macnews.net.tc
2005-06-06
WWDC Keynote Live Coverage
Here's the transcript of our WWDC keynote live coverage:
- The hall has opened its doors 15 minutes before the show should start.
- 19.00 CET - Nothing's started yet, though. Only music playing…
- Apple Online Stores are still online. Usually, if there are new products announced at such a show, those are taken offline for the time of the show, though.
- Steve Jobs is on stage. And on time, almost!
- The usual welcome messages. Glad so many members on ADC etc. "Today's an important day." - Wrapping up Apple's successes. Number of people visiting Apple Stores etc.
- Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold and had downloaded more than 430 million songs. Even with more and more competition, Apple's market share is rising. iPod's part of the culture, having been on the front page of "The New Yorker" et al.
- Podcast category for iTunes Music Store. Talking about iTunes 4.9 and podcasting.
- Mac sales growing 40% year over year. Tiger still loved by critics.
- Apple has delivered 2 mio copies of Tiger. Most successful release ever.
- QT 7 for Windows coming today.
- Next Mac OS X release will be called Leopard!
- Intel inside. Because IBM didn't make it to 3 GHz and didn't deliver a mobile processor based on the G5 either. The first Mac with an intel processor: June 2006 (one year from now!)
- Mac OS X was always kept intel-compatible (probably since Rhapsody).
- Until 2007, all (new) Macs should run on intel.
- Talking about how good transitions were so far.
- Registered developers can download a new version of Xcode – and start creating FAT binaries that run on intel and PPC Mac hardware.
- Mathematica recompiled for Mac OS X on intel: Only 20 lines of code needed changing.
- Rosetta PPC emulator. Seamlessly lets you run software compiled for PPC only on Mac OS X on intel. Quicken, Excel, Photoshop: It works on the demo Mac with intel.
- 999 USD developer kit, which contains a 3.6 GHz intel Mac and has to be given back to Apple in June 2006, available. Only for registered developers. Mac OS X on intel only runs on Apple Macs with intel processors. Not on any PC. (Although for Apple, this would be feasible, of course.)
- Roz Ho of the MS MBU on stage. Mac versions of MS software will get more Exchange features.
- Just in: Press releases by Apple et al show support by Adobe and Microsoft for the platform shift. Apple will support both PPC and intel longterm.
- Bruze Chizen, CEO of Adobe: Adobe wants to be the first developer to have all their apps on the intel-Mac. And says to Steve: "What took you so long?"
- Steve Jobs lauds intel as being as passionate about great products as Apple.
- Intel CEO Otellini calls Apple the most innovative computer maker. Shows the intel-bunny-toaster ad by Apple from the 90s.
- Developers' job: Build universal binaries (that's what Apple calls the FAT binaries now) that run on both platforms.
- That's it. Keynote's over. No new products other than the developer kit. Steve Jobs says: Mac OS X is running well on intel. Better than Windows. ;)
