MW2005--Keynote LIVE!

Here are our notes that we typed in and posted as Steve Jobs spoke. We revised them subsequently for spelling, grammar and technical accuracy.

11:05a--John Mayer, guitarist, came on stage and played to end of keynote.

10:56a--iPod

• sold 4.5 million iPods in the holiday quarter 2004 vs 733,000 in 2003 holiday quarter
• iPods in cars--MB, Nissan Volvo and Scion join BMW with built in adapters. In Europe, Alpha Romeo and Ferrari.
• iPod Mini worked in taking large part of flash player market share.
• New iPod Shuffle
  • white, under 1 oz, size of a pack of gum, no screen but LEDs, 12hr rechargeable battery. USB 2.0 connector
  • has mechanical control wheel for play, advance, backup, increase volume and decrease volume
  • autofill, iTunes fills it autommatically
  • 512MB 120 songs $99
  • 1GB 240 songs $149
  • shipping today
  • apple accessories: arm band, battery extender, AC adapter and dock for $29

iTunes on Motorola cell phones this Spring.

10:37a--Mac Mini available January 22.

• Tiny, not much bigger than a CD but 2" thick; no monitor. keyboard or mouse..
• Combo optical drive and standard ports. 256MB RAM, upgradable to 1GB.
• hooks up to almost any industry standard device.
• Mac OS X 10.3 and iLife '05
• $499 with 1.25 GHz G4 $599 with faster 1.42GHz G4.

10:32a--iWork is a successor to AppleWorks. Built from ground up to work with Mac OS X. $79, Jan. 22 out.

• Keynote 2, animated text, animation, new themes. Flash and PDF
• Pages--word processing with an incredible sense of style. Integrated with iLife. 40 Apple designed templates. Showed brochure, newsletter, recipe, etc. Compatible with word. Demoed it.

10:25a--More iLife '05

• All apps work seamlessly together. Priced at $79. Out in 10 days, January 22.

10:18a--More iLife '05

• Welcomed Sony President, Kunitake Ando, on stage and made a movie of him with Sony's new Prosumer $3500 HDV camera. Agreed with Steve that 2005 is year of HD video in the home.
• iDVD--15 new themes, supports all DVD formats. Demoed it.
• GarageBand--added orchestral instruments jampack. Up to 8 track recording simultaneously, real time music notation that are editable, make your own loops, fun vocal tranformer, etc. Demoed it.

10:00a--iLife '05 with almost every app upgraded.

• iPhoto simpler than before. Supports RAW format. Added editing features and all work on jpeg and RAW files. New slide show features. New boook designs and features. Demoed iPhoto slide shows and books, 4 different sizes.
• iMovie HD faster, MPEG4 video, more transitions and features like Magic Movie that does everything for you and edits high definition video.

2005 is year of high definition video. Introduced Final Cut Express HD. Integrates iMove and Motion. $299, $99 upgrade from Final Cut Express, out in February.

9:41a--More Tiger Features:

• Dashboard--Showed lots of cool new widgets: stock market, translator, flight finder, drink recipes, weather, eBay, etc.
• iChat--10 simultaneous audio, 4 people video with new H264 CODEC. Demoed it full screen.

9:32a--Tiger features:

• Spotlight--incredible new search tool will be built into OS. Instantly updates, no need to update. Apps will have it built in automatically. Demoed it. Spotlight is in the Finder and System Preferences and other apps.
• Mail--major upgrade. Can search across all mailboxes with Spotlight. Has slide show button for images. Hit it and get a slideshow of images in Mail that can be imported directly to iPhoto instantly. Smart mailboxes. Set one up with a title, like soccer and automatically all emails with soccer in it are there.
• QuickTime 7--complete MPEG4 compliance. New compression CODEC H264 that's amazing. Scalable from cell phones to HDTV.

Mac OS X 10.4 is due out in first half of year, nothing new. Over 200 new features.

Mac OS X Panther successful, over 14 million Mac OS X users.

New G5 iMac getting great reviews. Most popular Mac we made during the last quarter.

Now 101 Apple Stores with a million visitors a month. Will be opening more stores in England after the new one in London is the second grossing Apple Store in the world.

9:11a--Steve Jobs takes the stage. First Macworld with HD video projection. He proceeded with an update.

8:45a--We arrived at 8a and we were directed to the "media room" with large screen TVs. Now we see why there is no live webcast. The much of the media and other overflow will be watching the keynote on large screen TV. At least there is a good Wi-Fi connection. The keynote will be webcast tonight at 6p PST.