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The lights are up, it is over.
No mac tablets (a bit normal as the WWDC is a developer-oriented event)
Steve is thanking the iPhone team, it sounds like the end
the iPhone 3G will be available on July 11th in 22 countries. According to Apple, maximum price around the world is 199 USD.
the iPhone 3G is going to be unpacked live on hte stage
iPhone 3G 16 GB: 299 USD
New price, cheaper:
- iPhone 3G 8GB: 199 USD!
including: China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and many others
the iPhone will now be available in more 70 countries
So live tracking on google maps!
the new iPhone brings GPS support
3G but preserved battery life on the iPhone 3G: 300 hours of standby, 5 hours of 3G talk-time
3G brings faster data downloads / better looking than other 3G mobile phone
- The thin iPhone becomes even thinner
- black plastic
- metal buttons
- same high quality touch-screen display
- camera
Steve introduces the iPhone 3G
Steve reckons that the key feature for hte new model are:
- 3G network support
- Enterprise support
- Third party application support
- Broader availability
- Cheaper
within the first year, 6 million iPhones shipped! so only 4 millions to go for hte 10 millions goals in 2008
sound like a typical introduction to the new model, even better than the first one
Steve is back on stage and summarize the credits and positive critics about hte fist iphone
the price remains the same 99 USD...
It will include a 60-day free trial
As expected Me.com replaces .Mac
Same way for creating pa meeting which almost immediately sync and appears on hte iPhone
He demoes an typical enterprise-oriented function: pushed email. It appears right away on the phone as well as on the web interface. same thing for the contact. Realtime syncing!
Phil demoes over the air features, which will of course depends on your carrier, the technology it deployed as well as the cost or limitations included in your subscription
iDisk is integrated into Me.com, so one can get info from it, as well as save onto it. Mail application looks like a true desktop application.
It is named also Me.com
It works over the air (let's hope you have a free data rate sibscription) Changes are displayed realtime. Fully functional with Mail, iCal, and Address Book on Mac and with Outlook on Windows.
Best way to Sync between you Mac, iPhone and even PC
Phil on stage to demo the Exchange for the rest of us: MobileMe
Ad hoc, probably an education-targeting way of distributing application: to up to 100 authorized iPhones
Apple keeps thinking of hte iPhone as the new tools for Enterprises which can distribute application to their employees. They authorize iPhones within their enterprise and then create applications that just run on those phones. The apps can be distributed just through their intranet.
Otherwise it will require Wifi or via iTunes
Application less than 10 MB in size can be distributed via phone connection in 62 countries
Free application will really be FREE: no charge to anyone
For the first time Apple gives figures about the way revenues will be shared:developer sets the price and keep 70%, FairPlay DRM-protected wrapped
A great features: the wireless download support, automatic updates
Now Steve talks about the basis of iPhone application, its dedicated store: the AppStore
The new iPhone 2.0 firmware will be available early July. It will be free for iPhone owners, and cost 9.99 USD for iPod Touch owners
Due to the launch of hte iPhone 2.0 in Asia, it features a complete and powerful Asian language support, including character recognition
Steve is now mentioning new feature of iPhone 2.0:
- contact search
- full iWork document support
- complete MS Office support: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint,
Steve is back on the stage
This service will not be available before September, but developers will get it before.
They want background support and Apple wants to help them, and a push notification service will made available for all developers
Demo are finished, and Apple has been listening to developers' wishes
They have brought a great 3D game in just 2 weeks of work, still not fully finished as it will be ready in September. It takes advantage of OpenGL and touch controls
The last demo will be provided by Digital Legends
This application looks like the famous OSIRIX, a NMR record displaying application.
Next is Modality, demoing 2 medical-oriented applications. The first one is for teaching/learning the names of the differnet parts of the body. The second application is MIMvista
The photo below illustrate the next developer: MLB.com. The application shows today's games with live, detailed scoring.
You can play a virtual piano, drums, 12-bar blues "instrument", and a bass. In addition what you play can be recorded! imagine an artist while commuting in the subway and practicing is last creation for his bass a on an iPhone...
Its application is entitled "Band", and looks like an iPhone-version of Garageband
Then come an independent developer (first one)
Both games are ready, and will be available on the App Store for 9.99 USD
The first one is Enigmo, a brainstorming game, the second one is the famous 3D Mac racing game Cro-Mag Rally, the iPhone is the steering wheel! Amazing
Brian Greenstone demoes two games.
Next pangea software, well known and popular Mac game developing companies
It is called Mobile News Network, and takes advantage of the location API. It allows news video and photos to be displayed directly from the application. You can even report yourself, a popualr feature in USA. This application as the 2 previous ones will also be available for free at the launch of the App Store.
Next is Benjamin Mosse speaking from Next the Associated Press
As for Loopt, the application will be available for free at the launch of the App Store
Now, it is the turn of the "first" text editor application, TypePad. This application is designed to make it simple to blog and send photo. One can shoot the photo with the iPhone and send it straight.
Loopt application is multiplatform, and will come for free at the launch of the App Store
Then comes Loopt, or how to track/spy your friends (or your girl-friend)
The AppStore will not only offer pay-per-download application, and some freeware should also be available
Next to come on the sage is eBay. eBay already on the iPhone! Demo of auction, includes most of the classical eBay functions
| The game is already ready to go as soon as the AppStore is opened. Price: 9.99 USD |
They demo the iPhone version of the popular Super Monkey Ball
Scott ends his demo of iPhone simulator by quoting comments from some companies about the iPhone 2.0. Then some developers come on the stage is SEGA!
Of course not everyone is as talented as Scott, but for sure developers will enjoy such tools
In less than 10 minutes, Scott could create a fully functional geo-localization application already functional for the iPhone
He keeps showing how easy it is to build such application and especially great UI. While developing such tools, it does not have to worry about the iPhone orientation as the device takes care of hte display and rearrange all elements
Scott Forstall demoes how to construct an UI in Interface Builder. then goes on with the creation of a basic Cocoa Touch application called Nearby Friends
Such as CoreOS, Core Services, Media, Cocoa Touch (same OS X kernel on iPhone that forms the basis of Mac OS X)
Thanks to Leopard and built-in technologies
How one could have made the iPhone 2.0 so powerful?
Enterprise have been involved in iPhone 2.0 development, 35% of Fortunes 500 companies have been participating
The iPhone 2.0 supports MS Exchange by default, including push email, contacts, calendars, auto-discovery, global address book, etc.
As expected Apple is now targeting corporate market, with an Enterprise oriented support
The new iPhone SDK 2.0 stands on 3 legs: Enterprise, SDK, and new end-user features.
-250,000 downloaded the beta iPhone dev program / 4000 have entered the beta version program
Steve starts speaking about the iPhone and its SDK
LET'S GO
All Apple Stores are down for being upgraded
-2 hours: let's breath deeply and stay relax, we will have a keynote coverage within less than 2 hours, we should expect the iPhone 3G, new tools for developers and potentially some Mac mini update and Mac tablet :)