Apple WWDC Stevenote
by Volker Weber
Apple stopped providing a live feed from Steve Jobs' keynotes two years ago. But I found a good alternative: AppleRumor.com's IRC channel. No big surprises tonight. Apple completes transition to Intel with Mac Pro and XServe, and previews OS X Leopard which will ship next spring.
Update: An MPEG4-stream is now online.
Here is the transcript of today's keynote:
[18:59] large number of people with macbooks or macbook pros - anything with a web cam trying to ichat a/v in center
[19:00] multiple people holding up laptops for video feed of room - spinning around for the full view
[19:00] crowd getting loud - music getting louder
[19:00] Apple online store still down
[19:00] crowd goes wild - Jobs takes the stage
[19:01] "personal message from steve jobs" - take the rest of the year off.
[19:01] stop making seemless software that just works
[19:01] work on your tans
[19:01] work on poetry, art
[19:01] crowd laughs
[19:02] all part of "I'm a PC" intro
[19:02] crowd erupts in applause
[19:02] welcome to wwdc 06
[19:02] thanks so much for coming
[19:03] we've got 4200 registered attendees - largest wwdc ever
[19:03] folks from 48 countries
[19:03] all are part of 3/4 of a mlllioin registered developers for mac
[19:03] 140 specials on everything mac during the conference
[19:03] 100 hands on labs
[19:04] 1000 apple engineers on site
[19:04] 1 engineer for every 4 attendees
[19:04] asked collegues to help
[19:04] Schiller & others
[19:05] talking about 5th avenue store in NYC
[19:05] 1 of 157 stores
[19:05] last quater - 17 million visitors to the stores
[19:05] of new purchases, 50% are new to the mac
[19:05] last 12 months - 1/2 a billion $ of 3rd party products - your products
[19:06] on to today - the Mac
[19:06] last 1/4 - best Mac quarter ever
[19:06] shipped 1.3 million macs
[19:06] growth rate dramatically faster - gaining marketshare
[19:06] other great thing - 3/4 of macs shipped were intel-based
[19:07] macbook - incredible success
[19:07] macbook pro leads the lineup
[19:07] marketshare skyrocketed in June
[19:07] first intel in January - great new tech from Intel
[19:08] first 2 quarters - almost all shipped with Intel
[19:08] PowerMac -
[19:08] says it\'s goodbyes
[19:08] Schiller takes the stage
[19:08] good morning - so excited
[19:08] Mac Pro
[19:08] old case - two optical drives
[19:09] woodcrest processors
[19:09] based on core 2 duo
[19:09] all dual core
[19:09] up to 3 Ghz
[19:09] large 4 MB shared L2 cache
[19:09] 128 bit vector engine
[19:09] 64 bit
[19:09] deliver tremendous performance per watt
[19:10] up to 3x a Xeon
[19:10] amazing processor
[19:10] every Mac Pro gets 2 of them
[19:10] compare to G5
[19:11] big jump in performance
[19:11] 1.6 to 2.1x faster than the G5 quad
[19:11] everyday apps performance
[19:11] taken a bunch of apps and tested the speeds
[19:11] around 2x speed increase in real-world use
[19:12] around 2x faster in xcode
[19:12] "it's a great chip"
[19:12] each on it\'s own - 25GB/sec bandwidth
[19:12] 4channel
[19:12] 256 bit wide memory access
[19:12] twice the bus of the G5
[19:12] less cooling in box
[19:12] room for 4 hard drives
[19:12] up to 2 TB of internal storage
[19:12] second optical drive
[19:13] increased front I/O as well as back I/O
[19:13] back - 4 PCI express slots
[19:13] graphics slot at bottom - double wide for larger graphics cards
[19:13] design of case stays the same
[19:13] inside, entirely new
[19:14] drive carriers - insert drives without tools - just snap into place
[19:14] processors fit in compact space - leaves lots of room in case for full size ram, drives, everything
[19:14] 1 standard incredible configuration
[19:15] 2.6 Ghz dual
[19:15] 256 MB ram
[19:15] Superdrive
[19:15] $2499
[19:15] previous fastest was $800 more than that
[19:15] "usually more expensive" - great product to bust that myth
[19:15] $1000 more to get close from Dell
[19:16] crowd VERY happy
[19:16] BTO options
[19:17] proc speed - all quad, up to 3ghz
[19:17] 16 GB memory
[19:17] 2 TB storage
[19:17] graphics up to radeon x1900 or FX4500
[19:17] wireless BT & Airport
[19:17] up to 5 million configurations
[19:17] starts shipping TODAY
[19:17] crowd erupts in applause
[19:17] joins rest of great products to intel
[19:17] transition finishes today - just 210 days
[19:18] nobody else could pull this off
[19:18] one more product
[19:18] xserve
[19:18] incredible - performance and value
[19:19] xserves - entirely new
[19:19] built on Xeons - quad performance
[19:19] similar to specs of Mac Pro
[19:19] still 1U footprint
[19:19] with smaller chip, footprint, easier to get faster chips in
[19:19] 5x faster than machine it replaces
[19:20] amazing performance - new features, more space, adds redundant power supply
[19:20] up to 5 terabytes of storage
[19:20] entirely built to order
[19:20] up to 1 million configurations
[19:21] compare to latest dells - beats everything in the category, performance/price
[19:21] $3293 for a comp Dell
[19:21] $2999 for standard config of xServe
[19:22] Jobs back on stage
[19:22] software
[19:22] OS X - what have we been doing?
