WWDC Event Coverage

[MacRumors]

The World Wide Developer's Conference starts today, with the Keynote beginning at 10am Pacific Standard TIme:


PDT/'Pacific' (UTC-7): 10:00 AM
MDT/'Mountain' (UTC-6): 11:00 AM
CDT/'Central' (UTC-5): 12:00 PM
EDT/'Eastern' (UTC-4): 1:00 PM
UTC: 5:00 PM

UTC=GMT


Select Apple Stores will be showing the Keynote Live: Complete list (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/06/20030618154550.shtml)
As will many Univerisities: Complete List (http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/21/universities)

Sites providing live coverage:

PPCNerds.org (http://www.ppcnerds.org/)
MacTeens.com (http://macteens.com/exclusives_more.php?id=131_0_4_0_C)
The Mac Mind (http://www.themacmind.com/)
MacMerc (http://www.macmerc.com/)
MacDailyNews (http://www.macdailynews.com/wwdc_keynote.php)

The following sites have traditionally provided coverage, but have not posted announcements at the time of this writing:

MacCentral.com (http://www.maccentral.com)
MacNN.com (http://www.macnn.com)
MacMinute.com (http://www.macminute.com)


MacRumors.com will be providing two forms of coverage:

Our IRC Channel (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/06/20030608214842.shtml) - will provide moderated updates. Regular users will be unable to type to the channel. Only a few individuals will be able to post, and they will provide a running update. Please see this link (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/06/20030608214842.shtml) for details on joining our IRC channel.

Live website updates will begin here as the time approaches.

[bennyek]

Does anyone know if the apple stores will be showing live coverage in their theatres. I didn't see anything advertised for it.

[OSXpert]

Do The apple stores allow people to access the internet if they bring their own computers? Because people at the stores could be reporters!

yes some of the stores are and there is a thread earlier on macrumors about which ones are showing.

[rockman2023]

Most likely the site will be closed due to traffic. Will MR do the same thing as you did for MWSF in January; the black page with updates, no links?
I'll be in class and will only have a 20 min break @ 1:50-ish EDT. (summer school, aye!)

~I wanted first post :(

[evil]

of course of the 2 hours of the day i have school it is when the thing is.
yeah its late. my mind is tired

[beatle888]

i cant believe its finally here

[SoonToGetAMac]

Originally posted by OSXpert
Do The apple stores allow people to access the internet if they bring their own computers? Because people at the stores could be reporters!

Yeah, if you have Airport.

[The Shadow]

So, Arn can't sleep then? Amongst others.

Its the avo here.:D

By the time I awake tomorrow, it'll all be news.:(

So I won't sleep tonight either.

[Hawthorne]

Will Arn come through with some spot-on tidbit hours before the keynote speech again, as he did with the last SteveNote? ;)

[nagromme]

For the sake for comparison--or if you get bored watching text refresh:
http://www.msboycott.com/media/ballmer_developers_music.mov

[Ananna]

Good luck everyone. I hope all of your expectations are filled. :)

[Nermal]

Originally posted by The Shadow
So, Arn can't sleep then? Amongst others.

Its the avo here.:D

By the time I awake tomorrow, it'll all be news.:(

So I won't sleep tonight either.

Yeah the keynote's at 5am here, but staying up's out of the question cause I've got an exam at 1pm :(

[AppleMatt]

Originally posted by Nermal
Yeah the keynote's at 5am here, but staying up's out of the question cause I've got an exam at 1pm :(

Keynotes 5pm here, but I've got an exam tomorrow at 9am.

I need 94.6% to get an A (did badly on coursework) and get into medical school :(

No Keynote for me then.

AppleMatt

[arvidvdb]

Originally posted by nagromme
For the sake for comparison--or if you get bored watching text refresh:
http://www.msboycott.com/media/ballmer_developers_music.mov

Oh my god! I never saw this before. This man has a serious problem. Somebody forgot to take his ritalin that day.... Haha, hard to watch realy, I feel kind of ashamed for him....
If OUR Steve will do anything remotely simmilar today, I will be forced to order myself a sillicon graphics machine today ;-)

[alset]

I would give my right eye to have the feed pumped in at my school. Alas, there is no luck for me.

