I’ll be live blogging my thoughts here as we go, as well as on my twitter feed. So if you want to get my opinions as they go, you can check either of them out.
Updates
- Looks like things are running a bit behind.
- The Steve is on stage.
- Leopard: 5 million copies in 5 months, most success Apple OS ever, 20% upgrade rate.
- Time Capsule, Wireless Harddrive for backups, Server Grade Harddrive–2 Versions.
- iPhone, 200 days on sale, 4 million sold, 20,000 a day in sales.
- 19% market share in the cellphone industry over its first quarter.
- search and directions buttons now in maps on the iphone
- Multiple SMS at once on the iPhone…about time imo.
- Webclips…stupid…waste. BORING.
- Chapters and Language possibilities on ipods. Now that’s cool!
- Touch, Mail, Stocks, Notes, and Weather… FINALLY!
- EWW, 20.00 upgrade for the touch. LAME.
- Movie Rentals, who the hell didn’t see that one coming!
- All major studio’s are onborad… who wants to bet Canadians get boned again.
- 30 days to watch, 24 hours to finish the film… 2.99 for older films, 3.99 for new releases. Available 30 days after dvd ships (lame if you ask me)….
- AND THERE IT IS… CANADA GETS SCREWED AGAIN…. probably 2-4 years before they do films in Canada… lol
- Apple TV 2.0… get stuff straight off the apple tv, no need for a pc. Flickr integration, and .mac (DVD quality AND HD + Dolby 5.1, movie rentals directly)
- HD rentals are $4.99 and apparently 100 titles will be available today… if you live in the US of course.
- Preview available for films, and you can see what other people have rented that have rented the film you’re interested in…
- Can buy music directly from the appletv
- Free software upgrade.
- Entry price is now 229.00,down from 299… whoopie!
- Fox guy… blah blah blah blah blha blah…
- The STEVE is back… finally…
- Macbook Air, “The World’s Thinnest Notebook”
- Stop delaying… I’m about to have mind explosion….
- “MacBook Air is 0.16″ to 0.76″. The thickest part of the MacBook Air is thinner than the thinnest part of the Sony. It fits inside a envelope” WOW
- 13.3 inch widescreen display.
- LED backlit, ambient display, iSight builtin
- mult-touch trackpad, “Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb. Of course, pinch-zoom.”
- 1.8″ Hard Drive
- 80gb standard, 64 SSD available.
- 1.6 GHz Standard speed with an upgrade to 1.8 GHz an option — all Intel Core 2 Duo chipsets
- Intel shrunk the chipset by 60% just because apple asked… now that’s clout!
- Has no optical drive, but one is available for 99$, and software is coming with the macbook air that lets you “share” the drive of another mac.
- $1799…not sure how i feel about that…
- environmentally friendly… maybe this will be the tipping point with my wife… ;)
