Keynote WWDC

Welcome to the Keynote
thanks to w00kie (on location), MacRumors Live, and Mac Daily News who give the information
[Note] We are encountering an incredible workload! Probably our absolute record, far ahead from the 2000 simultaneous connexions where the server gets weak.
Steve Jobs is on stage. He's very pleased of the huge success of the WWDC which breaks all records.
The Apple Store is still open.
Report on the products
109 Apple Stores have been open in the world.
The market share of the iPod is 76% of all MP3 players (16M units sold).
The ITMS is still the leader in the market with 430M songs sold.
2 millions of Tiger have been out in 6 weeks (bundled with new machines or sold).
15% of the Mac Users are already using Tiger. 50% are expected by the end of the year.
Widget demonstration with Amazon.com. 400 wigdets have been put on line by Apple (many others outside Apple.com). 550 Automator actions are already available.
QuickTime 7 for Windows will be available today.
The next version of Mac OSX will be code-named Leopard.
Future processors
Steve is claiming that he wants to produce the best computers for Apple's customers. IBM has failed to reach 3GHz with the G5 and is not able to bring it to the PB. Intel is offering a better roadmap for Apple's market. On June 2006, the first Intel-based computer will be available. The entire models will be running on Intel chips by June 2007.
It is a double challenge for Apple. Apple has since 5 years ensured that all its applications including MacOSX car run both on Intel and PPC processors. All demonstration done during the Keynote are made on an Intel-based Mac.
Steve starts explaining development tools.
Cocoa applications: some minor optimization and recompilation will be enough to ensure compatibility. Widgets, scripts, ... everything works.
According to Steve, everything will be easy.
Steve is announcing that PowerPC will still be supported for years - identical binaries. One of Mathematica developpers is coming on the stage to work with a Intel-based Mac. It tooks him 2 hours to port Mathematica. He only changed 20 lines of codes over millions of lines. A quite impressive demo is currently running. Mr Gray tells the audience that he had a crazy phone call from Steve last Wednesday evening. Steve asked him to make a demo of Mathematica, one of the most complex application for this Monday.
A new environment, completely transparent, called Rosetta will allow to run PowerPC applications on Intel-Mac. Demonstration of Rosetta with several PPC applications running on the Intel-Mac (Excel, Photoshop). And it seems to work!
Apple will offer un developping kit, including a PIV 3.6 GHz. These kits must be returned to Apple by the end of 2006 and will cost $999 (for developpers only).
Roz Ho, General Manager of the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit (MBU) talks about this transition. A lot of Exchange features will then be accessible to Mac (applauds).
Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen is also present. He ensures that Adobe will be the first to offer their suite on "Mactel". Adobe couldn't be alive without Apple.
This is now the turn of Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini. He talks about his company and its history. And also the relationship with Apple. Remember the "anti-Intel" spots... they show one to the audience!
Otellini considers that Apple is "the most innovative computer company in the world".
Intel : the most performant processor
Apple: main strength in innovation for OS and hardware design
Steve is back, and explains that Apple has already performed successfully 2 transitions, and that both the Mac and the company are strong players.
Developpers will do their best to make this transition as easy as possible, and one of the keys will be to make universal binaries.
End of the Keynote... but not of the story... Stay tuned!