Live from the WWDC 2008 Keynote

by Aaron Plane • 06/09/2008 at 11:06 AM

Welcome to Macteens’ annual keynote coverage of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, live from the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Our coverage will begin shortly before 10 AM PST (1 PM EST). Updates are posted in chronological order, with new updates at the end of this page. Our normal site is stil available, and will return after the conclusion of today’s event. In addition, our forums are still open and available.

• 2:00 AM - Welcome to Macteens’ annual keynote coverage of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, live from the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Our coverage will begin shortly before 10 AM PST (1 PM EST). Updates are posted in chronological order, with new updates at the end of this page. Our normal site is stil available here, and will return after the conclusion of today’s event. In addition, our forums are still open and available.
• 8:50 AM - The attendee line for the keynote appears to be several blocks long. Attendees have started to enter the second level the building, for the last span of their waits. Several shrouded banners have been noted, including a large one in a lab area.


• 9:00 AM - The keynote is expected begin in about an hour. The Apple Store Online is now down, as expected.


• 9:34 AM - The keynote is expected begin in about half an hour.


• 9:35 AM - Aaron Tait has several pictures of the line & wait on his flickr page.


• 9:50 AM - People are pouring into the hall.


• 9:56 AM - Attendees ar beginning to take their seats.


• 9:58 AM - Classic rock songs are being played as people continue to pour into the hall. (I wonder if there any Beatles songs being played...)


• 10:02 AM - Al Gore is being shown on the screens (he’s in the audience).


• 10:05 AM - Lights have been dimmed. Time for the keynote to begin.


• 10:06 AM - Steve is on stage.


• 10:06 AM - Steve has been working on some “great stuff”. 52 000 attendees at WWDC ‘08 (Record numbers).


• 10:07 AM - 3 parts to Apple - Mac, Music, iPhone.


• 10:08 AM - Bertrand Serlet will demo 10.6 “Snow Leopard” after lunch (during the keynote?).


• 10:09 AM - 250 000 people have dowloaded SDK, 4000 in the beta program.


• 10:10 AM - 3 parts to iPhone 2.0- SDK, users, and enterprise.


• 10:11 AM - Ecxchange support, previously stated in the March 6th special event.


• 10:11 AM - 35% of Fortune 500 companies participated in the beta program. (This is going to be huuuge!)


• 10:12 AM - Higher-Ed has participated, too.


• 10:14 AM - CTOs of various companies discuss iPhone 2.0.


• 10:15 AM - Contacts search in real time.


• 10:16 AM - Video’s done. Scott Forestell is going to do a demo.


• 10:17 AM - Talks about core APIs: Cocoa Touch, Media, Core Services, Core OS.


• 10:18 AM - A fast implementation of OpenGL (Hello iPhone/Touch gaming!).


• 10:20 AM - Cocoa Touch makes UIs a breeze. Hoping they get to the “meaty” stuff soon.


• 10:20 AM - Demo of a Cocoa Touch application being built.


• 10:21 AM - Application, Nearby Friends, uses Address Book API to find friends within a 10 mile radius.


• 10:22 AM - Building an interface is a piece of cake by dragging elements and combining them.


• 10:24 AM - Inteface Builder automagically knows the orientation of your iPhone.


• 10:25 AM - Within minutes, created a fully functional app. Showing it off via his iPhone.


• 10:26 AM - Demo is done. Developers love the awesomeness of the iPhone dev. platform.


• 10:28 AM - Super Monkey Bal for iPhone is nearly complete.


• 10:29 AM - Now Sega is up on stage demoing Super Monkey Ball with multiple levels.


• 10:30 AM - “Available at launch of app store for $9.99”.


• 10:30 AM - Scott has introduced eBay and their native iPhone app.


• 10:32 AM - Now bidding on an item live on iPhone.


• 10:32 AM - Watching a $12.5 million golf course in Mexico.


• 10:33 AM - eBay app for free when App store launches.


• 10:34 AM - Location-based API being demoed by Loopt.


• 10:36 AM - Free on iPhone and app store on launch.


• 10:36 AM - Next up - Michael from Sixapart talking about Typepad app.


• 10:36 AM - Now demoing Typepad app.


• 10:37 AM - Presenter mentions that it is “incredibly easy to post to my blog”.


• 10:38 AM - Creating posts, viewing pending posts, integrated with Safari mobile. App for free from App Store.


• 10:39 AM - The Associated Press is now up.


• 10:39 AM - iPhone “important catalyst”. Demos “Mobile News Network”


• 10:40 AM - Stay up to date, dynamic caching on iPhone, award-winning photography.


• 10:40 AM - Watch video on it, too (demoing video).


• 10:41 AM - Share your news via iPhone.


• 10:41 AM - Available free from the App Store. More on the way.


• 10:41 AM - Pangea Software is next up. 2 Games. Brian is presenting.


• 10:42 AM - 2 games ported from Mac - Enigmo and ....


• 10:44 AM - Racing game - Cromag Rally. All playable. iPhone itself is a steering wheel.


• 10:45 AM - “Took no time to do. Steering took 5-10 minutes”.


• 10:45 AM - $9.99 each.


• 10:45 AM - Individual developer. Scott is impressed. INSURANCE person, but definitely not an insurance app.


• 10:46 AM - App is called Band. Sounds cool.


• 10:47 AM - Demoing various instruments. The crowd is going wild with this one.


• 10:48 AM - Available in app store in a few weeks.


• 10:48 AM - MLB.com di next up, new app for fans of baseball.


• 10:48 AM - Live feeds from games, who’s on base, etc. Real time video highlights, too.


• 10:50 AM - “Best possible video experience, on edge or wifi”.


