ActualWare » WWDC http://actualware.com Actual software for actual people. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:50:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 WWDC08 SteveNote http://actualware.com/index.php/2008/06/09/wwdc08-stevenote/ http://actualware.com/index.php/2008/06/09/wwdc08-stevenote/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:32:21 +0000 sean http://actualware.com/index.php/2008/06/09/wwdc08-stevenote/ 11:50 No “one more thing”
11:49 And… that’s it
11:48 Applauding the iPhone team
11:46 Now shoqing new iPhone ad
11:46 iPhone 3G rolls out on July 11th.
11:45 What? No 32 Gb iPHone?
11:45 16 Gb is $299 and a white one is available.
11:44 Now for the more affordable part: $199 for the 8Gb model
11:42 70 countries now have the iPhone.
11:41 Adding lots of new countries where iPhone is available.
11:39 Real-time GPS tracking of your movements from your phone. Kind of scary.
11:38 location data from cell towers, wifi, and now GPS and can do tracking
11:38 GPS built-in
11:37 Improved battery life: 300 hours of standby battery life. 2G talk time: 10 hours. 3G Talk time: 5 hours (an industry leading time), Browsing: 5-6 hours. Video 7 hours. Audio: 24 hours.
11:35 Email: 5s for 3G, 18s for EDGE. 3.6 times faster.
11:35 36% faster and Nokia N95 and Treo 750, and you get a full web page experience
11:35 3G speeds are approaching wifi speeds
11:35 EDGE took 59 s
11:33 web access speed comparison: EDGE and 3G on iPhone: 21 s on 3G for a complex image-laden web site. EDGE still downloading…
11:32 thinner, flush headphone jack, improved audio, plastic back
11:31 The iPhone 3G… introduced
11:31 Next challenges: More affordable
11:30 Next challenges: enterprise and 3rd party applications, sell iPhone in more countries
11:30 Next challenges: 3G
11:30 Six million iPhones sold.
11:30 Extolling how many different features people are using so very often.
11:28 Now… the iPhone.
11:28 “Isn’t that great?” Take a drink, those of you playing at home.
11:27 MobileMe replaces .Mac. .Mac users will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe.
11:26 MobileMe costs $99/year and comes with 20 Gb of storage. Available in early July. 60 day free trial.
11:24 Very nice to create a calendar event on the web and see it pushed to the phone before you can even call up the iPhone calendar app.
11:19 Phil’s demo’ing me.com web apps. Very nice desktop-like web app. Full drag-n-drop, etc.
11:18 iDisk integrated into me.com as well.
11:18 Photo gallery. iPhone can send photos directly to me.com gallery.
11:17 me.com is a rich internet Ajax app for all those emails, contacts, and cal items.
11:16 And for the web: me.com
11:15 push automatically over the air to iPhone and to Mac or PC… simultaneously. Works with iPhone apps, the Mac mail, address, and calendar app… and Exchange on the PC.
11:14 Push email, contacts, calendar for everyone (Mac or PC or iPhone)
11:13 ActiveStink… heheheh
11:13 Phill Schiller’s up to talk about Mobile Me: Exchange for the rest of us
11:13 Something entirely new: Mobile Me
11:11 Also, “ad hoc app distribution”: Can certify and register up to 100 iPhones and load apps on to those phones via iTunes.
11:11 An enterprise can authorize their iPhone and authorize their iPhones to run their apps and can distribute and install them internally on their own network.
11:10 If app is < 10 Mb user can download over cellular or wifi or iTunes. > 10 Mb then wifi or iTunes.
11:09 iPhone App Store will be available in 62 countries.
11:09 iPhone App Store
11:08 New iPhone software available in July. Free for iPhone. $9.99 for iPod Touch.
11:07 Additional languages
11:06 Parental controls
11:06 Save Images. Scientific calculator.
11:06 Bulk delete/move
11:05 Added all MS Office document support (Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
11:05 Contact search. iWork document support (pages, numbers, keynote)
11:05 His Steveness is back. “Isn’t that fantastic?”
11:04 One persistent IP connection available to all developers. works over wifi and cell. Available in September. No background processes needed.
11:03 Can push badges, alert sounds, and custom text alerts.
11:03 Apple will provide a push notification service.
11:02 Windows Mobile’s Task manager: “This is nuts”
11:01 Background processes is the wrong solution.
11:00 One feature request has been asked for: background tasks for notifications.
10:59 This game looks incredible.
10:57 Now Digital Legends Entertainment’s Xavier Carrillo Costa to talk about their game which they porte, Krull (sp?).
10:55 OK, this medical imaging app looks very cool.
10:53 MIMvista to talk about their medical imaging iPhone app. Mark Cain to talk about it.
10:52 Its a study aid for med students… kind of flash cards on steriods. Looks like Google Maps for the body.
10:51 Modality’s Dr. S. Mark Williams is going to talk about their app for medical students.
10:50 Twitter is “over capacity”. I’m amazed it lasted this long.
10:49 MLB.com’s “At Bat” app. Who’s on first?
10:48 His app is called Band.
10:47 And really well done.
10:46 His app is a virtual musical instrument… not exactly an insurance app. Fun but silly.
10:45 Solo developer in the UK insurance industry showing his iphone app… Mark Terry.
10:42 Pangea Software’s Brian Greenstone demo’ing their puzzle game.
10:40 Its a news reader… text, photos, and video
10:39 Associated Press’ Benjamin Mosse is now talking about their native iPhone app, the “mobile news network”
10:38 TypePad’s app looks very easy to blog with photos and will be free.
10:36 TypePad’s Michale Sippey is demo’ing their native blogging app. Hope WordPress creates one soon.
10:35 Loopt will be free.
10:33 Now Loopt is demo’ing a CoreLocation and Social Network app.
10:31 Ebay showing auctions on the iPhone with a native iPhone app.
10:29 Super Monkey Ball is a highly prized enterprise feature, after all.
10:28 Now SEGA is talking about the polished, finished Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone.
10:24 Yes, yes… its just like creating an OS X app for the Mac. Get on with it!
10:20 Demo’ing creating a Cocoa Touch app with XCode
10:19 Instruments: Profiling tool
10:18 iPhone Simulator for testing/debgging app. Works well. I’ve used it.
10:17: Core OS, Core Services, Media Layer, Cocoa Touch
10:16 iPhone and Mac OS X share substanital codebase.
10:16 Scott Forstall’s up to talk about the SDK
10:13 In overflow room. 250,000 SDKs downloaded.
10:13: Now showing video of various companies signed up to deploy iPhones in the enterprise.
9:31 Standing in line

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Anyway… if you’re attending WWDC and want to meet up, let me know… especially if you’re another western Pennsylvanian, but all localities are welcome.

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