Assessment of the WWDC Keynote 08
The most anticipated event in this part of the year, Apple's Keynote and the appointment of enthusiasts Apple brand that can discover the new Apple . The pressure was present in this edition, which was mainly oriented iPhone applications and a lean presentation of the iPhone 2 (which was the most anticipated).
At 17h, the color was given with the closure of the Apple Store on the website of the brand worldwide. The lucky ones have had their place to attend the Keynote crowd the doors still closed.
18:45, the doors open and leak a certain amount of impatience. iPhone v2? The hall was filled to the beats resulting from Coldplay and Gorillaz. This edition has gathered 5,200 participants and 1,000 engineers. In personalities include Al Gore or Moby.
19h (well 7:05 p.m.), the keynote begins. He is asked everybody to cut its electronics. The speech begins with the presentation of the digits of the year for the iPhone SDK, downloaded over 250,000 times. Small promotional video of the iPhone, which has all the advantages of Mac OS X, blah ...
30 minutes of Keynote and presentation of the iPhone later, Sega comes on stage. Rapid presentation of his game: Monkey Ball, which was developed for the iPhone in two weeks and available on the App Store for just under € 10. Enchainent applications eBay, Loopt (location of friends around the iPhone), TypePad (he even speaks of WordPress for iPhone. Good news for us bloggers). Applications again and again, Band (for making music with his iPhone), application to see baseball games live (great ...) and two medical applications.
One hour keynote later, he speaks of reluctance with respect to applications running in the background stain. Ah! 20:04, Steve Jobs is back to tell us about the version 2 of the iPhone OS. Besides, iWork will be focused on the mobile that will full support for Office documents. The OS will be available on July 11. The App Store will be released in 62 countries.
20.15, which will allow presentation of MobileMe syncing calendars, tasks and mails between all your devices. It will be available at a price of $ 100 per year. It will replace. Mac from July 11.
1:30 of keynote and still no iPhone v2 on the horizon. Bizarre! But it starts to feel the full mobile nose with a brief introduction of 3G. Bam! 8:31 p.m., the iPhone 3G was announced. It will also integrate a GPS. It is all plastic with the back black, has a screen similar to v1, metal buttons and an improved jack. Audio quality is also improved and it seems a little late. Unfortunately, no video yet. 3G will be faster than the competition with a flow rate theoretically 36% faster. Small demo and presentation of awards. It will be available in 70 countries from July 11.
Here, the keynote is over and the WWDC can begin quietly. The new version of Mac OS X (Leopard 10.6), meanwhile, will be presented in the afternoon (the night for us).
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