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WWDC 2008


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Today, at 10:00AM(-8:00GMT), Steve Jobs will start his keynote and unveil new products. There is not that much more time to wait. Here in San Francisco, it is very sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and about 65ºF. Even before the keynote, we know he is going to mention something about the iPhone:

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Same goes for many more countries, including Taiwan and Singapore.

 

I will post updates here as I hear about them.

-Snow Leopard confirmed, but it's getting shown after lunch :(

-Super Monkey Ball available on AppStore for $9.99, it has 110 levels. We still haven't gotten to any new products yet.

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-New App: eBay, view your auctions, bid on watched auctions, and see if you've been bid out.

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-Cro-Mag Rally and Enigmo: these were my two favorite games when I was younger, and they look great!

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-Band from Moo Cow Music: it looks exactly like the app for jailbroken iPhones:

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-For AIM: Apple will maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone, where a 3rd party server can ping Apple's notification service to your device. It can push badges, sounds, and custom textual alerts (like how SMSs look).

 

-Steve sez "Isn't that fantastic? This is going to be great. In addition... we've got a few new features. The first one: contact search. Type in a few chars, instantly find who you're looking for. Second? Full iWork document support -- Pages, Numbers, and of course, Keynote. Great way to look at your iWork docs on the go. And we've completed MS Office support: Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint, too."

 

-If the App is less than 10MB, it can be downloaded over the cell network, otherwise it's WiFi.

 

-mobileme exists. "It's like Exchange for the rest of us." Change a contact? Gets pushed up to MobileMe, down to all other device. "The best part of this, it works over the air. Everything is up to date." Includes calender, mail, contacts, iDisk, photos. MobileMe replaces .Mac.

 

-"Today w'ere introducing the iPhone 3g." :D"Improved audio, it's really, really great... and it feels even better in your hand, if you can believe it." "Flush headphone jack." "Solid metal buttons, the same gorgeous 3.5-inch display, camera" Less expensive. :D "If we compare this to WiFi, we'll see 3G approaches WiFi speeds. We're also really proud that we're doing this with great battery life -- standby time is 300 hours." "Location services is going to be a really big deal on the iPhone -- you saw a bit of that here today, it's going to explode. We get location from celltowers, from WiFi, and now we get it from GPS." So that's A-GPS. "We can actually do tracking.""So great performance, great battery life. Now, one other thing that benefits from fast data is GPS -- we've built that into GPS." The crowd roars. "Browsing, 5-6 hours of high speed browsing. Video - 7 hours, audio - 24 hours."

-Black and white colors, 8gb for $199 and 16Gb for $299. July 11th.

 

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I was going to buy a BB 9000, but the iPhone is much more appealing. I'll just sell my 8800 and my iPod Nano, and it'll cover the cost right there!

Don't 'cha just love it when you can sell the old stuff, and buy the new toys, and it doesn't cost you any more :rolleyes:

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They are gonna shatter the 10 million mark this year now...I'm so impressed with this product launch. How do they do it?

So now the next question, new iPod touch/prices?
Yeah, who is gonna buy them at their current price now?
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Now we're talking!!! Dam cheap. Now that's the way it should be. But what about all of those customers that paid an astounding 500 dollars when it first came out. too bad. :)

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You gotta be kidding. Up 2 now, Apple used a very simple formula to calculate prices in Germany: Price in US$ = German price in €.

Is there a way to sneak out of mobile phone contracts if you leave the country in the US just like it's common in Europe? I'm gonna be in the US for the next semester and if there is, I'll sure as hell get an iPhone...

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So.. is that it? No other new products except the iPhone?

 

Wow this is one HUGE disappointment. This years WWDC has gone down the pan for me if that's all they have to offer =[

 

If there is a second half, I hope MacRumors cover it.

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So.. is that it? No other new products except the iPhone?

 

Wow this is one HUGE disappointment. This years WWDC has gone down the pan for me if that's all they have to offer =[

 

If there is a second half, I hope MacRumors cover it.

Wait until it's over, I think there might be more after lunch...
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Haha, Apple wiped Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and the Faroe Islands off the map ;)

 

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Ok, but seriously, why no iPhone in Iceland? Iceland has the second highest mobile phone penetration in the world, just behind Finland. It's stupid.

