Emory is emulating his desktop computer, creating a simulation of his original work environment. This is the power of what librarians and archivists call "born-digital" material: It can go beyond preservation—bits are bits are bits, after all—and through emulation, you can actually inhabit his digital world, use the tools he used. You can't write in the leather-back books that Dickens did, but you can scribble in simulations of Rushdie's Mac Stickies. It's preserving more than material, it's preserving, in part, circumstance.

The NYT says, creepily, "It may even be possible in the future to examine literary influences by matching which Web sites a writer visited on a particular day with the manuscript he or she was working on at the time." I can only wonder and fear what'll come out of chatroulette. And we can only fear the day 4chan is revealed as the literary genesis for a generation, recreated perfectly in university libraries. [NYT]

Memory [Forever] is our week-long consideration of what it really means when our memories, encoded in bits, flow in a million directions, and might truly live forever

6:46 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's early. But never too early for pie. I'm eating pie.

7:11 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Did anyone get in on that Klingon invasion in Star Trek Online yesterday?That must have been GREAT. Pew pew.

7:19 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Gotta say, the Palm Pre Plus Wi-Fi hotspot is pretty useful. I'm Wi-Fi connected to it from an iPhone now.

7:29 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's not totally unprecedented, so I wonder what celebrities will be attending today. John Mayer? Ralph Macchio? Yoko Ono?

7:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Or Kanye West, as he runs up on stage, slapping the tablet out of Steve Jobs' hands, exclaiming that the Handspring Visor was the best tablet of all time.

7:35 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Think of all the product placements on TV shows in a few months. Jack Bauer using a tablet to peep on terrorists, House playing tablet games when he's supposed to be diagnosing lupus, and Heroes, being a lousy show.

7:38 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: None for Lost, because they're supposed to be in 2004...or 2037. I can never keep their time traveling straight.

7:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I just saw two cops pull over an unmarked white van. This is not the start of a horribly tasteless joke, just an observation.

7:48 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Gawker boss Nick Denton is really excited about this tablet. This is as of yet unconfirmed, but I hear he's going to buy one for everyone in the company. Don't tell anyone.

7:59 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Good morning, Jason; gadget fans.

8:01 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Uh oh a tunnel.

8:03 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: The last time I was in New York, Nick Denton took Blam and I out to lunch. We sat in some sort of Mexican dungeon while Denton stared down at the thick wooden table and said of the tablet, "It's the gadget I've been waiting for all my life." Mostly true story! Then today he sent out some lines from Shakespeare. All I'm saying is can someone in the New York office check on him? I'm worried about him.

Joel Johnson: It's strange to be receiving last minute leaks on what the tablet looks like. At this point it's almost impossible to get excited about something we'll see for certain in a couple of hours.

8:05 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I wish I were typing this on a tablet right now. It would be more entertaining by $600.

8:08 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Jason: You wish it'd only be $600 more entertaining. I'm betting on this thing costing upwards of a grand. Or as I call it "ten large, but not the extra large, right just hundreds."

8:11 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Richard Lawson over at Gawker is musing about the scavenger hunt they ran:

Like blockbuster movies! That's sort of sweet in an irredeemably nerdy way, isn't it? There is something about the grandeur and anticipation of one of these keynote magic shows. Yes it's all nasty and capitalistic and cold and inhuman, but a little bit of excitement never hurt anyone, especially in these penurious times, when a Cosmo centerfold has assumed the regency and rules us all from his throne made of the bones of the New York Yankees.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5458127/the-apple-tablet-and-the-joy-of-anticipation

8:16 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: So a lot of people have been kind of chuckling up to me, being totally nice if misguided, and asking, "So are you totally sick of this tablet stuff yet?" And I mean, I appreciate it, but I have to say that in this case no I am not. I am legitimately excited to see what Apple pulls out today. Although I will cop to being slightly mentally prepped for learning that they've cracked some magical new haptic/physical feedback QWERTY typing solution. If it's just a really nice touchscreen device I'll survive, but I will shed a tear privately.

8:19 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Really bad puns ahoy:

@Lea_Hernandez RT @gdwessel Nice. RT: @EddieRobson: Wouldn't it be great if Apple made a comics reader called the iSner?

It's funny because of this guy named Will Eisner who was sort of an important comics guy who...fine. But I would love love love to see some comics stuff announced today for this thing. Actually, I should call one of my sources now just for a last second check up.

8:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Ooh, we just got in some pictures of what looks like the unibody aluminum back of the tablet. Posting here in a sec.

8:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: We're here, along with the usual cast of unemployables.

8:24 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Attendee baldness ratio remains unchanged. No more, no less. But there is no sun, so the glare isn't too bad.

8:26 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Okay, Hermann got pictures of the back up: Is This The Outside of the Apple Tablet?. Looks legit to me!

Joel Johnson: @Jason: What about the beard|baldness ratio?

8:27 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Some guy just came up and asked me if I was Jason Chen:. After I confirmed, he said he was a big fan. I thanked him. Was I just punk'd?

8:30 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: A few standard outfits here. You've got your jeans, shirt and a blazer, your "running down to Dennys" windbreaker and sweatpants, your "I'm on network TV" suit, and your randomly sprinkled hipster uniforms.

8:33 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson: I hope Apple announces a 9lb tablet with hand crank power only.

8:36 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Beard to baldness ratio is about 1:3, unless you're talking about the other kind of beard, in which case there are no women here.

8:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Hey look, it's Matt Buchanananan, who some random stranger called the Gizmodo albino one time. That wasn't nice, random stranger. You take that back.

8:42 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Jason, Mark. I don't want to get all I-told-you-so, but wouldn't you really be loving a van-cooked tablet-shaped sausage patty right now?

8:42 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson: I hope Apple announces a 180lb tablet that's six feet tall and only displays a lifesized animated gif of Steve Jobs waving to me at all times.

8:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Joel, I believe I would be more interested in a sausage shaped tablet party.

8:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Oh you said patty. That too.

8:48 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson: I hope Apple announces the 10-inch tablet we've all imagined but the only supported language is Wingdings.

8:49 am ON Jan 27 2010
matt buchannan:

8:51 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Wow, Haiti really cleaned itself up for this one. (That is Haiti, right?)

8:53 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that Bootcamps into a Microsoft Courier.

8:56 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: I have a dirty secret: I've never actually ever been to an Apple event. Here's a worse one: I got this email bounce of the invite that Apple sent to Gizmodo, and for like 24 hours I thought they were inviting me specifically. I crowed about it ever so subtly to the rest of the Gizmodo crew, until I realized that I didn't actually know how to read email headers properly. Hence, me home in my bathrobe. (P.S. MSF can still use funds that you can't spend on a tablet today anyway. I'll stop now.)

9:00 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that renders Call of Duty at full resolution but requires a MobileMe subscription to play online.

9:01 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I regret shaving my beard off last night.

9:02 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: I was about to make fun of Earth2Tech for this post where they talk about how "green" the Apple Tablet will be without ever having seen one, but then I realized: 1) I write for Gizmodo, which has paid for several of Denton's wigs this month by Apple speculation alone 2) Atoms are the new bits! So don't worry about anything. I'm pretty sure Apple harvested the raw materials from wandering asteroids.

9:04 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: OMG Jason. My beard is so bad right now because I'm growing it out for this article on shaving I'm doing for Mark. But what's worse is that now it has been so long since my skin has seen sunlight that when I finally do shave my face will be so buttery it'll look like I just went down on Paula Deen.

9:04 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope that Apple announces a tablet with a display that shakes clean like an Etch a Sketch, but ruins 70% of the emails you type handheld.

9:06 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: If I could grow a 70s moustache like some of these guys, I would be seven times as manly. Plus, I would never go hungry.

9:08 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Whoa, one man looks like he just got back from a Himalaya expedition. It's working for him.

9:10 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that runs 7 hours on lithium ion battery, or 7 1/2 hours on 1 gram of unobtainium.

9:10 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Pics! I hear that dressing up in quasi-steampunk worsted fabrics is what the cool kids in the Bay Area are wearing these days. And to think we gave up tight-rolled jeans for beards in the last '80s revival.

9:11 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: We just saw Jon Ive, and he is drinking brandy like a classy son of a bitch.

9:13 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Joel, I don't understand half of the words in your last update.

9:14 am ON Jan 27 2010
matt buchannan:

9:14 am ON Jan 27 2010
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9:16 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Jason: That usually means that I'm trying to get into your pants. Seduction-by-thesaurus is way undervalue, lowball, do an injustice to, be wrong about, sell short, play down, understate. Whoa, it's Fry and Ive! Take that, House!

9:16 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that is 99% compostable, save for a highly radioactive nuclear core with half life of 2,000,000 years.

9:16 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Also pictured next to Ive, Stevie Fry, who is unfortunately not drinking.

9:18 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: And if you stare at that JPG and whisper, "Bloody ginger, bloody ginger" five times the specter of matt buchannan: Buchanan will appear.

9:18 am ON Jan 27 2010
matt buchannan:

9:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: If you're not already following us on Twitter, it's @gizmodo and @diskopo for me, personally.

9:24 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that's really just 6 iPod touches glued together, bezels and all.

9:25 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Joel, while it's true most gingers have souls, it's undertermined if matt buchannan: Buchanan does. My money is on him stealing the soul of an intern when we weren't looking.

9:26 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that functions exclusively in select Starbucks locations.

9:26 am ON Jan 27 2010
matt buchannan:

9:28 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a 10-inch tablet that can double as a colorful vanity plate.

9:30 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Mark: I heard that Jason Calacanis has an Apple tablet that is powered entirely by an encapsulated ego dynamo that orbits the black hole in his brain where most people have a sense of humor.

9:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: OH WHAT IS THAT fruit table! Brian was all "They always serve food; there's no need for sausage patties." Well clearly there is. God, the editorial sense in this place!

9:32 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet free from the yellow, flickering screens of the latest iMacs.

9:33 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: People are lining up to go inside, and I am drafting behind someone who is guaranteed to get in fast.

9:34 am ON Jan 27 2010
Mark Wilson I hope Apple announces a tablet that makes us all understand why we inexplicably crave a tablet.

9:39 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: We've lost contact with our away team as they begin the death shuffle to seats. These guys have been training for today for weeks. You'd think I'm joking because that sounds so pathetic but I'm totally not. This is our Bowie-meets-Bing-Crosby moment.

9:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: (In that metaphor we are Bing Crosby's sweater.)

9:44 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: There are simultaneously too many and too few pictures of beards in the liveblog comments.

9:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: We're inside. I'm liveblogging from the bathroom.

9:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
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9:46 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I was willing to bet a lot of money that Apple was going to play Phoenix before the show started, but it doesn't seem like they will be.

9:49 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Oh and don't forget to post your comments and predictions in our post here. Besides the Tablet, any guesses on what's going to be announced? My last minute ones: iLife, MacBook Pro i5/i7 upgrades and an upgrade to MobileMe that allows you to live stream your day to anybody who is interested.

9:50 am ON Jan 27 2010
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9:50 am ON Jan 27 2010
Joel Johnson: Before things really get cooking, you can also track all the stories that we'll be doing over the next couple of hours Twitter and Facebook. Or you could also go to the front page but that's not very social.

9:51 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: We're still about 10 minutes away from the event starting. I wonder if the guys backstage are vomiting from nervousness. I would be.

9:53 am ON Jan 27 2010
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9:53 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I swear the guy who was on Rescue Me (the fat lieutenant guy) is here, in the front, talking to someone. SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS.

9:54 am ON Jan 27 2010
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9:54 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: There are so many video cameras here from so many TV stations that I'm afraid to pick my nose, lest I end up on some station's B-Roll that they'll air some time tonight. Ahh, screw it, here I go anyway.

9:55 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I'm willing to bet half the people here will be liveblogging the next Apple event on a tablet, possibly with a keyboard attachment peripheral.

9:56 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: People are taking their seats, and the announcer is asking us to silence our cellphones and paging devices.

9:58 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Apple's playing a live recording of a Dylan concert. Unless Dylan is backstage, complete with an audience, that is. You never know!

10:00 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: I would love to liveblog a Dylan presentation. I could make up any text I wanted and nobody would doubt it, since nobody could decipher his mumblings anyway.

10:00 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The lights are dimming and the show should start soon.

10:01 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: There are three bottles of water on stage, because Steve Jobs never drinks from the same water bottle twice. (This is not true.)

10:01 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Steve Jobs is on stage, and he looks about the same as we last saw him (kinda skinny, but not unhealthily skinny).

10:02 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical products today."

10:02 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:03 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: But first he is going to talk about some other updates. A few weeks ago, they sold their 250 millionth iPod.

10:03 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The second update (he's going preetty fast here). Apple has 284 retail stores. They've had 50 million visitors to their stores.

10:03 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Their 4th store in NYC is on Broadway in Lincoln center, with a huge glass front and a bunch of tables inside.

10:03 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:04 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Next update: App Store. There are over 140,000 applications in the App Store. "A few weeks ago we announced a user downloaded the 3 billionth app from the App Store."

