- 6:22 PM Tuhin Kumar - For all those who could not get the tickets to WWDC 09 , do not worry. AppleChipmunks brings live blogs from WWDC 09 right from Moscone West.This is a live blog so you need not reload or refresh this page, however , if you feel like you are running behind you may. Visit back at 10: 00 A.M (Pacific) and 1:oo A.M ( East) for more.
- 7:04 PM Tuhin Kumar - Phil Schiller, second in command at Apple will give the Keynote Speech at 10:00 A.M PDT and 1:00 A.M East. Bookmark this page to find it easily when you come back.
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- 7:36 PM Tuhin Kumar - Time to check us Back07:00AM – Hawaii
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12:00PM – Central
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02:00AM – Tokyo (June 9th)
- 8:08 PM applechipmunk - WWDC 09 Live bit.ly
- 8:49 PM Tuhin Kumar - Outside Moscone West by Engadget
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- 8:52 PM applechipmunk - View outside Moscone West at WWDC 09 bit.ly
- 8:55 PM Tuhin Kumar - Inside view by Engadget
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- 8:56 PM applechipmunk - Inside view at Moscone West WWDC 09 Live bit.ly
- 8:57 PM Tuhin Kumar - Rumour 1: Steve Jobs Spotted inside the building.
- 9:01 PM Tuhin Kumar - A click from Gizmodo
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- 9:02 PM applechipmunk - Another view at WWDC 09 Live bit.ly
- 10:21 PM DICE - We are waiting
- 10:24 PM DICE - news.cnet.com
- 10:32 PM Tuhin Kumar - technical havoc!
- 10:33 PM DICE - Good to see you
- 10:33 PM Tuhin Kumar - website account has been suspended
- 10:33 PM Tuhin Kumar - so the feed will be available here only!
- 10:44 PM Tuhin Kumar - I begin with the Updates till now
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- 10:47 PM Tuhin Kumar - John Hodgman making the Welcome to all
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- 10:48 PM Tuhin Kumar - Phil enters “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.”
- 10:49 PM Tuhin Kumar - Phil again
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- 10:50 PM Tuhin Kumar - Phil talks about OS X users growing constantly over the years.
- 10:51 PM Tuhin Kumar - New 15″ Macbook is aas thin as MAcbook AIR
- 10:52 PM Tuhin Kumar - Brand new version of Macbook Pro revealed
- 10:53 PM Tuhin Kumar - Will be using Lithium Polymer Battery like the 17 ” Macbook Pro
- 10:53 PM Tuhin Kumar - SD card SLOT available finally in the MACBOOK 15″
- 10:54 PM Tuhin Kumar - 60% increase in the Colour Gamut
- 10:55 PM Tuhin Kumar - upto 8 gb, 256 gb ssd, no express card slot,3.06 ghz with 6mb cache
- 10:55 PM Tuhin Kumar - That is lovely and we were not even expecting it were we??
- 10:56 PM Tuhin Kumar - Price 15″ starts at 1699 $
- 10:57 PM Tuhin Kumar - The 17″ is also gettign an upgrade, the 17″ will continue to have the express card slot.Now the 17″ gets updated too: also 2.8GHz, also 500GB hard drive, retains ExpressCard slot (for high-end audio products), now $300 less at $2499.
- 10:58 PM Tuhin Kumar - Love it as always!
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- 11:01 PM Tuhin Kumar - Means 1000x more recharges and 3x lesser waste! How about that !
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- 11:02 PM Tuhin Kumar - The SD Slot of the cheaper Macbooks
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- 11:03 PM Tuhin Kumar - Choose your Poison!
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- 11:04 PM Tuhin Kumar - 17″ Macbook Pro is Amazing”.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.”
- 11:04 PM Tuhin Kumar - All this for $ 2499
- 11:05 PM Tuhin Kumar - Shipping in Today in case you were wondering.
- 11:06 PM Tuhin Kumar - The 17″ specs and pricing table
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- 11:07 PM Tuhin Kumar - Apple is also updating the MacBook Air. It starts at $1,499 with a 1,86GHz processor. With 128GB SSD, it will now start at $1,799, another price cut.
- 11:09 PM Tuhin Kumar - Talks about the Environment
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- 11:10 PM Tuhin Kumar - Firewire on allmodels of MBP
- 11:10 PM Tuhin Kumar - I mean firewire 800
- 11:11 PM Tuhin Kumar - “We’re also going to update the MacBook Air with more aggressive configs and pricing. It starts at $1499… the SSD config is $1799.” Wow, that’s a deep cut. $700 than previous.
