Tuesday January 15, 2008
- New on Apple Store: Apple TV2 - Lionel - 20:41:17
Steve spent quite some time to introduce the Apple TV2 and its features among them, audio 5:1, direct access to iTS to rent or purchase video and music, etc.
Apple has simply updated the current model to make it compatible with its new VOD offer, and finally fully functional as a stand alone product.
For once, Apple listened to customers and related comments and criticisms about the first Apple TV.
Tank you Apple.
[translation by Linathael]
- New on Apple Store: MacBook Air - Lionel - 20:37:26
The Apple Store is back online with the MacBook Air, available in Europe for... 1699€.. Cupertino probably did not check the USD-Euro rate recently...
Additional cost linked to BOY:
- 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo: + 270€
- 64GB SSD instead of 80GD HD: 800€
- External SuperDrive: 99€
- (amazing) Apple Remote: + 19€
Shortest link to the Apple Store
[translation by Linathael]
- MWSF 2008 Keynote coverage: coming soon... - moose - 17:52:51
Get our realtime updates, automatically refreshed every 30" here:
Due to you dear readers our servers went down, the new url for the coverage is :
http://event.mbserv4.macbidouille.com/en/index.html
- Apple Keynote Draft Leaked? Just for Fun? - Eric - 15:35:05
According to Pocketlink, they found the draft of Steve's Keynote on Wikipedia... truth or fake, we could not resist to publish it, as the original is coming in now less than 3 hours.
So, enjoy:
MacWorld January 2008 Keynote Rough Outline; draft 5
Greetings! Welcome to Moscone Center
Quick Overview: iPod/iTunes
- iPod has been extremely profitable for us this holiday season
- Sales figures, market share
- Our new models are doing better than ever
- 3 iPod games released last month accidentally (supposed to be for today)
- Another new game today: Chess
- iTunes doing extremely well (sales figures/market share)
- Today: 30 indie labels releasing their entire catalogs in iTunes Plus
- Many more to follow in the next few months
iPhone
- Best iPod ever
- Sales figures, market share
- Sales beyond our wildest dreams
- Much more than the 1% market share we asked for in January
- Starting today: 8GB $399, 16GB $499
- Four times the memory as original iPhone for the same price
- iPhone is coming to Japan in March with NTT DoCoMo
- SDK is unveiled!
iPhone/iPod Touch SDK
- Apps and Widgets
- Using Cocoa with Objective-C
- Developers submit programs as source code, not executable
- Specify iPhone or both iPhone/Touch (certain features iPhone only)
- Set your own price: Apps $0-$6.99, Widgets $0-$2.99
- Users buy/download in iTunes Wi-Fi Store / iTunes Store (Mac/PC)
- Automatic updating wirelessly or docked
- Demonstration of exporting from XCode 3 to iTunes Store
- Submits source code to Apple for validation (make sure that people aren't abusing the system, prevent malware and viruses)
- If using microphone or GSM, iPhone only; otherwise, available for both iPhone and iPod Touch
- Apps can be free or up to $6.99; Widgets free or up to $2.99
- Developers recieve 70% of revenue for their products
- Licensed under Apple Mobile Software License
- Can download wirelessly from iTunes Wi-Fi Store or docked to computer from iTunes Store
- Demonstration of wirelessly downloading (and running) the app submitted earlier
- Apps and widgets can be rearranged on front screen; front screen scrolls to show all apps/widgets
- Resubmit updated versions of apps; when added to store, iPhone/Touch will ask you to update it next time you use it (or next time you dock the iPhone/Touch)
- Developers can get their hands on a beta version of the SDK tomorrow on ADC and start developing; final version due early February
- iTunes 7.6 and iPhone/iPod Touch Software update 1.3 allowing for Apps mid-February
Example apps/widgets
Apps:
- iChat (coming with 1.3 update) (AIM, Jabber/Google Talk)
-- Quick demonstration
- RSS Feed Reader (coming with 1.3 update) (read feeds online or off)
- One of our partners made something cool: Last.fm (scrobble tracks played on iPhone/touch wirelessly without syncing w/ computer) Widgets:
- Dictionary (coming with 1.3 update) (quickly look up words, translate, use wikipedia)
-- Quick demonstration
- Yellow/White Book (coming with 1.3 update) (search for contacts, add them to your address book directly from the app, will sync back with address book on your Mac/PC)
- Sports Ticker (coming with 1.3 update) (choose your sports and teams, get updates on their progress)
- Another partner: Twitter (update your Twitter on the fly, see your friends tweets)
- Try these out on the show floor today
Mac
- Sales are getting better and better every day
- Hardware sales figures/market share
- Leopard released October; doing spectacularly
- Sales figures/market share
- Selling extremely well; estimated to overtake Tiger in terms of marketshare by June if you only count the new Macs that come with it preinstalled; even quicker if you include boxed copies
- 10.5.2 out today - many bug fixes, also addressing a lot of issues and complaints users had such as list view with stacks and certain HIG non-compliance issues
New MacBooks!
