9:22: The stream was active for a second—I got a screencap of it above—but it looks like they shut off the video.

9:23: In case you're not familiar with the story, hit up this link while the webcast is still preparing, and check it out. Basically, Fusion Garage, on behalf of their shareholders, decided that they wanted to cut TechCrunch out of any involvement (besides a crappy advisor role) after the two parties had developed the thing together. Think of it as if your wife one day told you that she'd be raising your kid by herself, and your involvement was no longer needed.

9:28: It's sad, really, since the CrunchPad was supposed to be one of the first (if not the first) cheap tablets that was designed just for web browsing and "consuming" content. The perfect bed/toilet computer, essentially.

9:29: I mean, even if it does end up being released under a different name by Fusion Garage without TechCrunch's involvement, would you buy it? Or would you be loyal, in principle, to TechCrunch, since they're the ones who actually came up with the idea?

9:30: It's a tough decision. Would most people care about petty stuff like this if the final product was good? Would most people even KNOW about it? Probably not.

9:31: Though, we'll get to hear FG's side of the story today. Who knows if TechCrunch's side was the entire truth. It'll probably end up being somewhere inbetween.

9:34: It's starting. Chandra is saying this webcast is a good way to address misconceptions introduced by Arrington's TC post.

9:36: "I'm a dreamer of big dreams." And he's a engineer.

9:36: Chandra is going over his past as an engineer. He's saying he's upset by all the posts on him from the last week.

9:37: "Fusion Garage is the only actual do-er in this story."

9:37: Since 2008, they tried to make a browser-based operating system that supported a "thin, tablet-like touchscreen device."

9:38: In his first meeting with Arrington, he explained what FG was developing, and how his OS would be the key to making the "vision a reality". Mike Arrington would introduce them to investors, secure funding and introduce them to hardware vendors. He would want to make a deal so TechCrunch could acquire the company so that Mike would have controlling interest. They had many talks about the acquisition, but nothing solid ever came out of it.

9:40: Mike was "unable to deliver", in February 2009. Without further development, including a finished prototype, nobody would provide funding to bring a product to market. He then takes a shot at the birthday cake photo.

9:40: "If the project was going to go forward, it would be up to Fusion Garage. It was clear that Michael was not able to deliver."

9:40: They finished their hardware prototype, and did all the engineering challenges by themselves—as you'd expect.

9:41: Chandra said that he secured funding through "his" network, instead of through Michael Arrington. It seems like this might be the thing that triggered the booting of Mike—the fact that TC couldn't deliver funding or connections.

9:42: Chandra is saying that there was no agreement for an acquisition by TC. There were talks, but no agreement. He's saying Fusion Garage owns all IP and proprietary rights for the production. The OS developed entirely by them. "TechCrunch didn't contribute a single line of code."

9:43: FG provided Arrington terms for being an advisor role, but was turned down.

9:44: The product will be introduced this week. And they call it Joojoo.

9:45: The reason why they call it Joojoo was because it's an "African term that stands for magical"

9:45: The device boots in 9 seconds.

9:46: All icons on the site are "web services", and the screen is really really green.

9:46: You can get online, to the internet, in 9 seconds.

9:46: It has a 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen. "The largest screen of any device in its class on the market."

9:47: No physical buttons other than the on-off buttons.

9:47: Joojoo has no preloaded applications, Windows or menus. It will accept sliding and scrolling gestures with your fingers. And it can be used as a digital book. "The internet is the application", similar to Google's Chrome OS.

9:48: "Unfortunately Arrington's dream of $200 or $300 price for something like this was unrealistic. Nothing worthwhile can be delivered to market at that price." How are they pricing it?

9:48: The Joojoo is more than 3x the iPhone 3GS's screen. How about netbooks? Those have "noncapacitive touch and a poor web experience".

9:49: Joojoo "provides the best in class internet experience for everything we do." And it can "watch full HD videos," as well as read magazines and books. It weighs 1.1 kg.

9:50: It's going to be $499.

9:50: Preorders are available this friday on the Joojoo website. It'll be sold online only, without retail until the near future.

9:50: Q&A Section:

9:50: Q: "Please respond to Arrington's post."

9:51: A: "There is no legal case filed today. We are very confident in our position, and we believe we own all the IPs."

9:51: A: There are no contracts of any kind between us and TechCrunch.

9:51: Q: "What do you say to Michael saying you ambushing him out of the blue."

9:51: A: Chandra says, basically, Arrington failed on everything he promised he would do (funding, getting connections), so FG had to "move on on their own."

9:52: Q: "Other companies have tried to introduce tablets to the market and failed. Why is your device different?"

9:52: A: Tablets today run the full Windows operating system. They're expensive, and heavy, and it wasn't a form factor that could deliver the way you would like to use. "We believe we can make a big difference." Then he goes over the features like a 12.1-inch screen and the fact that they "don't boot to an operating system."

9:53: There have been verbal discussions about a possible acquisition, but "nothing was delivered on Michael's part." There weren't any verbal assurances, except for Michael saying that he wants to acquire the company.

9:54: Q: "What exactly was the offer you made to Michael that he refused?"

9:54: A: "Michael promised a lot of things, but he did not deliver. We offered the possibility to work with us, and be part of this. Despite us doing everything, software, hardware, funding. But Michael turned down the offer."

9:55: Q: "Can you comment on Google Chrome OS."

9:55: A: "They see things in relation to Netbooks, but we believe that Netbooks' use cases aren't what they should be for what you want to do."

9:56: Q: "What kind of offline capabilities does the machine have?"

9:56: A: You can use your Gmail, for example, using a local cache. You'll synchronize when connectivity is available.

9:56: Q: "Does this product have any real chance to succeed without TechCrunch's marketing?"

9:57: A: If you define marketing as doing a blog post, then no. Michael has been "talking about this for the longest while." He really wants to hammer home that Arrington didn't deliver on any kind of promises.

9:57: Q: "What are the specs?"

9:57: A: "It has a 12.1-inch screen, 4GB SSD, but most of the storage is stored in the cloud."

9:58: Q: "The screen was extremely green. Is that normal?"

9:58: A: "It's a trick of the camera. I'll show this in 1 to 1 demos, and the screen is fine, and the colors are fine."

9:58: Q: What is the battery life?

9:59: A: 5 hours. Wi-Fi only.

9:59: Q: Do you have any relationships with content providers?

9:59: A: No. We're in discussions with companies.

9:59: Q: Will there be any Joojoo accessories?

10:00: A: Yes, we'll announce them in the next couple weeks.

10:00: Q: Will we be showing complete demos in 1:1 meetings?

10:00: A: Yes.

10:00: There will be one color at the moment.

10:00: "We think there will be a lot of demand for this product."

10:01: Fusion Garage has raised 3 million to date since 2008.

10:01: "Thank you so much for your time today. I look forward to seeing many of you over the coming weeks."

10:01: That looks like the end. I'll be getting a hands on with this thing as soon as possible, so check back for that.

6:05: Logging into the Warner Bros. BD-Live account now.

6:08: There's a Harry Potter one on December 12, apparently.

6:12: Trying to figure out how to log into this commentary.

6:12: Sorry, I may have already had a few beers before this thing started.

6:15: I think it's the Director's Cut disc...

6:16: Still loading. It's a good thing I saw this movie already.

6:17: This IS December 5th right?? Why are there no screenings available?

6:25: OK I'm in. Had to join the session by joining the invite from an email. My fault.

6:26: Strange, it seems to be text only. I thought this thing was going to have audio.

6:29: There's even an option to have Event Audio "on", but it's not working.

6:30: Someone just asked him what's up with the name "McG"

6:30: Long silence.

6:31: He explains his mom actually came up with the idea to call him McG.

6:36: There we go! Commenter dishab says I had to change to Linear PCM audio to hear it. How in the hell would anyone know how to do that?

6:37: And now either McG is silent, or the audio stream somehow cut out. But he is talking about how he wanted to be a Laker.

6:39: This is seriously annoying. How would a normal person with a PS3 know to flip back and forth between Bitstream and PCM Audio? How would they even know what the hell either of those meant?

6:40: Don't get me wrong; the idea is pretty great. To have a director give live commentary and answer questions on top of the movie is a good idea. But this BD-Live implementation isn't any better than it was last year with The Dark Knight. In fact, I think it may actually be worse now.

6:42: Here's a FAQ posted by dishab in the comments in case any of you are having trouble.

6:44: I'm restarting the movie to see if that will fix the audio problem. What makes it even more frustrating is that I got it to work for about 30 seconds.

6:46: OK, now it works again. McG is talking about how they wanted to vary up the ethnicities of the survivors.

6:46: McG: "Where are all the people that hate this movie? I want these questions soon."

6:47: They're going to take a break soon. But before that they're talking about Moon Bloodgood's boobies.

6:47: The transcript on screen seems to be way delayed from what he's actually saying. 30-60 seconds.

6:48: Five minute break. And then afterwards some boobies.

6:49: I think somebody forgot to pause the movie like they did in the Dark Knight screening.

6:50: It's just silence and no typing now, but the movie is still playing.

6:53: It's starting up again in 30 seconds.

6:53: They're back. Oh they missed the boob scene. McG says he didn't want to make it the "gratuitous titty shot in a genre film."

6:54: He had to cut out some stuff like a screwdriver attack to make it a PG-13 in the theatrical release.

6:55: McG just compared his movie to The Dark Knight.

6:57: Question: how do you feel about making the horrible Charlie's Angels films?

6:57: McG: "I really like those movies. If you don't like them you can fuck off."

6:59: "I want feedback from the audience if you want another movie or not?"

7:00: From the comments the director's making, it seems like McG isn't really a fan of subtlety. I don't want to get too negative or anything...but yeah.

7:02: In answering a question about if Robert Patrick (T-1000) would be in a future movie. McG said that he might be, if there was a scientist that wanted to model a Terminator after himself. (Yes, he took that base idea from Terminator 3, in case you were wondering.)

7:03: McG just called himself heavyhanded.

7:05: Question: "What do you want for Christmas."

7:05: McG: "Blah blah let go of materialism blah blah spiritual salvation blah blah douche answer." It was pretty horrible.

7:06: I don't know how long I can deal with McG's commentary.

7:07: And now he just compared himself to Alfred Hitchcock.

7:10: You know when you're listening to a stupid person try and use big words he doesn't know the meaning of and end up using similar-sounding words that are totally different? This is like that.

7:10: You know when you're listening to a shallow person try to come up with some profound things to say, but fails miserably and sounds stupid? Yup. This is that.

7:13: The moderators are picking only the positive comments to give to McG to talk about.

7:13: He just announced that he's making another Terminator movie. Seriously.

7:15: Here's a tip that will go down in history from one of the film greats. "There's two elements that go into filmmaking. There's sound, and there's the picture."

7:16: Oh and for those people who are punching themselves in the face that he's making another one? He said he's making one after that.

7:19: McG just confessed to verbal abuse from his father when he was growing up.

7:21: And now McG is being coy about making another one? I don't get it.

7:22: McG says he only saw one episode of the Sarah Connor chronicles. And he didn't "pay attention" to the third movie. No wonder none of this shit lined up with the third movie.

7:23: It's also unfortunate that the main two characters have the names John and Kate.

7:24: And now he's talking about a second or third movie again.

7:24: I'm doing this for you, by the way, readers. Normally I would have turned this off an hour ago.

7:25: Words, words, words. He's using a lot of words to say very little.

7:27: And now the audio is cutting in and out. I actually like it more this way.

