Oops, bad start, they're asking everyone to turn off all communication means towards the outside...
Steve comes in while some Beatles music is playing.
This year saw a 17% increase in registration for the WWDC with 3500 developpers attending.
Steve talks about the iPod and the amazing success of iTunes.
Now he's talking about Airport Express. No details but he goes into full vendor mode ;)
Then it's time to talk about the BMW/iPod deal...
Then he shows a video about all that stuff.
On to the new G5 and especially the dual 2.5 and it's 1.25GHz bus.
He explains they're doing their best to pump the clock speed but that the whole industry is having problems... IBM managed to gain 25% while Intel only increased its clock speeds by 12% in the same time.
Now it's the displays... there's a new 23", it's in aluminium and has only one cable... there's also an identical 20" and they go for $1999 and $1299 respectively... available next month.
There is a THIRTY INCH display!!! it shows 4,1 megapixels (2560x1600) and works only on G5 Macs. There is no card able to display that resolution over DVI, so there are TWO DVI cables!!! The card supporting this is a Geforce 6800 Ultra DDL and retails at $599. All displays have USB and FireWire repeaters. The 30"costs $3299!!!
Time to move to OSX with a short recap:
- 12 million installed copies
- 12000 native apps
- relations with MS have never been so good
- blah blah [commercial drone mode]
- Maya unlimited announced for OSX, shipping this summer!
- blah blah [commercial drone mode]
- new Myst
- Orbit, a satellite simulator (?!), with a Freefall freeware screensaver version.
On to TIGER, available during first half of 2005, with 150 new features:
- fully 64 bits optimized
- better SMP support
- new file management technology to find more files faster: it's called Spotlight and can search in files, mail, addresses... A demo is made by Phil schiller: it works a bit like the search in iTunes, but with ALL the files on the computer and can even index the content of PDF files.
- New MPEG4 H264 version adopted for the new DVD-HD generation. It will be available with Tiger. Frank Cassanova shows a demo of this incredible codec.
- Safari now reads RSS feeds [demo running]. It will be possible to search RSS feeds like a normal google search.
- New Core Image and Core Video technology: it's no more the CPU doing the computation but the GPU. 100 professional video filters in real time!!!
- It is now possible to do with video what Core Audio did, with matching APIs and tools. All software will be able to use it. Now a demo.
- moving to .mac, with more than 500 000 subscribers. New features extending the synchronization.
- the DASHBOARD, a tool that centralizes the calculator, address book... and can be activated in a clic.
- Automater is a sort of AppleScript recorder that can be used without programming and can be used to automate tasks. It is compatible with all the iApps.
- iChat AV for Tiger will use the h264 for amazing video quality.
- developpers will receive a prerelease copy of Tiger.
The Keynote [and my translation] is over [Pƒƒƒƒƒew]... thanks for visiting us at hardmac.