Dan

[mproud]

Originally posted by arvidvdb
Oh my god! I never saw this before. This man has a serious problem. Somebody forgot to take his ritalin that day.... Haha, hard to watch realy, I feel kind of ashamed for him....
If OUR Steve will do anything remotely simmilar today, I will be forced to order myself a sillicon graphics machine today ;-)

Steve Ballmer. Truly the king of sweat stains.

[Mr. EMan]

Originally posted by alset
I would give my right eye to have the feed pumped in at my school. Alas, there is no luck for me.

Dan ... because you don't have a right eye? Sorry to hear that.

[jbrown]

The following will definitely happen straight after the event:

1) Sell my guitar and amp.

2) Sell my Triumph motorcycle

3) remortgage

4) dual-fallout with wife

5) accelerated visits to pawn shop

6) take in fee-paying lodger ( after wife leaves ).

:D :D :D

[nagromme]

Also:
http://www.microsuck.com/wwdc.shtml

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by AppleMatt
Keynotes 5pm here, but I've got an exam tomorrow at 9am.

I need 94.6% to get an A (did badly on coursework) and get into medical school :(

No Keynote for me then.

AppleMatt

The keynote is at 8pm UK time. Macworld seems to think the event will be webcasted at about 10pm UK time. Although I would have been to the Apple store by then to look at the new computers.

And good luck on your exam, I am getting my results back today. (I am at Uni)

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by jbrown
The following will definitely happen straight after the event:

1) Sell my guitar and amp.

2) Sell my Triumph motorcycle

3) remortgage

4) dual-fallout with wife

5) accelerated visits to pawn shop

6) take in fee-paying lodger ( after wife leaves ).

:D :D :D

I will be waiting for the rev B PM G5 due out before christmas since the the first version normally has problems with it (The first low end G4 had no AGP slot). I will probably get it on interest free credit and maybe go back to Uni for a year so I can get a Edu discount. :)

[mproud]

Originally posted by hvfsl
The keynote is at 8pm UK time (it starts at 12pm in San Fransisco). Macworld seems to think the event will be webcasted at about 10pm UK time.

No.

The event will be live in stores at 10 am Pacific, 12 pm Central time in the US.

When the broadcasted feed will actually begin will all depend on the length of the keynote. 2 hours wouldn't be a bad guess.

[robbieduncan]

Originally posted by hvfsl
The keynote is at 8pm UK time. Macworld seems to think the event will be webcasted at about 10pm UK time. Although I would have been to the Apple store by then to look at the new computers.

And good luck on your exam, I am getting my results back today. (I am at Uni)

I don't think your time is correct. It starts at 10am PST. I am pretty certain San Fran is in the PST time zone. So it starts at 5pm GMT. But as it is summer we are currently at GMT+1 so it starts at 6pm. Or around when I get home.

[MacsRgr8]

Originally posted by nagromme
Also:
http://www.microsuck.com/wwdc.shtml

gr8 site!

[Nermal]

Originally posted by AppleMatt
I need 94.6% to get an A (did badly on coursework) and get into medical school :(

No Keynote for me then.

AppleMatt

Ouch. Good luck!

[inkswamp]

I skip the minute-by-minute reports. I like to sleep in, get up, have some coffee, chat with the wife, play with the kids. Then, at some point, when I have a few free minutes, I sit down at my iMac and check in on all the usual sites to see the news. It's the way I've handled all the past events where huge news was expected and it's quite an effect, especially when there really is big news or announcements. The sudden change is great, to go to bed and awake to find the entire landscape of the land of Apple completely rearranged. I don't think the impact of getting it bit by bit as it unfolds to be quite as amazing, but to each his own.

Either way, I hope tomorrow lives up to everyone's expectations--and not because I particularly care but because I can't deal with yet another week of moping on all the Mac forums. ;)

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by mproud
No.

The event will be live in stores at 10 am Pacific, 12 pm Central time in the US.

When the broadcasted feed will actually begin will all depend on the length of the keynote. 2 hours wouldn't be a bad guess.

I realised the SF time was wrong so I deleted it.

