MacMegasite

Here are my edited notes from Steve’s Keynote this morning.

• 9:56 AM – I’m seated in the Presidio room for the keynote. We have no internet access.
• 10:02 AM – Keynote starts with a commercial where the PC guy pretends to be Steve Jobs and announces he’s quitting.
• 10:03 AM – Steve Jobs gets on stage.
• 10:04 AM – This is the biggest WWDC ever in the history of Apple
• 10:04 AM – 950,000 Developer Connection members
• 10:05 AM – Steve talks about the Intel transition
• 10:06 AM – Steve introduces Intel CEO Paul Otellini, presents him with an award. Paul says working with Apple is the best thing that ever happened for Intel.
• 10:08 AM – Game news. EA is coming back to the Mac, introduces Bing Gordon Co-Founder & CEO of EA. Starting in July, several games including Command & Conquer 3, Need For Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be available for the Mac. Shows demo of harry potter; graphics look awesome. In August, sports games will be released simultaneously on the Mac.
• 10:13 AM – Steve introduces John Carmack, owner & CEO of ID. First public showing of Mac development. Incredible graphics of a virtual world with full motion.
• 10:16 AM – 22M active Mac OS X users, 67% using Tiger, 23% running Panther, 10% running older systems.
• 10:17 AM – Leopard. 300 new features. Demonstrates 10 new features.
  1. New desktop. Trnaslucent menu bar; new 3D dock. Stacks – clean up desktop. Consistent appearance. Active window more promintent. Stack icon appears in the dock and lets you pick any item, including new download folder. Downloads will be redirected to a new download folder. Reflections of icons appear when window is dragged behind dock. Multiple stacks can be created. Stacks can act as an app launcher.
  2. New Finder! New sidebar. Can now search other computers and servers. new “back to my mac” feature added to .Mac. Shared computers. Cover Flow. New smart searches. Finder looks a lot like iTunes. Back to my Mac lets you connect to your remote computer via .Mac over the internet.
  3. Quick Look. Instant preview of files without opening an application. Can add support for new applications via plugins.
  4. 64 bit. Entirely 6 bit up through Cocoa. One version runs both 32 and 64 bit.
  5. Core Animation. Automatic animation for applications.
  6. Boot Camp. Complement to Parallels & VMware.
  7. Spaces. Multiple desktops.
  8. Dashboard. 3000+ Widgets. Added movie time widget. WebClip lets you make a widget from any web page. Dashcode ships with every copy of Leopard.
  9. iChat. New iChat Theater lets you present applications in a chat. Slide shows, movies, etc. can be shown over the internet. Uses Quick Look technology – anything that supports Quick Look can be presented via iChat Theater. Backdrops & Photo Booth effects.
  10. Time Machine.
• 11:06 AM – Copies are available to attendees after keynote. Basic, Premium, Business, and Ultimate versions all cost $129. Audience cheers. Only one version for $129, a swipe at Vista’s confusing versions.
• 11:08 AM – One more thing. Safari 18.6 million safari users, 4.9% market share. Safari is moving to Windows! Twice as fast as IE7. 1.6% faster than Firefox. Public beta for Windows & Tiger available today at http://www.apple.com/safari.
• 11:15 AM – One last thing – iPhone. Available June 29. Developers? Innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices. Full safari engine in iPhone lets you write Web 2.0 & AJAX apps that integrate perfectly with iPhone services, instant distribution via your own server. Run securely on the iPhone. No SDK – use standard web apps. Scott Forstall demonstrates iPhone apps. Apple directory application, accesses LDAP directory using standard web services, has native iPhone look & feel. Can use built-in iPhone services, such as making phone call, compose email, built-in google maps application.