[19:22] 5 major releases - starting in spring of '01
[19:22] progressions of software - 19 million active OS X users
[19:22] majority of users
[19:22] lots of critical acclaim
[19:22] best and most advanced computers
[19:23] Apple's most successful software product ever.
[19:23] we have a 6th major release - Tiger on Intel
[19:23] software team did a magnificent job moving it to Intel
[19:24] enabled amazing transition to occur in 210 days
[19:24] 86 million lines of source code ported to run on a different chip
[19:24] pretty amazing
[19:24] apps that run on both PowerPC & Intel - now over 3000 UB apps
[19:24] All of us at Apple want to say \"thank you\"
[19:24] you guys have done a phenomenal job
[19:24] lots more announcements during the next week
[19:25] What's our competitor been doing for the last 5 years?
[19:25] Vista...
[19:25] Betrand takes stage
[19:25] poking fun at Redmond
[19:25] "Redmond - start your photocopiers"
[19:25] they actually seem to have done that...
[19:26] specific screen shots of Tiger vs Vista
[19:26] spotlight
[19:26] elegant and powerful
[19:27] RSS
[19:27] mail, calendaring, address book
[19:27] moved search to top right of screen
[19:27] wow - the innovation
[19:27] redo windows logo to have an aqua feel
[19:28] making jokes - crowd laughing
[19:28] if you can't innovate, impersonate (shows pic of Elvis impersonator)
[19:29] Jobs back on stage
[19:29] "money isn't everything" in R&D
[19:29] we're working on Leopard
[19:29] giving preview of Leopard today
[19:30] what we can't show:
[19:30] top secret features not being shown, just not letting you know what they are.
[19:30] don't want photocopiers started too early
[19:30] major things in leopard demo:
[19:30] 1) support for 64 bit applications
[19:31] previously at unix layer
[19:31] in leopard - giant leap forward - extend support all the way through UI framework into applications
[19:31] have a fully native 64 bit UI carbon app
[19:31] did in a completely 32 bit compatible way
[19:32] can run 32 bit apps side by side with 64 bit - no emulation, no translation
[19:32] full support, top to bottom
[19:32] 2) Time machine
[19:33] how to combat loss of information on hard drives - backups
[19:33] we all know we should, but lots of people don't
[19:33] only 26% of users back up in any way whatsoever
[19:33] dig a little deeper - most that say they are are manually dragging files & folders into another drive
[19:33] not really secure
[19:34] how many use automated software to stay always backed up?
[19:34] only 4%
[19:34] plan to change all of that
[19:34] Time Machine
[19:34] automatically backs up mac
[19:34] you change a file, it automatically backs up
[19:35] photos, music, documents, files folder, everything
[19:35] then you can restore everything
[19:35] can be right where you were when the HD drive
[19:35] can restore everything, or just one file at a time
[19:35] backup to HD, or server
[19:35] coolest part - and reason we call it that - whole new way of backing up files
[19:36] ever had time where you work on a doc and you do a save as and overwrote the wrong one?
