WWDC 2009 Live Blog

"So today, we've shown you a whole new line of MacBook Pros, Snow Leopard, really our first public demo, Scott showed you iPhone OS 3.0, and I've shown you the iPhone 3GS."

"But that's just the start of our show here at WWDC..."

"I'd like to say as we leave, thank you to everyone who has worked so hard on these products."


And that's it folks...





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12:01 AM - Engadget
"So when does the iPhone 3GS become available? Just a week and a half." June 19th!


"After that even more countries, over 80 countries will have it by August."



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12:00 AM - Engadget
"The iPhone 3GS... just $199."

16GB of storage, and $299 for a 32GB version.

Black and white... no colors.

"But we want to reach even more customers. So we're going to keep the iPhone 3G on the market... at $99."

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11:55 AM - Engadget
"And something businesses have asked for... hardware encryption. All new iPhone 3GSs will have it."

"All this... and yet we've improved battery life as well." Up to 5 hours 3G talk time, 9 hours of WiFI internet.

Also a greener device. 23% smaller packaging. "The 3GS -- the most powerful iPhone yet."

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11:55 AM - Engadget
"There's also a built-in digital compass. The compass app is a new one that comes on the iPhone -- you can tap to go right into Maps, and if you tap a second time, it will orient the map to where you're facing."




Accessibility: "We have some great new settings on the 3GS -- it can read text, you can zoom in the display, invert black and white..."

"We've also built in support for Nike+" Nice!

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11:54 AM - Engadget
"There's another great feature -- we call it voice control. You can hold down the home button, and a brand new UI pops up -- the voice control interface."

"And talk about easy to use, the commands you make are scrolling by as you use it."

"You can make calls with your voice, you can control your iTunes by voice."

"I can ask my phone, 'what's playing now' and it'll speak the title and artist back to me."





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11:52 AM - Engadget
"And you can share it with anyone, I can tap share and send it in an email... if my carrier supports it, I can send as an MMS." Nice jab at AT&T.

"Best of all for devs, there's an API for this. Build video capture right into your apps."


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11:51 AM - Engadget
"So how does that work? You go into the camera application, select if you want to do video, 30fps, VGA, with audio... auto focus, auto white balance."

Video demo. Wow -- it looks great. Really high quality.

"When you go into the app, you can see the video and scrub along with your finger... you can also edit it with a tap of your finger."

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11:48 AM - Engadget
7.2Mbps HSDPA...

Brand new 3 megapixel autofocus camera...

"Amazing hardware and software which works together. Auto focus, auto white balance... and we have tap to focus... you just tap on what you want to focus on."

Macro as close as 10cm away, and better low light performance. "And there's an API for developers. But the best thing about this camera, is that it also captures video..."


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11:46 AM - Engadget
"This is a really fast iPhone. Something as simple launching messaging, 2 times faster... everything is faster. These are all speeds against an iPhone 3G."

Up to 2 times faster across the phone, but not with everything.


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11:44 AM - Engadget
"To call the iPhone 3G a hit would be the understatement of the year. It's changed how people think about their phones. It wasn't that long ago that we were so frustrated with these... crappy devices."

"It's changed the things people want to do with their phones."

iPhone 3GS!!!!!


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11:43 AM - Engadget
"We think you'll love 3.0 -- it's free for iPhone users, $9.95 for touch users. And it will be available June 17th."

"For developers -- we're giving you the GM seed today.""And that is iPhone OS 3.0."

"And with that, I'd like to hand it back over to Phil."


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11:37 AM - MacWorld
Final demo from Line 6 and Planet Waves. Together, they let you control your guitar and your amp at your next gig. Marcus Ryle. Using accessory framework you can connect iPhone to connect amp and guitar. Can choose the amp style. "This doesn't run on compressed air, but it could still have some technical issues." Can also adjust treble and bass. Can also change what kind of guitars, change into acoustic. "That's not acoustic." Whoooopsie. You can design your own guitar. You'll all have to go to Line6.com to hear what it actually sounds like. Change the tuning of the guitar without using a tuning peg. You can move the frets around—apparently it sounds impressive when it works.


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11:34 AM - Engadget
Zipcar. "We're excited to introduce our app today. Jonathan (who is demoing the app) doesn't own a car. The application immediately locates him, and it shows him where the nearby Zipcar locations are."

