Phil Schiller coming on stage.
There are set to be 5,200 developers attending WWDC, from 54 countries.

Phil: “Can’t you feel the love in this room?”
Showing us a graphic of OS X user growth from 2002 to 07
“Something incredible has happened over the last two years” Number of active users has tripled to 75m users

Apple and customers are in love with the new MacBook design
They’re announcing a new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro
Unibody chassis, built-in battery up to 7hrs runtime – up from 5hrs

Plus more environmentally friendly. They can squeeze 1,000 recharge cycles out of the battery, rather than 300 from the old battery tech
It’s “just as thin and just as light” as the old machine and it has the “nicest display we’ve ever put in a notebook”
They’ve dropped the expresscard slot and replaced it with an SD Card slot!

Something people have been asking for for a long time. Apparently only “single digit” customers used expresscard slot. SD is a standard now, it’s the fastest notebook Apple have ever made

With up to a 3.06GHz dual core CPU and up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, up to 500gb of traditional hard-drive or 256GB of SSD
Starts at $1,699, which is lower than the model it replaces by $300, in fact

$1,699 gets you a 2.53GHz model with 4GB RAM, 250GB hard-drive, 9400M graphics and SD
$1,999 steps up to the 2.6GHz model – same ram but 320GB hard-drive and dual 9400M and 9600M GT graphics
$2,299 gets you 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard-drive and the dual graphics

Also, 17-inch MBP gets an update, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard-drive plus the 9400M and 9600M GT graphics together with a price cut of $300 to $2,499
They’ll both ship today, 15 and 17 inch MBP. New 13-inch MacBook too Built-in battery and new display

The 13-inch model is being absorbed into the MacBook Pro range and will cost $1,199
Basic model gets a 2.25GHz processor, just 2GB of DDR3 ram, 9400m graphics, 160GB hard-drive
Step up to $1,499 and you get 2.53GHz, 4GB of DDR3, 9400m graphics and the SD card slot – Both models are available to buy today

MacBook Air is next to get an upgrade. Price cut by $300 to $1,499 for the 1.86Ghz model. The SSD version goes down to $1,799 – a cut of $700. The SSD Air has the 2.13GHz processor as standard, and 128GB of storage

Betrand Sorre taking the stage
“Great hardware deserves great software”
“What a sharp contrast with Vista our OS is”
“Leopard is the most successful software product Apple has ever had”
“By far the best OS written for the majority of customers, even more complexity is present in Windows 7 – the same old tech as Vista, just another version”

They’re adding Exchange support to it and UI of Finder hasn’t changed but it’s now been rewritten in Cocoa
The icons draw faster, trash empties quicker, describing it as refining 90% of the OS; cancellations happen faster, icon previews are better, and animations are improved.
They’ve built Expose into the dock and the overall installation process has speeded up by 45%, plus, you’ll get 6GB back from your hard-drive once you install Snow Leopard, as it compresses system files

They’ve changed the PDF handling to better cope with text selection “We used a little bit of AI” Mail also gets a speed boost in Snow Leopard.
Shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger and Windows today; it’s 7.8x faster than IE8. Passes all 100 of the Acid 3 tests, the standard for today’s browsers. IE8 gets 21 out of 100, Safari gets new “crash resistance” mainly from a better way of handling plugins

Talking about new Quicktime version, “Quicktime X”, it supports color sync and hardware acceleration, HTTP streaming
Modern foundation, gets a slick new icon
“Super efficient” HTTP streaming works with any server and they’ve given the UI a makeover too

Snow Leopard upgrade is priced at $29, Family Pack upgrade costs $49. It’ll be available in September

Now moving onto the iPhone, Scott Forstall coming on-stage
Apple released the native SDK less than a year ago, so that devs could create “truly native” applications
There are now more than 50,000 apps in the App Store and has sold more than 40m iPhones and iPod touches, and the apps run on all of them

29 carriers will support iPhone MMS at launch. AT&T will be ready for MMS at the end of the summer
Now talking about spotlight search across iPhone – searching calendars, music, notes, email

Now talking about tethering “this allows you to share your connection with your computer”. It works with Mac and Pc, over USB or Bluetooth
“it is a seamless experience” – no tethering software on your computer, once it’s on. Requires carrier support, unsurprisingly tethering has 22 partners in 44 countries and ominously no mention of AT&T (no AT&T tethering at OS 3.0 launch)

Safari Mobile on iPhone gets support for HTTP streaming audio/video works through firewalls – auto-adjusts for your connection speed, javascript is 3x faster
Safari can also auto fill forms based on your contacts data plus there’s password autofill , HTML 5 support, support for video and audio tags
support more than 30 languages from korean, thai, arabic, greek, hebrew, all get added in OS 3.0

New “Find my iPhone” feature. “if you’ve ever lost or misplaced your phone, it can be traumatic”
Liz Lemon has used her iPhone to take “intimate” photos… and lost the phone. With find My iPhone is a MobileMe service you can log into MobileMe from any browser, and it will locate your iPhone on a map.

Sending a message to your iPhone makes it bleep, whether or not you left it in silent mode plus you can have an on-screen message show, with a number that you specify. In a worse-case scenario, you can remotely wipe it

“This is the most powerful, fastest iPhone ever made”. The iPhone 3G S.
The new iPhone has the same design as the 3G but 2.4x faster at games, messaging is 2.1x faster, excel 3.6x faster, nytimes loads are 2.9x faster, 3x faster javascript
Compared to iphone 3g, javascript scores in SunSpider at 15s for the 3GS, 43s for the 3G
It supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA and gets a new 3-megapixels camera with autofocus. Overall it’s roughly 2x faster than the iPhone 3G

They’ve also improved battery life with up to 5hrs 3g talktime, 9hrs of internet over WiFi, 10hrs of video playback, 30hrs audio, 12hrs 2g talktime
It is greener too, 23% smaller packaging

The iPhone 3GS is $199 for the 16GB version and $299 for the 32GB model. This are the AT&T prices for the US market. It comes in white and black.

iPhone 3G stays on the market for $99 starting from today. The iPhone 3GS available on June 19th. It’ll be available in over 80 countries by August. US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and UK get the iPhone 3GS on June 19th

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