The Expo was pretty uneventful. The iMac was a big announcement but not what we all expected. We missed Steve but Phil did a good job none the less. Other than the uneventul Tiger demo, it was a great keynote and went smoothly except for the "We Want Steve!" yelled out during the iChat AV demo. Click "Full Story" for the completed article.
Keynote begins Tuesday morning 4AM EDT
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3:30AM EDT: Media Reps and Most Keynote Pass Holders are in the Hall Image From iPod France
3:50AM EDT: More Images
3:55AM EDT: We recieved text message saying music is playing and waiting for Schiller.T-Shirt Image
4:00AM EDT: Music Ceases Phil Schiller Walks onto Stage
4:05AM EDT: Talking about iPod Music Player, playing ad and of iPod's Success, 58% market share and the 4th gen features.
4:10AM EDT: Still discussing iPod Accessories like Altel Lansing's New Speakers an Apple Store Exclusive.
4:15AM EDT: Talking about iTMS and its success. 100 Million Songs, iPodYourBMW. Probably getting everyone excited about Apple's succes for their even bigger announcements that will blow top off of the convention center.
4:18AM EDT: 5,000,000 songs sold in Europe in first 8 weeks for iTMS.
4:20 AM EDT: Success of Macs can be seen by the amount of native OS X applications now reaching 12,000. *Apple Store Still Up*
4:25AM EDT: THQ is working with Pixar on developing game - The Incredibles C.E.O., BRIAN J. FARRELL, Discussing it.
4:30AM EDT: Luxology President demoing 3d App, Modo.
4:32AM EDT: Demoing Motion now.... (first since NAB) *UK Apple Store Down*
4:36AM EDT: Motion has real time design engine, behavioral animation, integration with FCP.
4:40AM EDT: Motion $299 / Production Suite $1399.
4:42AM EDT: Now Onto Tiger! Same old news. 150+ New Features. Out before Longhorn. Can't Wait for Phil to bring some Cattle on stage as a tiger stalks and kills one for its young.
4:44AM EDT: Phil discusses Spotlight and Meta Data search features.
4:50AM EDT: Demoing different parts of Tiger (same as Steve's back at WWDC '04) makes you wonder if it is scripted.
*APPLE STORE WORLDWIDE DOWN!*
5:00AM EDT: Schiller moves on to Quicktime w/ H.246 included in iChat AV with the quality of high-def at a scalable size to play in the new 30-inch displays down to 1 inch Cell phones.
5:05AM EDT: Safari 2.0 Demo ;RSS and other features (again)
We have decided that Phil should have done a "flashback" fade out to Steve's WWDC video and make it really grainy while Steve was demoing Tiger. It would save Phil time and also make it feel like Steve was there.
5:10AM EDT: Dashboard Demo (Waiting for Arlo Rose to jump out of the audience "mutiny!")
5:15AM EDT: Automoator Demo
5:25AM EDT: iChat AV 3 Demo. Four People using h.264. No Steve.
Our updates are slowing down since one of our phone contacts passed out due to lack of announcements. Bare with us.
5:35AM EDT: Schiller discussing past of iMac. Facts (2.38 iMacs sold per minute. 7.5 Million iMacs sold to date.)
5:40AM EDT: Center of our Digital Life; built by the iPod team. 17" Screen, 1.8 ghz G5, 600mhz Front-Side bus, Serial ATA, AGP8x, speakers reflecting on the desk. Less than 2" thick. Finally a slotloading optical drive. Ports are on the back. Inspired by iPod and new Apple monitors. We Have an Image!
5:45AM EDT: Second model: 20", 1.8Ghz G5,
5:50AM EDT: Available Mid September for $1299 and $1899 respectively
6:00AM EDT: Keynote has ended. Users exit to go check out the new iMac and possibly Tiger on select machines. Image avaiable at , , .
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