Welcome to the 2008 Apple World Wide Developers Conference Keynote Presentation live blog from AppleLive. Thank you for all coming out today. Shortly we will start posting blow-by-blow updates from the keynote with the newest updates at the bottom.
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07:10 - Asian Apple Store is down. US and UK stores are still up.
07:45 - US Apple Store is offline.
09:08 - Are you ready?
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09:57 - Three minutes to go..
10:03 - Kenote time, waiting for Steve Jobs to hit the stage. Al Gore is in the crowd and people are still coming in..
10:10: Exchange and other enterprise support being talked about. All in the iPhone 2.0 software.
10:14: Video about Microsoft Direct Push
10:16: SDK info…
10:18: Core Location - location based services mentioned!
10:20: Developer demo using APIs etc
10:23: UI and App building and testing is easy.
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10:25: Quotes about iPhone developing
10:27: Demo time over.
10:27: Developers show off their hard work.
10:31: Sega launching Super Monkey Ball in App store for $9.99
10:32: Next up is eBay
10:33: Core Location and social networking… it’s a Loopt demo!
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10:36: Loopt will be free when the App Store launches.
10:37: Mobile blogging app from Typepad.
10:38: Typepad app will be free!
10:39: Still no details regarding when the App Store will launch.
10:40: AP have their own app with location based news. Video, local news and photography.
10:41: Send AP your news using the iPhone and the Mobile News Network. Free
10:42: Pangea bringing two games to the App Store - using the accelerometer in the iPhone
10:47: English guy, Beatles tease and a cool indie app. Jam with the iPhone, from the App Store in a few weeks.
10:49: MLB.com app for real time baseball updates and video.
10:51: Medical Apps for the iPhone, first up a ‘learning’ application.
10:52: Next up is medical imaging from MIMvista
10:57: Last app.
11:00: Extra SDK features. Apple is not keen on running apps in the background.
11:02: Push notification from Apple for SDK Apps. The service is called…
11:04: …no name. Push feature coming in November. Steve is back…
11:05: iWork support for iPhone software 2.0. And contact support. And Office support.
11:06: Scientific calculator added.
11:07: Asian language support, draw characters with your finger etc!
11:08: iPhone 2.0 software coming early July. Free for iPhone, $9.95 for Touch users.
11:10: Download via cellular network if your app is 10MB or less.
11:10: Apps from the AppStore will be DRMed
11:11: Enterprise App delivery.
11:14: Mobile Me, Exchange for the rest of us…
11:15: Push email, contacts and calender.
11:18: Send photos from iPhone direct to Mobile Me
11:19: Web 2.0 application, Mobile Me
11:19: Looks amazing…
11:19: iDisk is integrated into Mobile Me
11:24: MobileMe demo is looking really neat. I’m sold, so long as I can pay monthly and it’s less than $12/mo!
11:26: Mobile Me: $99 a year. With 20GB online storage.
11:28: Mobile Me to replace .mac
11:29: iPhone time, Steve is back
11:30: 6,000,000 iPhones sold
11:31: Taking iPhone to the next level: the iPhone 3G
11:33: Fixed headphone jack, better audio, plastic black.
11:37: 5 hours talk time, 24 hours audio.
11:38: Assisted GPS on the iPhone 3G
11:40: Today, six countries. Goal of 12 countries at launch and 25 over the next few months. It’s a small world…
11:42: Ugh, screw that, the iPhone 3G will be EVERYWHERE
19:46: iPhone pricing: 8GB at $199, 16GB at $299
19:46: Coming July 11th.
11:48: iPhone Ads
11:49: Steve Jobs is closing up the Keynote.
Stay tuned to the rest of the blog for a closer look at Mobile Me and iPhone 3G as the day goes on and be sure to check back here to see this post with images from the Keynote.
June 9th, 2008 at 4.13pm
German apple store is also down.
June 9th, 2008 at 4.28pm
Canadian apple store is also down - ye ye
June 9th, 2008 at 5.32pm
dutch store also dow
September 8th, 2008 at 1.01am
Love the scientific calculator feature! I wonder if iPhones are allowed in university classrooms for testing and exams though. Not to mention, the ability to draw Asian characters with your finger. That’s just awesome.
September 8th, 2008 at 1.49pm
The 2008 Apple World Wide Developers Conference seems like an informative event. It is Conferences like these that puts people on the map when it comes to the lastest technology and stuff. I wish I was there.