7:28: Here's a good comment from djbneozen:

Do you have to be really really full of yourself to be a director for a major Hollywood production nowadays? I'll just say it right now; T4...not that great. The movie lacked substance. No wonder they aren't really talking about it directly. I mean, specificly about what was going on in different scenes, why it was shot from this angle or that angle or what they may have cut from the movie. You know, discussing the "directing" choice in the movie with the DIRECTOR.

Batman, on the other hand, spectacular.

Jason...by the attitude of McG, I bet he had a lot more beer than you tonight.

7:30: They paused the movie to figure out the technical difficulties. Namely, the no audio-ness of what's going on right now.

7:32: You know, I think this movie is the only movie I've ever seen that was actually better when watched on the back of 7-inch airplane seat screen.

7:33: Now I have to restart the movie since the audio's still messed up.

7:34: Apropos of nothing, I just got a spam text talking about debt relief.

7:36: Anyone else like Community with Joel McHale? My favorite new show of the season.

7:37: OK audio is back. I wonder what stupid comments I just missed int he last 5 minutes.

7:37: Aaaaaaand he's talking about Hitler.

7:38: McG says once the T800 goes out, it's "curtains" for the resistance.

7:43: Wow, McG just dissed the third movie. Seriously? "We just tried to introduce credibility." Holy. Fuck. He thinks his movie is better than the third movie.

7:44: McG asked viewers who didn't like the third act, and it was all positive. Hell, I even liked the third act, because it meant the movie was ending soon.

7:46: He says Sarah Connor is going to be in the next film, but he's not sure how he's going to pull that off.

7:47: McG just says he loves what he does. Well, if I were a horrible director (I am) and got handed the reigns of a beloved franchise, I'd love it too.

7:48: McG: "I'm disappointed in myself that I couldn't make the best movie." Holy shit. He just said he thought he could make a better movie than #1 or #2.

7:49: Someone asked if McG could use Christian Bale in another one of his movies, what would it be? McG then talks about how it's good to work with Christian. And then babbles for three minutes before not answering the question.

7:52: McG talks about how he could have made a "dark ending" and ended the franchise by having [spoiler] Connor wake up from the transplant and shoot everyone else. Then it fades to black and the franchise is done.

7:53: THE MOVIE IS OVER! THE MOVIE IS OVER!!!

7:53: Thanks for reading everyone. I hope this was at least somewhat entertaining for you, as painful as it was for me. It's time to go break this Blu-ray disc so I'll never have to hear McG's voice again. Good night.

It's going to be the first audio commentary that's live streamed from off the disc, so that'll be interesting to see, even if the movie (or the commentary) won't live up to expectations.

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!

[Events shown in reverse chronological order. Timestamps indicate expected time for landing—obviously in July 20 1969]

Well, the landing liveblog is over, people. Houston has given the stay signal, so everything is good. Buzz says it looks beautiful outside. I believe him. Head to We Choose the Moon to hear the chatter between Houston and Tranquility Base.

Three minutes on the surface
They are now in the stay/no stay control phase. Mission controllers are making sure all data is ok. Everything seems fine. Neil and Buzz will be taking off their helmets and gloves after they complete the stay/no stay. Houston says all looks perfect.

Seems like everything has worked out perfectly. Eagle is at Tranquility base now. All systems nominal. Neil has burned almost all the fuel reserved for the descent looking for a good landing spot. The one that the computer picked was full of huge boulders. The guy has saved the day, but people at control were freaking out just a minute ago.

Houston: Roger, Twank...Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue here. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!

Neil: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Touchdown

Neil: Out of detent.
Aldrin: Mode control - both auto. Descent engine command override off. Engine arm - off. 413 is in.

2 seconds
Buzz: Contact light! Okay, engine stop. ACA - out of detent.

13 seconds
160, 6 and half down.

49 seconds
1 and half down.

1m
This is it. Last minute people. All looking good, Neil on manual control looking for a good spot. Fuel going low fast. Holy fuck this guy.

2m
Everything looking good. 3200 feet. All go for landing.

4m
Eagle is flying good. Data is good down at Houston control.

5m
It's looking good now, but Neil is looking for a spot for landing. Feels better than the simulator, he says.

5m
33,000 feet now. They have land on their window.

6m
They got a data dropout but still looking good. How the hell you get data dropout and "still look good"?

7m
Everything seems ok. Capcom says is ok. They are go to continue powered descent.

10m
They have passed the mark. Their position is off.

11m
Ignition. 46,000 feet continuing descent. Holy frack that engine is loud.

12m
1 minute to ignition. High gain signal is clear.

13m
Buzz Aldrin is now reading the descent checklist to Neil.

15m
All system go for descent. 3 30 until ignition. OK, I'm not up there and I'm about to smash the keyboard out of pure nervousness.

16m
Five minutes from ignition and Houston keeps losing them on the high gain antenna. No time to send a repairman up there.

17m
There are problems now. Problems with the computer programs. Some errors popping up. This doesn't feel good at all. They have overridden the errors.

18m
10.7 nautical miles from ignition for final descent, says capcom. This is it, people. It's now or never.

19m
They are experience some communication problems now.

24m
Guidance says we are go for landing. All data is ok. We are off to a good start. Mission controllers are "keeping it cool" but you can tell everyone knows this the time to be heroes. No room for errors.

25m
Sound is great now. Neil is giving data on residuals.

26m
Lots of noise now. Houston is asking Columbia about LEM status, as they have lost signal right now. Switching to the big antenna.

27m
LEM signal acquisition. Waiting for Neil to say something. You Apollo 11 commander you!

28m
"Columbia reading loud and clear!" Capcom is asking how everything went. Collins says THE EAGLE IS OK! He says everything went on beautifully: "Babe, everything's going just swimmingly. Beautiful".

29m
We have acquisition of signal from the Command Module. Capcom is trying to communicate with Columbia right now.

31m
One minute and 31 seconds from Command Module signal acquisition. 2 minutes from LEM signal acquisition. Houston control is getting ready for final descent.

35m
Trusted sources inside the White House are telling us that President Nixon is walking nervously up and down the Oval Office, mumbling something about "that damn Kennedy." He has two speeches on his desk. One is only to be read in case of disaster:

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

"These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

"In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

"Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

"For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind."

38m
Nothing yet from Columbia or Eagle.

44m
Hey, check out Buzz Aldrin in the LEM. He's happy.

49m
Capcom is babbling again about how many people are in the control room, watching the operation. John Glenn is there, by the way. So is Alan Shepard, who later landed on the Moon with Apollo 14. Pete Conrad—commander or Apollo 12—and Jim Lowell—commander of Apollo XIII—are there too.

50m
Did you know that one million people gathered in Florida to see the launch of the Apollo 11 mission? Neither did I. An estimated 500 million people watched the landing live.

54m
Did I say you can listen to all this live at We Choose the Moon?

55m
This is when Phil Schiller makes a joke about how everything worked fine at rehearsal. No signal re-acquisition yet.

59m
Less than one hour from landing and nothing from Columbia or Eagle yet. Are these guys partying with Pink Floyd up there or what?

1h02m
Static noise getting stronger. I guess they will reappear any time now. I'm sure the engine should be ok. Unless the Nazis shot them now. I'm sure people at capcom keep looking at their watches nervously.

1h04m
Time for some chocolate as we wait for the signal to come back. I'm actually getting nervous here.

1h06m
Columbia will come first inline. Hopefully LEM will also reappear in one piece.

1h07m
The ignition should be over now. We are two minutes from LEM signal acquisition.

1h09m
One minute from the LEM ignition for descent orbit insertion. This is happening on the dark side of the Moon, so capcom doesn't have a clue about what would happen. For all we know, the engine may explode right now.

1h14m
What would you do if you were on the dark side of the Moon, 1h14m from being the protagonist of the biggest event in the history of mankind? Go through the landing flight plan once again or check out some porn?

See, this is why I'll never be an astronaut.

1h15m
Signal is lost. Seven minutes for descent orbit insertion. Mission control says all system look good.

1h19m
Three minutes now for Eagle's loss of signal. And they said that things move slow in space.

1h20m
Twelve minutes to Eagle's engine ignition.

1h23m
Everything looks good according to capcom. Columbia going over the hill in seven minutes.

1h25m
Why do we bitch about cellphone reception here on Earth? It's a miracle these guys can understand each other. Columbia has to repeat everything as they move away from the clear communications signal.

1h29m
Eagle is now behind the Moon. No they are not. They are getting ready for loss of signal now.

1h30m
Houston capcom says they are a few minutes from losing signal from the spacecrafts. Control is going through all the data to give a go/no go on landing.

1h32m
No bald guys so far.

1h35m
I wonder how Neil and Buzz are doing on board Eagle. If I were in their boots, I would be pissing my astronaut diapers at the prospect of being the first guys to set foot in land outside planet Earth.

1h39m
Apparently NASA doesn't play Coldplay while waiting for the big events. Steve Jobs is not happy.

1h41m
Houston Capcom and Columbia are now exchanging a lot of technical jibba jabba. Something about turning off directional rotate power #2 and asking Collins to put his pants on before the other two guys land.

1h43m from landing
Eagle has undocked from the command module. Talking about Columbia, here's a nice view of the craters Sabine and Ritter from lunar orbit. Collins is not wasting his time up there:

1:00 - OK, getting ramped up. Pizza! Yeah! I'm hoping they're going to start selling pizzas with pizza stuffed into the crust. What do you guys think?

1:03 - OK, they're introducing the team. Lynn Liddle, EVP of Communications and Investor Relations is running the show. After her is Russell Weiner, who's going to drop the big announcement on us. Weiner is famous for his charisma, so get excited about that.

1:04 - Looks like this announcement is going to be about the Domino's Pizza Tracker!!!

1:05 - "Domino's is dedicated to delivering the hottest technology to our customers." Also, presumably, pizza.

1:06 - They're dropping some sales numbers. Apparently, Domino's is totally teabagging Papa John's and "The Hut." Bravo, Russell Weiner, bravo!

1:07 - OK now Warren from NPD is going through these sales numbers some more. Come on, Weiner. Get back on the horn and bring the excitement.

1:09 - Now they're about to give us a walkthrough of the new online ordering system. Apparently, you people order extra sides and beverages as well as those revolting bread bowl pastas when you order online.

1:10 - There are 10, count 'em 10 ways to get to online ordering from the home page. Just in case you're retarded and can't click the "order" button.

1:11 - The pizza builder lets you add your toppings and everything you want on a pizza and see it visually. If you want pepperoni the pepperoni shows up immediately. You can't see the sneezes from the dudes who will actually make your pizza for you on the site, unfortunately.

1:12 - It'll automatically add any coupons that are floating around the internets to your order without you needing to find codes. How deliciously convenient!

1:13 - If you're a Domino's superfan you can name various orders for quick repeat ordering later. Also, you can set up orders to be sent in the future, just in case you want to order a pizza for next Thursday right now.

1:14 - Once you place your order, the Pizza Tracker tells you exactly what's going on with your order. "Stanley" is making your pizza and tells you when it's in the oven, when it's on its way, and all the rest of the details of its harrowing journey.

1:16 - Holy shit, you can embed pizza tracker on your Facebook page so you can tell people that you're punishing your body.

1:17 - And you can order Domino's through your TiVo now! No more standing up to get to your phone for you! The future is now, my friends.

1:18 - Seriously guys, Facebook pizza tracking. How long is it going to be before the first sucker gets robbed by a guy posing as a Domino's delivery guy who found out you're waiting for a pizza on the internet?

1:19 - They're talking about how revolutionary it is that you'll be able to know the name of the guy who made your pizza. Now you'll know who to track down when you come down with a bad case of the runs when "Harvey" didn't wash his hands before making your pie.

