3:14: apparently no "one more thing." Later, I heard Apple will not use Google for search, but Bing (MSFT).
2:35: off to pick up the granddaughters at school -- I will miss "the one more thing" --
2:26: demo of iOS 7 --
2:24: Craig back on change; iOS 7, the biggest iOS change since the iPhone; typography; parallax tracks your motion; carries over across the system;
2:18: video of iOS 7; Jony Ive narrates; translucency; responds to movement; standing ovation; folks are really, really impressed; so many features I was not even aware of -- how important the features were to the developers
2:18: iOS 7 introduced today; biggest change in iOS since the iPhone was introduced;
2:13: iOS -- huge audience excitement; Apple iOS #1; iPhone users use their smartphones much more than the other phones; same with tablets; important for advertisers to know; iPad and iPhone -- where most mobile shopping is done; customer satisfaction #1 -- 9 consecutive times; first time that has ever been done; IOS satisfaction "off the charts" -- at 97%; "very satisfied" -- 73% (25 points better than Android); only 53% for Windows Phone; more than a third of Android users are using a 2010 version; iOS -- 93% using most recent version;
2:07: iWork in iCloud -- demo. Will make my life easier when blogging; can do spreadsheets inside the browser; don't need Excel;
2:04: iCloud -- 300 million iCloud accounts; FaceBook took five years to reach this number; fastest growing cloud service; can send 8 billion e-mail notifications (more than NSA can track?); iWork for iCloud; create documents in a browser (what I've always wanted);
1:56:
Mac Pro: being worked on -- for creative folks -- desktop; revolutionary; "can't innovate any more? my ass." This is going to blow the socks off folks. In the shape of the cylinder. New INTC chip. Internal storage based on flash; 2.5x faster than any previous flash; 10x faster than any fastest hard drive; Thunderbolt 2; backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 1; first Mac ever to have dual workstation GPUs as standard; supports 4K display; up to three 4K displays; wow, about a third the size of the previous desktop; 1/8th volume; the future of the Pro desktop; later this year; designed in California; assembled in the USA;
1:54: new AirPort Extreme; new MacBook Air; twice the storage, same price; longer battery life; ships today;
1:51: MacBook Air -- updated an entire new line --
all-day battery life -- new 4th gen core --
INTC --
11-inch, 5 hours to 9 hours; 13-inch, 9 hours to 12 hours of battery life;
1:50: Bottom line -- Mavericks now puts all this stuff on all platforms, including the Mac, not just the tablet or the iPhone
1:46: Demo; yes, I will be buying a new, large Apple monitor/display
1:44: iBooks being brought to the Mac
1:43: Maps -- set up route on Mac; one click to your iPhone with turn-by-turn directions
1:42: Calendar -- adds location, travel time, and weather
1:41: Notifications -- pops up on desktop without having to go to the application; can reply directly from the desktop notification without having to go to application;
1:39: iCloud Keychain --
1:30: Back to OSX
Mavericks -- battery life innovation
- Coalescing: CPU activity: power optimization; 72% less CPU activity
- Compressed memory:1.5x faster than Mountain Lion
- Safari: private browsing; block 3rd-party -- innovations in the past by Safari; now new innovations; can move from article to article without clicking; improvements over Chrome, Firefox; uses one-third the power that Firefox uses -- so if you want to extend battery life between charging using Safari, not Firefox; searching through messages, super-fast; "glassy-smooth"; power usage: can't be articulated -- need to see the demo;
1:25: Demo -- it's incredible to be watching this live, not having to wait for CNBC to give me an update; the technology is incredible; somehow, I'm getting the feeling this WWDC may be much "bigger" than folks imagined, if this is where they are only 20 minutes into the conference
1:22: OSX Mavericks --
- Finder Tabs: wow, tabs look just like iTunes; can take full screen
- Tags: when you save a document, you can tag it and will be easily found in Finder
- Multiple Displays: menus across multiple displays; summon your dock on multiple displays (more on this later, if I remember) -- this is really, really incredible.
1:21: delayed due to a dwindling supply of cats; this lion-thing in a different direction: Sea Lion? Maybe not. A set of names for the next 10 years:
will be named with California theme -- OSX Mavericks -- (this may have been an error: Mavericks can be a "generic" name, but unlike Mountain Lion, Panther, etc., it is not a word "understood" worldwide -- in addition, it is an "inside joke," a familiar location to northern Californians, but not cache for the rest of us)
1:20: 28 million copies of Mountain Lion, IOS X latest version. > 30% of uses have more recent version of IOS X; Windows struggling to get to 5%.
1:18: the Mac: 72 million installed base; #1 desktop in the US; MacBook is the #1 notebook in the US; average annual growth rate of Mac, 15% vs 3% for the PC; 5-yr total growth, 100% vs 18% for the PC
1:12: "anki" -- robotics and artificial intelligence company; launching their company on stage at the WWDC. CEO of "anki": robotics from labs at Carnegie Mellon; five years of work; this is incredible; programmed racing cars; gaming to a whole new level;
1:10: Update on the App Store. 575 million credit card accounts at the Apple App Store; more than any other internet "store." Click and buy.
1:09: Of course the video is incredible -- The Berlin (Germany) Apple Store. Tim is back.
1:04: Tim Cook is on stage.
1:02: WWDC kicks off with video presentation.
Streaming here. Only on Safari. Starts about 1:00 pm eastern time, and could last as along as two hours.
Live blogging has begun here.