MacWorld - Green pins indicate available cars. Tap on a pin, up pops name and number of cars. Instantly see Zipcars in any lcoation. Gives him a list of the cars, and you can set cars as favorites. Tap Reserve, pick a time, and duration. And you can tap the horn icon on the iPhone to have it beep the horn for your car, so it's easy to find and you can unlock the car from the iPhone. That's Zipcar on the iPhone.



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11:31 AM - Engadget
Another demo. Pasco. A science app which shows off theory / experiments. Ha! Scott just came back out in a lab outfit. He's going to perform an experiment...

Uh oh -- demo isn't working right. "Where's the rapid increase in pressure?" "The rapid increase in pressure is right here." Points to himself. Too bad the demo didn't work. "Sometimes these things happen, but we can show you how this flatline zooms quite well." Laughter and applause. Well played sir.

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11:26 AM - MacWorld
Star Defense (like Tower Defense but, you know, in space). Expansions is the word of the day here. Major new content and feature packs. Just a few dollars more for extra content. Push to play challenges allows you to play online. Launching today, but 3.0 features will come when iPhone 3.0 launches (uh, hey guys, let us know when that will be, huh?).


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11:22 AM - MacWorld
TomTom. Man, we have been waiting to hear from these guys for year. Both application and accessory integration. Peter-Frans Pauwels. Using new features in iPhone 3.0 to deliver real TomTom navigation as a true iPhone experience. Plan a route from Moscone West to Sausalito. Best route at the best time of day. And it has the voice cues. Demo looks a little jerky. Create an optional accessory that's like a little cradle that suctions into the window. Not just a holder, it securely docks iPhone, and you can flip it into landscape. Thanks to accessory framework, they can enhance GPS, also give you hands free calling, power, and a loudspeaker. Both will be available this summer, with a range of maps.


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11:20 AM - MacWorld
Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion. Built around bringing great content to iPhone. New in-app bookstore, powered by in-app purchase. Over 500 best-selling books in the app store. 50 major magazines, over 170 daily newspapers, over 1 million books to the App Store. You can pinch to zoom the view, swipe to the next page. Citations made possible with copy and paste, and you go write into an email form inside the app. Partnered with several textbook publishers liek Hougton-Mifflin, Wiley, McGraw-Hill. Coming soon to an iPhone near you.

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11:13 AM - MacRumors
Bringing up several developers to show what they've been able to accomplish with iPhone OS 3.0. First, Gameloft.

Mark Hickey from Gameloft is unveiling a new game, Asphalt 5, which he claims will be the best racing game on iPhone. Lets you play music from your library while you drive, advanced lighting and graphics -- fully pushing the hardware, Peer to Peer multiplayer over Bluetooth, worldwide multiplayer over wifi in-game voicechat, content packs for sale (1 racktrack and 3 new cars for 99 cents). Next demo, Airstrip.

Airstrip lets medical professionals monitor patient medical data. The medical community is flocking to the iPhone because of apps like this. Showing their next app, Critical Care.

App supports custom Push notifications based on parameters you define. Shows a live monitor of the patient's vitals from anywhere.

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11:12 AM - MacWorld
Accessories. Opening up ability for hardware developers to build software apps for their accessories. LifeScan said it would build a companion iPhone app for its OneTouch glucose scanner. Will calculate how much insulin you need to take for your next meal.

Companion apps can talk to accessories via dock connector or over Bluetooth. Use standard protocol or create custom procotols to talk to your own custom hardware.

Cocoa Touch control to embed Google Maps, including satellite and hybrid views, directly into your applications. This control is heart of the Maps application, and you get everything you expect, like pan and zoom, custom annotations, current location, geocoding. Developers can build turn-by-turn direction applications using Core Location.


Push Notifications are *in* iPhone OS 3.0. Generic push notification service for developers. Allows developers to push things like scoring alerts, as well as instant messages. Three types of notfications: text alerts, badges, and custom alert sounds. A few of the more than 1000 new APIs that make up SDK for iPhone OS 3.0.


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11:08 AM - MacWorld
1,000 new developer APIs. Starting with in-app purchase. Allows developers to make financial purchases from within the app, enabling things like magazine subscriptions and additional game packs. Business terms are the same as apps on the store. Free apps remain free, so you can't give away a free app and then charge for additional content.

Support for Peer to Peer networking. Peer to Peer support automatically finds other client over Bluetooth, no pairing necessary. Great for any application that wants to form peer to peer connection between two devices.


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11:06 AM - Engadget
Find My iPhone. "This is a great one. If you've ever misplaced or lost your phone, it can be... somewhat traumatic." Ha! A scene from 30 Rock.