1:20 - I want Pizza Tracker on my Xbox 360. Until then, this doesn't impress me. It's getting Twitter and Facebook, why not Pizza Tracker? Come on, Microsoft. Listen to the people. They want to order pizza in-game.

1:21 - They're rambling about the demographics of the pizza-loving public and how perfect Domino's is at targeting each and every one of them. Apparently, I fit into the "Sedentary, Chubby Blogger" demo. Gotta admit, they nailed me on that one.

1:22 - OK, it seems like the good stuff is over. Now it's on to Q&As, which I'm less interested in, so I'm just going to wrap this up. I hope you guys enjoyed my live rundown of the future of pizza ordering. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go eat a pasta bowl on the toilet and cry a little bit.

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 You've seen our liveblog of today's big event, now jump below for links to all of the new software and gear, including the iPhone 3GS.

iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide
• iPhone 3G vs. iPhone 3GS Comparison Chart
• The Not-So-New $99 8GB iPhone
• iPhone 3GS Gets Voice Control
• "Find My iPhone" Is a Relief to Us Forgetful Types
• Old 16GB iPhone 3G to Sell for $149
• And the One Caveat: AT&T.

iPhone OS
• iPhone 3.0: The Whole Story
• App Roundup: iPhone 3.0

Mac OS X
• Mac OSX Snow Leopard: The Whole Story
• Safari 4 Available, Dubbed "World's Fastest Browser"

New MacBooks
• New 15-Inch MacBook Pros
• Introducing the New, Cheap, 13-Inch MacBook Pro

WWDC 2009
• Liveblog Archive

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.

Archive below:

10:02 PM ON May 5 2009
matt:
Our Kindle DX liveblog kicks off right here at 9:30am EDT with pre-game coverage leading up to the unveiling at 10:30am. See you soon!

9:09 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Good morning! I'm in NYC this week so I'll be your surprise liveblog operator along with matty b and john m. You guys excited? Eh? EH?! Ehhhhhh. Ok we will get started soon!

9:18 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Testing, 1 2 3 pancakes.

9:18 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Hey! Good morning! I'm in NYC this week so I'll be your surprise east coast live blog operator, along with Matt and John M. Good news, Amazon didn't hold this event in a basement, so I hope that reception will be fine. You guys excited? I'm kind of meh! Could use a bit more sleep. But I'm sure we'll be fine. So far, looks like a few people are lined up. I'll let you know when things happen.

9:23 AM ON MAY 6 2009
B. Lam:
Matty just showed up. There's not much to see but he's going to toss a few photos up of the event building, at Pace University, and oh look, Wired's Brian X Chen just showed up.

9:28 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:

9:28 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Brad from the NYTimes is here. We think there's going to be a lot more than what we've heard…otherwise, why would they have an event instead of tying this to the kindle 2 launch a few weeks ago.

9:30 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
It smells like wet dog blended with rotten garbage topped with gangrene out here. Gotta love NYC.

9:31 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:
Have a hunch on suprise guest considering the City Hall location: MIKE BLOOMBERG?!

9:35 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:

9:35 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Are we being let in or not?

9:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're inside! Clearly, Pace has not redecorated since the 1970s prison-chic movement.

9:44 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
We are inside and the wifi looks decent this time. People are lining up at the inner doors.

9:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
It looks like they're serving crappier coffee than last time, too, out of ugly plastic jugs, not fancy metal jars with waiters.

9:46 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
14 minutes til show time.

9:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Dude from PCMag sounds pretty hyped about the idea of a giant Kindle. I dunno. Is just bigger better?

9:47 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
What do you think is coming out today? Josh from Engadget thinks it's going to be a small kindle! Wearing patented sweater vest.

9:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Will it save newspapers?" Spoiler: no.

9:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Seriously. Pace is like a fortress. I feel trapped in a tomb of concrete and dull browns.

9:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:51 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Josh from Engadget has a very tasteful bag.

9:53 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:

9:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Josh and matt are talking about street fighter.

9:54 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:


Brian looking sharp. No pajamas or laptop suspenders? SAD.

9:56 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:


Beyond these doors: THE BIGGEST KINDLE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.

9:56 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:

9:56 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
OMg I can see inside through the door! The first slide says…a…m…a….z…I can't make out the rest. Sorry. 2 mins til show time.

9:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're standing in line by ourselves. Does everyone else know something we don't know?

9:59 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We should be going inside the inner sactum soon, where the Amazon queen lays Kindle eggs.

10:00 AM ON May 6 2009
Mahoney:


With the Engadget boys. One big happy family!

10:02 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're inside. The queen must be behind the blinding white screen with the Amazon logo.

10:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Man, this theater is small. I wonder if this reflects how even Amazon feels about the magnitude of the announcement? It's a big Kindle with newspaper powers?

10:04 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Mahoney doubts my theory that a giant Amazon queen lays Kindle eggs. It makes perfect sense. She was too slow pooping them out during the original run, then she got a little bit faster, and now they've got her laying giant eggs.

10:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The aluminum body of the MacBook Pros is biting us in the ass finding the Wi-Fi signal Amazon is supplying, which will no doubt be imminently crushed under the weight of a hundred bloggers.

10:07 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:

10:07 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:08 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Everybody's got MacBooks, almost everybody's using Canon. There are a few Nikons hanging around, though. We're still hanging out.

10:09 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:09 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The lights dimmed a bit, and I got excited. But it was just a tease. =(

10:11 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Where is Jeff Bezos??? Did the queen turn on him?

10:12 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:13 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The music has taken a slow turn for the worse. It's making me sleepy.

10:14 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Are you enjoying our photo spread of Blam? We're trying to coax him into going topless post-liveblog.

10:15 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:16 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
what's the official gum of gizmodo liveblog? stride. Matt buchanan says it lasts through one entire game of ultimate frisbee. cough.

10:16 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're chewing Stride gum, because it lasts a long time. I guess that makes it the official gum of Gizmodo liveblogging.

10:18 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:

10:19 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The only problem with Stride is that while it lasts a long time, when it dies, it dies hard. And I think Orbit tastes better, but it doesn't last as long.

10:21 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
If Jeff Bezos wrote a book, what do you think it'd be about?

10:23 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The music they're playing just keeps getting worse. I don't even know what this crap is: It's like a chick moaning with some pianos and jangly instruments and synthesizers. What the hell, Amazon, what the hell.

10:23 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
Can kindle make you love reading like THIS?

10:25 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Music's fading out. Are we starting??

10:26 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
That is a big stage for just one little man. Surely, Jeff Bezos has guests. Michael Bloomberg? The NYT's Sulzberger clan? The Amazon Queen? Stephen King's half-cousin who wrote a physics textbook in 1976?

10:28 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The Amazon Queen: Does she have six legs, or eight? Is she more Predator than Alien? Does she have a stinger?

10:29 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Music. So. Bad. There's a reason I listen to At the Drive-In before liveblogging, but I don't know if the power-up effect can last through this.

10:31 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Factoid: Almost everyone here still has a full head of hair.

10:32 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We should be starting soon, seriously.

10:32 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
The New big Kindle is not bigger than this book. I guarantee it.

10:36 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Dum dum dum dum dum. It sounds like Final Fantasy battle victory music now.

10:38 am ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
Remember to comment over here!

10:38 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Oh, here go! Jeff Bezos.

10:38 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The Kindle vision "every book ever printed in any language."

10:38 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We're up to over 275,000 books today, from 230,000 in Feb.

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Kindle sales are now 35 percent of books–there's a big spike with Kindle 2 launching.

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
That's 35 percent of all the books Amazon sells. Kindle. Whoa.

10:40 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
They're taking long tail approach: Starting with head, working toward tail. So 270,000 books compose over a third.

10:40 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Why's Kindle great? LCD is "like shining a flashlight in your eyes."

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Talking about why Kindle is still great: "Don't even have to own a PC."

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Talking up 3G like you really need hardcore internets to download books.

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Lots of pretty people holding books.

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
B.Lam:

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"It takes a lot of design effort to make something disappear." Like the Kindle.

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"The device doesn't beep at you, doesn't get warm in your hands to make your hands sweat."

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Yes, it's a giant Kindle commercial right now.

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Here we go: "What about my personal and professional documents?"

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Looks like Kindle is going to get an upgrade: "Paperless society never came."

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Printers have proliferated and "so have their evil companion" the toner cartridge.

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Why do we print?" Is it because we love all the suckitude?

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Why does Jeff Bezos run out of Cyan all the time?

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:
"I always run out of cyan first" A sure sign he's printing flesh.

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Paper is better than traditional screens." That's why we print he says.

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Oh my god. He just said "One more thing."

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"8 1/2 x 11″ giant on the screen. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"You need a big display."

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Kindle DX!

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
2.5 times the size of the Kindle display.

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Built-in PDF

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Beautiful on this device."

10:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"You never have to pan, you never have to zoom, you never have to scroll."

10:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
It looks really nice and readable. Maybe this IS the Kindle we've been waiting for.

10:46 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Auto-rotate, like iPhone.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Highly formmatted books shine on this screen." Like cookbook. Mmm molten lava cakes.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Photos look better, though still black and white.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The QWERTY keyboard is squished along the bottom with tinier keys. This thing does look weirdly ginormous.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Textbooks. They've got three textbook publishers on the hook with 60 percent of the higher education textbook market: Pearson, Cengage Learning and Wiley.

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Showing a Calculus textbook. Calculus still sucks!

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Biology textbook up now. It still sucks too!

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Students with smaller backpacks. Less load. Easier access."

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"What about the students?" Five top universities are trialing Kindle DX

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Arizona State, Case Western, Princeton, Virginia

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
And Reed College.

10:50 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Case Western president on stage now talking about how great it is.

10:50 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
So we're chilling out.

10:50 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:51 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I wonder how all of those Kindle 2 owners feel right about now?

10:51 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I mean, this is what the Kindle 2 should've been, no?

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Jeff's back.

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"Newspaper have been an absolute bestseller on Kindle."

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
He just said "automagically." Wow.

10:53 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
This summer, three newspaper are piloting Kindle DX with reduced price in exchange for long-term subscriptions.

10:53 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
NYT, WaPo and Boston Globe. Where's the WSJ?

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I was right! Arthur Sulzberger from the faltering NYT is here.

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:


YOU'RE ALL STILL DOOMED. JUST ELECTRONICALLY DOOMED, NOW

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Seriously, where the hell is the Wall Street Journal? New York Times and Boston Globe are the same doomed company. Washington Post has always been slightly ahead of the curve.

10:56 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
He's insistent on calling it an "experiment." The NYT needs more than this to survive. Have you guys checked out the Times Reader on Windows and Mac? It's a pretty awesome digital newspaper experience. Better than Kindle DX, I bet.

10:56 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Kindle DX will be offered to readers in areas where home delivery is not available. Huh?

10:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Mentioning popular Times authors. Left out Maureen Dowd. That's what you get for hating on Twitter, lady.

10:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Demo time!

10:57 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
We'll get to play with them outside.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Showing off built-in PDF reader.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:


Press sure is pushy today.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
There's a giant camera guy lurking over his shoulder. Kind of weird lookin.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Sheet music. Violinists of the world, unite.

10:59 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Camera just blew up.

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Refresh times could still be better, yeah.

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The image is backwards on the screen. New feature! It warps time and space.

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:


"How did we get the projector to show backwards?"

11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"If you think of yourself as looking at this through a mirror you can see even in reverse" it's super clear.