[19:37] finder windows
[19:37] important stuff
[19:37] with time machine, you can get those files back by entering a date or time
[19:37] instantly back
[19:38] finder windows move through timeline on the side of the machine through time - very cool to watch
[19:38] visual representation of moving through time
[19:38] timeline on right-hand side
[19:38] can go back a day - or two days
[19:38] finder windows "warping" forward
[19:38] devs are impressed
[19:39] file previews without going through full restore
[19:39] desktop "warps" back to place in time
[19:39] it is that easy to go back in time and restore what you want to restore
[19:39] great for finder - but can work with 3rd party apps as well
[19:40] can search for documents in the past
[19:40] series of windows receeding into the distance
[19:40] works in iPhoto
[19:41] can find entire roll of deleted photos back in time
[19:41] moved to backup system
[19:41] iphoto demo of rolling to the past
[19:42] jumped right to photos
[19:42] absolutely the best way to back up everything you have, store everything, and find what you need that you thought you didn't
[19:43] 3) deliver complete package
[19:43] some really cool beta software now
[19:43] shipping all as part of leopard
[19:43] boot camp will be included
[19:43] reaction to boot camp has been good
[19:43] 1/2 million downloads
[19:43] will ship as part of leopard
[19:43] front row - access to all of your media from across the room sitting on your couch
[19:44] next gen front row & photo booth built into leopard
[19:44] 4) Virtual Desktops
[19:45] "space"
[19:45] create different spaces for different clusters of apps to work together
[19:45] Mail & Safari
[19:45] CORRECTION FROM PREVIOUS FOR MAC PRO: dual 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), SuperDrive, $2499
[19:46] TIME MACHINE LOGO: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0489.jpg
[19:46] Steve showing how to use multiple desktops for different jobs - working on web pages, etc.
[19:46] "very cool"
[19:47] can drag info from one desktop to the other
[19:47] spaces lets me create collections of apps for different tasks that's intuitive
[19:47] built in to leopard
[19:47] 5) spotlight
[19:48] one of the great features of tiger - instantly search for any file by all sorts of things
[19:48] making it even better in leopard
[19:48] enabling spotlight to search OTHER machines if you have permissions
[19:48] if at home with several macs, you can search them all
[19:48] and search workgroup servers at the office
[19:49] advanced search - lots of feedback from devs
[19:49] specify file type and other dev requests will be added in leopard
[19:49] making it a great app launcher
[19:49] adding recent items to spotlight
[19:49] prepopulated with recent stuff you've been doing
[19:50] what you're looking for is often right there without doing a search
[19:50] 6) more animations
[19:50] "CORE animation"
[19:50] sorry
[19:50] allows you to dramatically increase the production value of your applications
[19:50] time machine built on core animation
[19:51] thousands of layers - text, images, video, openGL, almost anything
[19:51] start space, goal space, & keyframes
[19:51] core animation handles everything in between - color, size, opacity, all kinds of things
[19:51] demo
[19:51] icon for it is same as other core items, but purple
[19:52] very easy to work in - move items around on their own layers
[19:52] albums of photos, videos - just scratching the surface
[19:52] demo is a screen saver
[19:52] all you have to do is specify a start and an end, and it figures everything out automatically
[19:53] zoom, fly camera around where you want
[19:53] written in half the lines of a typical screen saver to produce better results
[19:53] lots of power to easily add rich interactivity to your apps
[19:54] OS X is great - we want everyone to have a chance to use it
[19:54] focusing on access for leopard
[19:54] rails supports - closed captions for quicktime
[19:54] better ways to navigate the system
[19:54] best way to show this: "voiceover" - demo
[19:54] text to speech
[19:55] using Apple boilerplate info from bottom of press releases
[19:56] new voiceover is incredible - sounds like a real person reading.
[19:56] SPACES LOGO: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0521.jpg
[19:56] TIME MACHINE screen shot: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0502.jpg
[19:56] voiceover voices are very natural
[19:57] crowd is very impressed
[19:57] one of the things users like to do is speed things up - voiceover speeds up flawlessly
[19:57] still clean, understandable.
[19:58] next up: the big one
[19:58] major enhancements - mail
[19:58] really great things - new creative things
[19:58] stationary added
[19:58] notes added
[19:58] to-do's added
[19:59] stationary:
[19:59] photos, email - would be great to apply stationary and have it look incredible in mail - industry standard html email
[19:59] can send like that to anyone and will look like this on the other end
[19:59] "boom" and send it out
[19:59] including lots of templates
[20:00] Notes:
[20:00] used to send email to myself to make notes of things to take care of - must be a better way to do this
[20:00] adding it to leopard - new special mailbox called "notes" to keep them separate
[20:00] To Do list - want something more powerful than just notes to keep track of things
[20:00] select something - can make it a "to do" item
[20:00] priority, alarms, etc.
[20:01] can take any incoming mail message and turn it into a to-do
[20:01] checkbox on emails to create to-do
[20:01] any app can contribute and create to-dos
[20:01] ical tied into it
[20:01] one system-wide to-do tracker
[20:01] demo
[20:02] brings up mail
[20:02] compose new message
[20:02] pick a stationary - showing the options shipping in leopard
[20:02] finds some photos - drop and move around
[20:03] can drag & drop, or start with a previously done mail message and edit to add in stationary
[20:03] photo browser window to help find images to add
[20:04] very easy to send rich mail
[20:04] Notes demo
[20:04] notes stand out in mail
[20:04] easy to create notes
[20:05] demo of ToDos
[20:06] "it's that easy to create ToDo's" - checkbox
[20:06] only 3 of the really cool features added to mail
[20:06] 9) dashboard
[20:07] one of our favorite features of tiger
[20:07] not only because of starter widgets, but because of all the fantastic 3rd party widgets - over 2500 available today
[20:07] to help that along -
[20:07] 1) For developers: dashcode
[20:07] helps to design, develop and debug dashboard widgets
[20:07] templates
[20:07] all the hard part done - modify it to produce the widget you're looking for
[20:07] RSS, podcasts, etc.