"Hopefully you haven't had a 30 Rock experience, but this is why we created Find My iPhone. If you lose or misplace the phone, you can login to MobileMe on any browser and it will show you where the phone is." Wow -- big applause.

You can send a message to the phone. You can send a message to your phone which plays a sound as well, whether or not it's in silent mode. "If you're like me, and it shows you that your phone is at your house, the alert still plays until you find that your kids hid it under the couch."

"Now, if it is lost or stolen, you can send a remote wipe command which will delete all of your data."


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11:04 AM - MacWorld
Languages: ship a single OS around the world, localized into every language supported. Multilingual customer running in English can switch to a different language on their keyboard. Support for even more languages in iPhone OS 3.0. Hebrew and Arabic (yay). Greek, Korean, and Thai. Now support more than 30 languages in iPhone OS 3.0. Every one of the languages has both portrait and landscape keyboards.


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11:03 AM - MacWorld
Suport for HTTP streaming audio and video. This protocol picks the right bit rate and data quality for your current connection: EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. HTTP, so it can go through firewalls.

Autofill, can optionally remember usernames and passwords for websites (thank the lord). Contact information on your phone can help you fill out web forms. So: great performance, HTTP streaming, auto-fill, and HTML5 support in Safari on the iPhone. Adding support for emerging standards like audio and video tags.


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11:01 AM - MacWorld
Wow, Apple's giving AT&T the stick today. All unsaid, of course, but the list of carriers that support tethering on iPhone 3.0 is huge, and yet... AT&T isn't in there. Are we seeing Apple negotiating its next carrier deal in public?

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11:01 AM - Engadget
"We've also added support for iTunes U right on the phone. Next, important additions to parental controls. We've added control over a number of items, most importantly, ratings control for movies and TV, as well as apps."

Tethering! "This allows you to share you connection with your computer."

"This works with Macs and PCs, wired over USB, or wireless with Bluetooth. It is a seamless experience. There's no need to run any software once it's turned on. This requires carrier support. We have 22 partners in 44 countries..." No mention of AT&T. What!?


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10:58 AM - Engadget
"29 carriers will support MMS when we launch... AT&T will be ready at the end of the Summer." Laughter. What? End of Summer? You're kidding us, right?

"Next up, Spotlight. You can search anything on your phone, including apps. Next, iTunes. You'll now be able to rent and purchase movies right from your phone."


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10:55 AM - Engadget
Video Finished...
"Let's talk about iPhone OS 3.0. Let me highlight just a few, starting with cut copy and paste." Now we're running through the demo from the iPhone 3.0 event.

Now mentioning shake to undo, developer APIs, Cocoa Touch support for text.

"Next is landscape. Since 1.0 we've had support for this in Safari. Now we're taking this to our key apps."


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10:48 AM - Engadget
"Now I'd like to turn to Scott... for the iPhone."

"Alright, let's talk about the iPhone."

"The response from devs on the iPhone has been staggering. They've been prolific in building and posting apps to the App Store. There's now more than 50,000 apps in the store."

"We've been working hard to to build a growing user base. These apps run on all iPhones and iPod touches. We've sold more than 40m iPhones and iPod touches."

"These customers love running and downloading apps from the App Store. We hit 1 billion downloads, and that's just in 9 months."

"We put a video together to share stories from developers..."



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10:46 AM - Engadget
"So Exchange support requires Exchange 2007 servers. We offer it at no extra charge, it's built-in to Snow Leopard. So that's Exchange and this is a little tour of some of the new features of the OS. It will be available for all Intel Macs, past and present. So how should we price Snow Leopard? We want all Leopard users to upgrade to this, so we are pricing at $29."

"$29 for Leopard users, and a family pack is $49. It will be available this September, and today we're making a dev preview available."


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10:40 AM - MacWorld
Third area to cover is Exchange. People want to take their Mac to work. Works great, for most part, thanks to thinks like Boot Camp and virtualiation, file & print, Microsoft Office, more. Have decided to build Exchange support into main three apps: Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Just fill in email address and password, and you're setup in all three apps.

Demo of Exchange support. Personal mail accounts already set up, but want to add Exchange. Add an account, type in email address and password, and it auto-discovers the server and sets everything up. Exchange emails, folders, To Dos, Notes, etc. Instant searching of Exchange data. Can use all OS X features, for example data detectors spot addresses for contacts and mapping. Meeting invitations show up in Inbox, can accept in Mail or open it in iCal.

iCal has an integrated view of both Exchange calendars and personal calendars. Address Book shows an integrated view of Exchange contacts and local contacts. If you want to set up meeting with people in Exchange, drag contact folder out of Address Book and just drop it into iCal. Plus you can schedule meeting rooms by searching location field. iCal can look for next available time in a meeting room and reschedule meeting automatically.