11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
My head hurts. In reverse. "Never seen the New York Times backwards before?"

11:01 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
"I'm sorry I can't make the news any better." Sad story on the page.

11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:


Technical Difficulties. CONFICKRDLE DX

11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Man, if this happened during a Stevenote, we'd be covered in blood from the slaughter by now.

11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
He invited us up to check it out on the projector. Such a nice guy!

11:02 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Man, nothing but bad news as he's flipping through.

11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:
The official pricing details and info are here.

11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
The navigation for the NYT looks a bit primitive: A standard table of contents for sections, and then there's a list of articles.

11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Preview of article text underneath headlines. Reminds me of the way websites are formatted for iPhone, actually.

11:04 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Biology of Fishes, third edition. "A good textbook." Okay, Jeff.

11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Tuna fish on screen. I want sushi.

11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Scombroid: A fish of the mackerel family. Now you know.

11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
New feature for Kindle DX: Not only can you change font, but you can decide how many words per line.

11:05 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Shorter line length or longer.

11:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Margins are expanded, basically.

11:06 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
I guess that's something to do with all of that screen space–more space!

11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
What do you get with Kindle DX? 9.7 inch screen with auto-rotation, 3G access to 275k books, 3.3GB of storage–up to 3500 books.

11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Native PDF support, no panning, zooming or scrolling.

11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
$489

11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
$10 less than I'd expect.

11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:07 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Ships summer 2009, pre-order now at amazon.com/kindleDX

11:08 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Page is live now to pre-order.

11:08 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
That's it! See you in a few with our hands on Kindle DX!

11:08 AM ON May 6 2009
B. Lam:

11:10 AM ON May 6 2009
matt:
Be sure to check all the details about Kindle DX in one place: here.

11:17 AM ON May 6 2009
Jason Chen:

Jason and the team at HQ were all super quick and coordinated and the photos were nice (thanks to the Nikon D700 we rented). And as always, Wordpress was lightning fast on refreshes and stable as a rock encased in cement. It may have our fastest, most slick liveblog ever. A far cry from two years ago when I started, and forgot my camera cable at WWDC, and had to use photos from another site. Or when we used to crash all the time. We finished up with a score of 13m pageviews. Not a record, but pretty damn good considering it was a mere software update we were talking about.

As always, feedback is welcome.

P.S. The pants are patagonia.

Archive Below:

7:06 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
One of the benefits of having these keynotes in Cupertino instead of SF (for me) is the fact that I don't have to wake up at 5 AM. Wee.

8:38 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:

8:41 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
We're here! The weather's surprisingly mild, so we're not like freezing cattle outside waiting to be let in.

8:42 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Did you know John Mayer is on Twitter? I wonder if he's going to be following this today. His Twitter background is an OS X desktop, so chances are good. But, he uses a BlackBerry. HMM.

8:48 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Still about an hour to go. People are slowly strolling in, already weary from the Bay Area traffic.

8:52 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Everyone try Oregon Trail for the iPhone yet? That thing is addicting—I spent many hours this weekend avoiding bears and dysentery. Some children didn't make it. What, you expect me to stop for EVERY kid eaten by snakes?

8:54 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:


Hi! Brian here. Good morning!

8:58 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Oh, and farmer and banker are both good. Carpenter, less so.

9:00 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
What does everyone expect to see today? Post your prediction in the comments of the first post on Gizmodo. Here's what I think. Cut & Paste, MMS/video, and new edible Phil Schiller edition iPhone. 32 delicious gigabytes.

9:05 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Not a whole lot of bald guys today, surprisingly.

9:05 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

9:10 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Someone just set off the loudest alarm I have ever heard. Not me, I swear.

9:11 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
And now everybody is streaming outside. Is this a fire? Did Steve show up and start screaming at people?

9:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
We're back inside. Disaster averted.

9:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Liveblog bingo is up! Go to the main page and print it out. What, your office doesn't charge you. Print that crap in full color, highest quality.

9:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
40 minutes left. There's a guy that looks EXACTLY like Matt Damon here.

9:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Actually, imagine if Matt Damon had a cousin that went to Stanford, graduated with a computer science degree after changing majors from chemical engineering. Then he decided to purchase a belt that doesn't quite fit so well. That's this guy.

9:25 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:
Don't forget, you still have time to play the iPhone OS 3.0 Liveblog Pizza Bingo. You can get a bingo card here.

Also, if you want to make comments about and during the event, you can post your comments here.

9:26 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Then next to him, there's a guy whose eyes are 2 inches too close to each other. If you're saying to yourself, "hey, there are only two inches total between my eyes", yes. That's exactly what I'm saying.

9:30 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Dr. Drew from loveline, Kumar from Harold and Kumar, and that one guy from Band of Brothers and now 24 are also here.

9:32 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Speaking of 24, Jack Bauer is one person who will NEVER use an iPhone. It may be functional, but it would never survive a fistfight inside a quarry.

9:35 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
When the screen breaks, he would say "dammit".

9:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
There's an interesting Italian villa theme going on inside of the Town Hall. I think they need to add a functional fountain in here.

9:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
24 minutes left.

9:37 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
What do you want in the next gen iPhone that can only be added through a hardware release? Front video camera, slightly more memory, Nike+ support.

9:44 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
We're inside. The unofficial band of Apple, Coldplay, is playing.

9:45 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

9:45 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
It smells like doobies in here:

9:46 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

9:47 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
I think it's the newspaper guys.

9:48 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
Harry "Spartacus" McCracken of Technologizer.com

9:48 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Twelve excruciating minutes left til start.

9:50 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

9:50 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Now Jack Johnson is playing. I would must RATHER have John Mayer, if that wasn't obvious from our previous liveblog last September.

9:52 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:


Heeeeeere's Brian!

9:53 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:


Apple's Jos and Katie Cotton, getting ready for the show.

9:54 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
And that's half of me on the right, which LUCKILY, includes my crotch.

9:55 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:


After a dozen or so liveblogs, I realize that I have a biological radar for news, and that when it is imminent, I develop the need to urinate.

9:56 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Apple ad music!

9:57 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

9:57 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Getting excited. Like in theaters, a disembodied voice just told us to turn our phones off. They DIDN'T say iPhones, surprisingly.

9:59 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
I think this may be the only time anybody besides Phil Schiller's wife and kids are SO excited about having him show up anywhere.

10:00 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
Jason Chen, showing intense blogging face. BTW, at least 5 times at every trade show, someone calls me Jason Chen now. All look same.

10:00 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Chances of a one more thing today are slim.

10:00 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Music stopped. Apple's Jos is stepping on stage. (Not Phil Schiller yet)

10:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Greg and Scott Forstall will be the ones presenting today, not Phil! As of this week, the iPhone is in 80 countries around the world.

10:02 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Greg Jos is a pretty slick speaker, btw. Slicker than Phil Schiller.

10:02 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:03 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
iPhone sales are up to 17 million through December 2008. If you count iPod Touch together with iPhones, they've sold 30 million devices.

10:03 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Jos is going through the history of the SDK now. They've had 800,00 downloads of the free iPhond SDK, plus 50,000 individuals and development companies join their paid iPhone program.

10:04 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Over 60% of these developers have never developed anything for Apple before. One of the guys at Gameloft, a major cellphone/portable game development company, says that the iPhone OS is "the next great development platform for Gameloft."

10:05 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Steve Demeter, the guy who made Trism for iPhone, is on screen now in a short video of him biking and talking. Handsome guy! He just said said hello outside while we were waiting. Hey Steve!

10:05 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:06 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
His Trism game was made in his spare time OUTSIDE of his work, most likely allowing him to quit his job entirely. He lives in San Francisco and has a nice looking apartment. App Store money!

10:06 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:06 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Jos is back on the stage.

10:07 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:07 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Joswiak says there are 25,000 apps in the App Store. For their most current month of data, 96% of total apps have been approved. And of those, 98% of those have been approved in 7 days or less. There have been more than 800 million downloads of all apps total (8 months time).

10:07 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:08 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Jos is introducing Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone Software to give us a preview of iPhone 3.0.

10:08 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:08 AM on MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Scott says the 3.0 software is a major update to all iPhones and iPod Touches.

10:09 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:09 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
To start, he's going to talk about what Apple's doing for developers in 3.0.

10:09 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The SDK gives developers the same APIs and tools that they use (almost, there are some parts of the phone hidden for security and performance reasons). 3.0 brings 1,000 new APIs.

10:10 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:10 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
First, Scott is talking about enhancements to the App Store.

10:12 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Some developers have said they like to have other business models other than the current sell-once model that's in the App Store. What are some? Subscriptions for magazine developers, additional levels for game devs, and eBook devs, who want to sell one app and sell eBooks inside the app. They're supporting ALL of these things now with In App Purchase.

10:12 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Inside the app you will get prompts like continuing to purchase issues of magazines (6 issues for $5, for example), or buying more levels (add ten more levels for a game for $2).
10:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Another example is for city guides. Instead of selling a huge city guide app, you can sell one city guide app, then sell each individual city separately (and for more money) inside the app. The entire scheme is tied into the iTunes store.

10:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
It uses the same iTunes password and username, using the same APIs and same purchase scheme.

10:14 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:14 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The business model for in-app purchase is the same as the store. The developer sets the price for each in-app item, 70% of the revenue goes to the developer, and there are no credit card fees. They continue to be paid monthly. This is ONLY for paid apps, not for a free app that developers want to charge for once you've already downloaded it.

10:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
So in essence, free apps are still totally free. You won't be tricked into paying for anything.

10:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next is support for Peer to peer connectivity.

10:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

10:16 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The new multiplayer connectivity allows you to bring up a dialog that lets you find local devices. The services provided are Automatic Discovery over Bluetooth (no Wi-Fi), no pairing, Bonjour, and isn't just for games.

10:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
But this isn't just for games, it works for ANY P2P application. For example, apps that can send business cards to another phone, in a handshake-like manner.

10:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next, accessories. There are "thousands and thousands" of developers building accessories.

10:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
With the iPhone 3.0 SDK, they're going to enable accessory developers to make custom applications that can communicate directly with the accessory. For example, an equalizer application on the phone that can control the equalizer on the speaker when it's docked.

10:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Another example is an FM transmitter. With 3.0, the dev can build an app on the iPhone itself that can control the FM tuner, finding the best frequency to use at the current moment.

10:19 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:19 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
An even more esoteric application is for medical devices, like a blood pressure monitor that can dock into the iPhone that allows you to send your blood pressure directly to your doctor after you've measured it.

10:19 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
These accessories can talk to the phone over the dock connector AND over Bluetooth.

10:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
You can use standard protocols or build your own custom protocols.

10:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next up is Maps.

10:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:21 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Many developers have asked Apple to use Google maps inside of their application. And it's here. The Maps app can now be used as a public API and be embedded directly into any app.

10:21 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Everything is in there-pinch and zoom, custom annotations, satellite views, location tracking and location tracking.

10:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
There is also ONE MORE THING to do with Apps. Developers can now use CoreLocations to make Turn by Turn applications.

10:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
Turn by Turn!

10:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
So now you can build a turn by turn application app, but you cannot use Apple's Google Maps because of licensing issues. But you can bring your OWN maps (as a developer), and make turn by turn directions for the iPhone.

10:23 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

10:23 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Now, Push Notification. "You know, we're late on this one." "There's a few reasons for this, most importantly, within two months of launching the App Store, we had over a thousand applications on the app store."

10:24 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Apple had to completely rearchitect the structure for the push notification in order to make it scalable for all the millions and millions of downloads. But now, they're "good to go."