• 10:50 AM - Available in App Store when it launches.


• 10:51 AM - Next up - Modality.


• 10:51 AM - Modality shows off medical learning app.


• 10:52 AM - Hundreds of images, etc. Crowd laughes over some sort of image in demo.


• 10:52 AM - Students found app beneficial for studying.


• 10:53 AM - Dozens of apps launching after App Store.


• 10:54 AM - Next up is MiMvista. More medical stuff.


• 10:54 AM - Medical imaging app.


• 10:55 AM - Demonstrating multi-touch use with app.


• 10:56 AM - 3D reconstruction of medical imaging. New direction for MiMvista. Look for it at launch of App Store.


• 10:57 AM - Last app from Digital Legends. Amazing game, according to Scott.


• 10:58 AM - iPhone is very capable game device. Only 4 days to port game, a couple more for iPhone specific features. Full 3D game. Ready by september.


• 10:59 AM - “We have an incredible SDK”.


• 11:00 AM - Round of applause for all devs.


• 11:00 AM - People want something that will send you notices (like Growl?).


• 11:01 AM - NO background apps. It drains battery and makes iPhone sluggish.


• 11:01 AM - “this solution: A task manager”.


• 11:02 AM - Push notification service for all developers.


• 11:03 AM - Developers can “push” stuff via IP (badges, alert sounds, custom text alerts).


• 11:03 AM - Scales well. No battery loss. No chopping CPU cycles. Over Wi-fi and network. All done with the SDK.


• 11:04 AM - Steve back on stage.


• 11:05 AM - Contact search in 2.0. Full iWork support.


• 11:05 AM - Microsoft office also, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.


• 11:06 AM - Bulk delete ame move. New calc (scientific when in landscape mode). Parental controls (some teens, like you, probably won’t like this).


• 11:07 AM - New language support. 2 types of Japanese, and 2 types of Chinese (draw characters with fingers).


• 11:07 AM - iPhone 2.0 is gonna be phenomenal! In early July. Free for iPhone. $9.95 for iPod Touch.


• 11:08 AM - Wirelessly download apps from iPhone. Automatically tells you updates.


• 11:08 AM - Fairplay will be protecting devs apps.


• 11:09 AM - Now able to access in 62 countries. If 10MB or less, you can download over cell network.


• 11:10 AM - Enterprise method to distribute apps over their iPhones only, via Intranet.


• 11:11 AM - 3rd way to add apps. Called “App-Hoc”. Mostly for universities. Can distribute over 100 iPhones.


• 11:12 AM - Next: Something new.


• 11:13 AM - MobileMe.


• 11:13 AM - What it is? Exchange for the rest of us. “Using ActiveStink ”


• 11:14 AM - Push email, contacts, and calendars for all Wherever you are.


• 11:14 AM - Get your info from cloud on multitude of devices. Email gets pushed to MobileMe devices.


• 11:15 AM - Everything is up to date. Built in with Calendars on iPhone. Works with native apps.


• 11:16 AM - Works with Outlook.


• 11:16 AM - Web 2.0 with AJAX tech. Buzz words are “in” with Apple, I guess.


• 11:17 AM - Taken gallery and built-in with MobileMe.


• 11:18 AM - Is mac.com dead now? Phil is showing MobileMe on his Mac.


• 11:19 AM - “Sleek and smooth interface”.


• 11:21 AM - Showing the advanced features of MobileMe.


• 11:21 AM - iDisk is now much cooler than before.


• 11:22 AM - Now showing interaction via iPhone.


• 11:24 AM - MobileMe - going back and forth between “cloud”, iPhone, and Mac.


• 11:25 AM - Demoing photos from iPhone sent to MobileMe.


• 11:26 AM - MobileMe will be available for $99/year. 60 day free trial. Available in early July. MobileMe replaces .mac!.


• 11:28 AM - Crowd goes insane. 90% customer satisfaction.


• 11:31 AM - More affordable iPhone.


• 11:31 AM - Today, introducing new iPhone 3G.


• 11:32 AM - Flush headphone jack, same display, improved audio.


• 11:33 AM - Why 3G? Obvious.


• 11:34 AM - Demoing loading website from 3g (21 seconds) vs. 59 seconds on EDGE.


• 11:35 AM - 3G speeds actually approaching Wifi. “Amazingly zippy”.


• 11:35 AM - 36% faster than Nokia N95 or Palm Treo.


• 11:36 AM - Better battery life. Standby time is 300 hours. 3G talking - 5 hours. Browsing 5-6 hours. Video 7 hours. Audio - 24 hours.


• 11:38 AM - GPS built in - crowd goes WILD.


• 11:39 AM - Location data from GPS, can use as tracker.


• 11:39 AM - Done with the intro. Crowd is excited.


• 11:40 AM - More countries soon.


• 11:40 AM - Hopefully up from 6 to 25. Countries - going through countries with “A Small World”.


• 11:42 AM - Everywhere there’s GSM. I’m assuming the crowd made noise because of the neighbours to the north, Canada.
• 11:45 AM - iPhone 3G will go on sale for $199 at 8GB. $299 for 16GB - also available in white.


• 11:46 AM - Will be available on July 11, in twenty two countries. New ad announced, now playing.


• 11:47 AM - “It’s finally here.. the first phone to beat the iPhone ...introducing the new iPhone.”


• 11:48 AM - Ad appears to spoof Apple’s practice of secrecy, crowd cheers.


• 11:49 AM - Steve asks for the crowd to give a round of applause for Apple’s development teams.


• 11:50 AM - Steve concludes the keynote, “I’ll see you this week.” Stay tuned to Macteens for more coverage.