- 11:11 PM Tuhin Kumar - Macbook Air gets Up too!
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- 11:13 PM Tuhin Kumar - We Move on to Snow Leopard!!
- 11:13 PM Tuhin Kumar - But before that Safari 4 is out of Beta
- 11:13 PM Tuhin Kumar - Says resistant to crashes on the Snow Leopard
- 11:14 PM Tuhin Kumar - Cites plugins as the number one cause of crashes!
- 11:16 PM Tuhin Kumar - You can draw Chinese Characters from your fingers using the Trackpad
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- 11:17 PM Tuhin Kumar - Mocks Windows 7 as just another version of Vista which sucked.
- 11:17 PM Tuhin Kumar - We agree.
- 11:17 PM Tuhin Kumar - Changes in Quick time User Interface.
- 11:18 PM Tuhin Kumar - Quicktime player has a brand new interface — the content is the focus, not the application. Now demoing Snow Leopard.
- 11:18 PM Tuhin Kumar -
- 11:19 PM Tuhin Kumar - “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.” No on-screen controls, pop overs, not quite that marble look, but blackish.
- 11:20 PM Tuhin Kumar - Docks and Finder are better and handle content efficiently
- 11:21 PM Tuhin Kumar -
- 11:21 PM Tuhin Kumar - You can go deeper in level on stacks now, down to other folders.
- 11:22 PM Tuhin Kumar - Snow Leopard available for Leopard user for $ 29 only.
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- 11:22 PM Tuhin Kumar - Say goodbye to Windows 7!Killed before being born.
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- 11:24 PM Tuhin Kumar - All Apple apps will be 64 bit!
Multi-core support is built into Snow Leopard. That allows developers to really take advantage of multiple processor cores.
Now talking about 64-bit. 2x faster, up to 16 TB memory limit.
- 11:24 PM Tuhin Kumar - “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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- 11:25 PM Tuhin Kumar - 64bit enables use of the large amounts of RAM computers now have, math calculations are 2X faster. Multi-core presents a challenge — how to make best use of them. Current methods don’t provide granular enough control over them. Grand Central Station, built into Snow Leopard, solves this problem.
- 11:25 PM Tuhin Kumar - 64bit enables use of the large amounts of RAM computers now have, math calculations are 2X faster. Multi-core presents a challenge — how to make best use of them. Current methods don’t provide granular enough control over them. Grand Central Station, built into Snow Leopard, solves this problem.
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- 11:26 PM Tuhin Kumar - Upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard is $29, retail price is $169
- 11:28 PM Tuhin Kumar - “Let’s talk multi-core CPUs. The challenge is how to take advantage of them. The answer is threads. So we have a solution for this. Grand Central Dispatch. It’s built-in support for multi-core all across Leopard.”
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- 11:29 PM Tuhin Kumar - “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…”
- 11:29 PM Tuhin Kumar - “We’ve decided to make it an open standard.” Big cheers for that one. “All the top manufacturers of graphics cards are involved.”
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- 11:30 PM Tuhin Kumar - “So let’s talk business — what we’ve been missing is Exchange. So we’ve built in Exchange support to Mail, Calendar, and Address Book.”
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- 11:32 PM Tuhin Kumar - Mail auto-discovers Exchange data, and also provides Spotlight search for Exchange messages.
- 11:33 PM Tuhin Kumar - Developer preview of Snow Leopard is available today
- 11:33 PM Tuhin Kumar - Exchange contacts and calendars are integrated with your personal data, but kept separate. You can also drag a contact out of Address Book and directly into a calendar to create an event. Nice.
- 11:34 PM Tuhin Kumar - Scott Forstall is here to talk about the iPhone. Finally the moment has come!
- 11:34 PM Tuhin Kumar - 50,000 apps in the app store, according to Scott Forstall
- 11:35 PM Tuhin Kumar - On April 23rd, 1 billion apps sold
40 million iphones/ipod touches have been sold
- 11:35 PM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
- 11:35 PM Tuhin Kumar -
- 11:36 PM Tuhin Kumar - arious developers of games, medical apps, and sports-tracking apps talk about how they created their programs, and how much their lives have changed since their apps got accepted to the App Store. It’s standard product-marketing-video fare.
- 11:36 PM Tuhin Kumar - There are more than 100 new features, he says. He starts with cut, copy, and paste.