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10:40 AM - Engadget
"Now let's talk graphics. The way to use GPU power is OpenGL, but we want to move beyond that. We've devised a technology called OpenCL..."

"We've decided to make it an open standard."

"All the top manufacturers of graphics cards are involved."


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10:37 AM - MacWorld
Next, multicore. Used to just increase frequency for the chips, but now we have more and more cores. The challenge of multicores is how to take advantage of them. Answer is threads. New technology called Grand Central Dispatch. Built in support for multicore across all of Snow Leopard. Integration with all system APIs, tools to tune programs. Just to give a taste of using GCD, looking at Threads in Leopard Mail.

When Mail is busy, it has a certain number of threads; when idle, it has the same number of threads. But in Snow Leopard, it uses more threads when busy, fewer when idle.



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10:36 AM - Engadget
"To take advantage of all this, you need the right software. So first, 64-bit. The obvious reason is to take advantage of a lot of memory. When you run in 64-bit, the memory limit is... 16 billion GB. It's unlimited."

"All the major system apps run in 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard."


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10:33 AM - Engadget
"QuickTime is designed to put your video center stage. As soon as I start playing, the controls and titlebar fade away. When I want to go back, they fade back in. Another great feature is the ability to trim and share my video... I get a visual timeline." Audience: ahhhhh. You can grab ends of the clip region you want to trim, then just cut it right down. Export quickly to MobileMe, etc. "Thank you!"

"So lots of refinements in Snow Leopard. But there's also powerful new technologies. They take advantage of the power of silicon. When you look at a modern Mac, there are things that weren't possible just a few years ago."


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10:33 AM - MacRumors
Can drag a file to an icon in the Dock, all of the app's windows will appear, and can drop the file in the correct window. Now talking about Safari improvements -- fastest browser on any platform.

Showing how fast Safari is -- Google Maps and ESPN render immediately. Top Sites lets you preview your most visited websites all at once. Alerts you when one of those sites has been updated by placing a star over the preview. Cover-flow view of browser history.

Full Spotlight search of browser history -- full-text search, not just the URL/page title. Now demoing Quicktime X -- re-built from the ground up to put content center stage. Elegant controls overlaid on the video until you mouse away -- even the titlebar hides.


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10:27 AM - MacRumors
Craig Federighi, VP of Mac OS Engineering is on stage for the demo. He is going to cover three areas -- starting with Dock and the finder. Stacks handle lots of content better -- scrolling, drilling into folders. Finder lets you magnify thumbnails on the fly, similar to iPhoto. Can step through multi-page documents and play videos right through Finder. Now demoing Expose. Simply click and hold on a Dock icon and Expose shows all of the app's windows. Windows are better organized in Expose now. Can work within a window without closing Expose and bringing all windows back.


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10:25 AM - Engadget
"Here's some things you get in SL. Crash Resistance -- the number one browser crash cause is plugins -- so now, the plugin crashes, but your windows are intact. Just reload the page."

"It's super efficient. We're using a new technology called HTTP streaming, it works with any server. Since we had such a change on the backend, we decided to change the look of the player as well."

Demo time


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10:23 AM - MacWorld
Chinese input method. Why not use the trackpad? You can draw characters with your finger (looks a lot like the iPhone's Chinese input method).

Mail is even faster. 2.3x faster for moving messages, faster for search too.


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10:23 AM - Engadget
"Next Safari. It's been in beta for a few months... today we're shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows."

"Safari 4 offers unparalleled speed."

MacRumors: Safari is 7.8X faster at JavaScript than IE8 (Chrome is only 5X faster). Passes Acid3 test; IE8 only gets 21%. Safari 4 is included with Snow Leopard -- with some added features. Crash resistance (sandboxes plugins), 50% faster JS thanks to 64-bit, new and faster Quicktime (hardware accelerated, new streaming method that works with any webserver).

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10:23 AM - Engadget
"Preview, we've changed the way text selection works -- we use AI to find the right text in the right place."


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10:21 AM - MacWorld
Install is now up to 45% faster, and after you install, you recover 6GB of disk space, over half the footprint of the OS, thanks to tech like file system compression.

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10:19 AM - Engadget
"We come from such a different place. We love Leopard, we're so proud of it -- so we decided to build upon Leopard -- we want to build a better Leopard, hence Snow Leopard."

