WWDC Keynote - Live Updates
Posted 06/09/2008 at 9:17am
| by Mac|Life Staff
Welcome to the live blog of the WWDC '08 Keynote. The latest updates will be posted at the top of the page. Reload for the latest updates.
11:52AM: It'over folks. Stick with Mac|Life as we sort through all of today's news.
11:50AM: Steve thinks this WWDC will be the best so far.
11:49AM: Steve gives the iPhone team props. Give it up for the iPhone wizards!
11:48AM: new Ad - being palyed.
11:16AM: July 11th roll out date in 22 countries. Start camping outside Apple Stores now!
11:45AM: Price - $199 8GB / $299 16GB. 16Gb comes in white.
11:43AM: 70 countries - 3G roll out over the next seven months.
11:42AM: Go Malta!
11:42AM: Oh god, that song will be in my head all day now - Thanks Apple! (Robbie)
11:41AM: It's a small world - soo many new countries!
11:40AM: Tracking your moves with GPS. Geocaching here we come.
11:39AM: GPS!
11:38AM: battery time 300 hours standby time - 2G Talk time 10 hours- 3G talk time 5 hours - 5-6 hours of high speed browsing, 24 hours audio, 7 hours video time.
11:37AM: iPhone 3g 36% faster than Nokia N series and Tre. 3G is approaching Wi-Fi speeds.
11:34AM: 3G speed tests: website download benchmark - 21 sec on 3G / 59 seconds on EDGE - 2.8x times faster. Amazingly Zippy!
11:33AM: black on black, flush headphone jack, improved audio, slimmer, solid metal buttons

11:32AM: iPhone 3G!!!! ZOMG!
11:31AM: iPhone challenges - iPhones 3G network, enterprise, more countries, thrid-party apps, more countries, more afforadable.
11:29AM: Steve's back, waxes poetic about the iPhone. "This is the phone that's changed phones forever"Users love their iPhones, 90% customer satisfaction. 80% using 10 or more features. 6 million iPhones sold.
11:28AM: $99 a year, 20GB of storage available in early july, replaces .Mac. Buh bye .Mac.
11:26AM: Shares his photos with his parents via MobileMe fast and easy, boom right into the gallery. Phile loves his parents.
11:23AM:The Apple folks really love seafood. Phil added a sushi place to his contacts.
11:22AM: Gallery interface, wow. iDisk integration.
11:20AM: Drag and drop your email from the web application. Nice.
11:18AM: Web 2.0 interface. Share your pics with your MobileMe account gallery. Me.com
11:16AM: Your MobileMe stores your info is "up in the clouds." Push email and calendar. Works with Outlook for PC users.
11:15AM: It's Exchange for the rest of us. Oh snap, called Active Sync Active Stink.
11:14AM: MobileMe with Phil Schiller.
11:13AM: SDK can register up to 100 iPhones. Thats way more than the five iPhones you can develop on now.
11:12AM: Enterprise can deliver custom Apps over their internal intranet.
11:10AM: App Store, seemless use updates automatically. Develoeprs get 70% of App revenue. App Store will be in 62 countries. 10MB or less download directly over the air, Wi-Fi and iTunes. 10MB or More, Wi-Fi and iTunes downloads.
11:09AM: iPhone 2.0 released in early July. Free for iPhone, $9.95 for iPod touch.
11:08AM: Steve's back - new features: contact search, MS Office support, word, excel, powerpoint.Save images from email to gallery. Scientific calculato, parental controls, tons of new languages - switch between them on the fly.
11:04AM: push badges, custom alerts. All works over the air. Avaiable in September, will be seeded to developers soon.
11:03AM: Push notification service available to all developers. Yippeee!
11:02AM: Apple - Background applications = Bad. Bad for your battery and other applications. Takes swipe at windows mobile.
11:00AM: 1 Hour mark - developers are thanked. They love the SDK. Feature request, background running application.
10:58AM: Developer from Spain - made demo of game in two weeks. Should be ready by September.
10:57AM: Launching with App Store.
10:56AM: Pretty sweet interface. If only we'd all gone to medical school.
10:54AM: MIMvista - more medical Apps. Expect your Dr. to ignore you while browing YouTube, we mean using their sweet Apps.
10:51AM: Medical learning App, Modality. Learn about your inards.
10:50AM: More Demos. They'll never end.
10:48AM: MLB.com for the baseball fans. Real time updates for every game. "At Bat" in hte App store at laucnh
10:47AM: Mark Terry, our new hero with his rad App, Band.
10:46AM: Oh boy insurance industry Apps with Mark Terry -- oh wait, he made a music program. Rock on dude!
10:45AM: Driving on the iPhone = Fun. Both games $9.99.
10:43AM: Two games ported from OS X. Cromag rally and Enigmo.
10:42AM: Pangea is taking the stage.
10:41AM: You can report the news form your iPhone. Here comes trouble!
10:40AM: Check out the news with photos and video. Woohoo for news. Share the news with your friends.
10:39AM: The AP is next. Wait, what?
10:38AM: Blogging from your iPhone and adding photos from your photo gallery. Free at launch of App Store.
10:37AM: Typepad takes the stage. Largest professional blogging service in the world.
10:36AM: Loopt is free - find your friends.
10:35AM: Sam Altman from Loopt is next - Location social network.
10:33AM: iPhone number one mobile device to access eBay. eBay App "Auctions" developed in 5 weeks.
10:32AM: eBay on stage. Sell your old iPhone with the new iPhone.
10:30AM: 110 stages of Super Monkey Ball. All four classic classic monkeys, 5 distinct worlds. will launch with App Store for $9.99!

10:27AM: Here comes Sega -- Come on sonic and Super Monkey Ball
10:26AM: SDK -- it's loved by mobile develoepers. iPhone blows Blackberry and Windows Mobile away. Oh Burn!
10:24AM: Interface built, wired up, build it and BAM! We're cooking with gas! Now he's compiling it to his iPhone, it's like he's done this before!
10:20AM:We're building user interfaces people on stage, live coding. Scott's a wizard!
10:19AM: X-Code, it pretty much rocks according to Scott.
10:18AM: Open Gl real time screen graphics, Cocoa Touch makes building screen touch apps a breeze.
10:17AM: Sharing same API and tools as Apple internal. API's and frameworks share extensive basis of OS X. Same source code.
10:16AM: SDK time! Go Scott Forestall!
10:15AM: Disney, Law Firms, Army dudes, they all love the iPhone.
10:14AM: Corporate America "hearts" the iPhone.
10:13AM: It's enterprise video time!
10:12AM: Enterprise - Push email, Cisco VPN, network security, All the stuff we've heard before. 35% of Fortune 500 have participated in iPhone SDK Beta program.
10:10AM: 3 iPhone parts - Enterprise, SDK, new user features
10:09AM: 250,000 SDK downloads. 25,000 paid developers. 4,000 people in SDK program.
10:08AM: Three parts to Apple, Mac, iTunes, iPhone
10:07AM: It's Steve! 5,200 attendees. 147 sessions, 85 on Mac 62 on iPhone.
10:03AM: Lots of Classic rock. Is the keynote being held in the '50s?
10:00AM: Turn off your iPhones people. Steve's getting ready to take the stage.
9:52AM: Giddy with excitement.
9:45AM: Doors open everyone is filing in.