- 11:37 PM Tuhin Kumar - Bringing a touch-based interface with copy/paste to the phone. Works across all apps including ones form the App Store, Undo support, Developer APIs
- 11:38 PM Tuhin Kumar - There are more than 100 new features, he says. He starts with cut, copy, and paste.
- 11:39 PM Tuhin Kumar - Rounds of Applause for this one.
- 11:39 PM Tuhin Kumar - Spotlight will be its own app on the phone. In iTunes you can rent and purchase movies right from the phone.
- 11:39 PM Tuhin Kumar - You can watch TV shows, and purchase videos and audiobooks. There’s also support for iTunes U, Apple’s educational service that offers podcasts of university classes. Parental controls will be expanded to include movies, TV shows, and apps in App Store. Can limit kids to rent G-rated movies, for instance, or only buy age-appropriate apps.
- 11:40 PM Tuhin Kumar - Apple also announced that iPhone 3.0 supports tethering –using the phone’s Internet connection to add Web access for your Mac or PC. inafried: Tethering will work over USB cord or Bluetooth and won’t require any special software on the computer. The big news though is that although Apple has a number of carriers committed to supporting tethering, ATT isn’t one of them
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- 11:42 PM Tuhin Kumar - JavaScript running 4 times faster. HTTP streaming picks the best quality for your connection. Auto-fill for websites.
- 11:42 PM Tuhin Kumar - HTML 5 support in Mobile Safari. Support for more languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Thai, 30-plus in all.
- 11:43 PM Tuhin Kumar - There will be a button that will allow auto switching to use a different language on the keyboard. Now adding Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, and Thai. Now more than 30 languages supported. All have a portrait or landscape keyboard.
- 11:44 PM Tuhin Kumar - There’s a new feature called Find My iPhone. We’re seeing a quick example of a lost iPhone demonstrated by the episode where Liz Lemon from “30 Rock” loses her iPhone. Find My iPhone is only available to MobileMe customers, but it will allow you to see on a map where your phone is. There are huge cheers from crowd. You can send an alert tone to your phone that will play, announcing it’s lost. It will play even if you left your phone in silent mode.
- 11:44 PM Tuhin Kumar -
- 11:45 PM Tuhin Kumar - Now talking about “in app purchasing”. That’s where you can purchase another app or service from within an app.
- 11:45 PM Tuhin Kumar - “Next is landscape. Since 1.0 we’ve had support for this in Safari. Now we’re taking this to our key apps.”
- 11:45 PM Tuhin Kumar - ext is Push Notifications which are in iPhone OS 3.0. Provided a generic service for developers so they can push things like breaking news, scoring, etc.
- 11:48 PM Tuhin Kumar - Whoooooooaa!!!!!
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- 11:50 PM Tuhin Kumar - Mark Hickey from Gameloft is demoing Asphalt 5, a 3D racing experience for iPhone and iPod touch.
- 11:51 PM Tuhin Kumar - Peer-to-peer. Wirelessly over Bluetooth, no pairing needed. Doesn’t look like this is any different than what we saw at the 3.0 event.
- 11:52 PM Tuhin Kumar - Medical community is “flocking” to the iPhone, sneak peek at AirStrip Critical Care app
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- 11:53 PM Tuhin Kumar - Here is the Screenshot for the Critical Care App
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- 11:55 PM Tuhin Kumar - “One and a half hours in and time is beginning to get short. New iPhone please?”
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- 11:57 PM Tuhin Kumar - And that’s it for the demos. iPhone 3.0 available for free, $9.95 for iPod touch. June 17th availability!
- 11:57 PM Tuhin Kumar - That explains the iCal icon that was on the WWDC banner
- 11:58 PM Tuhin Kumar - Phil is showing a graph that incidates that 2/3rds of all mobile browsing happens on an apple mobile device .
- 11:58 PM Tuhin Kumar - Phil is showing the # of apps available on the apple app store compares to Android, Novi, and Pre store
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- 12:00 AM Tuhin Kumar - The all New iPhone 3GS
- 12:00 AM Tuhin Kumar - Finally released.
- 12:01 AM Tuhin Kumar - New hardware and the s stands for speed.
- 12:01 AM Tuhin Kumar - Meet the new iPhone 3GS (the S stands for speed). It has the same design as iPhone 3G from last summer, but what’s inside is entirely new. Messaging apps, games, attachments all load faster, Schiller says.
