WWDC 2008 Keynote

Watch this space for updates. I will attempt to post announcements from the keynote as they occur, as long as I have internet access.

• 8:17 AM - now on the second floor of Moscone West waiting to go upstairs to the Presidio. Charging my MacBook Pro & iPhone.
• 9:52 AM - I'm in the Presidio now. We have WiFi!
• 9:56 AM - instead of the usual music, playing Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and 50s rock.
• 10:01 AM - Al Gore on TV monitors, everyone cheers.
• 10:06 AM program about to start
• 10:07 AM - Steve Jobs is on stage
• 10:07 AM - 3 parts to Apple: Mac, Music, iPhone
• 10:08 AM - mentioned Snow Leopard,
• 10:09 AM - over 25000 people applied to paid developer program
• 10:10 AM - enterprise features: microsoft exchange, cisco VPN, remote data wipe
• 10:12 AM - video of enterprise customers, starting with Disney, including US Army
• 10:15 AM - next up, SDK, introducing Scott Forstall.
• 10:16 AM - SDK is the same thing Apple uses in house for iPhone development.
• 10:17 AM - Core OS is almost identical to Mac OS.
• 10:19 AM - demonstrates building user interface in XCode & Interface Builder.
• 10:25 AM - Scott reads some developer quotes about the SDK.
• 10:27 AM - Developer demos: first, Sega demonstrates Super Monkey Ball. Will be available at launch of app store for $9.99.
• 10:30 AM - eBay. Ken Sun demonstrates native mobile client. Will be available free when app store launches.
• 10:33 AM - Loopt, location + social network. Will be free when app store launches.
• 10:36 AM - Typepad, mobile blogging software, including photo blogging. Will be available free when app store launches.
• 10:39 AM - Associated Press. Mobile News Network, uses location API to automatically retrieve local news. Will be available free when app store launches.
• 10:41 AM - Pangea Software. Demonstrates Enigmo & Cro-Mag Rally, both ported from OS X. Only took 3 days to get them up & running. Both will be available for $9.95 when app store opens.
• 10:45 AM - Mark Terry demonstrates Band. Lets you create music on the iPhone. Will be available in app store.
• 10:48 AM - MLB.com, official website of Major League Baseball, Live updates from today's games, real-time video highlights.
• 10:50 AM - Modality, learning application for medical students. Will have a dozen educational applications within weeks of the app store launch.
• 10:54 AM - MIMvista, medical imaging. Available at launch of app store.
• 10:57 AM - Digital Legends Entertainment, started with SDK two weeks ago. Demonstrates a very impressive action adventure game. Completely blows away other handheld game consoles. Will be ready in September.
• 11:00 AM - feature request: background processes. Bad idea because of battery life & performance. Solution is push notification service, available to all applications. You can push badges, audio notifications, text alerts.
• 11:04 AM - Steve is back on stage, talking about new features: Contact search, full iWork document support, MS Office support, bulk delete & move, save images, scientific calculator - just turn calculator to landscape mode, parental control,
• language support, including Japanese, Chinese (including an entry method where you draw the character with your finger).
• iPhone 2.0 software to be released in July, free for iPhone users.
• 11:08 AM - App Store. Developer sets price & keeps $70% of revenue, no credit card or hosting fees, no charge for free apps. Will be in 62 countries. Apps 10MB or less can be downloaded via cell phone. Enterprises can distribute apps by authorizing iPhones in their enterprise. Their applications will only run on authorized iPhones and can be distributed on their own network. Third way to distribute apps: ad-hoc. Developer certificate can be extended to 100 iphones, which will allow apps to be distributed via email & other methods to any of those phones.
• 11:13 AM - Mobile Me, introduced by Phil Schiller.
• Active Stink :)
• Gives everyone push email, contacts, calendar. Supports Mac, iPhone, PC. Pushes information on the fly immediately. Works wirelessly, everything kept up to date.
• desktop style web 2.0 applications available at me.com.
• Mobile Me will be available for $99/year, available in early July. Mobile Me replaces .Mac. All .Mac users can continue to use .Mac services and can switch over to use new services.
• 11:28 AM - Steve is back, talking about iPhone's first birthday. "The phone that has changed phones forever". 90% customer satisfaction. 98% use mobile browsing, 94% use email, 90% uuse text messaging, 84% use 10 or more phone features.
• Next challenges: 3G network, enterprise support, third party applications, more countries, more affordable.
• 56% think iPhone is too expensive.
• iPhone 3G! Looks exactly as rumored, thinner, black plastic back. flush audio jack!
• website load takes 21 seconds on 3G... audience getting restless, still loading...59 seconds on Edge. 3G speed close to WiFi. Faster than Nokia N95 or Treo 750.
• Standby time up to 300 hours, 2G talk time up to 10 hours, 5 hours 3G talk time. 5-6 hours browsing. video 7 hours, 24 hours audio.
• GPS! Demonstrates GPS tracking with a drive down Lombard street.
• More countries: goal of 12 countries, 25 countries over next several months. Canada coming soon! Interactive map with "It's a small world" playing.
• iPhone 3G will be rolled out in 70 countries this year.
• Will sell for $199! 16G model $299, including white model.
• Rollout in 22 countries including Canada, on July 11.
• 11:46 AM - new ad.
• Thanks iPhone team in the audience.
• No mention of Mac.