For those who got tired of standing on your head, here is the keynote coverage report in forwards chronological order:
MacRumors coverage of MWSF Keynote, Jan 11 2005
9:00 people still coming into the room
music playing - vertigo by U2
please turn off your cell phones and pagers
let's get it started in here - Black Eyed Peas
lights coming down
people clapping
hard to hear
1 million visitors a week
100+ retail stores
Steve on stage
finest personal computer you can get
next - OS X
14 million active users
most successful OS release
on target for 1st half of 2005
Tiger - 5th major release of X
automator
OS X 10.4 demo
200 new features
talking about Spotlight
finds instantly
searching demo - searching through 4 million files
cross-program data searching very easy to use
searching metadata
bug on stage - Steve gets error message - crowd laughs
searching for sunset now
System Preferences now
album art searching as well
completely change the way we work
search accross all mailboxes instantly
saveable searching - save previous searches to call up later
Mail to receive lots of new features
have everything right where you want it
major upgrade to Quicktime in Tiger
complete MPG4 compliance
new codec support for h.264
no matter the beginning format - can support compressions
QuickTime demo
demo over
cell phone up to HD - everyone climbing on board
covering Dashboard
translation, calculator, etc.
dashboard icon in dock allows to either add new widget or to show widgets
iChat demo
uses h.264 compression
videoconference demo
talking with a girl in paris - invites Phil to join in
sends Phil away quickly as usual
amazing quality - 3 way video chat
end of Tiger demo
Next - HD
2005 year of HD video
talking about Final Cut Pro HD
Next - iLife
completely new version of every app
bring all the apps together - iLife 05
major upgrade to all
organize more efficiently - more formats supported
demo of apps - iPhoto
add calendar links to photos - new way to organize & search
iPhoto to support mpg movies from camera as well as RAW camera support
all works the same as on jpg & RAW formats
Ken Burns still included
demo
25,000 photos in iPhoto
sorting by calendar dates
example of new supported format - MPG4 video
playing with exposure controls
better rotation controls
slideshow demo
book controls much better - much easier to make a book - more options
open edit controls from book creator
iPhoto demo over
button on panel to buy books directly from iPhoto
adding softcover option for books
20 page minimum - $29.99 for 28 pages
available throughout the world from today on
smaller size available too - 6x9 $9.99
iMovie
more transitions & effects
magic iMovie - select transitions on import from camcorder
biggest feature - now supports HD video
720p
demo
"simplest video editor in the world now edits HD video"
year of HD
sony now offering prosumer HD camera
cooperated with Sony - since the 3.5" floppy
Pres. of Sony on stage to talk about cooperation
Apple Store offline
Steve playing with HD camcorder while Sony president talking
this is the year of HD @ Home
"great to work with apple on great applications"
Next - iDVD
one step dvd creation
demo of iDVD
-R, +R, -RW and +RW supported (for burning)
another demo
iDVD demo over
next - Garageband
new Jampacks available today
recorded tracks now as flexible as loops
multitrack simultaneous recording added
debuted 1 year ago - great response - lots of requests
John Mayer comes on stage to demo
crowd impressed with the demo
realtime notation
now possible to make your own loops
another Mayer demo
demo concluded
there are unknown icons in Steve's dock
apps all work together, so iLife 05 like getting more than 5 apps
free on all new macs
Next - iWork
AppleWorks long in the tooth - time for replacement
new from ground up - 2 apps in it
Keynote 2
new presentation styles - new transitions, animated text
easy to use
animation built in - fully automated
watercolor effect
easy to use
animation built in - fully automated
scrapbook
flash output
Pages - word processing
can do almost anything
pretty easy to work in Pages
all featured you expect in a good word processor
40 apple design templates included
awesome starting points for documents
invites Phil on stage
demoing pages
Phil covers Pages features
integrated Pages and iPhoto browser?
table support
automatic page layout controls - keep document pretty
$79
next - talking about headless stripped down mac
Macs
Mac Mini
very tiny
quiet, firewire, usb2, video out, ethernet - very very tiny
pizza box style
analog, digital video out
comes with Panther & iLife 05
half as high as an iPod mini, surface of a little dish
coming 1st half of 05
1.25 Ghz G4
another at 1.4 Ghz
most important new mac 'ever'
available Jan 22
prices for mac mini: $499 and $599
iTunes - more than 230 million songs sold
averaging half a billion songs per year
70% market share, even with all the competition
15 countries, 70% global market
constantly retooling for new contents
iPod & iPod mini
crossed 10 million iPods sold
Amazon's top buy consumer electronics product
now over 400 accessories available
new ways to use iPod in the car
Mercedes offering iPod jacks
brought cars to preview - on floor at Macworld show
cell phones - iTunes client on cell phone - showing sample to the crowd
cell phones -
did phenominally
Going back to Jan 2004 - marketshare was decent - introduced mini to go after high-end of flash market
marketshare of players has DOUBLED since last year
next?