- What would MacWorld be without a new Mac? (sorry about last year)
- Completely redesigned MacBook
- Completely aluminum body like MacBook Pro
- 13" screen at 1440x900
- Two colors: Black and Silver
- Looks gorgeous at 0.8" thin
- A major feat of engineering - patents abound
- DVD drive pops open on side when eject button is pressed
- New on all notebooks and iMac: iSight HD (720p)
- New backlit keyboard based on recent Apple Keyboard revisions (keys slightly lighter than that of laptop casing, colorwise)
- New matching MagSafe cable (Aluminum ends, cord color matches that of keyboard)
- New matching Apple Remote (slightly smaller with larger overall buttons)
- Intel GMA X3100 graphics
- 3 models
- Completely phasing out the combo drive on all product lines today
- BTO models can upgrade all the way to 2.6GHz/4GB Memory/320GB hard drive
- 4.5 hours of battery life
- Starting at $1199
Product Refreshes
- Refreshing Mac Pro and Mac mini today
- Mac Pro now with Penryn!
- Base model 2x2.8GHz dual-core/1GB/NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB/250GB(1x250GB)/1x16x double-layer SuperDrive
- Upgradeable to 2x3.2GHz quad-core/16GB/NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB/4TB(4x1TB)/2x16x double-layer SuperDrives
- Starting at $2,499
- Mac mini gets slight speed bumps and double-layer SuperDrive in all models
- Base model 2.0GHz IC2D/1GB/100GB
- BTO Upgradeable to 2.4GHz IC2D/4GB/320GB
- Starting at $599
One More Thing
- Been brewing for a while
- YouTube's been in Apple TV and iPhone/iPod touch: now it's in iTunes
- Download YouTube videos straight to iTunes or from iPhone/iPod Touch for later offline viewing (sync back to computer)
- Coming in iTunes 7.6 and iPhone/iPod Touch 1.3 updates
- First Images of MacBook Air? - Eric - 15:03:42
Source : Wired
Wired claimed to have received information on the coming MacBook Air, and decided to publish them:
As the current iMac models, the MacBook Air would be made off Alu and glass, and would be very thin; so thin that Apple would not have space to add an Ethernet port, leaving only Wi-Fi or other wireless network protocols to communicate (might communicate via FireWire if available).
This would imply that Apple would have rewritten Mac OS X to allow booting without the Ethernet address required by the system.
Last but not least, if the MacBook Air is real, its thickness could indeed allow it to be inserted in an iMac-derived docking station as illustrated recently in an Apple's patent... a sexy solution for users on the move… So SSD as storage space? Intriguing…
Stay tune, only couple of hours to go anyway to determine if it is true and a nice fake.
- Dreamworks on iTunes Store - Lionel - 10:05:01
As rumored by Tuaw yesterday, we obtained confirmation today from our sources that DreamWorks will be offering VOD on iTunes Store. Other studios should also be available.
Fan of cartoons and animation movies will be happy with both DreamWorks and Disney catalogs on iTS, for direct online purchase or renting.
If we do not have details about the quality of the movies for the VOD offer, we suspect that Apple will at least release 720p format, to offer a higher quality than the DVD and potentially to join the high-definition war between BD and HD-DVD...
[translation by Linathael]
- MWSF 2008 Keynote coverage: coming soon... [updated] - moose - 06:51:40
Dear readers,
This post just to remind you to fire up your browsers Tuesday slightly before 9am PST (that's GMT-8, so for example it will be 5pm in London and 6pm in Paris) and point then to Hardmac.com, for our traditional live coverage of the Steve's MacWorld Expo 2008 Keynote.
As usual, we hope our servers will handle the load and won't collapse under the stare of so many eager readers.
We will provide live coverage via a dedicated web page refreshing automatically every 30 secondes: http://event.macbidouille.com/en/
Stay tuned!
- MacWorld San Francisco 2008 Photo Stream Updated - moose - 02:05:09
Do miss the new photos from the MWSF sent by our journalist Moose, featuring MacBook Airand other new products.
www.flickr.com
|