10:24 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Developers asked them to do background processing, because it's "easier to do background processing." But Apple says it's "not good for the customer."

10:25 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Apple's been testing background processing on other phones (Windows Mobile, Android) by opening up IM app, and just having it run in the background lowers battery by 80%.

10:26 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
By using Apple's push notifications, battery life only dropped by 23% when an IM app is "open" in the background, listening for messages.

10:26 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's how Push notification works again. The Push notification service has a persistent connection to the phone, so you can get notifications all the time. The three things you can send are badge alerts, text alerts and audio alerts. Text alerts appear like SMS alerts, badges show up on the app icon, and audio alerts (like AIM) plays in the background.
10:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
To be perfectly clear, this means no background processing yet. Just push notifications.

10:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

10:28 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
In game voice chat is also one of the various APIs now open, as is iPod library access, proximity sensor, audio recorder, battery API, streaming audio and video, data detectors, text selection (oh??? is this for copy and paste??) UI alert view, sake API (for rumble) and GPS lingo.

10:29 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Scott says they asked a few developers to come in and make some apps in just two weeks with the 3.0 API. They're going to show some demos now.

10:29 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
First is meebo, the IM app.

10:30 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
From meebo, it's Seth Sternberg, the CEO of meebo.

10:30 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:31 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
What are some of the new features in meebo? First, there's IM networks like AOL/MSN, networks like Facebook, plus proprietary social networks like MyYearBook.

10:32 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Why did meebo wait until now to build an app? Because they felt like push notification was NECESSARY to make a complete IM user. They wanted to allow an easy way to quit out of the app and get back in "when it made sense."

10:33 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Their extra "spice" in their App allows you to connect to social networking sites and get alerts from your friends when they've done things you may be interested in.

10:33 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:35 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
They're showing a demo of Sims 3, which looks actually pretty great for a phone.

10:35 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
EA is going to have in-app commerce, having you buy items for the Sims in the App Store directly from the game for $0.99 each.

10:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
For example, playing music from the stereo in the game lets you play music back from YOUR music library (from the 3.0 SDK API).

10:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
"Next up is Oracle." Which elicited audible groans from the audience, despite their CEO being Steve Jobs' good friend.

10:38 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
This is your chance to go grab a sandwich. Unless you're your company's IT guy that's trying to get business apps onto your enterprise's iPhones. Then you'll be RIVETED.

10:38 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
Bore-acle, I mean, Oracle:

10:38 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The Oracle guys are talking about their app that tracks supply line and blah blah chain blah blah company stuff.

10:39 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The Oracle app goes and pulls out data from their backend CRM server, which you can use to find the account rep and contact him over email, phone or SMS.

10:39 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Oracle's done.

10:40 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
JD Power ranked the iPhone #1 for customer satisfaction for business smartphone users.

10:40 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next is ESPN, moving their webapp to a native app with iPhone 3.0.

10:41 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Their ESPN Alerts app brings text alerts directly to your phone using the push notification service, plus play the ESPN tone whenever that happens.

10:41 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:42 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:42 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
They're sharing off a video directly inside the app, using the new media player that pulls down the appropriate quality video depending on your connection.

10:43 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

10:43 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:43 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
With this app, ESPN doesn't have to deliver for the "lowest common denominator", and can scale video quality automatically using the API so you get the best quality for your connection type.

10:44 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next is LifeScan, a Johnson&Johnson company in glucose monitoring.

10:44 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:45 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
LifeScan's app is for people with diabetes in order to "simply diabetes management."

10:46 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:46 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
In their example, they're putting themselves into the shoes of Maddie, a 15-year-old girl with diabetes. She tests herself six times a day and injects insulin multiple times a day. First she needs to prick her finger and get her glucose reading. Now the insulin meter can transmit her reading to her iPhone over Bluetooth or over the 30-pin dock connector.

10:47 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
She can then track her readings and mark them appropriately as before a meal or after a meal. Then she can track what kind of food she's eating and how much of it, plugging it into the iPhone, which will tell her exactly how much insulin she needs after her meal.

10:48 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Maddie can then re-calculate on the phone if she then needs less insulin because she's going to exercise later.

10:48 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
With the iPhone app, she can then let her parents know that she's OK by sending them a message directly through the app that has her glucose level and how she feels.

10:49 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:50 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:50 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The app shows her glucose levels in chart form and can list out all her previous readings.

10:51 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next up is ngmoco:), the people who made Rolando (I'm pretty sure).

10:5 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

10:52 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Today, they're showing two upcoming games. First is Touch Pets, a social pet simulator. Second is LiveFire, a multiplayer first person shooter over 3G or Wi-Fi.

10:53 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
One of the uses of Touch Pet is a push notification of a "play date with someone else's dog."

10:54 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:54 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The dogs are playing together. You can buy clothes and random crap for your dog. Toys. Food. I wonder what happens if your dog starves, or whether you can beat up other dogs who are on a play date with your dog.
10: AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next LiveFire, a FPS game.

10:56 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
You control the FPS by touching anywhere on the left side of the screen, then shoot with your right thumb.

10:57 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
You can then send push notifications to your friends on your friend list in order to invite them into your game. You can BUY new weapons for real money (rocket launcher), and play together with your buddies.

10: AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:58 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Pretty fun, with Quake 1ish graphics and relatively smooth (for a phone) framerate.

10:58 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

10:58 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next up is smule, the people who made the Ocarina app.

10:59 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
They're inviting Dr. Wang on stage to talk. Wang is an assistant professor at Stanford.

10:59 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:00 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Their new app is Leaf Trombone (World Stage).

11:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
It's a similar idea to Ocarina and lets you slide the trombone on the right, change the range on the left and play by blowing into the microphone.

11:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Wang's talking in a loud, breathy whisper, and is kinda creeping me out.

11:01 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:02 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Wang and his friend are demoing playing Phantom, of the Opera on Leaf Trombone. It sounds like Phantom of the Opera, for sure, and it's definitely cool.

11:03 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Wang's gone, and Scott's back on stage.

11:03 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

11:04 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Now, finally, onto the customer side. It has more than 100 new features. INCLUDING, Cut, Copy and Paste.

11:04 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:04 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Scott's now demo-ing the copy and paste feature on a phone running iPhone 3.0.

11:05 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Here's how you select text. double tap onto a bit of text and it automatically places a "CUT, COPY, PASTE" bubble above your current selection. Double tap to bring up a paste bubble later to paste.

11:0 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:06 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
To select an entire block of text, put your thumb on the right drag point and drag it to where you want your block of text to end. You can drag the left drag point as well.

11:07 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
You can drag between apps as well (obviously), through the same process. Double tap, then drag in order to select what text you like, then double tap and paste to paste it.

11:0 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:08 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
You can also copy and paste web content. The phone uses the same analytics engine in Safari that they do for zooming in order to know which selection to select for copying. Yes, HTML paste for copying. If you didn't mean to paste something, shake your phone in order to Undo (or Redo) your paste.

11:08 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
undo by shaking:

11:09 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
There's a photo icon inside the SMS app, and Scott called it the "Messages" application, which means there SHOULD be MMS coming soon too.

11:10 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
One more thing he wants to show you is Photos. You can now send more than one photo at a time with 3.0 by tapping the action button, selecting a bunch of photos, copying, and then pasting it into the Mail app.

11:11 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Cut and paste can work across multiple apps, has undo support, can work with developer APIs, and can use Cocoa Touch support for regular text.

11:11 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:12 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next, Landscape. Apple's had support for landscape mode for Safari since launch, and can enter text in wide-keyboard mode. Now you can use landscape in "all key applications" including Mail.

11:12 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
They're also adding support with the big keyboard for composing messages in Mail as well. It also works in Notes and the "Messages" application.

11:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next up is "Messages", which they will enhance in 3.0. You can forward and delete messages-individual messages or multiple messages.

11:13 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:14 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The BIG news is that they're adding support for MMS (as we spotted earlier). You can send and receive Photos right over the network. Contacts (VCard). Audio files. Or your location. No word about video yet though.
11:14 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

11:1 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Next, Voice Memos. (No sending video in Messages it seems). You can record voice memos to yourself, lectures, interviews using the built in microphone or an external microphone. You can trim it using the phone itself, then send it on using email or MMS.

11:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:15 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:16 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Then there's Calendar. They had personal calendars first, then Exchange (last year) and MobileMe. They're now adding CalDAV, a calendar standard that's supported by a lot of people like Google and Yahoo. It's useful for shared calendars. Second is subscriptions, using the .ics format.

11:16 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:16 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Now is Stocks. They're adding support for news stories (headlines) in the bottom of the app, plus details like highs and lows and PEs. There's also landscape view.

11:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Search! Not only can you search inside the Contacts application, which was there in iPhone 2.0, you can now search in all of the key applications, including Mail.

11:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
Search in Mail! Works on the server using iMAP:

11:17 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
If your search isn't found on your iPhone, the search continues on the server.

11:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
There's also search in Calendar, iPod (search by artist, album, etc) and Notes.

11:18 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:19 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
There's now a new home screen where you can search across all those applications, and they call it Spotlight. The search is to the left of your regular home screen, and you access it by flicking left from your standard home.

11:19 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
You can also search Apps and use Spotlight as a quick launcher instead of going all the way to the 8th screen and searching for your app.

11:20 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Basically, search searches most of the major Apple-developed apps.

11:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

11:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Other good features: Notes Sync, audio/video tags, live streaming, shake to shuffle, Wi-Fi auto login, Stereo Bluetooth, LDAP, iTunes account creation, YouTube ratings, Anti-Philshing, Call Log, Parental Controls, Media Scrubber, OTA profiles, VPN on demand, Languages, YouTube subscriptions, YouTube accounts and Encrypted profiles. Also, auto-fills. The biggest addition here is probably Stereo Bluetooth A2DP support.

11:22 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
TONS OF NEW FEATURES:

11:23 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:24 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
To recap the big features in 3.0: In-App purchase to enable more app functionality, peer to peer connectivity, accessory connectivity, Google map controls, push notifications, cut and paste, landscape mode, Messages (MMS), voice memos, new Calendar support, enhancements to the Stock App and search (Spotlight). Plus, Bluetooth, if you're really looking forward to that one.

11:24 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Scott's leaving the stage and Jos is coming back on.

11:24 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:25 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
How are they going to make it available? First as a Developer Beta available TODAY. It's going to be available to everyone in the iPhone developer program. You can join now and get access to the beta. They'll have more info on their website as well.

11:26 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
They'll be hosting developer forums where you can share 3.0 development information with other devs.

11:26 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The App Store is now available in 77 countries, out of a total 80 countries that the iPhone is available in.

11:26 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:


Who's the keynote master? Forstall has excellent presentation duration, going for over an hour with little help, but Jos is so natural. It's like this is his livingroom.

11:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
How about regular people, not developers? They're going to ship it "this summer." It will be a free update to iPhone 3G customers. It works on the original iPhone as well, so that not ALL the features will be available (like MMS and Stereo Bluetooth) on the 2G iPhone.

11:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
It's also going to be available for both generations of iPod Touch users as a $9.95 update.

11:27 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
Free this summer! But the old iPhone won't get the MMS or Stereo Bluetooth.

11:28 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
The developer beta again, is available today, and will ship to regular users this summer.

11:28 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall are coming up on stage for a short Q&A. It's not over yet!

11:29 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

11:30 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:
People are clearing out, but the media is staying for a reprogramming session. MUST OBEY.

11:32 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q&A's starting now.

11:33 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Josh Quittner, Time: Why did it take so long so get Cut and Paste into the iPhone?
A: There's a user interface you need to design, security issues, and "there's a lot of pieces you need to worry about instead of getting osmething that doesn't work right."