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10:05 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Lastly (a photo of Woz and Jobs is on stage), Steve says 34 years after they started in 1976, they have $15.6 billion of revenue.

10:05 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:05 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: So now Apple is over a $50 billion company. "It is pretty amazing."

10:05 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: They get their revenue from three product lines, iPods, iPhones and Macs. (A fourth coming today?!)

10:05 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:06 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: By revenue, Apple is the largest "mobile devices business" in the world now. Larger than Sony, with digital cameras camcorders, bigger than Samsung's, and bigger than Nokia. Again, by revenue.

10:07 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And now, the main event.

10:07 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:07 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Steve's showing a quote from the WSJ on the tablet.

10:07 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:07 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Before he's going to talk about the tablet, he's going to go back to 1991, when they shipped the first Powerbooks. It was the first laptop with a TFT screen, putting the keyboard up to create palm rests, and a pointing device.

10:08 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:08 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And three years ago, they invented the iPhone.

10:08 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:09 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "Is there room for a third category of device in the middle? Something that's between a laptop and smartphone."

10:09 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Things like browsing the web. Email. Photos. Videos. Music. Games. eBooks.

10:09 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "In order to create a third category of devices, these devices will have to be far better at doing some key tasks. What kind of tasks?"

10:09 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: This device needs to be BETTER than a laptop or a smartphone at these types of devices. "Or it has no reason for being."

10:10 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: But what about Netbooks? "Netbooks aren't better at ANYTHING! They're just like cheap laptops."

10:10 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "And we call it, the iPad." It's official.

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Jason Chen: A quick overview: "it's very thin", and you can change the background of the device.

10:11 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Here's what it looks like, and Steve Jobs has one. The icons are like the iPhone's, complete with a tray at the bottom (like the Mac OS X dock).

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Jason Chen: "It is the best browsing experience you've ever had."

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Jason Chen: You can turn iPad, and an accelerometer will adjust by itself. "You can see the whole webpage. "

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10:12 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And here's the keyboard: "it's a dream to type on", and it looks like a giant iPhone keyboard. "It's almost life size."

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10:12 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can flick through photos and emails just like on the iPhone, basically. There's a built-in calendar (like a datebook married the desktop OS X calendar).

10:13 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The music player is also very similar to the iPhone's, but also very similar to actual iTunes. It's a hybrid.

10:13 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:13 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can also watch YouTube (even in high def), and you can watch TV shows and movies. It's not widescreen though, and looks closer to 4:3 than 16:9.

10:13 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And here's a demo.

10:14 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You slide to unlock, just like an iPhone. "It's so much more intimate than a laptop."

10:14 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:14 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: First up, he's showing up Safari, going to Apple.com. Now he's visiting the New York Times website. The page renders just like a browser's, and there are the navigational buttons on the top.

10:15 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Jobs clicked a story and there is a missing plugin error (is this flash? Does this mean that the iPad won't have flash?)

10:15 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:16 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now, Time Magazine. Next, Fandango, because Steve Jobs wants to buy some tickets for a movie. "Grab the tablet that's in the kitchen, go to the iPad and buy your tickets."

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10:16 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And next, National Geographic's website. This could a flash plugin, I'm not sure. And Steve Jobs hasn't said anything about it yet.

10:17 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He's zooming in and swiping around just like an iPhone.

10:17 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Next up, email. He's looking at a message, and he can bring up a pulldown menu of the inbox on the left by clicking the inbox button. He can swap to landscape view and view things in widescreen, with the inbox on the left and the message on the right.

10:17 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:18 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now, demonstrating how to open a PDF. Tap on it and the PDF opens in a new window, just like on the iPhone.

10:18 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:18 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And to compose a message, click on compose and "up pops this gorgeous keyboard here." Steve Jobs is typing actually NOT with his thumbs, but with fingers, like on a real keyboard. He's placing it on his lap and typing away semi-naturally. But not without errors.

10:19 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:19 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's a cross platform device, because he can sync photos with Mac and Windows, but if he's on a Mac, you can get photo data like events from iPhoto.

10:20 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He's showing a vacation photo of someone's kids. And some girl named Liz.

10:20 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now, photos. He's swiping around and tapping photos, very similar to the way the iPhone works—but with a bigger screen, naturally.

10:20 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:20 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He can also zoom out to map mode, for photos, and see all the photos he took in a particular location in the world. There are pins representing different cities, with popups for each photo set.

10:21 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:21 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Jobs is showing a photo slideshow with backing music and decent-looking transitions. He's sitting cross-legged on his little loveseat.

10:21 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:21 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He holds the iPad with one hand and manipulates it with the other.

10:22 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now, iTunes. He can pull up songs similar to the new Album Cover view in iTunes, and he taps different album covers to bring up a list of songs in that album. Tapping a song there plays the song. It's more similar to iTunes on the desktop than iPod on the iPhone.

10:22 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And the iTunes store? He's showing JOHN MAYER's Battle Studies.

10:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: There are movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, iTunes U and a topless Alicia Keys.

10:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:23 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Jobs jumped over to calendar, which looks really like the one on the desktop, except for a couple more views like Day and List, which looks more like an organizer book (a physical one).

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10:24 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: But what else? There's a maps app, which is Google Maps (he doesn't mention Google by name though!) Not yet, anyway.

10:24 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He's loading up his current location, that means this has GPS or some kind of location sensing. But, there's no icon on the top next to the Wi-Fi icon that shows a 3G connection.

10:25 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Brian says don't go to the Sushi Boat place that Jobs just mentioned, because you will get food poisioning.

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10:26 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Jobs may have just said "that's fucking YouTube" while demoing YouTube, but I didn't quite get that middle word and heard what I wanted to hear. So, unconfirmed.

10:26 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:27 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: As for movies, Jobs is bringing up Star Trek, selecting a chapter and watching it in widescreen landscape mode. The movie only takes up about half the screen's display area because it's widescreen, and the tablet is not. p.s., lens flares.

10:27 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now he's showing the movie Up, which is also in widescreen (not quite as wide as Star Trek).

10:27 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: There's also a lot of bezel around the device for some reason. I'd say 20% of the device is bezel, if you're measuring in one direction?

10:28 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "And that's an overview of what the iPad can do."

10:28 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:28 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now, the hardware. "It's half an inch thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds."

10:28 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It has a 9.7-inch IPS display, which has "great angle of view."

10:28 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:29 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "As you know, Apple builds the same multitouch sensors in the world." And it has multitouch on this. It's powered by a 1GHz Apple A4 chip, and has 16GB to 64GB of flash storage.

10:29 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It has 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. 30-pin connector, speaker, microphone, accelerometer and compass.

10:29 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:29 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "And it screams."

10:30 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:30 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He can "fly to San Francisco to Tokyo and watch video the whole way on one charge." That's ten hours of VIDEO. And 1 month of standby charge.

10:30 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "And it's got battery. What is the battery life of this remarkable new device?" 10 hours of battery life.

10:30 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And the environmental checklist, pretty much the same as the laptops Apple's currently building.

10:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: But what about third-party applications? The App Store. Now he invites Scott Forstall, the SVP of iPhone Software.

10:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: This means it's going to run from the same App Store as the iPhone, but we're not sure about what TYPE of apps yet.

10:31 am ON Jan 27 2010
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10:32 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The iPad can run "virtually every one of these apps, unmodified, right out of the box." They can either run it very small, 10:1 pixel, in the center of the screen. Or they can "pixel double" it and run it full screen, in a low resolution mode.

10:32 am ON Jan 27 2010
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Jason Chen: He's downloaded all these apps unmodified from the App Store. First, Facebook. He runs it in a tiny iPhone-size window oin the middle of the screen. But he can tap the "2x" button and run things full screen. It's the same resolution, but just bigger.

10:33 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:33 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "But what about a game?" Here's an ESPN game called Snocross.

10:33 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:33 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Again, so far he's just running iPhone programs that are just uprezzed to the resolution of the iPad.

10:34 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's an unmodified game "right off the app store," emphasizing the fact that you're going to be able to play all these games that are already in the App Store, so that the iPad won't launch with a tiny library.

10:34 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:34 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He also has Flight Control installed on there, which is Nick Denton's favorite iPhone game.

10:35 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: But, what if the developer modifies their game for the larger display? "We rewrote the user interface of every one of our apps to take advantage of the larger display that comes with the iPad."

10:35 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:35 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "We've enhanced the iPhone SDK to support development for the iPad as well, and we're releasing the SDK today."

10:36 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:36 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can go to Apple.com today and "get going". The SDK includes an iPad simulator to run the iPad apps on the Mac.

10:36 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:37 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Apple will highlight apps that are created explicitly for the iPad in the iPad store as well. You can get iPhone apps, of course, but they will highlight the special ones.

10:37 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Scott is inviting some people on stage, starting with gameloft, to show what they can create especially for the iPad in just a few weeks.

10:38 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: First up, Nova, which is already on the iPhone. For the control scheme, you can slide the D-Pad up and down the screen, or move the controls around to your liking. The demo person is holding the iPad like a big iPhone, in two hands.

10:38 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can also do motions like sliding two fingers across the screen to throw a grenade.

10:39 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: They can "interact with the game world in ways that weren't possible before," like sliding three fingers on the screen to interact with a door.

10:39 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Another new innovation, drawing a targeting box around enemies and firing on them simultaneously.

10:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The higher resolution actually looks pretty good, and the textures don't look the same as on the iPhone's version.

10:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Next up is New York Times.

10:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And here's a person from the New York Times to talk about their app.

10:40 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:41 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The NYT will create a customized application for the iPad like they did for the iPhone.

10:41 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:42 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Here's the app. It's very similar to the actual paper, but can skip around like on the iPhone version. The formatt buchannan:ing is similar to a paper, and you can change the number of columns, resize text, flip through slideshows and go into landscape mode.

10:42 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:42 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: AND, you can play a movie, like on the website.

10:42 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:43 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's like the New York Times reader, basically.

10:44 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Next up is "Brushes". It's a "one person shop", and that one person, Steve Sprang, is coming on stage now.

10:44 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:44 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's a simple paint app (the invite for this event looked like a painting app too). And, he's showing off how you can paint on the screen with brushes, swatches and other tools painters should be used to.

10:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:45 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can pinch and zoom in up to 32x, and you can eyedropper as well. There's even support of in-app playback on the paintings.

10:46 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And Brushes will be available at the iPad launch.

10:46 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now, Electronic Arts.

10:46 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

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B. Lam

10:48 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: EA says the first thing they wanted to check out was the device's performance, and for that, Need For Speed. They're showing off a BMW M3, which looks quite good (definitely better than the iPhone), but not as good as on a PC. It looks somewhere inbetween, which is kinda the point of the device. Though it's closer to the iPhone. "It's like holding an HD screen up to your face."

10:48 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The game is also "fully touch enabled." To see inside the car, just tap inside the car, and swipe up and down on the shifter to change gears, and tap on the mirror to look behind you.

10:49 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Now he's showing off the framerate, which is pretty smooth actually, even if the graphics aren't very impressive compared to a laptop.

10:49 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:49 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Last up is MLB.com.

10:50 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:50 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:50 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: MLB says they had to create a "whole new experience" for the larger display. There's the "live game experience", which looks at scores, and even stuff like the trajectory of every pitch thrown, being able to tap on the ball to see details, or tapping on a person to see their baseball card.

10:51 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:51 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can even replay games in a small window on the screen. There are game controls, to see the box score, the field, the matchup and the lineup.

10:51 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can even watch live with your choice of home or away announcers.

10:51 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:52 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:52 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Scott from Apple is back on stage.

10:53 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Steve Jobs is back on stage. "Isn't it awesome? And these guys only had two, two and a half weeks to work on this thing. Imagine what they're going to do in the next few months." Does this mean that it's not coming for a few months?

10:53 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And now, an eBook reader app. "Amazon's done a great job of pioneering this technology with their ebook reader." And now, a new app called iBooks.

10:53 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

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B. Lam

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B. Lam

10:54 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's got a bookshelf, and the screen actually looks like you're looking down at a book, with extraneous stuff on the side that looks like the side of a book. It's called iBooks. And, there's even an iBook store that has Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette book group.

10:54 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And here's a demo of it.

10:54 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:55 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: Jobs is showing off the bookshelf. You can hit the store button, and the bookshelf flips around to show the iBooks store. It's basically the same as the App Store or the iTunes store.

10:55 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: He's browsing the NYT bestseller book, and he's going to buy the Edward Kenney True Compass book for $14.99.

10:55 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:55 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: The book downloads directly onto his shelf, just like on the Kindle.

10:56 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: "It's just so simple."

10:56 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: And here's what the book is like. You can flip the page by tapping anywhere on the right, change the size, or flip back by tapping on the left. Or, drag the page over manually using touch.

10:56 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:57 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: You can skip directly to chapters from the table of contents, and there are photos, as you'd expect.

10:57 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:57 am ON Jan 27 2010
Jason Chen: It's still unsaid whether or not you can import your own books from other libraries.

