Live coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote address

[benburch]

http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/

[alfredo]

1. All Mac related sites a down. keep us posted.

[benburch]

2. So far...

Read from bottom up. Timestamps bad.

5:33 pm next release will be called Leopard
5:33 pm 5 major versions of OS X
5:33 pm most say intel rumors
5:33 pm shows Apple stories in RSS feed
5:33 pm over 400 dashboard widgets
5:33 pm this week - will deliver the 2 millionth copy of OS X Tiger
5:33 pm quicktime 7.0 for windows available later today
5:33 pm over a billion copies of quicktime downloaded
5:33 pm mentions spotlight, dashboard, h.264
5:33 pm one more way iPod/iTunes at the forefront of digital music revolution
5:33 pm makes podcasting mainstream for everyone
5:00 pm recently had 430 million songs downloaded - marketshare going up
5:00 pm last quarter - sold 16 million ipods, reflected in market share - overall 76% among ALL players
5:00 pm update on iPod
5:00 pm best buying experience in the world
5:00 pm retail group trying to find best interface for stores
5:00 pm 109 stores worldwide
5:00 pm $1/2 billion products moved
5:00 pm 109 stores worldwide
5:00 pm steve wearing all black
10:12 am steve wearing all black
10:05 am Steve takes the stage
9:59 am *music playing*
9:46 am testing 1234
9:43 am Doors to hall are open
People beginning to take seats

[alfredo]

3. ...Most say Intel rumors....AAAARRRGGHH!!!

Jobs wearing black. That's odd.

[benburch]

5. This feed seems to have died. nt

[alfredo]

7. Shades of Monty Python's Holy Grail.

[benburch]

9. Arrrrrghhhh...

But he wouldn't have carved "Arrrgh" surely!

[alfredo]

10. LoL!

[LifeDuringWartime]

4. from MacNN live feed

Mac OS X has been leading secret double life. Every Mac project build for Intel and PowerPC and Intel. Every release of Mac OS X has been built for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. For the last 5 years. Mac OS X is cross-platform by design. Apple's demo is on an Intel-based system. Jobs shows all Mac OS X Tiger features are already compatible with Intel-based processors. Not done yet. Will put into the developer hands to help Apple finish it. <10:32 am>

Two major transitions for Mac: 68K to PowerPC. Next Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. Now time for third transition. Transition to Intel-based Macs. Developers Now. Next year for users. "Because we want to make the best computers for our customers." No G5 PowerBook yet. Future products can't be build on IBM of PowerPC. Intel has performance and better performance per watt. Intel delivers much better performance per watt. Starting next year the first Macs with Intel processors. Shipping by next WWDC. Mostly complete by 2007 WWDC. Complete by the end of 2007. Two-year transition. <10:28 am>

Panther 49%..Tiger 16%..Jaguar 25%....early 5%...Expecting Tiger to grow 50% of base by same time next year. Apple has released 5 major versions of OS in last 5 years, while Microsoft has released one (XP). Leopard, next major relase of Mac OS X, due at the end of 2006, alongside Longhorn release. <10:26 am>

http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc/05/index.html

[benburch]

6. Sounds like he plans to kill Microsoft.

RIP

[alfredo]

8. I heard from a Microkernel developer that Apple was going to do

an end run around MS. They knew that they could not compete head on at that time. UNIX was the mother of all head games.