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Hm... T- mobile want to sell it for 52000 HUF here in hungary wich is 325 !!! USD

 

199 $ worldwide :)

Nice.... I think we have more money

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I've heard that you can't go to the US on vacation, get an Iphone, and then go back home to sweden with it.. Is that really true? My friend told me that Iphones and such will be confiscated in the customs!! :) And besides, is it even possible to get a friggin' Iphone without that god forbidden AT&T contract, which slowly will drain all of my savings?! Because otherwise I'll send my friend to get one of those for me ^^

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So.. is that it? No other new products except the iPhone?Wow this is one HUGE disappointment. This years WWDC has gone down the pan for me if that's all they have to offer =[if there is a second half, I hope MacRumors cover it.
Macgirl, you were right!! Some people are never satisfied. This is more than I expected.Wait until it's over, I think there might be more after lunch...
I'll wait 3 months for the 16gig to be $199 and a 32gig @ $299you know it'll happen
That's a bit far-fetched.
Hm... T- mobile want to sell it for 52000 HUF here in hungary wich is 325 !!! USD199 $ worldwide
If this is true that sucks.
I've heard that you can't go to the US on vacation, get an Iphone, and then go back home to sweden with it.. Is that really true? My friend told me that Iphones and such will be confiscated in the customs!! :) And besides, is it even possible to get a friggin' Iphone without that god forbidden AT&T contract, which slowly will drain all of my savings?! Because otherwise I'll send my friend to get one of those for me ^^
That's a load of {censored}. There's a thing called Jailbreaking? People were carrying iPhones all over the world from the USA... Anyway, that won't be necessary now, it's gonna come to Sweden, legally, and cheaper, with many awesome new features! ;)
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Yeah, Snow Leopard will be after lunch.

By the way , in my opinion it is madness to sell the 8 gig iphone for only 199$ and the 8 gig touch for 299$. So prepeare for price drop... maybe ?
The iPhone is only that cheap with a 2 year contract. I expect they have the new free ipod touches for college students with the cheap iPhone in mind.
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That's a load of {censored}. There's a thing called Jailbreaking? People were carrying iPhones all over the world from the USA... Anyway, that won't be necessary now, it's gonna come to Sweden, legally, and cheaper, with many awesome new features! ;)

 

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Hehe, I just found out that Iphone will ship here in sweden too on the 11th of July.. Errm, sometimes you just feel plain stupid :P But I've been awake for the last 18 hours or so, so it probably is explainable. Anyway, sorry for your trouble m8, and thx for clearing this up! :)

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Now waiting for snow leopard infos...I think it won't support pc ;)
Im sure it will, just not when its first released. :)
-Cro-Mag Rally and Enigmo: these were my two favorite games when I was younger, and they look great!wwdc-keynote_094.jpg
Me too, I was so glad to see Cro Mag Rally being ported. They better have multiplayer over wifi...
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Some info on Snow Leopard that has since been taken down :

 

Cool stuff, Quicktime X, Multi-core enhancement, and GPU acceleration.

 

I thought the Safari speed enhancement would come sooner though. It's already in the Webkit nightly build...

 

SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X Snow Leopard, which builds on the incredible success of OS X Leopard and is the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system. Rather than focusing primarily on new features, Snow Leopard will enhance the performance of OS X, set a new standard for quality and lay the foundation for future OS X innovation. Snow Leopard is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the vast computing power of graphic processing units (GPUs), enables breakthrough amounts of RAM and features a new, modern media platform with QuickTime® X. Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is scheduled to ship in about a year.

 

“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”

Snow Leopard delivers unrivaled support for multi-core processors with a new technology code-named “Grand Central,” making it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Snow Leopard further extends support for modern hardware with Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which lets any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications. OpenCL is based on the C programming language and has been proposed as an open standard. Furthering OS X’s lead in 64-bit technology, Snow Leopard raises the software limit on system memory up to a theoretical 16TB of RAM.

Using media technology pioneered in OS X iPhone™, Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, which optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback. Snow Leopard also includes Safari® with the fastest implementation of JavaScript ever, increasing performance by 53 percent, making Web 2.0 applications feel more responsive.*

For the first time, OS X includes native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal® and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of any size.

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pssh, they're rich. They can Jailbreak it like everyone else. I don't know why you feel sorry for them. They're like living in a Hydrogen-powered utopia already. ;)

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