10:57 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

10:57 am ON Jan 27 2010
B. Lam

http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5462488&view=rss&microfeed=true Nexus One Liveblog Archive

8:22 pm ON Jan 4 2010
Jason Chen:
Google's Nexus One. The Google Phone. It's being unveiled officially Tuesday, January 5 at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern). We'll be here. You should too. Check in bright and early to see what's coming, and see whether the leaked pricing details are really true, and whether anything's changed since our first hands on back in December.

8:59 am ON Jan 5 2010

9:00 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
We're here. It's cold.

9:06 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
And hey, there's a poll up above to register your excitement (or disappointment) at whatever's being announced. In real time. So go ahead and click click click.

9:14 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:

So, how excited are you guys for this phone after you've seen the hands on, all those photos and even a few videos? Hopefully Google will pull out a few unknowns at the event.

9:22 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:

If they say that this is a true unlocked phone that works on all 4 major networks, THAT would be worth $530.

Jason Chen:
9:41 am ON Jan 5 2010

9:43 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
We're inside. Google's playing music (heard some Lady Gaga just now).

9:44 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:

9:45 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The way that logo is lit is a bit ominous.

9:47 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:

9:47 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
There's Andy Rubin, king of the Android team.

9:49 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Robert Scoble is rubbing his stomach seductively. It's working

9:51 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
They're now playing that new Black Eyed Peas song. You know, the one with absolutely no subtlety. Where every word only means what they say.

9:55 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here's a question for you: What do you think Madonna will look like when she's 60?

9:56 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

9:58 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Now, the Killers are playing.

9:59 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
If you come to enough of these things, you'll start recognizing all these people.

10:00 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
One woman just forgot she was at a Google event and started dancing for a few seconds. Either that, or her back was itchy. UNDETERMINED.

10:02 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
There's a local ABC News lady here. How do I know she's from ABC News? Other than the fact that her badge says ABC News, she has 10x the makeup of any of the rest of us. That's a feat, because I slathered it on this morning.

10:03 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Oh and if you have a comment, head here.

10:03 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Don't forget to come back.

10:04 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
It's embarassing when the music shuts off and you're the only guy talking really loud. Right, guy behind me?!

10:05 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
It's starting (I think).

10:05 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
How hilarious would it be if Steve Jobs came on right now?

10:05 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:06 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here's Mario, VP of Product Development, to speak first.

10:06 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:06 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
"Today we will unveil the next stage in evolution for the Android."

10:07 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Two years ago, Google and many industry leaders made the Open Handset Alliance. Now it's grown to 52 members, and he's announcing 13 additional members to the OHA>

10:07 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:07 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
On year after the OHA announcement (last year), HTC and T-Mobile launched the G1.

10:08 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:08 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Next, was the myTouch 3G. Then, Google decided to put some powerful hardware in there to pump up the performance.

10:09 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Next was Droid. So they're insinuating that this is the next step up from the Droid.

10:09 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:09 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Now they have 20 devices, 59 carriers, 48 countries and 19 languages.

10:10 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
In 2009, they had 4 major software releases. (The statues can be seen across the street next to building 44, which you've seen photos of already. They're the donuts and eclaires and cupcakes.)

10:11 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Google says people search the web 30x more on an Android phone than they do on a feature phone.

10:13 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:14 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
One thing you might not know, that I heard from OEMs, is that Google will only certify devices for "Android" if it's a phone, so other devices like the Nook won't get Android certification, so it won't be able to say that it's an Android device. This means that they can't get Android applications, and they don't get access to some secret libraries that Google only limits for devices that are certified.

10:15 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:15 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Not sure how Android netbooks fit into this scheme.

10:15 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here's the next step in the Android evolution.

10:15 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:16 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:16 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Google says that they will focus on specific projects with their partners in order to push innovation in the general marketplace. For example, with Motorola on the Droid (and the Cliq).

10:17 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
One of the questions they asked themselves was, "what if we work even more closely with our partners to bring devices to market to showcase the great software technology we're working on at Google."

10:17 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:17 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Today, they're announcing the Nexus One. (Yes it's called Nexus One)

10:17 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The tagline is: "Where web meets phone"

10:17 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:17 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
And it's an "exemplar" of what's possible on phones with Android.

10:18 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
They're calling this "superphones", as a category of devices.

10:18 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:18 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
"The Nexus One was designed in very close partnership with HTC."

10:18 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
He's welcoming Peter, CEO of HTC, onto the stage.

10:19 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Peter Chou is on stage now.

10:19 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:19 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:19 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
HTC has shipped seven Android products, if you count the Nexus One.

10:20 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:20 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Peter says it's one of the best industrial designs from HTC, and it has a 3.7-inch AMOLED display.

10:20 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:20 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
It has the "strongest" processing power, with Snapdragon on board.

10:22 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Peter's stepping off stage, but not before holding up the phone one last time for people to get pictures of.

10:22 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:23 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Basically, going through the hardware specs and features and then demoing some software.

10:23 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:24 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:24 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:24 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The front is a 3.7-inch display, 480×800 display. Under the hood is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It's very fast (and we saw that firsthand in our hands on).

10:24 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:25 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Then there's a multi-color notification trackball that shows different colors when various events happen.

10:25 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:25 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Light and proximity sensors, compass, GPS and accelerometer are all on board.

10:26 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:26 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:26 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:26 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The thinness is thinner than a #2 pencil, and lighter than a Swiss Army keychain knife.

10:27 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:27 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The back of the phone has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, as well as MPEG4 videos. Also, one click upload to YouTube.

10:27 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:28 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
There's also Stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack (four contact points for microphone AND remote), and active noise cancellation. Two microphones on the Nexus one, one on the bottom and one on the back for noise cancellation for calls.

10:28 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:28 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:28 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
You can also get custom engraving on the metal bezel on the back-bottom of the device.

10:29 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Hardware is "half the story." "With the Nexus One it's not hardware alone, it's a good marriage of hardware and software."

10:29 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:30 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here are some software innovations. N1 is running on Android 2.1.

10:30 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
All the droid apps are included on the Nexus One in 2.1, so all the Facebook, Google Maps driving and various other Droid features are present.

10:31 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Customization. Before now, you had homescreen wallpapers and widgets, but now you have five screens for homescreen panels in order to let you add more shortcuts and widgets.

10:31 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:31 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:32 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
One he wants to emphasize is the news and weather widget, which grabs feeds of news as well as location-aware weather.

10:32 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:32 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:33 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:33 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
But Google now has "Live Wallpapers", which are the animated/interactive ones that we saw in the hands on.

10:33 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
First he's demoing water. Leaves are falling onto water, dynamically, and will ripple when the leaves make contact. Plus, if you press your finger down, you can make ripples.

10:34 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:34 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:34 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Next up is media and 3D. The wallpapers take advantage of 3D frameworks on the Nexus One.

10:35 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:35 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:35 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The new app launcher isn't a drag-and-pull menu, instead, you press the button and the icons zoom into place, and the icons are kind of in a scrollwheel.

10:36 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:37 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:37 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:37 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Next up is Gallery, which is a "new visualization for photos." It gives you a depth to your photos. For example, if you tap on an album, the photos zoom out and load on a 3D plane when you move the phone around. Not sure how functional it is, but it's fun looking.

Chris Mascari:
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10:37 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Albums are automatically clustered by time, date and location.

10:38 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:38 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
You can also background-sync this to Google's Picasa web albums.

10:39 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The next highlight in the Nexus One is voice.

10:39 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:39 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:40 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Search by Voice was launched earlier this year letting you search just by talking. And then, Voice Command came later with the Verizon Droid. So now you can say "Navigate to Ikea", and it will know where you are, and show search results in order to give you turn by turn navigation directions.

10:40 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:40 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
That was with 2.0. But what if you can use voice on every text field on the phone? They voice enabled every text field in the device.

10:41 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:41 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:41 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Now he's dictating a text that actually came out correctly. The voice recognition service is being handled on the backend, and works fast to deliver results.

10:42 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here's a special app that hasn't launched yet, but he'll give a sneak peek today. It's Google Earth for Android.

10:42 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:42 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Like on the desktop, you can zoom the earth around and zoom into your location.

10:42 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:43 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:43 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
So with Google Earth on the Nexus One, you can fly around through mountains and other terrain in "Flyaround mode", just like you can in the browser or on the desktop. It uses the 3D framework he mentioned earlier.

10:43 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:44 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
And with voice search, you can search for stuff in Google Earth as well with your voice.

10:44 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:44 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:45 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Mario is back on stage, and says that it belongs in a class of device called "superphones."

10:45 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
How are they going to bring this to market? Here's a "new way to purchase a consumer phone." Through a Google web store.

10:46 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:46 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Their focus is a "simple purchasing process," and a "simple offering of plans from operators."

10:46 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Through the web store you can buy a phone without service, or with service from a partner. If you buy it with service, you'll get a discount and it will be comparable to high-end smartphones on the market.

10:46 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:46 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
You can purchase a phone with service today from T-Mobile USA.

10:47 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
They plan to add more devices, like phones from Motorola, to their web store. And add more countries.

10:47 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here are some new screens of the store.

10:47 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:48 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Here's another announcement: Verizon and Vodafone agreed to join the "program".

10:48 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:48 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
So, here's the store. You can click through a live demo of the phone by clicking on the different icons if you want to play with the phone before you buy.

10:48 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:49 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:49 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Price: $530 for an unlocked phone, $180 on T-Mobile. Verizon is coming for Nexus One in Spring 2010. And Vodafone as well, Spring 2010.

10:50 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Again, you can get a Nexus One on Verizon in Spring 2010 (soon!).

10:50 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
And if you can't wait for a Verizon phone, you can get a droid now. They have a link on the page for the impatient.

10:50 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:51 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Going through the purchasing process, you need a Google account, and a Google Checkout account.

10:51 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:52 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:52 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The next screen is engraving your phone, if you want to do so.

10:52 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
As you type the characters it will appear on the phone so you can see what it looks like.

10:52 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:52 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:52 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:53 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
After a confirmation screen, you're pretty much done. (Pretty simple store!)

10:53 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:53 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
They're launching the web store in the US, and will be shipping to test markets: UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. The plan in the future is to add more operators in the US and internationally as well as more devices.

10:54 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:54 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The Nexus One is the first in a series of phones in the new web store model.

10:54 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:55 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
"We're really really psyched about this new model!"

10:55 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:55 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
"We're so psyched…"

10:55 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:55 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:56 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
And now a Nexus One demo video that went through all the things we just covered in the last half hour, but with a background track.

10:56 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:56 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:56 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:57 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:57 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:57 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:57 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Now, a Q&A.

10:58 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:58 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:59 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: Why 512MB for app storage only?
A: They store apps in the internal ROM and not on the SD card now, for piracy reasons, but they will offer an upgrade soon for installing apps on the SD card.

10:59 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

10:59 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: Will the phone ship today?
A: Yes, it ships today. But if you want an unlocked version, you can use it on any GSM provider like AT&T.

11:00 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
But, because of different 3G frequencies it'll run on EDGE speeds on AT&T. Not 3G.

11:00 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:01 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: Is this an iPhone killer?
A: We're calling it a superphone, but the message isn't to the iPhone, it's to consumers. "Choice is a really good thing."

11:01 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:03 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: What are you going to do about making the App Marketplace more known, as opposed to Apple's app store?
A: Their marketing for Nexus One will initially be online. They're using all the online advertising tools, and will include all parts of the phone, including the Android Market.

11:03 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:04 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: Why was it necessary for Google to design the phone? Why couldn't it just be an HTC phone running the new flavor of Android? And will these new features becoming to Droid?
A: It's inaccurate to say Google designed the phone (points to HTC CEO). [Google] is just merchandising it online. Everybody will get 2.1 when it's open source, within a couple of days.

11:06 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:09 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: What are the revenue opportunities for Google?
A: It's about advertising. There is a small margin on unit sales, but making sure people get access to Google services and get online is their #1 priority.

11:10 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
The device has Wi-Fi, but they haven't locked down tethering.

11:14 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: This phone is your best phone, but it doesn't have a physical keyboard. Does that mean a physical keyboard is dead? And, is Google going to retail other products online?
A: The HTC strategy is that there are different people who prefer different form factors. This design focuses on the screen and the form factor, and has one of the best on-screen keyboard experiences. And on the software side there's voice input. This is not the only device that is going to be part of the offering.

11:18 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: Why is there a US limitation on multitouch.
A: HTC Droid Eris supports multitouch in the US. But we leave the option open, it's a software thing. We'll consider it.

11:22 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:25 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:27 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: How are you making the differentiation between Superphones and Smartphones, and will the Verizon Nexus One support CDMA + GSM, or just CDMA?
A: The GHz and the gigabyte storage, and the various other software innovations makes it so that the industry needs a new term to refer to these phones. Some of the subsequent phones will be world phones, we're very focused on that.