11:34 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Video is still a blackhole if you visit a website with flash.
A: We have no announcements on Flash today.

11:34 AM ON MAR 17 2009
B. Lam:

11:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Could you qualify a bit more about the peer to peer. It looks like it's available across the two iPhones, but it seems like you can do peer to peer with other Bluetooth devices.
A: It's really a device to device Bluetooth connection. It's 1 to 1, using Bluetooth and Bonjour to discover other devices and make an IP connection.

11:36 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: So you can control devices…?
A: Yes, now you can, with third-party applications, control and talk to accessories over Bluetooth.

11:38 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Are people able to trade files, say music files, through iPods with this?
A: We have the ability to stream music to music apps, and certainly a game, if a game has music in the game it would be possible to download game tracks, but if would be confusing for other music apps with downloadable music that isn't through the app store.

11:39 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Where do you stand on tethering?
A: There's two pieces needed to support that: client side and working with carriers. We're absolutely supporting tethering in the client side in iPhone 3.0, but we're working with carriers around the world to see when they can add tethering support on their networks. But we are building that support into iPhone 3.0.

11:39 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Can you say anything about hardware?
A: No.
Q: Netbooks?
A: Nothing to announce today.

11:40 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Bluetooth human input device profile for external keyboards.
A: We have nothing to announce.

11:40 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Will you make any promises about push notification in terms of uptime?
A: No. We want it to be as reliable as possible.

11:41 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: On the voice memo, you mentioned external microphones. Could you use an off-the-shelf microphone?
A: Yes absolutely, if you have an adapter.

11:42 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Are you addressing some of the performance issues in the current OS? It's slightly laggy, are you going to address that in 3.0.
A: We absolutely take performance very seriously. These units, because they're tethered, are more laggy than you would see on standalone units. But we are addressing lagginess in our own ways.

11:43 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Jason Chen:
Q: Is there a physical hardware problem on the first-gen iPhone that prevents it from doing MMS.
A: It's a different radio, so it is a physical issue.

11:44 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: With Peer to Peer, can you have access to other iTunes library?
A: You can see them but I don't know if you can play them.

11:46 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
Q: Do you have any comments on your app acceptance scheme?
A: We want to help developers to be very successful. We also want a store where customers feel great about the quality of what they get, so the numbers speak for themselves. [Kind of a non-answer here]

11:48 AM ON MAR 17 2009
Jason Chen:
And that's it. Thanks for reading, and hit up the main Gizmodo site for more posts and analysis soon. See you guys next time!

11:49 AM ON MAR 17 2009
ccmascari:

Tune into the Gizmodo Liveblog (live.gizmodo.com) for the complete play-by-play as Bezos drops Amazon's newest e-book reader hardware. And could there be anything about Kindle apps for mobile phones too, Jeff? We shall see.

So yeah, Monday, 10:00AM EST, Kindle 2. But if this is all a sham and the non-specific event invite is to unveil Amazon's brand new Earth-friendly bubble wrap, we're gonna be pissed. [Gizmodo Live]

It's been the easiest thing for everybody in the universe to say that Apple's Macworld 2009 keynote lacked not just Jobs but luster. We did feel a distinct absence of a Jobsian ZOMG hover-board-that-shoots-lightning-bolts reality distortion, a surge that is always followed by inevitable grumbling anyway. But the speech by able stand-in Phil Schiller wasn't without genuine news...

• Those who enjoy their iPhoto couldn't help marvel at the new features, including real bonafide face identification and new useful geographical organizing tools.

• People who hated last year's iMovie overhaul are now starting to realize that it might have been a necessary step in a whole new approach.

• We finally got the 17" MacBook Pro that had been projected for so long, though with a truly Apple-flavored twist: a long-lasting but non-removable battery.

• iWork got some improvements, but more importantly made its first lunge toward the cloud—for better or for worse.

• iPhone owners got the chance to impulse-buy songs directly over AT&T's 3G network (and even the EDGE network, at their own peril).

• And DRM—the reason I started buying all music from Amazon—finally got the boot, though under the condition that the four major record distributors get to charge higher prices on their tastiest licks.

It was an eventful day in the Apple-verse, even though Steve sat it out. But Macworld has come to an end (perhaps for all time), and we're already up and running at CES! [Macworld 2009; CES 2009]

7:42 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It’s cold, it’s almost raining. It’s San Francisco. We’re here outside Moscone, waiting to go in and see Phil Schiller do his best Steve Jobs imperso ation.

7:57 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: All the old familar media faces are here (or are on their way). The line isn’t any shorter than usual, despite the non-Jobsness of the event. Maybe that spectacle plus the fact that this is the last year is bringin out the lookeeloos?

7:59 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: In other news, MFing danishes!

8:00 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: To give you an idea of what it’s like to wait in line at one of these things, picture Best Buy. Then add in Black Friday. Then, imagine it’s these people’s JOBS to get in as early as possible. Mix in some fear, sweat, jetlag and desperation. Stir.

8:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Fifty five minutos left. That means fifty five minutes left for a pee break.

8:19 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

8:20 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen:
I see a 15 year old looking kid with a gigantic camera weighing him down. Watch out kid, sculiosis is a bitch.

8:25 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Some of you are just getting to work now. You lucky bastards.

8:30 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: I wonder if Phil has different musical taste than Steve. No more Coldplay? Jack Johnson? JOHN MAYER???

8:31 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: If this is your first Macworld with us, here’s the deal. Post your three guesses of what you think will be announced over on the main Giz page.

8:47 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Don’t forget the Keynote Bingo. Play now and you can win a free pizza! FREE. PIZZA. Plus, it’s fun.

8:49 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

8:49 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: We’re in and we’re seated. The last minute stragglers are grabbing their seats while The Killers is playing. Guess the music isn’t going to be too different

8:52 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Remember that photo? Macworld 1999!

8:53 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: I think I see three bald guys. Not quite four.

8:53 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

8:55 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The music is actually extra good this time. Good job, whoever picks these things. Heard some MGMT earlier too, which Adrian approves of.

8:56 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

8:56 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Staring at these damn pizzas in our keynote bingo is making me hungry.

8:57 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Man, NYTimes reporter Brad Stone gets to sit in the VIP area…lucky duck.

8:58 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: What do we think is coming? New iMacs, updated MacBook Pro, and Apple renaming their phones coms.

8:58 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

8:59 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Have you checked out our Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure? You should!

8:59 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

8:59 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Coldplay is being played and Phil Schiller is putting his pants on, getting ready to take the stage.

9:00 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:02 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Everyone’s expecting Phil to come out on stage, but what if he comes out from the back and runs up? Like a Vegas magician.

9:03 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:


CNBC’s Jim Goldman, dapper as always.

9:03 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Weird, this Coldplay song doesn’t sound like the one from the album. Are they BEHIND THE STAGE, playing live??

9:03 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It’s starting. Phil Schiller takes the stage. He’s NOT wearing a black turtleneck, but a shirt and pants. Jeans, to be exact.

9:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: No weight loss problems here.

9:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil thanks the crowd from the “bottom of [his] heart”. “It’s an incredibly exciting time at Apple.”

9:05 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil shows off the store they opened last year in Beijing, a store in Germany, and a store in Australia. People applaud politely.

9:05 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:05 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil: “I can’t think of one company in the world with a store that beautiful…”

9:06 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: 3.4 Million visitors go to Apple stores every week, apparently. “They do it, because it’s such a great place to shop. They also want to try out and touch the iPhone, the iPod touch, and the Mac.” The consummate salesman, Phil.

9:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Last year the had the biggest fiscal year, selling 9.7 million Macs. “The hardware, the Leopard, all the amazing applications.”

9:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Today they are focusing on the Mac, and Phil’s announcing three new things.

9:08 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:08 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: First, iLife ‘09. iPhoto, iMovie. “Some people up north may think they have something good, but it’s nowhere as good as iLife.”

9:08 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:09 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Last year Apple introduced the “Events” concept, which organizes your photos into events like birthday parties, or office parties. With iPhoto ‘09, they’re adding two things. *Sparse applause*.

9:09 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:10 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: First is Faces. You can organize photos by people, and when you click on the Faces on the left, it’s a thumbnailed board of people in your photos. It uses “face detection”, and automatically detects faces, which you can name later.

9:11 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:11 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Once you typed in a name, iPhoto will create a snapshot of the person (”Liz”), and then uses face recognition to find other instances of Liz in other photos you’ve taken. You can confirm that yes, this is Liz, in your other photos iPhoto think are of Liz.

9:11 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:11 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: One great use for this? Your “naked” photos. What easier way to organize your collection than by stars?

9:12 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The other way to organize your photos is “Places”, which sorts by where snaps are taken. When you click the Places icon, iPhoto gives you a map with pins of where photos are taken.

9:13 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It uses GPS geotagging, found in some cameras now and cellphones “like the most advanced phone, the iPhone”. Shameless, Phil.

9:13 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:13 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: When you take a photo, the camera attaches a longitude/latitude coordinate to your photos, then the iPhone attaches a place, a state and a country to them.

9:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: “What about all those photos I took that didn’t have a geotag in it?” When you click on an event, you can update the field under the event to enter the event location. iPhoto already has a database of what you’re typing in, such as Yosemite, and can assign a geotag to all photos in an event once you’ve chosen one.

9:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: So far Phil’s actually doing a decent job.

9:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: In addition to street maps from Google Maps, there’s satellite maps that you can see where you’ve taken photos—even across different events.

9:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There’s also now built-in support for Facebook & Flickr.

9:16 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:16 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: If you upload a photo to Facebook, people can tag people (like Facebook allows) and that gets synced back to your iPhoto, so you can identify people who you don’t know. Why you took a photo of that person in the first place is not my problem.

9:17 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: For Flickr, the geotags from iPhoto also propagate, so Flickr users can see where you’ve taken your pics.

9:17 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Flickr and Facebook support

9:18 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Then there’s Themes, which Phil is demonstrating as a slideshow of photos moving in and out, in sync to the Charlie Brown song.

9:18 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Themes also actually use face detection to properly orient the photos so that faces are in the middle.

9:18 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Face detection center’s slideshow photos

9:19 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: 3d effects from photos in slideshows

9:19 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Another cool theme is the “shattered” theme, which has transitions between photos that break up a photo into individual pieces and recomposes it. Then there’s iPhone syncing, which also supports themed slideshows.

9:20 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Another new feature inside Books, which you can use to print out, is maps. It shows maps of where you took photos and can be printed out just like you printed out books before.

9:20 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:21 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil’s now demoing iPhoto live on an iMac. First, he shows Faces. If you scrub across each person’s face inside the group of faces (the thumbnails), you can see each individual photo in the collection. It’s also cropped to the actual face, using face detection. If you hold option, you can see the entire photo.

9:22 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Whenever iPhoto sees an unnamed face, all you have to do is name them and the next time iPhoto shows the same person, it’ll ask you to confirm whether or not that’s the person you just named.

9:24 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Another cool thing is selecting a group of people, dragging it onto the left column, and iPhoto will create a smart album of those people. Whenever you’ve confirmed that yes, a photo is one of this group of people, it’ll be added to the smart album. Useful for your family or your friends.

9:25 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Then there’s browsing by maps. View a map and you can click a particular pin to show all the photos from that location.

9:26 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: No boom yet from Phil. Maybe later, when he announces hardware? If there is hardware?

9:26 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:27 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil’s now demoing zooming into maps, down to the level of satellite imagery showing a couple pins. Usually Steve doesn’t go THIS in depth of software, which makes us think Phil is kind of buying time with this amount of detail.

