WWDC 2007

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:43

10:40 am Feature #5 - Core Animation

10:42AM - "Very high production values, very low effort to add it -- it automatically brings in GPU acceleration. For the demo, if you've seen the Apple TV, we took the opening movie and made it live and interactive." This is insane, he's zooming over a grid of hundreds of live-playing videos. "I can search for this since it has tags... I'm gonna look for anything with water." They all swing to the front. Unreal!

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:45

Feature #6 - Boot Camp

10:45AM - "Alright, that's what I wanted to show you with Core Animation!" Big applause. "Number six: Boot Camp. It's pretty amazing, since we put it out a year ago we've had over 2.5m downloads of the beta. With Leopard Boot Camp is built-in. The latest and greatest version is built in... no more CD-burning to install drivers. This is a really great complement to Parallels and VMware. There are three great ways to run Windows on the Mac -- you run Parallels, and that's a really great way."

10:46AM - Showing Parallels running on Coherence mode, as with VMware. "We've got three great solutions if you need to run the occasional Windows app on your Mac. We're thrilled with this. Number seven: we have something new in Leopard called Spaces -- which lets you group apps into separate spaces, and lets you switch between applications in those spaces. you can break things up into spaces of apps -- put 'em in a space..." Demo time. We're really rehashing stuff from last year -- Spaces has been on the Apple site almost a year now!

J1234 · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:46

Woo Leopard has BootCamp built in

Will_3rd · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:46

some of the new finder stuff holy hell

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:47

Feature #7 - Spaces

10:48AM - One Spaces virtual desktop is running WoW -- we here Steve's really digging the end-game content. "If I want to rearrange my spaces, I can do that too..." showing the drag and drop virtual desktop manager for the Spaces and apps within Spaces. "Very very easy to do, so that is Spaces in Leopard." Meek applause. "So number eight: Dashboard. Of course, it's been a huge hit, we premiered in Tiger and shipped a bunch of widgets, but you guys have written a TON of widgets."

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:50

Feature #8 - Dashboard

10:51AM - Showing the movie widget, "You can even see a trailer here, if you want to." That is way hot. "So this is the movies widget, I hope you like it, I think it will be useful." Showing off web clip again, clipping out stuff from the Yahoo News lead on the front door. (Last year he made a daily-updating Dilbert-coming Web Clip widget.) Ah, Steve loves Rotten Tomatoes a lot, eh?

10:53AM - He's doing the Dilbert Web Clip widget again! Steve, we saw this last year man, c'mon! Now Google Trends... showing frames on the WC widgets, comics style, etc. "These are all live, I can go to entertainment... sports... all these are going to update autmatically." Yep, we know, let's keep moving Steve!

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:56

Feature #9 - iChat

10:55AM - "We want you guys to keep making widgets because your 3k widgets are phenomenal... use Dash Code. Three really cool things happening in widgets. Number nine: iChat. Let's talk about iChat. We've gotten SO MUCH feedback on video conferencing, it's incredibly heartening. We've also shipped an app called Photo Booth, so we're gonna bring some of that fun over to iChat as well. We've got better audio quality with an AAC codec called AAC -low delay, tabbed chats..." finally!

10:56 am Steve - ""i don't have a lot of buddies, just Phil Schiller

10:57AM - Phil brings up his Keynote presentation over iChat, it's pretty slick. Now demoing dragging a movie into the iChat session, where the movie starts streaming over iChat. Man, this could totally become the new video placeshifter.

10:59AM - It works with all the Quick Look doc types, documents just show right up. "If Quick Look supports it we can do it in iChat Theater." Phil's showing the backdrops from last year -- remember when he rode the rollercoaster? No? Ok, well, it was pretty cheesy.

11:00AM - Showing Photo Booth effects in iChat -- it's got a Princess Leia "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi!" holograph mode... it's also got a photo-mouth effect a la Conan O'Brien. Shows Phil's mouth in Steve Ballmer's head -- huge applause. "I love my Mac!" and sticks his tongue out. High-larious.

NickK · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:57

Fstop11 said:
someone in games forum was saying a few days ago

All I want is BF2142 for mac.

Shouts "july mate!"

That was me

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 11 Jun 2007 at 18:58

NickK said:
That was me

Many congratulations

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:02

Feature #10 - Time Machine

11:02AM - "Thank you Phil! We figured that was the only way to get Steve to join us in our keynote... so that's iChat. And number ten: is of course, Time Machine. As we've talked about before, we're using our computers not just store our work docs, but our personal lives. If you lose just one precious photograph, you're gonna be really bummed... we've got very precious stuff on our computers, and yet no one backs up our computer automatically. Almost all of us do not. We're just walking time bombs in terms of having something go wrong. And this is what Time Machine is all about -- we want to solve these problems in such a simple way that people actually use it!"

11:03AM - "You click it on, it automatically backs up everything. It will back up to a local drive or network server, it will even back up wirelessly. You can hang a drive off your Mac, or you can get an Airport Express Base Station... so that handles the backup. What happens if something goes wrong? Time Machine lets you look back in Time for lost files in Spotlight search -- and you can preview in Quick Look. You can restore with one-click, or even restore your entire Mac. So let me show that to you..." Demo.

11:05AM - "I'm searching for my presentation on architecture... and it's not there. Ohmigod, it's not there. And I'm freakin' out right now." Giggles. "So I go back and search through time..." shows the timeline and backups... "there it is, safe and sound, so all I do is push this button and safe-restore. Boom."

tsinc80697 · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:06

time machine didnt impress that much, the thought of it.

But being able to search through your backups is class!

Squarehed · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:08

So what's everyone thinks next up?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:08

tsinc80697 said:
time machine didnt impress that much, the thought of it.

But being able to search through your backups is class!

Your not impressed by time machine?

Please knock me over with a good excuse why?

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:09

11:07 am Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.
11:07 am Premium Version = $129
11:07 am Basic Version = $129

Arf. I fell for that on first read

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:09

hahahaha

"Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129."

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:10

ONE MORE THING

11:09 am Safari On WINDOWS
11:09 am 18 Million Safari users
Marketshare has climbed to 4.9%
IE has 78%, Firefox 15%, others 2%
We Dream Big
11:08 am Safari

Haha, how rubbish!

Jet · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:10

Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.

hehe

VaderDSL · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:10

11:09 am Safari On WINDOWS

Squarehed · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:11

Lol... bye firefox.

As long as Safari is slick in windows, more so than the bloated iTunes experience i have at the moment, i'll be going to it.

JonB · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:12

Squarehed said:
Lol... bye firefox

True. True.

Live Updates
11:12 am new tab feature in all versions... drag them around
Can drag tabs off into their own windows
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11:11 am Google/Yahoo seach built in
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11:11 am javascript: ie 2.4 sec, ff 1.6, saf 0.9
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11:10 am safari 3 on leopard...now runs on xp/vista
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