11:27 am ON Jan 5 2010
Chris Mascari:

11:28 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
My take: basically, superphone is an arbitrary term, since phones are always evolving. What will the next step up be? Super super phones? Great phones? I don't think superphones is going to take.

11:38 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
In regards to future updates, they intend to upgrade every device to the best software version they can support. Not all phones and chips can support all software revisions, like not all old computers can run Windows Vista or Windows 7.

11:40 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
In case there was any question, the Verizon Nexus One will be CDMA.

11:41 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: Are you going to still try to port Google Voice to the iPhone, or are you going to suppress that for your own efforts?
A: We're not the Google Voice team, but that team isn't opposed to having their application work on other platforms.

11:41 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
Q: You used to say no Google Phone, what happened?
A: I was very precise in what I said. I said Google won't build hardware, and they will always work with partners.

11:42 am ON Jan 5 2010
Jason Chen:
That's it, thanks for reading! Check the main Gizmodo page for more coming up.

7:12 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Man it's early. About 3 hours left to go. More expect more updates from now until then, as usual.

7:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Schiller NEEDS to do today's presentation with the I am T-Pain app.

7:53 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Sitting on public transportation is a lot like sitting on the toilet. Reading makes the time go by faster, but eventually you're going to get hit in the face with the smell of urine. If you're lucky it'll just be the smell.

7:57 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
What does everyone think about the Palm Pixi? I like it. Even if it's slightly less powerful than the Pre, the size and the better keyboard make up for the losses, somewhat.

8:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
If Apple's inevitable tablet has ebook reading functionality I will personally shake the hand of everyone who worked on that team. Having to switch back and forth between reading a book on the kindle and reading a website on a laptop makes me feel like I'm getting a workout, sure, but if I wanted to exercise I wouldn't have thrown out all those 24 hour fitness fliers.

8:09 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Oh and I probably wouldn't personally shake their hands–I'd send an intern to do it. Gotta watch out for that piggy flu.

8:14 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
I'm wondering what "rock" songs will be playing before the event starts today, seeing as it's a "rock" theme. Rock Lobster? Schoolhouse Rock? Rachmaninoff?

8:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
I think sitting down on a train while someone is standing right in front of you is one of the few times where you can stare intently into a person's crotch without other people hassling you about it.

8:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

8:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:
OH HELLO! Good morning. Dan Nosowitz, Apple liveblog virgin, and I are at the Yerba Buena center downtown. Nothing starts for 1 hour and 40 minutes but we thought we'd get here early.

8:21 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Nice of you to qualify that last statement with "Apple liveblog."

8:22 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
There's someone pointing a video camera at me right now. Little does he know I'm just catching up on last night's celebrity gossip.

8:23 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:
Just waiting for Jason to get here. Wonder how traffic is coming from the east bay…probably bad, as usual.

8:30 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:
Everyone's talking about iPods but I think it makes sense to see new iTunes today, too. I mean, that's no revelation but I did notice when reviewing snow leopard that iTunes was not rewritten in 64-bits. One of the few apps still native to os x in 32 bits.

8:33 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
Everyone thinks Apple's going to add a camera onto the Nano and Touch but, especially for the Nano, I think it's kind of a dumb idea. Maybe it's just me but I don't need another crappy camera in my life.

8:40 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:
Hey Guys, turning off the live blog poll for for now. I'll let you know when its back on, so you can vote on the news. You can do it by clicking on the love/hate buttons, as many times as you want–it'll count each vote and chart it with the rest of the votes from other readers–or hit H or L keys while focused on the flash widget. But that's later. Oh, also, I forgot what the event is called "Only Rock and Roll", not Let's Rock. I get these damn events confused now.

8:41 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
I'd love to see a major iTunes refresh. Maybe we could finally get a "play next" function, like Winamp's had since about the last Ice Age.

8:49 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
On Apple event mornings I like to try to guess which indie band Apple's going to feature. My bet/hope for today: Discovery. You know, just indie enough to be hip but not so much they'll be scary to old folks.

8:50 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There's a crew of 20 old people with swords around the corner.

8:53 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

its cold but sunny. The crowd is dressed in suits, generally.

8:54 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
Brian and I are liveblogging in sunglasses, because 1) we're cool rebels and 2) the sun hurts our frail blogger eyes.

8:58 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
That treadmill shelf for laptops really works. I walked three blocks and was not winded.

9:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Someone asked me if there are going to be any surprises. I think it's going to be Grey's Anatomy in space. (The seven of you who got that joke are high fiving yourselves now.)

9:02 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
My press pass says "9.09.09″ but if I look down at it it looks like "06.06.6," THE MARK OF THE BEAST. What are you trying to tell me, Apple?

9:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The usual people are here–analysts, media and other people who I don't recognize. Bald count stands at about 8.

9:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:

9:15 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
Catering update: Apple's spread of fruits and breads is totally pedestrian. Does this have an implication for the event to come? Discuss. At length.

9:16 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman:

9:17 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
40 minutes left. Greg Grunberg is here, and I hope I spelled his name right. Nice guy, and looks exactly like he does on TV. It's like the makeup department said "meh" and moved on.

9:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
Every time I see the tagline "It's Only Rock and Roll" I start humming Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." Please tell me I'm not the only one.

9:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
I don't know why, but someone is eating a banana and it is hilarious to me.

9:22 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There is a 13-year-old boy here. I hope for his sale he doesn't do like I did when I was 13 and get inappropriate erections.

9:22 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman:

9:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Think about the person in your life that doesn't have an iPod already. Think about the last time he or she offered to pay for dinner. YOU CAN'T CAN YOU?!

9:27 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman:

9:30 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Oh and if you want to follow us on Twitter, our names are on the masthead on the main Gizmodo.com page. And mine is @diskopo .

9:32 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
I want to display my Zune in a prominent place so everyone knows my commitment to objective journalism (and to buying shit on Woot).

9:34 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman:

9:35 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
What are your 3 predictions for announcements today? Mine are iPods, iPods and more iPods. But also a new version of iTunes that forces your musical tastes upon Twitter and facebook.

9:40 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman:

9:47 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman:

9:48 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

9:49 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
We're inside. People are scrambling for seats, and I'm hungry.

9:50 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
First three songs: Aerosmith's "Walk This Way," The Who's "Baba O'Reilly" and Green Day's "When I Come Around." Didn't Apple used to be cool?

9:51 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Thanks to the guys at Hypermac for their awesome external batteries. Saves us a lot of battery switching/worrying.

9:53 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Eight minutes left. Put your phones on vibrate and tell your coworkers you're going to be in a meeting.

9:54 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Eric Schmidt is here, despite having been kicked off the Apple board. It's like attending your old high school's prom after you were expelled for vandalism and sent to the other high school under the bridge.

9:55 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Definitely "rock" songs playing today. No Coldplay or John Mayer. The rift between Mayer and Apple has never been bigger. Please, someone just apologize already.

9:56 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz:
I guess they're doing different decades with the music, since Hendrix is playing now. Super boring stuff though. If Steve wants to borrow my Zune I can show him some good tunes.

9:57 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:
Hey, I'm having some image difficulty, but we'll be back in a minute, before things start.

9:58 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Nevermind, that was just a bad transition. Another song's up now.

10:00 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The Stones are playing.

10:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The lights are dimming, and something is happening soon. Get ready.

10:02 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Steve Jobs is on stage and is getting a standing ovation.

10:02 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:02 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Applause, applause, sustained applause.

10:03 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"I'm very happy to be here with you all. As some of you might know, I had a liver transplant." He said he now has the liver of a 20 year old who died in a car crash, and he thanks him for his generosity.

10:03 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Steve also wants to thank everyone in the Apple community for the "heartfelt support", and thank Tim Cook and all the other execs at Apple.

10:04 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Steve's voice seems a little bit softer than we remember, a little bit of a hoarse whisper, but all in all he seems able-bodied (if still skinny).

10:05 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
He's going to have Phil Schiller join him for part of the presentation. In 2+ years, Apple's sold 30 million iPhones.

10:05 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"One of the reasons for that is the remarkable app store." They have more than 75,000 apps, and users have downloaded 1.8 billion apps. That does not include updates (obviously).

10:06 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"Today we have something new for iPhone and iPod Touch owners." It's iPhone 3.1.

10:06 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Now, Genius makes application suggestions based on the apps you own in order–just like Genius for iTunes music.

10:09 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The second thing is ringtones to the iTunes store. They have 30,000 ringtones from the majors, and will be $1.29.

10:09 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:09 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world. They've sold 8.5 billion songs, and there are 100 million accounts in iTunes. This leads up to iTunes 9.

10:10 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Something else new: Genius mixes–Genius applied to another area. 54 billion songs submitted and analyzed since the Genius feature launched.

10:10 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:11 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Genius mixes is a Genius DJ playing songs from your library that it thinks will go well together. iTunes will make 12 by default, and all you have to do is click on one and it'll start playing indefinitely.

10:12 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Also new: improved syncing. So when you sync now you can sync these playlists, but you can now also select genres or artists directly from the Music sync tab.

10:12 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:12 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
This applies to Photos as well, selecting Events, people as well as albums that you've already set up.

10:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Or movies, syncing the most recent movies or something, and always having one movie.

10:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
What's even better is better app syncing for the iPhone, allowing you to manage pages and app locations on iTunes directly.

10:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
New "home sharing" in iTunes lets you copy songs, movies and TV shows among the 5 authorized computers in your house.

10:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:14 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Now you can drag songs from other libraries into YOUR library and it will copy it.

10:15 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Also, a redesigned iTunes store that's better looking (but not all that different from what you've seen before). It's "cleaner", says Steve, but it doesn't seem like a huge jump.

10:15 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Lastly, iTunes LP.

10:16 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
For iTunes LP, it'll include videos, liner notes, credits and other customized content that you used to get when you bought LPs in the past, except now it's digital.

10:16 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:17 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
And now, Jeff Robin comes up for a demo of iTunes 9.

10:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
First he's going to show App Organization (the rearranging of your apps on iTunes). Click on Applications and you'll get all the apps and pages. You can click and drag apps from one page to another, or deselect apps from the left hand side and not sync them. You can also drag multiple items at once.

10:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
First he's going to show App Organization (the rearranging of your apps on iTunes). Click on Applications and you'll get all the apps and pages. You can click and drag apps from one page to another, or deselect apps from the left hand side and not sync them. You can also drag multiple items at once.

10:23 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Double-clicking an app on the left-hand side will take you directly to the page that it's on. There's search (type in the name and it'll show the app), and page rearranging, meaning you can move whole pages up or down the queue.

10:23 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Next, home sharing. You can view other people's libraries, as you can now, and just select and drag songs to your library. It'll disappear from the list of other people's libraries if you select to only show "items not in my library."

He's demoing the iTunes store now, and all pages have been redesigned to match the new style. There are also quick-view popups for albums, allowing you to see the entire album from wherever you are, instead of having to go into the album page.

Oh and Facebook/Twitter sharing: you can now click on content and share links directly to them from the store.

10:24 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
As for iTunes LP, you can flip through photos and individual songs, which displays lyrics directly in iTunes for you to Karaoke along with.

10:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There can also be custom interviews (in video) that comes with the iTunes LP purchases.

10:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There are iTunes Extras for movies as well, giving you extra features (think DVD extras) but more interactive. And different.

10:27 AM ON Sep 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:27 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
iTunes demo over. Steve Jobs is coming back on stage.

10:27 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen:
iTunes 9 is available today.

10:28 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Now, the iPod. Phil Schiller is coming up and taking over.

10:28 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:28 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Apple's sold 225 million iPods to date.

10:28 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
I think our server troubles are over? Let's hope!

10:29 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
As for Marketshare, iPod's got 73.8%, Sandisk has 7.2%, and Microsoft has around 1%. The rest is "other".

10:29 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:29 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The fastest growing iPod is the iPod Touch.

10:30 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:30 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Apple's sold 20 million iPod touches. Add that to the iPhone number and you'll get a big number of devices that can run your apps.

10:30 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:
Hey, we disabled the poll. Looks like you guys really liked clicking on it. Caused some problems with the servers.

10:31 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil is going over the talking points of the iPod Touch; the same things you already know. It runs apps, playing music and watching video.

10:32 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:32 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
You can also use Genius Mixes (the feature introduced in iTunes 9) on the iPod Touch, with the songs you've already loaded onto there.

10:33 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:33 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil, the consummate salesman, is going through the features of the iPod Touch as if it hasn't been available for 2 years now.

10:33 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:34 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"Not everybody's computer fits in your pocket", Phil says, as he points to a photo of a dude shoving a Dell laptop into his ass pocket.

10:35 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:35 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil is comparing games on the PSP to the DS, saying they have no multitouch and that they're expensive. You even have to GO TO A STORE TO BUY A GAME. Nobody ever says Phil doesn't have the balls to say things like this on stage with a straight face.

10:36 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:36 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:36 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's an image of the comparison between the amount of iPhone games vs. the amount of PSP and DS games. Misleading graph if anything, seeing as the amount of games doesn't indicate that they are all GOOD games.