9:27 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:28 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Some lady with a purse is standing up right in front of me.

9:28 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil: Now, new iMovie ‘09. *Polite applause*

9:28 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:29 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Last year, Apple transitioned into the new version of iMovie with iMovie ‘08.

9:29 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Since it was new, iMovie ‘08 didn’t have all the features that older customers wanted. This year, Phil says they’ve added in a bunch of features that should please everyone.

9:29 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:30 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Among the features are Precision editor, advanced drag and drop (context sensitive menus), and themes.

9:30 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Also, animated travel maps. (INDIANA JONES??) There’s 2D and 3D maps of where you’ve traveled in your videos. Sweet.

Plus, there’s automatic image stabilization in your videos in case you have shaky fingers.

9:31 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:31 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil is inviting up Randy Ubillos, Chief Architect of Video Applications, on stage to do the demo. He is the guy who “made” the new iMovie ‘08 last year.

9:32 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:32 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Randy is showing in dragging and dropping movies onto the timeline, inserting (with context sensitive menus).

9:33 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: You can grab “audio only” from a clip and overlay it onto other clips. The demo he’s using is a 10 year old kid overacting.

9:34 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Inserting audio only

9:34 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Zoomed in editing focused on the transition; lower bar is after the transition/edit point, upper bar is before

9:35 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now, demoing other editing features like skimming, seeing edits (before and after cuts), and other features like overlaying audio. A bit more advanced than iMovie ‘08.

9:35 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:36 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now Randy is demoing video stabilization using footage shot in a jeep.

9:36 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: The project library has thumbs now

9:36 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Once iMovie has scanned the entire clip of what you want, and when you add it, image stabilization is automatically applied. It’s actually quite good, at least with this jeep example and this gazelle example.

9:38 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Another clip he’s showing is of a Leopard climbing down from a tree. Choosing “clip adjustment” will bring up a speed slider in order to slow down the clip so you can see your video immediately slower.

9:38 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Video motion stabilization! takes time but looks *amazing*:


Slow motion:


Video effects:

9:38 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Other effects you can do are X-Ray and aged film, which gives your video the gimmicky look you were wanting, but otherwise couldn’t get.

9:39 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now, Indiana Jones-like map rendering, showing starting and ending locations for your different clips. If you went through multiple cities, you can transition through all of them (both 3D globe and 2D map).

9:40 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Map styles:

9:40 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Themes

9:41 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: A sample clip plays that looks quite like Meercat Manor. This is only a subset of new features in iMovie ‘09, but there’s no time to show more. Randy leaves the stage, Phil comes back on.

9:41 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil: “Isn’t that incredible. Amazing software.”

9:42 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:42 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The last app he’s going to talk about in iLife ‘09 is Garageband. It’s the most “exciting” feature, and a “true breakthrough”, which will help people to play a musical instrument. It’s called “Learn to play.”

9:42 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Learn to play.

9:42 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: When you fire it up, there’s an instructor and a representation of the instrument facing you. Essentially, an instrument tutor. Phil’s going to play a clip of one of the lessons.

9:44 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:44 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Some guy named Tim is showing you how to play the guitar, and now the piano. Multi-talented, this Tim. There’s notations as well as just plain virtual instruments. You have 9 basic guitar and 9 basic piano lessons built in.

9:44 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: NEW FEATURE. Artist lessons!

9:45 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Who are some of the artists? JOHN…Fogerty. And Cobie. Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy. STING, who will not only teach you to play the guitar, but have sex for 10 continuous years.

9:46 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: On the Piano, Sarah McLachlan, Ryan from OneRepublic, Norah Jones, but no Chris Martin from Coldplay, whom I will never admit having intercourse with

9:47 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: A sample lesson from John Fogerty sounds like a grandpa rambling, instead of actually getting down to teaching you the lesson. Hurry the F up, gramps!

9:48 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Artist Lessons:

9:48 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Man, Fogerty is really just going off the edge here. This is less of a lesson than an unplugged version of his song.

9:49 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There’s also new versions of iWeb and iDVD, and iLife ‘09 still ships free on all Macs. $79 for upgrades, or a family pack for $99 that’s usable on five computers. Ships “late January.”

9:49 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now, iWork ‘09.

9:50 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: “I made this presentation in iWork ‘09, so you know it’s really solid.”

9:50 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: In Keynote, you can set up objects in slides, and the software will do the work in moving objects between slides. With magic move, it’ll transition whichever object you want automatically, like rotating and resizing.

9:51 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The sample Phil’s showing is with playing cards: they’re messed up in the first slide, and then they’re neat and arranged in the second with the proper transition inbetween.

9:51 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:52 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: More transitions like perspective move and object pushup add flair to your slides. There’s also text transitions, which he’s using to show the transition between Bush to Obama.

9:52 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:53 AM ON JAN 6 2009

9:53 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Next, chart animations, such as the “crane move”, like a crane camera flying in to show bar graphs move up while the perspective changes. Rotate and grow for bar graphs and zoom for charts. USA Today, pay attention!

9:54 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Themes, again, are present in Keynote. You can pick a theme and it’ll make all your slides match in the same theme (borders and fonts and other small things).

9:54 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil’s announcing Keynote remote, an app on the iPhone/iPod Touch, which can show you your slide plus notes, and can control your Keynote presentation right on the device.

9:54 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:55 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Keynote Remote is $0.99 in the app store, and “we’ve already given it five star reviews.”

9:55 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Keynote remote

9:56 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Pages fullscreen

9:56 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Next, Pages (Apple’s Microsoft word). There’s a fullscreen view to make everything else disappear, focus in on what you’re doing and tune out everything else.

9:57 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Second, dynamic outlines. In Pages ‘09, you can start in outline view before you actually start writing, letting you reorganize thoughts and seconds.

9:57 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:57 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen:
Then there’s Mail merge with Numbers, which can connect with tables and lists in Numbers.

9:57 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

9:58 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Other connectivity features hook up with MathType and EndNote, two mathy apps.

9:58 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: And of course, 40 new themes. Themes seem to be really present in every app Phil is introducing today.

9:59 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: In Numbers ‘09, “we’ve focused on adding features that customers have told us they wanted.”

9:59 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Templates for pages:

10:00 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Numbers, the equivalent of Excel, has new Table categories and 250 functions (with function view), which has the appropriate mouseovers and color coding to make things easier to understand. Advanced chart options, like mixed chart types, multiple axis charts, trend lines, and error bars. Pay attention, accountants!

10:01 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: When you paste a graph or chart into Pages (Word), you can also “link” the graph together to the actual Numbers doc, so it updates whenever you change your formatting in Numbers.

10:02 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: And with that, iWork ‘09 is finished. $79 for one license, $99 for a family pack for 5 people. If you purchase iWork with a new Mac, it’s $49. Ships today.

10:02 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Numbers

10:03 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:03 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The new iLife NEEDS Mac OS X Leopard, and if you want to upgrade to iLife, iWork and Leopard together, you can get a Mac Box Set for $169. It ships in late January when iLife ships.

10:03 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There’s one other thing with iWork that Apple is doing that’s called iWork.com. The beta will be announced soon.

10:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: “iWork.com is a service for you to share with other people. You can notify other people that you’ve shared documents, and collaborate on them. They can review and edit documents online.”

10:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: You can download a copy and your collaborators can download a copy, and each person can add notes and comments which are seen by everybody.

10:04 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Here’s the demo of how it works.

10:05 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:05 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: First, Phil launches a Pages document. He’d like someone to give him new comments. He clicks the iWork.com button and can directly share with people from the iWork application.

10:06 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:06 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Pages then creates the differently formatted versions of the document and uploads it to iWork.com. The person who’s viewing now sees an invite in his or her email.

10:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The invite links her, through her browser, to iWork.com, and opens up the Pages document online. The pages doc actually looks like pages, where she can leave a note for Phil online.

10:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:07 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There can be multiple people viewing the document, all leaving notes to each other on the right hand side about the whole document. You can then download the doc directly from the website. What you can’t do is edit documents online–it looks like you have to download it and edit it offline.

10:08 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: To see other people’s comments that they’ve created online, you can click “show shared documents” in Pages, and view the documents you’ve uploaded. A blue dot shows a new note that you need to read.

10:09 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: By going back to the shared pages list, you can see the Keynote/Pages/Numbers docs you’ve shared, including all the notes people gave.

10:09 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Customers can sign up free for the beta, but it will be a fee-based service once iWork.com launches.

10:10 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Another use besides sharing documents with others is sharing documents with yourself, seeing your docs anywhere. It ships today.

10:10 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:10 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The third thing, one more thing, is the new 17-inch MacBook Pro.

10:11 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: “Last year was a big year in MacBooks.” All the Macbooks have a version with the precision unibody enclosure, including the MacBook Air, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro.

10:12 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: “For the last 8 months running, if you look at all consumer laptops sold on that list, the MacBook has been #1.”

10:12 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:12 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:12 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The 17-inch MacBook Pro, is the .98 inches thin, 6.6 pounds, and is the world’s lightest and thinnest 17-inch notebook. There’s a 17-inch LED backlit display, 1920×1200. “This is the best display we’ve ever shipped in a notebook.” 700:1 contrast ratio, 60% greater color gamut than the previous 17-inch display.

10:13 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There’s a $50 anti-glare option on the glossy screens for higher-end customers. They have to remove the bezel from the front, and build it in, which explains the $50 surcharge.

10:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The left side has three USB ports, Mini DisplayPOort, Firewire 800 (no 400), digital audio in/out and Expresscard. In addition to Gigabit Ethernet and the Magsafe.

10:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Of course, there’s the glass trackpad, four-finger gestures and multi-button support.

10:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz Dual Core, 6MB L2 Cache, 8GB memory at 1066 MHz DDR3.

10:14 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Like the 15-inch, there’s both integrated 9400M and 9600M graphics cards. 320GB HDD standard, or 256GB SSD upgradable drives.

10:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It works with the 24-inch Cinema Display using the three ports (power, USB and Mini Displayport).

10:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:15 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: “We challenged our engineers to create the longest battery life ever, but keep the laptop just as thin and just as lite.”

10:16 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: An engineer video follows. Bob Mansfield of Mac development explains the new battery. The new battery lasts up to EIGHT hours on a single charge, and can be charged 1000 times.

10:17 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The key to a new battery is making it bigger, but the challenge is where to find the space to put it. If you design a removable battery, you have “a lot of wasted space”. But if you make a non-removable battery, Apple was able to create a 40% larger battery in the same space.

10:18 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Instead of using batteries that look like cylindrical cells, which has wasted space, Apple’s made an entire block of batteries that take up all the space possible.

10:18 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:18 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The lifespan of the cells are three times the industry standard.

10:19 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There’s a new concept of “adaptive charging”, which reduces wear and tear on the battery while charging. That’s “more than three times the notebook batteries in the industr today.” Now, there’s a chip in the battery that talks to each individual cell and adjust the current individually in order to maximize lifespan.

10:19 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam: Battery making process:

10:20 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The new battery is recyclable and can run up to five years, meaning less batteries wind up in landfills. But, it also means you can’t replace your battery at home without taking the entire thing apart.

10:21 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen:
Again, Apple claims up to eight hours on one charge.

10:21 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:21 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: On the 9600GT, it’s down to 7 hours, but using the 9400M integrated graphics, 8 hours. That’s three hours longer than the previous 17-inch MacBook Pro, giving it a 60% increase in battery life.