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- 12:03 AM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
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- 12:04 AM Tuhin Kumar - 3GS is ready for AT&T’s faster 3G network, Apple says. As expected, there’s a better built-in camera too, a 3-megapixel autofocus camera.
- 12:04 AM Tuhin Kumar - There’s a feature called “Tap to Focus.” Can tap an item in a photo, and it focuses immediately. There’s better light sensitivity, so you can take indoor photos better. There’s also auto macro focus. And it captures video, he says. The crowd loves it.
- 12:04 AM Tuhin Kumar - A new switch in the bottom of the camera app allows you to choose still or video. There’s auto focus, auto whitebalance, and auto exposure for both still and video.
- 12:04 AM Tuhin Kumar - You can edit the videos by tapping with your finger. Also, you can send videos via e-mail or text–if your carrier supports it, Schiller says. Developers can also built video cameras right into their applications.
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- 12:05 AM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
Brand new 3 megapixel autofocus camera.
7.2Mbps HSDPA.
- 12:06 AM Tuhin Kumar -
- 12:07 AM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
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…”
- 12:07 AM Tuhin Kumar - The videos live alongside photos in the same application. You can scrub a video and edit it too. You can share the video right from your iPhone 3GS to YouTube, MobileMe, MMS, and email.
- 12:07 AM Tuhin Kumar - Press and hold down home button for a few seconds to get into the voice control and dialing
- 12:08 AM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
- 12:09 AM Tuhin Kumar -
- 12:09 AM Tuhin Kumar - iPod app by voice: “Play all songs by Barry Manilow”
- 12:09 AM Tuhin Kumar - Built in digital compass.
- 12:09 AM Tuhin Kumar - Support for Nike+
- 12:10 AM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
- 12:10 AM Tuhin Kumar - “Best of all for devs, there’s an API for this. Build video capture right into your apps.”
- 12:10 AM Tuhin Kumar - Improved battery life: 9 hours on wifi, 10 watching video, 30 hours of audio playback, 12 hours of 2G talk time, and 5 hours of 3G talk time
- 12:10 AM Tuhin Kumar - “Most environmentally friendly phone”
- 12:10 AM Tuhin Kumar - Arsenic free glass, PVC feed, packaging is 23% smaller, Mercury Free LCD — Apparently powered by condensed unicorn tears.
- 12:10 AM Tuhin Kumar - iPhone 3GS price is $199
- 12:11 AM Tuhin Kumar - $299 for 32GB, $199 for 16GB
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- 12:12 AM Tuhin Kumar - iPhone 3GS available by JUNE 19th!
The original 3G will sell for $99 for an 8GB version.
Case colors are Black and White, but not together.
- 12:14 AM Tuhin Kumar - June 19th for new iPhone 3GS
- 12:14 AM Tuhin Kumar - Apple’s stock is now down “only” 3.94 for the day.
- 12:14 AM Tuhin Kumar - Phil Schiller is now summarizing the iPhone 3GS and Snow Leopard. Apple stock is now down only $2.96.
- 12:15 AM Tuhin Kumar -
- 12:16 AM Tuhin Kumar - “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.”
- 12:16 AM Tuhin Kumar - “But that’s just the start of our show here at WWDC…”
- 12:17 AM Tuhin Kumar -
- 12:17 AM Tuhin Kumar - “After that even more countries, over 80 countries will have it by August.”
“So when does the iPhone 3GS become available? Just a week and a half.”
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- 12:18 AM Tuhin Kumar - “I’d like to say as we leave, thank you to everyone who has worked so hard on these products.”
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- 12:24 AM Tuhin Kumar - Thank you all for following us at AppleChipmunks. We will be ready with all the latest infromation in few hours.
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- 12:33 AM applechipmunk - Missed the WWDC 09 Live, find minute by minute update here bit.ly
- 3:13 AM applechipmunk - Snow Leopard Features and Price bit.ly
- 3:14 AM applechipmunk - Macbooks get Upgraded at WWDC 09 bit.ly
- 3:15 AM applechipmunk - Close look at iPhone 3GS ( June 19) bit.ly
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[...] Apple uploaded the much awaited WWDC 09 Keynote Address, on their Website.For all those who missed the action live on our Live Blog and of course let the WWDC pass this year without much of the usual hype can do what is necessary to bring them up to date with the latest news about the new WWDC 09 updates.For a view at the Live Blog watch it here. [...]