MacRumors WWDC 2005 Live Keynote Coverage

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CNBC just reported from Moscone about the story. They're going to have someone inside to report what is said to CNBC and they will be updating the information as it is given. This is big. I would just love for it to be a marketing ploy and make everyone (C|Net, WSJ, CNN, CNBC) look like idiots.
 
Warbrain said:
CNBC just reported from Moscone about the story. They're going to have someone inside to report what is said to CNBC and they will be updating the information as it is given. This is big. I would just love for it to be a marketing ploy and make everyone (C|Net, WSJ, CNN, CNBC) look like idiots.
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That's just silly. Telling the truth is fundamental to good PR. The New York Times had this from industry executives that were informed of the decision. The article didn't say it came from Apple, per se, but this is a classic, anticipation-building leak.

This stuff has been brewing for a week without a denial from Apple. If there's no announcement involving Intel, it's Apple that will look like the idiots.

I will be utterly shocked if there's no announcement today to confirm what we've been reading from reputable news sources.
 
Peace said:
It's also more important
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I think I can say without really over exaggerating that this will be the most important event in the history of Apple up til now. Even bigger then the transition from OS 9 to 10. Architecture changes with a 5% market share, a fickle user base is dangerous. I fully believe Apple has the ability to pull this off but its as much if not more a marketing camping as much as it’s a technical migration to a new platform. Apple has to successfully convince not only its users, but more importantly its developers that this is a critical and important move. Steve’s Keynote in the next 2 hours is probably going to be the most important that he will ever make in his career. I’m really not trying to play this up.. Steve’s RDF has to be at 120% strength.
(Maybe reroute main warp power through the RDF conduits and bypass the safeguards. Yes I know you shouldn’t dump that much raw power into a RDF but desperate times calls for desperate measures.)
All I know is Apple better have some preliminary tools ready to go NOW. And Steve better NOT be coy with what is happening in the next few months. This can not be a game at this point. Lay your cards on the table or people are going to start folding NOW.
We will see. We will see. Maybe Apple is making the iToaster and wants dual core Pentium 4's for the heating element. :D
 
jadam said:
Please explain to me mr developer how switiching to x86 will make viruses and piracy more rampant?
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Well Mr Jadam. It is in the assumption that any x86 PC could run Mac OS X. Most PC users I know don't pay for the software they have on their PC, and especially not for Windows XP (that's why Microsoft tries all those activation schemes etc...).

On the virus part, well I see Mac OS X gaining a lot of market share then. It's only logical virus writers will more eagerly write viruses for an OS that's got 10% than 3% market share. I'm sure OS X is a lot better than Windows, but every OS has holes in it.

Maybe I was a bit over dramatic, but doesn't sound too unreasonable no?
 
Porchland said:
That's just silly. Telling the truth is fundamental to good PR. The New York Times had this from industry executives that were informed of the decision. The article didn't say it came from Apple, per se, but this is a classic, anticipation-building leak.

This stuff has been brewing for a week without a denial from Apple. If there's no announcement involving Intel, it's Apple that will look like the idiots.

I will be utterly shocked if there's no announcement today to confirm what we've been reading from reputable news sources.
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I think we've all seen lately that even though you may consider a news source to be reputable, it can still make mistakes and drop the ball like Newsweek. I know honesty is the best way for any PR, but who knows what Apple is thinking.

Apple never denies any report and instead prefer to let Steve speak and that is their answer to all the rumors and suspicions.
 
Warbrain said:
I think we've all seen lately that even though you may consider a news source to be reputable, it can still make mistakes and drop the ball like Newsweek. I know honesty is the best way for any PR, but who knows what Apple is thinking.

Apple never denies any report and instead prefer to let Steve speak and that is their answer to all the rumors and suspicions.
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I'm not talking about a major news organization making a mistake. I'm talking about Apple putting a false story out there to generate PR buzz. That's just too dangerous a thing for Apple to do.
 
Widget mania!

Apple.com is featuring the TV Tracker widget on the front page now.

I bet we hear LOTS today about widgets and might even get a purported "killer ap" widget.
 
Porchland said:
Apple.com is featuring the TV Tracker widget on the front page now.

I bet we hear LOTS today about widgets and might even get a purported "killer ap" widget.
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Nuff' Said

"Think Secret sources have heard nothing to date regarding any collaboration between Apple and Intel."

-backdraft
 
latergator116 said:
Looks great, but why do these keynotes always have to take place while I am in school? :(
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because you dont live in minnesota and get out in may. :p
 
alandail said:
Those are there for quicktime for windows and are ancient processers anyway. One thing's for sure, Apple isn't developing anything around a PentiumII.
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Isn't the PII/PIII actually faster than the P4 on a clock by clock basis? Kinda like the G4/G5?
 
well ill be, apple updated their widget download page... looks A LOT more organized now than before... good stuff.. :)
 
Porchland said:
I bet we hear LOTS today about widgets and might even get a purported "killer ap" widget.
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Or how about widgets that work on the iTunes phone?

Apple has once again ensured that the worlds technology press are eagerly watching this conference. Perfect for getting some free advertising for new products. If the new products are radical enough, the fuss over intel may be forgotten.

Is iTunes 4.9 just a smokescreen for iTunes 5.0?
Will Apple launch legal action against the established press?
If the established press are free to publish inside information why can't ThinkSecret?

Time will tell.
 
live??

Do a google search for WWDC, the 6th result you get is "Apple - QuickTime - Macworld San Francisco 2005 Expo Keynote"

So could it be a live stream after all?
 
dieselg4 said:
I think financially for Apple they won't give up the hardware business. I don't know the hard numbers, but I would speculate they make the bulk of their money selling hardware and iPods. I think, in theory, that the hardware subsidizes OS X development.

To that end, OSX may only support Apple specific hardware configurations. This has a couple of benefits, not least of which would be a smaller size operating system. (compared to Windows, which has a voluminous amount of legacy hardware to support.)

My $.02, though I'm not super tech minded and may be way off base. Counting down to 1:00PM EST . . .
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I agree with your thoughts here, but it doesn't make sense if you make OSX available to the mass market, what is the purpose of having your specialty hardware if generic hardware can run it? Unless Apple branded stuff gets some perk, or certain features of OSX are not available to the x86 platform (like XP Home vs. XP Pro). I am not saying it will be natively available to any x86 platform, but if that is the case then I bet we see a major decline in Apple computer-related hardware (iPod and such will continue as it is not a related field).

Edit: 500th post, <sarcasm>woohoo to the avatar</sarcasm> :p
 
MacFan25863 said:
Isn't the PII/PIII actually faster than the P4 on a clock by clock basis? Kinda like the G4/G5?
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Only the last PIIIs were (i.e. tualatin with the 512k l2 cache) and only noticably with the first version of P4. The P4s with the northwood core and the 533mhz bus were much faster.
 
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