[20:08] great visual editor for CSS
[20:08] also ships with parts library - search fields, etc.
[20:08] drop into your widget and you're done
[20:08] full javascript logger
[20:08] *debugger*
[20:09] for the users:
[20:09] way to turn any part of any web page into a widget
[20:09] active desktop?
[20:09] comic strip - dilbert
[20:09] want a widget of that strip
[20:09] use Webclip - button in safari to make a widget of that comic strip
[20:10] with about 4 clicks, widget created
[20:11] doing another demo
[20:11] live widget of a section of a web page
[20:12] turn top 10 download page into a widget - now you can do it yourself
[20:12] NYT bestseller list widget - you can now make your own just from the NYT web page
[20:12] MAIL TEMPLATES: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0563.jpg
[20:12] NOTES: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0564.jpg
[20:12] WIDGETS: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0568.jpg
[20:13] dashboard demo over
[20:13] just created 5 live widgets on stage
[20:13] DASHCODE ICON: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0571.jpg
[20:13] DASHCODE shot: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0572.jpg
[20:14] WEBCLIP: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/dsc_0574.jpg
[20:14] 10) seriously enhance iChat
[20:14] make it better - multiple logins, visibility, animated icons, video recording, and tabbed chats
[20:15] ichat theater
[20:15] show slides to family and friends
[20:15] iphoto slideshow that you can talk over
[20:16] show keynote presentation
[20:16] backdrops
[20:16] demos
[20:16] ichat video conference with Phil Schiller
[20:16] photobooth effects
[20:16] jay leno look
[20:17] having fun with filters
[20:17] amazing real time effects
[20:17] "it's a little weird" - steve
[20:17] demo'ing iChat Theater
[20:17] Schiller showing photo stream while talking to steve
[20:17] Schiller in little window on side of screen
[20:18] Keynote presentation the same way - done across iChat video connection
[20:18] transitions & effects work
[20:19] great for remote client collaboration on projects
[20:19] showing the "virus" Mac vs. PC commercial
[20:19] Backdrops - wouldn't it be great if you could be somewhere other than where you are?
[20:20] Schiller changes his background - no green screen - steps out of frame, set the background, automatically masks out background
[20:20] Phil changes to Times Square
[20:20] if you can do photos, you can do VIDEO too.
[20:21] motion backgrounds
[20:21] "A lot of fun" - rollercoaster
[20:21] "life at apple is a rollercoaster" - Steve
[20:21] ichat theater demo over
[20:22] really excited about it
[20:22] these are just 10 of the many new features in Leopard
[20:22] full 64 bit top to bottom
[20:22] core animation
[20:23] new universal access
[20:23] parental controls dramatically enhanced
[20:23] Boot camp 1.0
[20:23] next gen of front row
[20:23] photobooth
[20:23] ichat
[20:23] mail
[20:23] didn't talk about ical - moving to multiuser
[20:23] revolutionary tech of tiger to the next level - spotlight, dashboard, webclip
[20:23] developer tools with dashcode
[20:23] xcode 3.0 released today
[20:23] giant leap in xcode
[20:23] Spaces - whole new way
[20:23] and of course, Time Machine
[20:24] backup and recovery of entire digital life
[20:24] all tech included in Mac OS X Leopard
[20:24] developer preview TODAY
[20:24] start taking advantage of all this tech so your apps are awesome when they all come out
[20:24] Leopard to ship in coming Spring
[20:25] Thank you for coming
[20:25] over 1000 engineers on site
[20:25] new mac pros in hands-on sessions
[20:26] That's all folks - thanks for watching
[20:26] Special thanks to our sources on the floor for continuous coverage
Comments
metamac also had a very good live feed (in German), which I watched. (I had been hoping there might also be an update to the Mac mini, but no such luck)
There will be updates to the existing Intel Macs. Just not today. Next on my list would be the MacBook Pro, which looks quaint when compared to the MacBook.
It's unfashionable I know, but I have to say, I really like the incremental steps they've taken with iChat: there's nothing revolutionary in there, but there are a whole bunch of very nice enhancements.
Of course, the real story is the stuff that wasn't said eh ;o)
