The Keynote is starting up right now. Here's some notes (updating as it goes on) (last update: 10:06AM):
- The Will Ferrel (sp?) commercial rocked.
- The next Apple store is in NYC.
- New Photoshop Elements that integrates with iPhoto
- New RealPlayer for OS X
- Jaguar, OS X 10.2 is officially announced today.
- iTools has become .mac. Now costs $49/year for existing, $100/year for new. I have mixed feelings on this. I understand them needing to charge, but.
- iCal: Calendar app with online publishing and sharing (I think it should publish a version in opml). Question: Palm sync?
- iTunes: 14 million copies. iTunes 3. New Features: Ability to rate music. Playcounts. Audible.com support. Scriptable playlists (like you can say play the 25 songs I listen to the most that I've given a rating of at least 3). Downloadable Today.
- iPod: 5GB: $299, 10GB: $399 (it's THINNER, remote, case, firewire cover), 20GB: $499. Neat new features. Browse by composer (for classical music). Integrates with iCal (along with contacts), a clock, and the game.
- iSync: For syncronizing all your toys. Support for Palm and Phones, syncing between all of them. Very slick. Syncing over .mac between computers.
- iMac: 50% of iMac purchases are for the highest model. Price on the highest model dropped by $100. new 17inch *landscape* display, $1999
Jaguar Notes
- OS X is the #1 version of unix out there
- SMB Browsing, Active Directory Support, and PPTP for supporting windows
- Finder now Multi-Threaded, spring-loaded folders (neat!), integrated search
- More Universal Access stuff
- Quicktime 6: MPEG-4, AAC audio. Streaming is MUCH nicer. They played a video stream and were jumping around within the file, very cool.
- Sherlock 3: Internet Services. Sherlock looks much more useful to me now.
- Handwriting recognition (Inkwell)
- Rendezvous: Automaticly discover other network devices over IP networks w/out any other configuration. Demoed iTunes using it. They opened up a PowerBook and the demo computer detected it and made the playlists available on it. Open standard! Printers are going to support it (Epson, HP, and Lexmark planning to support). (Question, what about security?)
- Mail: Improvements. Learning Junk Mail filter.
- New Address Book. LDAP support. Showed bluetooth support with address book to call someone with his bluetooth enabled cell phone.
- iChat: some neat features! Find other ichat users around you w/rendezvous. Fully integrated with typical mac features.
- Cost: Full $129. Upgrades just pay media costs. Out August 24.
Final Thoughts: Apple is really working on the whole integration thing, and is working on making it easier for the casual user to use all the tools. It's going to be a fun couple of months with stuff coming out.
