Details on the Supersession
As one of the presenters of the iPhone Supersession I can provide some insight and details.
To begin with, there apparently was some miscommunication. Neither Ben nor I authorized the public posting of these slides. Yes, they were being given to those who paid to attend the session so they could follow along without taking copious notes, but they weren't meant for the world at large. Had they been, I certainly would have posted them somewhere other than a .Mac site. As many have discovered, the post here and the subsequent Diggs killed the site in short order, which is inconvenient.
So, should someone be tuning in at this late date, know that I've removed the presentation from that site as I need to use it again once it comes back online. The presentation is out in the wild now and being linked to like crazy (which is gratifying, in a way) so we'll just chalk this one up to water under the bridge and move on. Fortunately what you see in the slides is a bare skeleton of what we talked about during the presentation so the public posting of the slides hasn't significantly reduced its value for succeeding presentations.
So, to some of those questions:
The Keynote template is Industrial from Keynote 4.
I work for Macworld rather than Apple so no, this isn't any more Apple sanctioned than anything else I do. As the slides hint, we think Gmail offers some singular advantages for email on the iPhone, least of which is that it's free and offers great spam filtering.
The ABC keyboard trick is about quickly moving between QWERTY and punctuation and numbers. Tap and hold on .?123, slide your thumb to the character you want, and let go. You automatically return to the QWERTY keyboard. David Pogue originally came up with this technique.
Video accessories with Apple authorization chip: The authorization chip lives, though I may be misunderstanding what the poster is getting at. It's essentially a way for Apple to enforce the Made for iPod program for accessories that use video out on the latest iPods and iPhone.
Rubber band tripod: It's a quick and dirty way to steady your iPhone when taking a picture. Simply use a rubber band to lash it to an object that you can use for a monopod -- broomstick or sword, for example.
I'll check back every so often if you have other questions about the session. Thanks to those who found it helpful.