10:37 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:37 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
And now a montage of games from various iPod Touch Action Titles.

10:38 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil's inviting up Ubisoft to demo Assassin's Creed. It's NOT Jade Raymond, unfortunately.

10:39 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Assassin's Creed 2 is being demoed now. It's a sidescrolling game, and has some pretty decent graphics.

10:39 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
You can even put your face into the wanted posters with the camera. Does this mean that the iPod Touch is getting a camera??

10:39 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Ubisoft is releasing this app on the same day as the Assassin's Creed game for consoles.

10:40 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Ubisoft is releasing this app on the same day as the Assassin's Creed game for consoles.

10:40 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:41 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Their latest game mixes music and racing.

10:41 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Next up, Tapulous, which makes Tap Tap Revenge.

10:42 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:43 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Riddim Ribbon is their latest game, making you a "DJ". You're "racing" down a track by tilting the phone, and you can choose different remixes of the current song you're on. You can flick the phone up to jump and add custom sounds. The guy playing the game is really into it.

10:43 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
After you're done playing the game you'll have made your own "mix" of the song, which you can share.

10:43 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:44 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Next is Gameloft. They're shipping 35 gaming titles in the App Store right now, with 20 million downloads.

10:44 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:44 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Nova, a first person shooter, puts you into the shoes of a space marine. SPACE MARINE, how come nobody's come up with this before?

10:45 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The HUD looks a lot like Halo, and it feels quite a bit like Halo.

10:45 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:45 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:45 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
You use the left side of the screen for the analog stick, and the right side to shoot. Plus the middle for changing weapons.

10:46 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There will be multiplayer over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

10:46 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Last is EA.

10:47 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:47 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's a game that's been around "for over 20 years." It's Madden, which has been announced already, and looks like PlayStation 1 graphics.

10:48 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:48 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The analog stick controls motion, just like the normal Madden, and John Madden gives super obvious advice, again, just like the normal Madden.

10:49 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"Usually the team that makes the least mistakes will win the game," declares Madden.

10:49 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Need For Speed Shift, Command and Conquer and NBA Live are also coming to the App Store.

10:50 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil says the iPod Touch is the "most affordable gateway to the App Store," which is true.

10:51 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil says "$199 is a magic price point in the iPod market." So, they're lowering the iPod Touch price to $199 for the 8GB version.

10:52 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
The 32GB will be $299 and 64GB will be $399.

10:52 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:52 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Also, the $299 and $399 versions of the iPod Touch will be 50% faster, and run OpenGL ES 2.0–the same as the iPhone 3GS.

10:53 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
So, the 8GB version is running the older processor and the 32 and 64GB are running the newer one.

10:54 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There's an iPod Touch ad showing off multiplayer by having multiple people play at the same time, showing off interactions.

10:54 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:54 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Next up is the iPod Classic. Today, there's a 120GB version for $249. They're going to raise the size to 160GB for the same $249.

10:54 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B.Lam:

10:54 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Then, the iPod Shuffle.

10:55 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Customers wanted to "expand" the range of headphones that work for the iPod Shuffle, which include Beats by Dre.

10:56 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:57 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:57 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
What's new? New colors that's what. Black, silver, pink, green and blue. A lower price of $59 for 2GB, in addition to the $79 at 4GB.

10:57 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
All these ship today.

10:57 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There's also a $99 special 4GB model made of polished steel. Special Edition.

10:57 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
And here's Steve again.

10:57 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:58 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
One more thing…

10:58 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
A video camera?

10:58 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:58 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
My guess is a camera on the iPod Touch. But we'll see in a second.

10:59 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
He's comparing a Flip at $149 with 4GB of memory. "So what are we gonna do?" They're going to use an 8GB model, and it will be "free". Yep, it's going to be on the iPod Nano. There's a camera and a microphone.

10:59 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There will be a speaker as well, for playback.

11:00 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:00 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:01 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"So how good is it?" Steve shows a demo video shot with the Nano.

11:01 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
He's making us watch the same lame video twice.

11:01 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:02 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:02 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Apple's sold 100 million iPod nanos to make it the "most popular music player in the world." They're adding voiceover, a genius mix feature, and FM radio.

11:03 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Also, a pedometer and a voice recorder. You can sync the pedometer directly to Nike+ as well, to keep track of your steps.

11:03 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam

11:03 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
And, new colors. "We've finally figured out how to do colors that are unimaginably beautiful. They're polished anodized aluminum."

11:03 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
There are two models. 8GB for $149 and 16GB for $179. They're available today.

11:04 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:04 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's an ad for it.

11:04 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
We're turning off live refresh, so you'll have to click refresh to get new updates. Please, refresh!

11:05 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:05 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:05 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Now the obligatory Environmental Checklist. Arsenic, BFR, Mercury, PVC-free.

11:06 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
That's not it, Steve has some more to say.

11:06 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
"Like you, we love music. There's no better way to remind us all than to have a live performance. We are really lucky today that Norah Jones is joining us." Norah Jones yay!

11:06 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:07 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Norah Jones is coming up on stage, and she looks Norah Jonesey. Very nice.

11:07 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:08 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:08 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Not only is she a great singer, she was good in the Wong Kar Wai movie as well. The movie itself wasn't all that fantastic, but SHE was good in it.

11:09 AM ON SEP 9 2009
B. Lam:

11:10 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
My knee hurts like a mofo from sitting so long. I am officially an old man.

11:11 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's a new song that they're going to release this November.

11:13 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's a new song that they're going to release this November.

11:14 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
So to recap, no real new "designs" in any of the iPods, but there are some lower prices and new features. No camera for the iPod Touch, but there is one for the Nano.

11:14 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Steve Jobs is coming back on stage to thank Norah Jones.

11:15 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
I feel like he's gonna say "Goodnight everybody, stay tuned for Craig Ferguson."

11:16 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Steve thanks everyone for coming, and Brian, Dan and I thank you all for reading!

11:16 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
You guys really loved pushing that button so much that it crashed our machines, so we'll make sure to put more button-handling in there for next time. October, maybe? There's always the tablet.

11:17 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Jason Chen:
Time to get some hands-on with the new iPods. See you all soon on the main Gizmodo page. BYE!

BlackBerry users have long been frustrated with the requirement that apps be stored on the oft-inadequate internal memory, and the App World 1.1 update sort of fixes that problem by allowing apps to be archived on plentiful SD cards. You still can't run apps from the external memory, but you can keep them there until you need them.

The other big (and we're using the word "big" extraordinarily loosely here) update is to sorting methods. Now you can search App World by either paid or free apps, plus other rubrics like popularity, rating, price, developer and more. It's useful, sure, but also should have come standard in the first release of App World.

In addition, App World is launching in tons of other countries: Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Portugal. None of this is particularly exciting but it does show the App World's willingness to creep along into usefulness. [BlackBerry]

Google announced that they'd be periodically adding new features for both Android and iPhone, and today they rolled out in-browser swiping gestures that are, unfortunately, Apple-only for now. It's not a huge update, but one we know joint iPhone/Gmail users will like: You can swipe left or right to bring up Gmail's Archive button, which files the email away for later use. Sweet! Now what's next? [Google via TechCrunch]

6:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Are you excited?! I am. That's why I woke up 15 minutes earlier than my alarm time. 3.5 hours left to go.

7:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Mark washed his pants last night and his ass isn't dry yet.

7:27 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
The joke of my wet pants is on Jason. His new car's leather seats just tasted the full onslaught of my damp denim.

7:29AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
If this iPhone had a front-facing camera I would show you how this BART was making me nauseous.

7:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
By the way, where was Kevin Rose this time? He usually puts out some Apple predictions the night before.

8:43 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
We're inside. Fedora guy is here. I don't mean the linux distribution, I mean a guy that wears a fedora at all these events.

8:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're posting updates on our iPhones, but due to crappy At&t reception, we're checking them on the Pre (Sprint).

8:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Whatever coolness a fedora ever had was wiped out by old man Indiana Jones last year.

8:49 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:

8:53 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Mark and I just had our last pre-event per break. We had to wade through a hormone-filled mound of developers to get there.

8:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
I just witnessed a man over 40 consuming a Monster energy drink. That's the kind of magic you see at WWDC.

8:58 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
And we're exactly one hour from showtime (the event, not the subscription cable package).

8:58 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Also in attendance in the media crowd: Thor, Mr. Miyagi, a dwarf version of the 1996 women's Olympic gymnastic coach, Andy Samberg, a squished faced Scoble, an ugly Vince Vaughn and the Indian guy from flight of the conchords.

9:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:


I'm not sure what's going on here but it definitely smelled like horse manure and cocoa butter.

9:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:

9:04 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:


The line was pretty epic a few minutes ago. Lots of excited devs. The staff shirts are orange this year. I like it. Very road worker-ish.

9:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
And Preparation H Raymond.

9:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Oooh, new Quicktime X logo.

9:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Also a four-foot Ditka.

9:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:

9:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
To get a picture of what it feels like in here, imagine a swap meet filled with people in khakis and $100 suits.

9:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The problem with having a conference for iPhone developers is that the entire AT&T network gets demolished.

9:16 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:

9:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
I've spotted nothing but Apple laptops, yet at least 50% of phones I've seen are Blackberries and random clamshells.

9:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:


Here's a guy with his priorities straight.

9:22 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Don't forget to leave your comments on our liveblog post on the main page. What's your prediction on the announcements? Our three guesses: new Snow Leopard features, iPhone 3G video and Apple TV becoming a DVR/Game Machine and Hulu streamer.

9:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
The Apple handlers guarding the doors look frightened of the geek army waiting to storm the gates.

9:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:


The march of the orange shirts.

9:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
ccmascari:

9:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Everyone's brushing up against the ass of the person in front of him, waiting for the security guards to pull the trigger on letting is in. Hey Matt Buchanan…do you do squats?

9:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Doors raising…

9:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
matt:

9:39 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're in. And we have great seats.

9:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Music: Phoenix.

9:41 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Pheonix's latest album is hitting BIG. I think it's because of their great job on SNL a few months ago. They played three songs, which not a lot of bands get to do.

9:42 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
There's a Tron-like glowing iMac onstage. I have a feeling this won't be one of WWDC's announcements, but it certainly should be.

9:43 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

9:43 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Every single time, no matter what the rumors say, we get pumped whenever we get inside and get ready to post and take photos as fast as we can. I assume it's the same way bands feel even when they're asked to play at elementary schools.

9:43 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Hey guys and gals, mash that Digg badge! It gives us superblog powers and makes the apple announcements actually come out faster! I LOVE YOU.

9:44 AM ON JUN 8 2009
ason Chen:
Here are our predictions for music in the next 17 minutes: Coldplay, MGMT…but no John Mayer. Mayer's been cut off from Apple lately for some reason.

9:45 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Hey Greenville Preparatory! Are you ready to roooooooock!? \m/

9:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
This lady just rejected some fool from the VIP status. (Wasn't me!)

9:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Holy shit, thanks for digging that thing, people. We're good!

9:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
I need to get myself an official Apple Security shirt. And a pair of 20-inch biceps. And a crew cut. And some more deodorant because it's kinda hot in here. I bet I'd be even hotter if I had 20-inch biceps, though.

9:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Have you guys played 1 v. 100 on Xbox Live? It's pretty fantastic. Here's my 1 v. 100 question: When's the iPhone 4G coming? A: 2011. B: 2012. C: 2013.

9:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

9:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
ccmascari:

9:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The music's stopping for some reason. New track? Oh yes, new track. Still 12 minutes left. When's the Apple event getting gapless playback support?

9:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're close enough to see the stage pretty well, but what about those folks in the back forced to watch monitors? Like a rock concert, is it really worth going if you can't see the lead act in the flesh? My opinion? Yes, yes it is.

9:51 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Liveblog systems all go so far on images. Time to live on images is about 3 seconds.

9:52 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
No danger of running out of batteries today: We're using the HyperMac 8 hour battery that can last us through four straight keynotes (or twenty "more things").

9:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Attendees are either taking shots with fancy dSLRs or just their iPhones. It's a world of overkill or total futility.

9:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Is this John Mayer?? I think this is John Mayer. John Mayer? Is it???!

9:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
I think it's Dave Matthews.

9:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
HOW DARE YOU

9:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
The broadcast press guys always get in first. It's not really fair to everyone else, since everyone is liveblogging these days. Oh well. I'm happy with our spot, which we got by speed walking like crazy.

9:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Text is going up even faster than 3 seconds. Hotness.

9:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jason's last post literally published before he finished writing it.

9:56 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Lord knows what this guy is doing with that isight.

9:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference."

9:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The announcer just told people to "silence all cellphones and paging devices." No "silence all iPhones this time."

9:58 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Hey that guy in the image below found Ross's pink shirt from Friends. Yes, I watched Friends. And I like Coldplay. Wanna fight about it?

9:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
ONE MINUTE!!!

9:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
I just did a quick scan of the people in front of me and I literally only see two women.

10:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Actually, after covering E3's press conferences for a week, Apple's stage feels straight up diminutive.

10:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Dave Chen from Slashfilm just told me "Power to the CHENS."

10:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Lights dimming…

10:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Jesus is trying to send me photos of sexy soccer teams again. Not now Jesus! The thing's starting!

10:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Lights out. I'm a PC ad plays.

10:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
PC: "I want to be the first to welcome you all to a week with some innovation but not too much please."

10:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Hodgman's lost some weight. He's looking good.

10:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"I hope you're thinking of some great ideas, because I'm thinking of great ideas. (whispers) What are your ideas?"

10:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil Schiller's also looking good. He's coming on stage now. HE'S lost some weight too.

10:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
5,200 developers here from 54 countries around the world.

10:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Schiller "feels the love in this room".

10:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're seeing a chart of OS X users from 2002-2007, nice growth. "But something incredible has happened over the last two years."

10:04 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
He changes the scale of the graph. Triples the number of active users.

10:04 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"So in this keynote, we'd like to tell you about some of the things we're doing on the Mac, the iPhone and the iPod touch."

10:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The crowd's definitely an Apple friendly crowd, and are applauding the stats about OS X users.

10:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"I get to begin with a section on the Mac"

10:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
He's talking about unibody design, the Macbook Air, stuff like that.

10:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil Schiller's talking about the MacBook notebooks now.

10:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"We don't want to stop" extending the lead on macbook designs.

10:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
New 15-inch Macbook Pro.

10:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"Even though we have a huge lead…we don't want to stop." Here's a brand new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro.

10:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Revolutionary Lithium Polymer Battery.

10:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
It's built-in, as in non-replaceable.

10:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Up to 7 hours of battery life. 2 hours longer than before. 40% longer.

10:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
The battery is non-removable.

10:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Non-removable I mean. By yourself. Like the 17-inch MacBook Pro.

10:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
He promises that the battery will last 5 years.

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's just as thin and just as light.

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
There's 3X less waste.

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"It's the nicest display we've ever had in a notebook."

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
It has 60% more color gamut.

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
SD Slot!

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The ExpressCard slot was only used by "single-digit" customers.

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Why SD? Most of Apple's users have digital cameras.

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil says cameras have standardized in SD.

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"But there's a lot more to this 15-inch MBP"

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Up to 8GB of memory.

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
You can get up to 3.06 GHz Dual Core 6MB Level 2 Cache.

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
500GB hard drive. Or 256GB SSD.

10:09 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:10 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
$1699 for the introductory 15-inch MacBook Pro.

10:10 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
That's $300 less, btw.

10:10 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Most of the builds are the same except for the CPU speed and storage. The bottom 3 tiers all come with 4GB, but the LOWEST configuration doesn't come with the 9600GT discrete graphics card.

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Starts at 1699 with 2.53GHz drive, $1999 includes 2.66GHz and $2300 gets you 2.8GHz. You'll need to spend two grand to get the nice 9600M GT graphics card.

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
BONUS SPY SHOT of the new Macbook Pro

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
You have to buy the 17-inch if you want an ExpressCard slot.

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
17-inch drops to $2499.

10:11 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
All of these units are shipping today.

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
13-inch notebook getting an update too.

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
7 hours of battery life, 40% more too.

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The 13-inch also has the same built-in battery (non-removeable). And the new display.

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It gets an SD card slot too.

10:12 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"At what point isn't this just an MacBook Pro?"

10:13 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The 13-inch can ALSO get 8GB of memory to make it "more like a MacBook Pro."

10:13 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Also a 500GB hard drive or 256GB SSD.

10:13 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
It also gets the built-in backlit keyboard.

10:13 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Look beyond the SD slot, FIREWIRE 800

10:13 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's now the MacBook Pro.

10:13 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
$1199.

10:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The crowd goes crazy at the announcement of the Firewire slot. Strange that you would applaud something that you had before, then got taken away, and then got given back.

10:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
So the 13-inch is also the MacBook Pro, meaning all the aluminum MacBooks are called the MacBook Pro. What's the MacBook now? The old plastic white one? We're waiting for more info.

10:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Also available today.

10:14 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"That really completes the MacBook Pro family."

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"This is the most affordable lineup we've ever had."

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"We're also going to update the MacBook Air as well."

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
$1499 for base Air.

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
$1799 with a 256GB SSD. $700 cheaper than before.

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
All of these notebooks "meets the stringent EP Gold standard."

10:16 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil's delivering his mandatory gesture to eco-fans, talking about Energy Star and EPEAT qualifications.

10:16 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"This is the world's greenest lineup of notebooks."

10:17 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Great hardware deserves great software."

10:17 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Now, OS X Snow Leopard.

10:17 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:17 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
So now we're talking about Leopard and how it's the best thing ever.

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Bertrand Serlet of Apple, their king of OS X, is making fun of Vista.

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Apparenty the press likes it, too. "What a sharp contrast to…" (A shot of Vista)

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
They're stressing that Windows 7 has the same core functionality as Windows Vista.

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Some jabs at user account control, the registry, defrags and alerts.

10:18 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"That's Windows 7, same old technology as Vista."

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"It's just another version of Vista." Surprisingly, some groans from the audience from this.

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"We love Leopard…and so when it became time to think about the next big cat, we decided to name it Snow Leopard." They love those cats.

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
What's going on with Snow Leopard? Refinements, new technologies and Exchange support. (Minor applause and one hoot.)

10:19 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
First, refinements.

10:20 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:20 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
They're refining more than 90% of Leopard in Snow Leopard.

10:20 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:20 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Apple did not change Finder's UI, but they did choose to rewrite the base code.

10:20 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Bertrand is saying they didn't change Finder because they love it so much. "FTFF" (google it) fans would disagree.

10:20 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
They're adding a 3D rendering for the Dock.

10:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
As for the dock, Apple built expose into the dock.

10:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"Et voila, you select the Window you want."

10:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next, installation. "We've made it…up to 45% faster."

10:21 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Great, something you use only once or twice a year is 45% faster. Wow.

10:22 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
After you install Snow Leopard, you recover 6GB of space on your hard drive.

10:22 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
They use file system compression to save the 6GB from the Leopard install.

10:22 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Preview: opening JPEGs is 2x faster.

10:22 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Whoa! Saving space over last OS:

10:22 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
In Leopard you can select text from PDFs but it doesn't always select logically. Now, it does. "We use a little bit of AI." Great, so it works now? Good job?

10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Chinese Input Method, "It can be cumbersome." Now you can spell out the characters with your trackpad.

10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Very useful for Asian languages.
10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Mail is faster.

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Safari 4.0 has features like top sites, and has been in beta for a couple of months. He's announcing that TODAY, they're shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger and Windows.

10:23 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Safari 4 is faster, claimed to be 7.8x faster than IE8.

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
It passes 100/100 of the Acid 3 test (the standard for browser rending right now).

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
He's talking about Stacks. Snow Leopard handles stacks better. You can scroll through them or just open them as their own window.

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
IE8 scores just 21% in the Acid3 test.

10:24 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Opera and other browsers also pass the Acid3 test, btw. So it's not just Safari.

10:25 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:25 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Crash resistance is a new feature.

10:25 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:25 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The second feature is even faster Javascript performance: 64-bit JavaScript performance up by 50%.

10:26 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:26 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Love the new Quicktime 10 icon:

10:26 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Quicktime 10 (X) is efficient and has Modern foundation, Hardware acceleration, ColorSync and HTTP streaming.

10:26 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:26 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"So since we had such a change in the backend of Quicktime, we decided to also change the UI."

10:27 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The new player looks a lot like iTunes' fullscreen view for movies, and the controls go away after a few seconds.

10:27 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now we're going to see some of the features and "little touches" of Snow Leopard with Craig Federighi.

10:27 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
From where I'm sitting, he looks like a more exciting John Kerry.

10:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
A new magnifier can blow up your thumbnails within Finder.

10:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
You can play movies and scroll through PDFs directly from the icon.

10:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Safari 4 up next.

10:28 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Dock Expose is his favorite feature!

10:29 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:29 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're seeing a mess of Windows open on the desktop. He shows that Expose cleans up these windows. But Dock Expose puts this into the dock. Click and hold a button on the Dock to activate various Expose functions.

10:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
This method shows windows only under one app. It's the same thing you can do right now by command-tabbing to the app and then hitting the expose button.

10:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Moving content across windows becomes easier too. You can Dock Expose to an image in a folder, Expose to Mail, drop it right in.

10:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Lots of applause, but this seems slightly complicated? Just me?

10:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Boom" stunning speed.

10:30 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
He says Safari is the "fastest browser on any platform."

10:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Google Maps switched between modes quickly, I guess.

10:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It also tracks your top sites, giving you a nice panorama of your most viewed webpages.

10:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Like many Safari beta users have seen, "Top Sites" can be embarrassing when your friends see what kind of sites you frequent.

10:31 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Full History search allows you to Cover Flow through all your browsing history.

10:32 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Plus you can Spotlight all of the text in those pages in your history.

10:32 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
That Cover Flow view is useful if you recognize your web sites only by visual cues, I guess, and not by the name of the site. Good for forgetful people?

10:32 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Quicktime X has been "rebuilt from the ground up."

10:32 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:33 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
I wonder if Quicktime X will have expanded codec support. If it doesn't, VLC may still be a better solution for people who watch a lot of downloaded internet videos.

10:33 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Playback controls go right on the video – it looks just like when you preview video in the Finder now.

10:33 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Video editing from inside Quicktime for people who don't want to go all the way into iMovie for just doing minor edits.

10:33 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
You can trim the video with thumbnails in the bottom of the window and scrub the video quickly. Then you can export to various Mac services.

10:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"I'll be back shortly."

10:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Those are just a few of the many many touches of Snow Leopard."

10:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Holy new Quicktime is gorgeous, frameless, and has iMovie like thumbs:

10:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now on to the new technologies behind Snow Leopard.

10:34 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're hearing about how computers are more powerful than ever. More RAM, faster processors. Wow!
10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The "POWER OF SILICON." And he raises his hand like a villain or a magician.

10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Bio of Bertrand Serlet: "Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, and is responsible for leading Apple's Software Engineering group. Serlet reports directly to the CEO. Serlet joined Apple in 1997, and has been a key player in the definition, development and creation of Mac OS X, the world's most advanced operating system. As vice president of Platform Technology, Serlet managed the largest part of the Mac OS software engineering group. Before joining Apple, Serlet spent 4 years at Xerox PARC, then joined NeXT in 1989. Serlet holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Orsay, France."

10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Three technologies he will mention today.

10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're hearing about three technologies. First, 64-bit.

10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Of course, 32-bit is limited to 4GB of usable RAM.

10:35 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:36 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:36 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:36 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Snow Leopard runs all major OSX apps running in 64-bit.

10:36 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Secondly, multi-core. Instead of increasing frequency for chips, people have been introducing multiple cores.

10:36 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:37 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now on to multicore. How can you take advantage of them? Multi-threaded programming.

10:37 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:37 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Threads are fairly inefficient, so they're using Grand Central dispatch, which is built-in support for multi-core in all of Snow Leopard.

10:37 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"So just to give you a taste of what it feels like to use GCD" he's showing us Leopard Mail.

10:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
In Leopard, when Mail is busy it uses a bunch of threads. When Mail is idle it uses MORE threads. But in Snow Leopard, mail uses fewer threads when idle.

10:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next, "let's talk graphics."

10:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:38 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Three people clapped.

10:39 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
He's talking about 1 teraflop power and using OpenGL.

10:39 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
But Apple wants to use this power for "all kinds of things." They're referring to OpenCL.

10:39 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It uses C language to automatically optimize your hardware configuration. And it's an open standard. (We know this already.)

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
These technologies combine for "power."

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"Power for YOU," he says, pointing at the audience.

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Up next: Exchange.

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"Microsoft Office, which of course is a de facto standard."

10:41 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:41 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Exchange support is now built into Mail, iCal and Address book.

10:41 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Just fill in your email address and your password and you're set in all three apps. Back comes John Kerry.

10:41 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now we're going to see a demo of Exchange stuff.

10:42 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're in mail, a password is entered, and "we're integrated with Exchange." Emails, Folders, To-Dos, Notes. But OSX stuff like Spotlight works within this interface.

10:43 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Basically, it looks like it should look. OS X functions work within their Exchange interface.

10:44 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
iCal shows both iCal calendars and exchange calendars. The Address Book also allows searching within Exchange and supports Exchange contact folders (it also merges both).

10:44 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Schedule meetings by dragging contacts out of Address Book and into iCal and pick a time slot.

10:44 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:44 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Snow Leopard also supports locations and rooms for meeting booking. Very useful for business dudes (small or big).

10:45 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
And that's it for the Exchange demo.

10:45 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
You'll need Exchange Server 2007 for all this fancy stuff.

10:45 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
And Exchange support? Free. "Windows PCs cost extra for Exchange support." The crowd reacts.

10:45 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
They're wrapping up Snow Leopard coverage. "So that's Snow Leopard." Available on intel Macs "past and present."

10:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
How should we price Snow Leopard? We won't price it at $129, because we want all Leopard users to upgrade. SO we are pricing Snow Leopard at the incredible price of $29.

10:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Crowd goes nuts.

10:46 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
That's $29 for Leopard users. And you can get a family pack for $49.

10:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Available this September. Developer Preview available today.

10:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Windows 7 is also being available in October, btw.

10:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:47 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Scott Forstall is coming on stage for the iPhone.

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"It was less than a year ago that we released…the native SDK."

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
This allowed developers to build "truly native apps."

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
Bio for Scott Forstall from Apple: "Scott Forstall is senior vice president of iPhone Software at Apple. Reporting directly to the CEO, Forstall leads the team responsible for delivering the software at the heart of Apple's revolutionary iPhone including the user interface, applications, frameworks and the operating system.
Forstall joined Apple in 1997 and is one of the original architects of Mac OS X and its Aqua user interface. He was responsible for several releases of the operating system, most notably Mac OS X Leopard. Prior to Apple he worked at NeXT developing core technologies. Forstall received both a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University."

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Developers have downloaded the SDK over a million times.

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
More than 50,000 apps in the App Store.

10:48 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
More than 40,000,000 iPhones plus iPod touches have been sold.

10:49 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
40 million is a gigantic base for development. That's bigger than a lot of game consoles.

10:49 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
In 9 months, Apple had 1 billion apps downloaded. (You knew this.)

10:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"We put a little video together to share some of these [development] stories."

10:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The video's showing Nathan Hunley in Tokyo. A developer. And Chad Evans. And a baby.

10:50 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Are those violins I hear in the background? Yes. Yes they are. This is deep stuff that requires strings.

10:51 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:51 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Lots of developers talking about getting the opportunity to make games and submitting them to the app store. "We were so excited to finally get a game published."

10:51 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:52 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:52 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
There is no relevant content for our readers in this video. But it's nice.

10:53 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
A few games are showing up in the montage now. More devs are talking about how the iPhone is so great of a platform.

10:53 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Sometimes, I have to stop and say, wow, this is a mobile device I'm programming for…because it feels like a desktop…"

10:53 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Now the devs are talking about how great the push notifications and the streaming video is going to be in iPhone 3.0.

10:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"I'm hoping there will be a generation of kids who were like…yeah, I watched games on my phone…"

10:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"…it will dominate in healthcare."

10:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Will 3.0 make a difference in letting more apps do video streaming over 3G? Like Sling over AT&T's network? Or is it just going to be Wi-Fi still? C'mon AT&T.

10:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
People around the world are telling us their favorite app. But all in English.

10:54 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
The video is over.

10:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
The lights are coming back on. Scott Forstall is back on stage.

10:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"let's talk about what's next" – iPhone OS 3.0

10:55 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"This is a major update to the iPhone operating system. It brings with it more than 100 new features. Let me highlight just a few."

10:56 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
They're talking about Cut, Copy and Paste – it works with all apps, there's undo support and there are developer APIs – stuff we knew

10:56 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:56 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next is Landscape

10:56 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:56 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
All this stuff has been in the iPhone 3.0 beta, so it's familiar territory if you've been using that.

10:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Landscape keyboard works in email, notes, and messages.

10:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"The big news here is MMS." Two years into a phone's lifecycle it finally gets MMS-and we're supposed to be happy about it? MMS should have been in there at LAUNCH.

10:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Speaking of messages," what about MMS? It's in 3.0.

10:57 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:58 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"AT&T will be ready to support MMS later this summer." Fail. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL.

10:58 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next, Search. You can search calendars, music, notes and email.

10:58 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Spotlight coming, too. It allows you to search across your phone, apps included.

10:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Seriously, AT&T, why is it going to take until later this summer to support MMS? COME. ON. PLEASE.

10:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
iTunes to allow rental and purchase of movies from the iPhone.

10:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Also, TV shows, music videos and audio books. Over 3G.

10:59 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:00AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Support for iTunes U as well.

11:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Parental Controls are enhanced as well, with control over movies, TV shows and apps.

11:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Parents can limit their child to G or PG movies, or Apps from the App Store that are age appropriate.

11:00 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
What about tethering?

11:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Tethering allows you to share you iPhone internet connection with a PC.

11:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
My guess: AT&T won't support this until late summer either. AT&T!!!!!!!!!!! *Shakes fist*

11:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
This works on Macs or PCs, over USB or Bluetooth.

11:01 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's a "seamless experience" with no need to run apps.

11:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next, Safari.

11:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
This has 22 carrier support and will support it in various countries. No AT&T at launch. Boooooooooooooo.

11:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Major loser so far today: AT&T.

11:02 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Here's a big graph of the SunSpider JacaScript Benchmark. The Old OS ran the bench in 126 seconds. JavaScript is now almost 3 times faster.

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Support for HTTP streaming audio and video. Bitrate and data quality adjust to connection speed.

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Autofill allows you to optionally remember usernames and passwords.

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
All these new features are making the iPhone browser more like the PC/Mac browser, which we like.

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Contact information from your phone works in autofill, too.

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:04 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Recap: Performance, HTTP streaming audio & video, auto-fill, HTML 5 support (emerging standards like audio and video tags).

11:04 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next: Languages

11:04 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:
liveblog meta: BTW the automatic updates for our liveblog were done by CNP Studios and WordPress. Polls by Polldaddy.

11:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Language support: Their operating system is "localized into every language they support." They're adding Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Greek and Korean. They support more than 30 languages in iPhone 3.0.

11:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Every one of these languages has portrait and landscape keyboards.

11:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
Find My iPhone is a new feature. "It can be somewhat traumatic" to lose your phone.

11:05 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's 30 Rock! The episode where the taxi driver blackmails Liz Lemon and her nudie pic.

11:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Find My iPhone is a "service" that's available to MobileMe customers.

11:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:06 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
"Only" to Mobile Me customers. Only. But it'll show you on a map where your phone is. Also useful for your family/friends to track you down.

11:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
Through mobileme, any web browser will show you, on a map, where your phone is.

11:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
You can message your iPhone, alerting it "whether or not you left it in silent mode."

11:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
People can pick up your phone and call the number you specify.

11:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
That alert sound even works in your house, obviously.

11:07 AM ON JUN 8 2009
B. Lam:

11:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Jason Chen:
You can also send it a remote wipe command (previously not available to everybody) and will erase all your data and keep your private data private.

11:08 AM ON JUN 8 2009
Mark Wilson:
"If you ever do find t]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5285110&view=rss&microfeed=true Sony's E3 press conference is about to start, and we're here waiting to see what they'll announce. PSP Go!? PS3 Slim? Who knows?! We're starting now.

Archive below:

11:00 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We just cabbed it across LA, and we're at the Shrine Auditorium, ready to liveblog Sony's press conference. Wow this was bad corporate planning. Anyone waiting on a bus from Nintendo won't make it if Sony starts in time…one minute from now.

11:07 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
So what will we see from Sony. The PSP Go!? Yeah, seems like a sure thing. The PS3 Slim? Seems likely. A Sony motion controller? That's anyone's guess.

11:08 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Matt thinks PS3 Slim will show. I think it sort of needs to now, given that it's already leaked.

11:08 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:10 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Sony's three-part screen is epically wide.

11:11 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
I'm really enjoying this blockbuster presentation. Loud rock. Big images. It makes Nintendo's modest presentation look so…quaint.

11:11 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:12 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Last year Sony used a boatload of LCDs, this year, they went all out projection. I want this in my house…but you know, playing movies and stuff, not just PS3/PSP game clips.

11:13 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The intro clip is over. Crowd is louder now. And Jack Tretton, President and CEO struts to the stage.

11:13 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
HA, and he immediately refers to the leaks, thanking everyone for still showing up. "Press leaks are no exception, we're not going to be outdone by anybody."

11:15 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
His stage presence is better than Reggie's. He reminds me of Peter Moore in his prime for Microsoft. Confident and swaggering.

11:15 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Peter Moore is still the man, btw.

11:16 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack, let's not be formal about his name, it teasing a big lineup. Including Heavy Rain, a game I'm pretty excited about, from the makers of Indigo Prophecy.

11:16 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:17 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now we've moved to the PS2. Jack's talking about the $99 pricepoint, its global strength. Sony sees the PS2 as existing beyond 10 years, as long as consumers are interested.

11:18 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now we're on to the PS3. 22 million PS3s sold last year.

11:19 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
What about PlayStation Network? 24 million registered accounts (how many of them active?).

11:19 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:20 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack gives a shoutout to inFamous, a much-needed highly praised Sony exclusive.

11:21 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Naughty Dog comes to stage to show us Uncharted 2. Let's see this thing so we can get on with the hardware!

11:21 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta launches tonight, but they're gonna show us some of the game now.

11:22 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're watching a realtime playthrough. The landscape is urban, and much bigger than the old Uncharted. The graphics are colorful, but they are tough to judge on this huge of a screen. "Holy shit!" It's a helicopter. Be careful!

11:23 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Huge chase sequence. Lots of cheers…from people I'm assuming were planted by Sony. But the game still looks fun. That helicopter just isn't giving up!

11:24 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
More on Uncharted 2 over at Kotaku, of course.

11:24 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:25 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
So now police types are chasing our hero through a building. And who knew that a wooden desk could block high caliber bullets.

11:25 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The cip is over. Jack is back – where's a TM symbol when you need one?

11:26 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
"I'm excited about this game for not just one reason, but 256 reasons." He's going to show us MAG, teased last year, a huge war MMO.

11:28 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The graphics are not as nice as Uncharted, somewhere between PS2 and PS3, but what do you expect if they're pulling off this many players on one map?

11:28 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:29 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
A soldier is on the ground. A jet flies idly overhead. The team needs to assault a bunker in this brown and tan landscape.

11:30 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The most striking feature is actually the audio, or lack thereof. Despite the massive battle (of about 30 people in close proximity) you only hear a few audio tracks. I hope they beef this up a bit, but of course, too much audio would be pure cacophony.

11:31 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:31 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
I see no lag in any of the helicopters or ground troops, though who knows how this is all networked. An airstrike is called in. I want this louder! Otherwise, not looking bad. Also, it will be playable, with 256 players, on the show floor. Moving on…

11:32 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack's mic went out for a moment. No bigs. He's back, talking about the PSP.

11:33 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
He's running through the small handful of excellent AAA titles on the PSP. Let's hear about the Go!, Jack!

11:33 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
HANNAH MONTANA BUNDLE WITH LILAC PSP!

11:35 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Kaz Hirai comes to the stage.

11:35 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:35 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Sony asked "how could we make the PSP better." The next step?

11:35 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The PSP Go!

11:36 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's identical to the leak, thicker than I imagined when spun in virtual 3D.

11:36 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
There is no second analog. It will not replace the 3000 or UMD.

11:37 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
"Great screen, same great operating system…plays great games." The PSP Go is more than 50% smaller and 40% lighter than original PSP.

11:37 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:37 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
16GB internal flash, Wi-Fi…

11:37 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Sliding keyboard, Bluetooth, M2 memory port…just as leaked.

11:38 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Today, "we're launching a new application to launch the PlayStation store on the PC." It's called Media Go.

11:38 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:38 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:39 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
A new application called Sense Me (for PSP) has 12-tone audio recognition system, plays playlist based upon moods you select. Coming this fall.

11:39 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
PSP toolkits will be reduced 80% in price for developers.

11:40 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
All PSP titles going forward will be digitally distributed in PS Store, and UMD.

11:40 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:40 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
All of the services and features are on PSP and PSP Go!

11:41 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
PSP Go! available at $249 and 249 euros October 1st in NA and Europe.

11:41 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:41 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We get it a month earlier than Japan, who gets the hardware November 1st.

11:42 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Kaz is moving on to the video delivery service. It has more than 1900 and 9400 TV Shows. Starting today, it will be available natively on the PSP too.

11:42 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:42 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Showtime, G4, Magnolia, all these people are coming to the PS (Video) Store.

11:42 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
"But our news does not stop there…"

11:43 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:43 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Kazunouri Yamauchi comes to stage to promote Gran Turismo for PSP.

11:44 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:44 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
He's explaining, through the help of a translator, his game that runs at 60fps on the PSP platform and will hold 800 cars along with 35 tracks.

11:46 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
More details over at Kotaku

11:48 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
So…what do you think about the PSP Go!? I understand (and respect) Sony's need for a unified platform, but screw the PSP, I want a second analog so I can play FPSs.

11:49 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The lights dim for a Gran Turismo video…that includes lots of pretty footage of the Go! UGH, why can't this have one more analog?? I actually like the Mylo-esque design. Why Sony? Why?

11:50 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Kaz returns to the stage, reminding us that Gran Turismo titles have sold over 50 million units worldwide.

11:50 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And now, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.

11:50 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:51 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
So…this is a different game than we saw at Microsoft the other day. But here's Hideo Kojima, maker of MGS, again!

11:51 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Note: MGS Peace Walker is a PSP title, not PS3.

