 10:14 am | 1 standard incredible configuration |
| 10:14 am | processors fit in compact space - leaves lots of room in case for full size ram, drives, everything |
| 10:13 am | drive carriers - insert drives without tools - just snap into place |
| 10:13 am | inside, entirely new |
| 10:13 am | design of case stays the same |
| 10:13 am | graphics slot at bottom - double wide for larger graphics cards |
| 10:12 am | back - 4 PCI express slots |
| 10:12 am | increased front I/O as well as back I/O |
| 10:12 am | second optical drive |
| 10:12 am | up to 2 TB of internal storage |
| 10:12 am | less cooling in box room for 4 hard drives |
| 10:12 am | each on it's own - 25GB/sec bandwidth 4channel 256 bit wide memory access twice the bus of the G5 |
| 10:11 am | "it's a great chip" |
| 10:11 am | around 2x faster in xcode |
| 10:11 am | everyday apps performance taken a bunch of apps and tested the speeds around 2x speed increase in real-world use |
| 10:11 am | 1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad |
| 10:10 am | big jump in performance |
| 10:10 am | compare to G5 |
| 10:10 am | every Mac Pro gets 2 of them |
| 10:10 am | amazing processor |
| 10:09 am | up to 3x a Xeon |
| 10:09 am | deliver tremendous performance per watt |
| 10:09 am | 64 bit |
| 10:09 am | 128 bit vector engine |
| 10:09 am | large 4 MB shared L2 cache |
| 10:09 am | up to 3 Ghz |
| 10:08 am | all dual core |
| 10:08 am | based on core 2 duo |
| 10:08 am | woodcrest processors |
| 10:08 am | old case - two optical drives |
| 10:08 am | Mac Pro |
| 10:08 am | good morning - so excited |
| 10:08 am | Schiller takes the stage |
| 10:08 am | PowerMac - says it's goodbyes |
| 10:07 am | first 2 quarters - almost all shipped with Intel |
| 10:07 am | first intel in January - great new tech from Intel |
| 10:07 am | marketshare skyrocketed in June |
| 10:06 am | macbook - incredible success macbook pro leads the lineup |
| 10:06 am | other great thing - 3/4 of macs shipped were intel-based |
| 10:06 am | growth rate dramatically faster - gaining marketshare |
| 10:06 am | shipped 1.3 million macs |
| 10:05 am | on to today - the Mac last 1/4 - best Mac quarter ever |
| 10:05 am | last 12 months - 1/2 a billion $ of 3rd party products - your products |
| 10:05 am | of new purchases, 50% are new to the mac |
| 10:05 am | last quater - 17 million visitors to the stores |
| 10:04 am | 1 of 157 stores |
| 10:04 am | talking about 5th avenue store in NYC |
| 10:04 am | asked collegues to help Schiller & others |
| 10:03 am | 1000 apple engineers on site 1 engineer for every 4 attendees |
| 10:03 am | 100 hands on labs |
| 10:03 am | 140 specials on everything mac during the conference |
| 10:03 am | all are part of 3/4 of a mlllioin registered developers for mac |
| 10:02 am | folks from 48 countries |
| 10:02 am | we've got 4200 registered attendees - largest wwdc ever |
| 10:02 am | welcome to wwdc 06 thanks so much for coming |
| 10:02 am | crowd erupts in applause |
| 10:02 am | all part of "I'm a PC" intro |
| 10:01 am | crowd laughs |
| 10:01 am | work on your tans work on poetry, art |
| 10:01 am | stop making seemless software that just works |
| 10:00 am | "personal message from steve jobs" - take the rest of the year off. |
| 10:00 am | crowd goes wild - Jobs takes the stage |
| 10:00 am | Apple online store still down |
| 9:59 am | crowd getting loud - music getting louder |
| 9:59 am | multiple people holding up laptops for video feed of room - spinning around for the full view |
| 9:59 am | large number of people with macbooks or macbook pros - anything with a web cam trying to ichat a/v in center |
| 9:58 am | spontaneous crowd applause - false alarm |
| 9:57 am | Red Hot Chili Peppers playing now |
| 9:57 am | music still playing in hall - show hasn't started yet |
| 9:57 am | Approximately 4 minutes to go |
| 9:56 am | attendees in audience are discussing rumored products |
| 9:55 am | nothing new revealed in Moscone Center - banners still covered |
| 9:54 am | Steve's demo station looks like a regular cinema display with external isight |
| 9:53 am | Approximately 7 minutes until beginning of the keynote speech by Steve Jobs |
| 9:52 am | Please turn off all cell phones and paging devices |
| 9:52 am | at least a dozen to 16 large video cameras - news agency style |
| 9:52 am | video cameras on far left side of auditorium |
| 9:51 am | the entire hall is filling now |
| 9:51 am | the VIP section is full |
| 9:51 am | special thanks to our sources in the Moscone Center for live coverage |
| 9:50 am | crowd starting to take seats - music playing in background |
| 9:49 am | just played postal service playing daft punk now |
| 9:47 am | engadget offering multiple pictures: http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/live-from-wwdc-2006-steve-jobs-keynote/ |
| 9:46 am | Approximately 15 minutes until the beginning of the keynote speech |
| 9:41 am | Approximately 20 minutes until the beginning of the keynote speech |
| 9:30 am | Approximately 30 minutes until the beginning of the keynote speech |
| 9:29 am | Apple online stores are down |
| 9:20 am | approximately 40 minutes until the beginning of the keynote speech |
| 9:18 am | http://static.flickr.com/59/209097059_3070ecd4ae.jpg?v=0 |
| 9:11 am | from AppleMatters: "Interestingly Apple has 5.8 ghz wireless that only works on the new Macbook Pro. Stayed tuned." |
| 9:07 am | Keynote is set to begin in 53 minutes. |
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