[tagy]

Originally posted by robbieduncan
I don't think your time is correct. It starts at 10am PST. I am pretty certain San Fran is in the PST time zone. So it starts at 5pm GMT. But as it is summer we are currently at GMT+1 so it starts at 6pm. Or around when I get home.

yeah in the UK the keynote is 6pm - 8pm, i hope the stream is up soon after, because i am going to avoid all news and mac sites before i watch it.

[chetwilliams]

I will be at the Miami store with credit card in hand hoping to make a purchase and earn a few thousand airline miles.

[funwithstuff]

Just a quick note - last time, when the keynote link came up late, I had no luck getting hold of it. However, the Evil Empire actually provided a live stream which worked well:

http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp

It's in Windows Media Player, so it feels dirty, but if it's live, I'll be watching... no promises!

[dabirdwell]

I think that I'll be waiting for the rebroadcast so i can hear it from Steve. The PowerBook announcement was awesome, listening to the crowd react to the news.

[dabirdwell]

4:20 until the announcement :-)


Gurgle gurgle

[jethroted]

Is everyone ready? We haven't had news this big in like 4 years. I hope everyone gets what they want!

[grouse]

That we have a team watching for the obligatory..."the Apple store is down" notice on the Apple website.

If it doesn't get closed close to or during the webcast, then we'll get an unfortunate indication that the new wonder machines, aren't shipping tomorrow.

the general emphasis on the speech will surely be Panther first, new hardware second. I have to take a rehearsal at 8pm UK summer time and leave my machine at about 7:30pm, so I'm kind of hoping that he's a little briefer than usual and get's to the powermacs within the first hour!

[yzedf]

Originally posted by jbrown
The following will definitely happen straight after the event:

1) Sell my guitar and amp.

2) Sell my Triumph motorcycle

3) remortgage

4) dual-fallout with wife

5) accelerated visits to pawn shop

6) take in fee-paying lodger ( after wife leaves ).

:D :D :D
What's the Triumph, new or old?

[Ashami]

UT at Austin just announced they were showing it...I am SO there!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaaaa!
It's Applemas time!
:D

[primalman]

Just for fun, I just checked the status of products at the US Apple Store online and the US Apple Education Store online. All standard configurations of both the PowerMac G4 and the PowerBook G4 are stated as shipping 'Same Day.'

If history is to repeat itself, it seems that these should say something like 'Shipping 7-10 Days' or something like that.

Maybe they are just messing with us this time? I dunno, it just does not bode well to me.

:confused:

Primalman

[dabirdwell]

or maybe 970s ship today

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by dabirdwell
or maybe 970s ship today

I am expecting the PMs to ship today at least in the US, however because of the time difference I will have to wait till tomorrow to get my hands on one. If Apple does release the PMs now then I will be up very early tomorrow and go into london to get one.

[jamilecrire]

Originally posted by mproud
Steve Ballmer. Truly the king of sweat stains.

Sometimes being a poor speller makes things funny. I read that as:

Steve Balmer truly the king of sweet stains. lol...

[grouse]

I'm still reckoning that the PowerMac G4s will be kept in place for a while reduced in price, as the new ones are going to be significantly more expensive and they'll need something to cover that price range.

People will still want to buy the older models, if they are looking for a lower-grade but still expandable option. So the 0-1-2-3-4 days order time may be telling us nothing about the new range, and this certainly fits with the inside info from my UK reseller.

[digi002]

Does anyone know of a place I can get up to the minute Apple news on my cruddy cell phone internet browser?

[Sorklin]

I don't know. I have a bad feeling about this. I think something about this keynote is off and is going to be disappointing.

Maybe these boxen aren't going to be all they are cracked up to be, or maybe they just won't be introduced. You know stevie.

But I guess we'll wait and see.

[Frobozz]

Originally posted by grouse
That we have a team watching for the obligatory..."the Apple store is down" notice on the Apple website.

If it doesn't get closed close to or during the webcast, then we'll get an unfortunate indication that the new wonder machines, aren't shipping tomorrow.

More often than not, the store doesn't go down until the end of the keynote, so don't worry if it doesn't go down until then.

[gothamac]

"Intel releases P4 3.2 GHz today"

I think this is a move for the PC people to say any comparisons today are outdated?

[grouse]

Apple's stock's been yo-yoing a bit this am. Up towards a new high on very heavy ealy trading, in a generally down market...

(in case that tells us anything)