Adding Exchange support to Snow Leopard.

"The Finder. We love the way it is -- for SL we didn't change it. What we did is rewrite it, and from that there's lots of little benefits."

"Next up, the Dock -- we've had a feature that we use to deal with clutter, called Expose, and now we've built it into the dock." You click and hold on an app and it automatically zooms out your active windows.


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10:17 AM - MacWorld
Showing quotes from PC Mag, InfoWeek talking about Vista. Microsoft has dug a good hole for itself with Windows Vista; Windows 7 is built on the same technologies: registry, DLLs, the User Account Control, defragging hard drive. And in Windows 7, even more complexity for users. Windows 7 is just another version of Vista.


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10:17 AM - MacRumors
Great hardware deserves great software. Bringing up Bertrand to talk about OS X. OS X Leopard is the best selling software Apple has ever released. Users and press love it; best OS written for vast majority of consumers. Sharp contrast to Vista.

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10:16 AM - MacWorld
Also very environmentally friendly. Every MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air meets the EPEAT Gold standard and Energy Star version 5 coming out this summer. World's greenest lineup of notebooks.


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10:13 AM - Engadget
"Now you're looking at this thinking, why isn't this just the MacBook Pro? What can we add? Well it can also get up to 8GB of RAM, 500GB of storage, and the backlit keyboard is now standard as well." FireWiree 800 port! Unibody MacBook 13-inch now part of Pro line.

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10:12 AM - Engadget
17-inch price cut as well -- $2499. Shipping today!

"We make another unibody as well -- the MacBook -- we're updating that too. Same built-in battery, up to 7 hours of life."


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10:11 AM - MacWorld
Standard starts at 2.53GHz, 4GB of RAM, 250GB HD, 9400M Nvidia graphics, SD Card slot for $1699. At $1999, 2.66Ghz, 320GB hard drive, both 9400M+9600M GT graphics, and the highest end is $2299 ($200 less expensive than before). 2.8GHz, 500GB HD. New configurations of 15-inch MacBook Pro.

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10:09 AM - Engadget
"But there's a lot more... it's the fastest notebook we've ever made. Up to a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, and up to 8GB of RAM." Big cheers. "You can get up to 500GB in hard drives, or up to 256GB SSD."

"It starts at an even lower price... just $1699."


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10:07 AM - Engadget
"Customers couldn't be happier with them." "We don't want to stop though, we want to continue to extend that lead... I'm happy to show you a brand new version of the 15-inch macbook pro"

Same battery as the 17" Pro. "A typical user will get about 5 years of life from this battery.""Unlike our competitors, who will go through 3 batteries and not dispose of them properly."

"When you open it up, it's got a gorgeous display... still insanely thin... if you zoom in you see something different." A new SD slot instead of the ExpressCard slot!


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10:05 AM - MacWorld
Majority of new customers choose notebooks when they buy a new Mac. Starting with MacBook Air, notebooks use the unibody construction. Sturdier, made of beautiful materials, packed with features, insanely thin and light. Then the 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch MacBooks to follow. All have done extremely well. Even though Apple has a huge lead, they don't want to stop, and they want to extend that lead.

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10:05 AM - Engadget
"Now I get to begin with a section on the Mac. They're the best they've ever been at Apple. New customers are choosing new notebooks, and we're in love with this new design."


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10:03 AM - MacRumors
Amazing week planned; 5,200 developers at WWDC, most anticipation yet. 25M active OS X users in first 5 years, up until 2007. In the last two years, however, it has grown to 75M.

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10:03 AM - Engadget
"Thank you, thank you very much. Welcome to WWDC. We have an amazing week planned for all of you, and I mean all of you. Can't you feel the love in this room? This is the best level of excitement for our dev conference yet. I'd like to show you one reason for that."

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Phil Schiller takes the stage.

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10:01 AM - Engadget
PC. "Welcome to the WWDC... I want to be the first to wish you a week with some innovation... but not too much." "You've already sold 1 billion apps... don't you think that's enough?"

"Hello I'm a Mac, and PC is trying to say have a great conference."


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09:57 AM - Engadget
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen -- welcome to WWDC 2009 -- please silence all cellphones and PAGING DEVICES."


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09:45 AM - MacWorld
Here's your musical interlude for the day. They're playing Radiohead. "15 Step."

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09:35 AM

The Apple Store is down :)


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A big thanks to Engadget, MacWorld, and MacRumors.