11:52 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:53 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
I admit it, there is nothing more confusing to me in this whole world than the Metal Gear canon. Kojima is reminding us that it fits in with the MGS timeline, somehow, in a very legitimate way.

11:54 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now we're watching a Peace Walker trailer. There's a lot of vintage-looking video paired with a mysterious, gravely voice over.

11:55 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now some gamepla footage. It looks…like an MGS title on the PSP. The chroma's been cranked a bit, but otherwise, still lotsa jaggies.

11:56 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And incidentally, there are like 4 Snakes onscreen at once in multiplayer

11:57 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:57 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Haha, and as a kicker, Snake crawls behind a guard, whips out a box and hides. Then, ANOTHER snake crawls behind the guard, hides under the same box. Now Kaz returns.

11:57 AM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

11:57 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're almost an hour in to the presser. Is there room left for more announcements?

11:58 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Nope, Kaz ends the press conference. That's it! Wait…now Jack returned to stage. It may have been a fake-out. Yes, it seems Jack is continuing the press conference. Damn that Kaz and his authoritative presence.

11:59 AM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Resident Evil is coming to the PSP, Jack explains, along with a bunch of other titles…including HANNAH MONTANA! Big cheers for her. Jack responded, "Yeah, I knew I'd get you with that one."

12:00 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:01 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're watching a PSP promo video, btw. It's alright I guess.

12:02 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
This is great. The sausage-dominated crowd keeps cheering for the pink/girly games.

12:03 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Ooh, white PSP Go!

12:03 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:04 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack is back, again. He's explaining why PSN is great.

12:05 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Oh right, PlayStation Home. Now they're talking about PlayStation Home. I'd literally forgotten that Sony might bring it up.

12:06 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Could Sony announced anything re:Home right now that would pique your interest?

12:07 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're watching a Home promo video in which conservative people in suits walk through doors and magically transition into funky digital avatars. My personal favorite? A confident female CEO-type becoming Chun Li.

12:08 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
If "meh" manifested as an applause, I just heard it.

12:08 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:10 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now onto a PS3 promo video. These videos become so monotonous, presented in the exact same style. No one can be paying attention at this point. Scratch that, someone is recording video in front of us.

12:10 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:11 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
I keep expecting the video to be over, then it's not.

12:12 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Seriously, it's as if the audio designer purposefully planted musical phrases to mislead the audience while Sony showed us every game that ever has been or will be on the PS3 platform.

12:13 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Maybe Kotaku has some insight as to the nature of Sony's video editing.

12:14 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Alright, the full feature PS3 film has ended and Jack is Back talking about Rockstar, makers of Grand Theft Auto.

12:14 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Agent, made by Rockstar North, is an exclusive coming to PS3.

12:15 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's a 70s-themed…logo, apparently. We aren't hearing anything more about Agent right now. Instead, Ubisoft is going to show us Assassin's Creed 2.

12:16 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Ubisoft is so French. I mean, so Freedom.

12:16 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Wow, the game looks good though. The crowd, fuller than before, is full of people wearing unique, individual garments.

12:18 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:18 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Ooh, da Vinci's flying machine makes an appearance, flying around Venice fluidly. The game looks very pretty, implementing motion blur touched up with just the gentlest brush of bloom lighting.

12:18 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:20 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now we're seeing some battles. You know what this reminds me of? Heavenly Sword. Something about the new movement qualities of the game that I don't think were deployed in the first version.

12:20 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And that's that for Assassin's Creed 2.

12:21 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Look for the PS3 and PSP versions of Assassin's this holiday season.

12:23 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now for a Square Enix video. I was going to be sarcastic, but the techie art direction is actually pretty hot.

12:23 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:24 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're watching footage from Final Fantasy XIII Versus, btw.

12:25 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Final Fantasy XIII. That's 14! We're about to see it.

12:26 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's PlayStation exclusive in 2010.

12:27 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
What can I say? It looks like a new Final Fantasy game. And the crowd goes wild.

12:27 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:27 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack: "So there's one that didn't leak out, huh?"

12:27 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack is teasing motion control gaming.

12:28 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:28 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
"We're working to create an experience that is much closer to real life than anything you have ever seen."

12:28 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
He invited the creative forces behind the "PlayStation Motion Controller" to the stage.

12:29 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
"It far surpasses anything on the market now."

12:29 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
They are holding an engineering prototype that has a bright purple flowing sphere, trackable by the PS Eye.

12:30 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And they're going to show us 100% live tech demos, no precut videos.

12:30 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
We're watching a virtual Motion Controller tracked onscreen. The controller is moving VERY fluidly on the screen. It's perfect. Like 60fps.

12:31 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Wow, now it's a tennis racket onscreen.

12:31 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:31 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And now a bat. And now a club. And now a stop sign…that hit a tennis ball. This is a great demo.

12:31 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:32 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And now a mace. This is like perfect 1:1. And the virtual objects are very tight. I'm impressed. Very impressed.

12:32 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:32 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Then they switched the perspective of the virtual object to an FPS. AWESOME.

12:34 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:34 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
And the device has a trigger, just for FPSs.
12:34 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:34 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
They're showing a ton of virtual objects. This is a tech demo, but it's robust.

12:34 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:34 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
But what about drawing? Hell, what about writing? The device is tracked with "sub millimeter accuracy."

12:35 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:35 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:35 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
This is the best motion control demo I've ever seen. It works perfectly. I'm just not spotting flaws.

12:36 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:36 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
I want to play with this right now. Now they're showing an RTS tank game. Then, they cut to an FPS perspective putting the viewer into a tank. So cool.

12:37 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:37 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:38 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:39 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now for something more complex. What about a full model holding a sword and shield? The swipes and thrusts as it cuts up a skeleton. This character is ever so less fluid than the other demos, but still excellent. Oh, and now ninja stars are being thrown. And now archery! This archery demo pwns what Nintendo showed off earlier. From the first person focus shift to the camera, to the smooth animation, it's the best arrow simulation I've ever seen. Once again, "perfect" comes to mind.

12:39 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:39 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
"We're looking forward to sharing more about the motion controller with you in the near future."

12:40 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Spring 2010 release on motion controller.

12:41 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:42 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
While Jack talks about LittleBigPlanet, I'm going to fanboy out a bit more about the motion controller. Maybe it's not the 1:1 tracking technology, maybe it's just the HD and physics capabilities of the PS3. But it looked at least a generation better than Wii MotionPlus. Then again, not coming until Spring 2010, it probably should be.

12:43 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Matt on PS3 motion controls: "It's Wii to the max." That's gonna end up on a Sony poster somewhere, but I can't disagree with him.

12:43 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
BTW, more on ModNation Racers, which I'm not covering at the moment, at Kotaku.

12:46 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
They're still talking about this ModNation Racers game.

12:46 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:49 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
STILL watching the damn ModNation Racers.

12:50 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
ModNation has gotten more face time than any other thing Sony's presented today.

12:51 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack is now about to offer us a "sneak peek" at a new title, from the maker of Shadow of the Colossus.

12:52 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
It's called The Last Guardian.

12:53 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
A little boy is running from something. And now we see it, a huge feathered cat. It grabs the boy from a ledge, saving him from death. Maybe this cat isn't so bad!

12:53 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:54 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Interesting art design: The boy is a textureless cartoon, while the world around him is more realistic.

12:54 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
The relationship between the boy and this beast is remarkably touching, even in a short clip. The crowd doesn't clap all at once. They need a moment.

12:57 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

12:57 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Now for some Gran Turismo promo video action. There is either a lot of prerendering going on, or the game is photorealistic at 60fps.

12:59 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Next up? A live demo of God of War III.

1:00 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

1:00 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Kratos is running around, doing his thing in a nice looking but not so surprisingly detailed environment.

1:01 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Uh oh…a Titan has crawled out of lava. This can't be good.

1:04 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

1:05 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Anyway, GoW III is OK. It'll be fun. I'm sure fans will like it. But it's pretty similar to the scale of GoW II. It doesn't feel like much more than a graphical boost.

1:06 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
March 2010 on God of War III.

1:06 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack is back on stage, wrapping things up.

1:07 PM ON JUN 2 2009
matt:

1:07 PM ON JUN 2 2009
Mark Wilson:
Jack: "I promise we will not become complacent no matter what we have accomplished." And with that, the event is over. Later guys.

Archive below:

3:24 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee are on stage. McNamee is known for making bold statements in regards to the competitive relationship between the iPhone and the Palm. He says its going to make everyone drop the iPhone and buy a Pre.

3:27 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
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Jon says that he was retired from Apple when Palm approached him. "It's so rare to be able to start from new products."

3:29 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Walt: What are you doing differently at Palm that you did not do at Apple?

3:29 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
They're doing a demo. It's stuff we've seen before. He's showing off cards, which are like processes or programs or windows. That can be switched between. This is how you manage multitasking on the Pre.

3:31 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
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3:33 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
The Amazon Store:
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3:34 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Here is our Pre guide and the original liveblog.

3:35 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
iTunes Syncing!
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3:36 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
The pre shows up as an ipod. Is Rubinstein using his previous knowledge from being an iPod engineering lead to connect this? "They're practically a monopolist."
Kara: Is Apple open to this? Jon: I can't see why they wouldn't be.

3:38 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
The Pre mounts as mass storage, so you can presumably import songs from the USB mounted drive to iTunes, and obviously you can manage the songs from iTunes to the Pre.

3:40 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
The Palm Pre App store. They're going to have a dozen apps in the store at launch. Roger says at 4:20, they'll get more apps. (Major stoner, I love this guy.)
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3:41 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
The Palm Pre App store. They're going to have a dozen apps in the store at launch. Roger says at 4:20, they'll get more apps. (Major stoner, I love this guy.)

3:41 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
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3:41 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
apps stay on the device, iTunes won't manage (obviously) apps.

3:43 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
He's demoing fandango app. It integrates with location awareness and works with the calendar.
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3:43 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
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3:45 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Twitter integration:
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3:48 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
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3:50 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Roger: The Pre is for people who use the web a lot and care about data syncing in the cloud. There is a mirror on the back "Why wouldn't you want to make a phone for women." Kara, raises an eyebrow, "only women need mirrors?"

3:51 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Roger on exaggeration, that he's not the only one. "Nokia told you they had flash. They have flash light"
3:51 PM ON MAY 28 2009

B. Lam:
Jon: I think there's a variety of people who want a real keyboard. Surprisingly, the crowd applauds.

3:54 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Walt: Can a developer put a virtual keyboard on the Pre? Jon: I don't know why you'd want to, nothing's stopping them. Roger: Well, if you have four hands.
Mossberg pretends to put on his make up using the Pre's mirror back, as Kara chides Roger for his previous statement about women needing mirrors. Roger says the segment is under served. Tech is aimed at testosterone ladden men, he says. The iPhone has a feel, its a bit large in your pocket, he says. "The Palm Pre has a Different Feel"

4:00 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Walt asks why they're days away from the launch and they haven't released the SDK. Jon says they're moving forward in steps. Fair enough. The iPhone's true SDK didn't come out for quite some time. Walt asks: Why, if its so easy to program for, why isn't it out there? Roger: Because there are limitations to what you can do with a new venture. "We don't want to push it out there until its close to being right and then have people help us get it completely right."

4:01 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Walt is asking him about supply problems and rebate issues. Basically, he's asking, where can we get these phones? Jon agrees there will be shortages, but provides no real answers to the question.

4:03 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
"Maybe it's awkward." Roger on the Pre working with iTunes.

4:03 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
Walt jokes, is there a special line for iPhone converts? Roger: Of course, the line wraps around uranus.
Question from the crowd: Will the GSM version be coming soon? In a few months, says Jon.
Walt: Is Verizon getting it? Jon: We love Sprint, I can't comment on unannounced comments. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A YES TO ME.

4:12 PM ON MAY 28 2009
B. Lam:
I think we're wrapping up in the liveblog, but check the front page for more.

Included in these clippings are lessons on how to build fallout shelters in case of emergencies, and my personal favorite, headphones, now available with a "new coiled cord!" Check out a gallery of our favorite retro gizmos below, or head over to the Product Manual Archive to check out the ongoing collection! [Product Manual Archive via BoingBoing]

The hosting site, Darwin Online, went live 18 months ago, but largely held just the final product publications of Darwin's lifelong research interests. With the addition of the new material, people will now be able to read his notes, his notes on reference reading he'd done, interesting press clippings he kept and private communications with others.

There're some gems in there too: his first scribblings doubting the "stability" of the species, made on his voyage aboard Beagle; his first pencil outline of the species theory, all 61 pages of it (about half crossed-out as his writing progressed). There's even a memo written by his wife Emma, concerned about Charles' religious doubts.

Apparently the archive, stored as images of the texts, will be most useful to Darwin scholars, due to his notoriously scribbly handwriting. But if you're into cooking, then there's also some recipes for muffin pudding and other dishes from Emma, and instructions on how to boil rice from Charles himself. [Darwin Online, New Scientist and BBC News]