forget batteries - no need to make music hard to find on player
want to make something really great
flash player based around shuffle
something happened in the ipod market - became most popular way to listen - shuffle
new device
iPod Shuffle
weighs under 1 ounce
simple to use controls
cap covering inputs - USB
12 hours on battery
shuffle or playlist
autoplay
integration between the device and the jukebox
manaul sync or automatic
can charge in the car
shipping today
dock available
http://pictures.hentges.lu/tmp/shuf.jpg
dock & case available - $29 each
iPod shuffle ad playing
makes iPod available to a LOT more people
thanks developers and engineers for working so hard
keynote winding down - store still closed
welcomes Mayer back on stage to play song
John Mayer - up for 2 Grammys - for 'Fathers'
http://www.apple.com/home/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
Mayer still playing
store back up - but under HEAVY load
Mayer finished playing
that's it - all done
lights come up to Black Eyed Peas
MacRumors coverage of MWSF Keynote, Jan 11 2005
9:00 people still coming into the room
music playing - vertigo by U2
please turn off your cell phones and pagers
let's get it started in here - Black Eyed Peas
lights coming down
people clapping
hard to hear
1 million visitors a week
100+ retail stores
Steve on stage
finest personal computer you can get
next - OS X
14 million active users
most successful OS release
on target for 1st half of 2005
Tiger - 5th major release of X
automator
OS X 10.4 demo
200 new features
talking about Spotlight
finds instantly
searching demo - searching through 4 million files
cross-program data searching very easy to use
searching metadata
bug on stage - Steve gets error message - crowd laughs
searching for sunset now
System Preferences now
album art searching as well
completely change the way we work
search accross all mailboxes instantly
saveable searching - save previous searches to call up later
Mail to receive lots of new features
have everything right where you want it
major upgrade to Quicktime in Tiger
complete MPG4 compliance
new codec support for h.264
no matter the beginning format - can support compressions
QuickTime demo
demo over
cell phone up to HD - everyone climbing on board
covering Dashboard
translation, calculator, etc.
dashboard icon in dock allows to either add new widget or to show widgets
iChat demo
uses h.264 compression
videoconference demo
talking with a girl in paris - invites Phil to join in
sends Phil away quickly as usual
amazing quality - 3 way video chat
end of Tiger demo
Next - HD
2005 year of HD video
talking about Final Cut Pro HD
Next - iLife
completely new version of every app
bring all the apps together - iLife 05
major upgrade to all
organize more efficiently - more formats supported
demo of apps - iPhoto
add calendar links to photos - new way to organize & search
iPhoto to support mpg movies from camera as well as RAW camera support
all works the same as on jpg & RAW formats
Ken Burns still included
demo
25,000 photos in iPhoto
sorting by calendar dates
example of new supported format - MPG4 video
playing with exposure controls
better rotation controls
slideshow demo
book controls much better - much easier to make a book - more options
open edit controls from book creator
iPhoto demo over
button on panel to buy books directly from iPhoto
adding softcover option for books
20 page minimum - $29.99 for 28 pages
available throughout the world from today on
smaller size available too - 6x9 $9.99
iMovie
more transitions & effects
magic iMovie - select transitions on import from camcorder
biggest feature - now supports HD video
720p
demo
"simplest video editor in the world now edits HD video"
year of HD
sony now offering prosumer HD camera
cooperated with Sony - since the 3.5" floppy
Pres. of Sony on stage to talk about cooperation
Apple Store offline
Steve playing with HD camcorder while Sony president talking
this is the year of HD @ Home
"great to work with apple on great applications"
Next - iDVD
one step dvd creation
demo of iDVD
-R, +R, -RW and +RW supported (for burning)
another demo
iDVD demo over
next - Garageband
new Jampacks available today
recorded tracks now as flexible as loops
multitrack simultaneous recording added
debuted 1 year ago - great response - lots of requests
John Mayer comes on stage to demo
crowd impressed with the demo
realtime notation
now possible to make your own loops
another Mayer demo
demo concluded
there are unknown icons in Steve's dock
apps all work together, so iLife 05 like getting more than 5 apps
free on all new macs
Next - iWork
AppleWorks long in the tooth - time for replacement
new from ground up - 2 apps in it
Keynote 2
new presentation styles - new transitions, animated text
easy to use
animation built in - fully automated
watercolor effect
easy to use
animation built in - fully automated
scrapbook
flash output
Pages - word processing
can do almost anything
pretty easy to work in Pages
all featured you expect in a good word processor
40 apple design templates included
awesome starting points for documents
invites Phil on stage
demoing pages
Phil covers Pages features
integrated Pages and iPhoto browser?
table support
automatic page layout controls - keep document pretty
$79
next - talking about headless stripped down mac
Macs
Mac Mini
very tiny
quiet, firewire, usb2, video out, ethernet - very very tiny
pizza box style
analog, digital video out
comes with Panther & iLife 05
half as high as an iPod mini, surface of a little dish
coming 1st half of 05
1.25 Ghz G4
another at 1.4 Ghz
most important new mac 'ever'
available Jan 22
prices for mac mini: $499 and $599
iTunes - more than 230 million songs sold
averaging half a billion songs per year
70% market share, even with all the competition
15 countries, 70% global market
constantly retooling for new contents
iPod & iPod mini
crossed 10 million iPods sold
Amazon's top buy consumer electronics product
now over 400 accessories available
new ways to use iPod in the car
Mercedes offering iPod jacks
brought cars to preview - on floor at Macworld show
cell phones - iTunes client on cell phone - showing sample to the crowd
cell phones -
did phenominally
Going back to Jan 2004 - marketshare was decent - introduced mini to go after high-end of flash market
marketshare of players has DOUBLED since last year
next?
forget batteries - no need to make music hard to find on player
want to make something really great
flash player based around shuffle
something happened in the ipod market - became most popular way to listen - shuffle
new device
iPod Shuffle
weighs under 1 ounce
simple to use controls
cap covering inputs - USB
12 hours on battery
shuffle or playlist
autoplay
integration between the device and the jukebox
manaul sync or automatic
can charge in the car
shipping today
dock available
http://pictures.hentges.lu/tmp/shuf.jpg
dock & case available - $29 each
iPod shuffle ad playing
makes iPod available to a LOT more people
thanks developers and engineers for working so hard
keynote winding down - store still closed
welcomes Mayer back on stage to play song
John Mayer - up for 2 Grammys - for 'Fathers'
http://www.apple.com/home/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
Mayer still playing
store back up - but under HEAVY load
Mayer finished playing
that's it - all done
lights come up to Black Eyed Peas