10:22 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Apple has a take-back and recycling program if you ever do need to exchange the battery.

10:22 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:22 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The 17-inch MacBook Pro comes in one configuration for $2799, the same price as before.

10:22 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It starts shipping late January.

10:23 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:23 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: On the environmental side, it’s EPEAT Gold, and arsenic, BFR, mercury, PVC free, plus has 34% smaller packaging and is “highly recyclable.”

10:23 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:24 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: And now, a TV ad for the 17-inch. It looks like the previous “green” ad, and says you can recharge it up to a thousand times, over five years, three times as long as batteries in other notebooks.

10:24 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: One last thing…

10:24 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:25 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It’s iTunes. iTunes, the music store, was started in 2003. And now, in less than six years, they’ve sold 6 billion songs.

10:25 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: There’s 10 million songs available, and there’s 75 million accounts with credit cards.

10:26 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now, iTunes is the number one channel with music in the United States. What’s new? Three things.

10:27 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: First, the price. In the last six years, they’ve had one pricing model for the entire market. There’s now three pricing tiers. $0.99 cents, $0.69 cents, and $1.29. Depending on how the music labels offer music, Apple will price accordingly. This comes in April.

10:27 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Second, iTunes Plus. It’s the way that Apple offers music DRM-free. You can play it on as many computers as you own, and has 256 kbps AAC encoding (better encoded). You can upgrade your entire purchased library to iTunes plus.

10:28 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Starting today, 8 million (of 10 million) songs are now DRM free. By the end of Q1 2009, all 10 million songs in iTunes will be DRM free.

10:28 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: The third new thing is with the iPhone.

10:28 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:29 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now, the iTunes Wi-Fi music store is compatible with 3G, meaning it’s just called the iTunes music store. It’s the same price as on the Wi-Fi, the same selection, downloadable anywhere you are. (Same quality as well.)

10:29 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:30 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: You can purchase or preview music anywhere, and sync the music back to your computer when you get home, same as you did before. This starts today.

10:30 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Since Apple’s ending on music, “we want to come back to remember why we do this. We love great music.”

10:31 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Today, they’re going to show off an artist that’s gotten 15 Grammy awards, 2 Emmy awards, and has sold over 100 albums.

10:32 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: It’s Tony Bennett, sliding onto stage with a floating platform, singing “The Best is Yet To Come.”

10:32 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:33 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Woooo, Tony Bennett.

10:35 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Now, a second song about San Francisco.

10:36 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Anyone get Bingo yet?

10:37 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: A standing ovation for Mr. Tony.

10:37 AM ON JAN 6 2009
B. Lam:

10:38 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Phil’s back, and is thanking his family and his friends at Apple. “Enjoy the rest of the show and check out iLife, iWork and the 17-inch MacBook Pro.” Stay tuned for our hands on of these!

10:38 AM ON JAN 6 2009
Jason Chen: Thanks again for reading, and head over to the main Gizmodo page soon for our hands on impressions! Thanks!

TuneWiki: TuneWiki, the lyrics + music video music player, is fantastic. We plugged in a live track of Flight of the Conchords and TuneWiki was smart enough to have the lyrics to it and sync them in time with the music. Impressive! Other features like "Top 50 Songs" Today/This Week/This Month come up with the music video and lyrics most of the type, and you can even search YouTube for your own favorite videos. Yes, Never Gonna Give You Up works.

PAC-MAN: It's the same wakka wakka you've been playing for the last 20+ years, but now adapted to either the touchscreen or the roller ball. The swiping touchscreen motion works, but it's not wonderful—the ball is the way you want to go for this. Pac's sound effects are exactly the same as they were when you were a kid, so if you ever go back in time to tell the childhood version of you to buy Google stock at its IPO, you can bring this with you and blow his mind.

Accuweather: The app has today's weather, three-day prediction and radar view for easy home meteorology, but that's about it. No ten-day, no allergy conditions or anything more than just the barebones. What it does have is a very prominent link to their website under each view that launches your browser, which leads us to believe that they want you clicking over there (so they can collect ad money). Still, it's free and it shows you how hot it is. Update: Go with the Weather Channel app, reviewed below.

ImeemThis Pandora like music service only allows you to search by artist name to play music based off similar artists, but there is also the option to play featured music which range from new and notable artists to the Top 100 imeem songs. The automatic song selection is decent and when listening to a song there is a menu option to buy it in the Amazon MP3 store. Overall the app works great over both WiFi and 3G, and surprisingly song buffer and sound quality are pretty good over either.

Twitroid: The first Twitter client for Android. Visually, it looks very good, but when you switch back and forth between landscape and portrait you can tell that it's a beta app (it asks you to log in again). It does have features like direct messaging, picture attachments and even search. It's a pretty darn good Twitter client that looks even greater than some of the Twitter apps on the iPhone.

Any Cut: A sort of system-level app that lets you create shortcuts on your home screen to directly call or text someone. You can also make a shortcut to just about any activity on your phone, such as Wi-Fi settings or SIM lock. They all work fine. This is one app you'll definitely have to pick up.

Shutter Speed: This app allows you to enter your SLR or DSLR camera ISO and aperture settings and it will determine the exposure setting that's best. Unless you are a professional photographer this app is going to be very confusing and will seem useless. It only determines a single camera setting and has no ability to take pictures.

WikiMobile Encyclopedia: A portable version of Wikipedia that requires an internet connection to grab articles from the actual Wikipedia and formats it to your screen. It's good—the text is legible and you can swipe from screen to screen—but for larger articles jumping from section to section is a bit of a pain. It's definitely better than reading the Wikipedia site on your browser, that's for damn sure. On a side note, someone needs to update our Wiki page. That thing's ancient.

Weather Channel: Much better than Accuweather, this thing displays wind speed, visibility, humidity and UV index along with a 10 day forecast. It's not filled with links to the Weather Channel site, either, which is great. Definitely a superior weather app compared to Accuweather.

Maverick: This Google Talk instant messenger app allows you to chat with your Google Talk buddies as well as send pictures, scribbles and your current location. The scribbles and pictures are sent by creating a Picasa web album under you Google Talk account. The web album link is sent in a message and the recipient can view it in their web browser. Same goes for sending your location, a link to a Maverick branded Google Maps is sent and the recipient can view it in their web browser. App works quick over both WiFi and 3G.

BreadCrumbz: People can set up routes, which are made up of instructions, notes and photos, for anyone to follow. For example, one of the routes already online was for the "Best Study Room in Stanford", which lead you through the campus to the library, then an elevator, then a study room. I'm surprised there weren't more routes with the label "sexiest room on campus" which lead to some dude's dorm room where he's waiting for you in just a robe, but Android's only been out for a couple days. Neat app, definitely one we'll want to check out more as more routes are released.

Translate: Pretty much just a self-contained app that sends text to the Google translation services and displays it back in whatever language you want. There are 150 "language pairs" covering most of the major languages, so it seems fairly useful if you're traveling and want to ask someone something—just type it out in English and hit translate.

iSkoot for Skype: This app brings Skype calling and chatting to Android. Major downside is it doesn't allow true VOIP because it routes all calls through the cell line, even Skype to Skype calls. So cell minutes are being used on top of Skype credits. The call quality is good and the app works well under both WiFi and 3G.

QuickList: A super simple to do list that lets you type in what you want and tap to strike them out. It's so simple that it doesn't have line wrapping and any item more than two or three words get chopped off. Keep your list items short on this one.

ShopSavy: This barcode scanning app allows you to scan or enter a barcode of any product and will display a range of information. It will search the web and local retail stores, based on your location, for the cheapest prices. You can also read reviews and have an alert for when there is a price drop. The app works great and is really a must have tool for every frugal shopper.

Divide and Conquer: D&C is exactly like the old game you played on a PC 20 years ago (I forget the name) where you draw a line on the screen to box off bouncing balls without the balls hitting your line. The point is to trap the ball in something around 90% of the screen. It's just as fun now as it was then, and best of all it's free. A commenter tells us the old game is called Jezzball, just FYI.

Bonsai Blast: The iPhone equivalent of this is Puzzloop, but it's a game very much like Bust-a-move, except instead of the balls dropping from the top, they go around a track and you have to hit them while they're moving. Definitely fun, and the touchscreen controls are precise enough that you should be able to get through the game without too many crazy misses unless you're a Shaq and you have sausage fingers.

Brain Genius Deluxe: Holy crap! This is like Brain Training for the DS, except free and on your phone. You have four types of exercises, which include observation (which type of leaf did you see the most of) and memory (how should we rotate this picture to get the previous picture). It's as polished a game as we've seen yet on Android, so definitely pick this one up if you're a fan of puzzles games or Brain Training.

CB Blackjack: It's blackjack by Hudson Soft (maker of Bomberman and various other games). It's really difficult to screw up blackjack, but this version is slightly sluggish. Maybe it's the cheesy 1980s game soundtrack? It's blackjack, so if you want blackjack, it's blackjack. Blackjack.

CB Klondike (Solitaire): It's solitaire.

CB Reversi: It's reversi, and you can play with either the scroll ball or by touching the screen. There are guide lines (shown above) if you play using your finger, which cuts down on accidental piece placement. The feel is so retro and so early '90s video game that you actually welcome how cheesy it is. Reversi (or Othello) has always been fun, and you can play this either by yourself or vs. a buddy.

Barcode Scanner: This app allows you to scan a products barcode with options to view a Google product search or web search based on the product's code. Because it doesn't appear to have any other functions ShopSavy is a much better Barcode scanning Android app.

Lights Out: Touch a spot to turn off (or on) the adjacent lights. Purpose is to get all the lights off. Same game you've played for years, so you should know whether or not you like it. No surprises on this one.

Compare Everywhere: A Barcode scanning app that allows for product searches by barcode or keyword and has the ability to create and save shopping / wish lists. By far the most robust barcode scanner app for Android. Will display online and location based prices providing complete store information with maps, directions, phone number and web address.

PicSay: This picture editor is extremely fun is basically a robust image manipulator. After selecting a picture you can add word bubbles, words, props, and effects to transform the image into anything you want. Once your art work is complete you can save to SD or share it using Google mail or messaging.

Locale: This app acts as a settings manager based on a few different personalized conditions. Depending on your battery, time, contact, time, or location your phone can have preset settings that change automatically depending on your set conditions. Right now the only settings options to be changed are ringer, volume, network twitter, and wallpaper. By far the best feature of this app is the ability to have the phone automatically detect your location and mute you ringer, which perfect for those who go to school or work and need to have their phone on silent.

Photostream: This Flickr photo browser app allows you to search a Flickr contacts name and view their photos. There aren't that many features yet but you have the option to save a photo to your phone and also be notified when one of your contacts adds new photos.

cab4me light: This app will find cab companies that service your current or preferred location. Just tap Call Cap and it will give you a list of available cab companies and the ability to call them. Right now the app is pretty basic but the developer states it's currently titled light while they add more features and cab companies.

HotSpot Locator: All this app does is locate the closest T-Mobile Hot Spots. Since the G1 lets you use WiFi for free at any T-Mobile HotSpot location it's kinda nice to have this feature at the touch of your finger. The app is utterly basic though because it's just a link to search results that pull up in the web browser, but still very usable.

iSafe: I can't believe this app is one of the first in the Marketplace. This app searches your location for possible unsafe conditions like sex offenders, reported crime, weather, allergies, air-quality and speed limit so it can alert you if the area is unsafe. The best part about this app is if it detects a registered sex offender nearby it will sound an alert every few minutes saying "Potential Sex Offender Nearby!" Yea I'm not kidding around, this is a real Android app.. CRAZY!