long term
 

Here's a few thoughts of what I think might happen after WWDC:

Next year or two: Apple will try to introduce another "home run" product like they did with the iPod. I have no idea what the new product will be. I think it will be successful.

iPod: Apple will continue to put pressure on and extract money from accessory manufacturers. Of course more video emphasis and maybe bluetooth. No big changes in this area.

Computers: Support is the tail that wags the dog here. Apple is already supporting two OS's, X and Classic. They will be content to let Parallels have the glory of running, and supporting, Windows inside of OS X. They will not make a major computer move until the PPC machines drop off of AppleCare.

In three years or so Apple will make it's next big change in the computer area. It will license OS X to other manufacturers and gradually stop making computers itself as OS X sales to other manufacturers pick up. Computer hardware design will be spun off into another company which will attempt to make a go of it designing computers for Dell, Acer, etc.

This explains why Apple's designs today aren't as dramatic as they were in the past. They will continue to push out nice looking but basically boring machines in the next few years, machines that Dell or Acer would be happy to have in their lineup. Apple wants to make it easy for other computer companies make the decision to sell OS X boxes when that time comes. These other companies will be able to go to Intel and order their OS X motherboards just the way they order Windows motherboards, which will be reassuring. They will be able to look at Apple's computer line and see products that are similar to their own running OS X, which will be reassuring.

Basically what Apple is doing now and for the next few years is working the bugs out of the Intel's OS X reference motherboards so that they can be sold to other manufacturers.

Finally someone posted the international times for WWDC.

From http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/06/w...-est-be-there/

Does anyone know where we can get a live feed of the keynote from?

cheers

Mark

there most likely will not be a live feed
there has not been one at a key note in quite a while
however with in a short while you will be able to see it on the apple site they always have the quicktime stream

ooo! Scary dream you guys.
 

I am being serious. I really dreamt this last night.

I dreamt it was the readt WWDC, except steve wasn't wearing is trademark turtleneck and jeans, he was wearing some crazy weird suit thing that I think was polkdoted, and he was talking with an english accent. He also said nothing about a Mac Pro, nor did he show Leopard at all and the only thing I saw on the website when I checked (in the dream, of course), was a new Macbook.

Then I woke up and said to myself "Thank goodness that was a dream! Today is the real WWDC."

the last few events were not aired live.... but the event was available only a few hours later.... www.macrumors.com are usually the first to get the feed posted.

I remember watching the switch to intel announcment feed at about 11:30pm to 1am

boarding the plane now.

I love the way that 7 minutes before the WWDC, the Apple website looks so completey normal, as if nothing is about to happen.

I'll talk to you guys in a few hours.

Is Jobs presenting today?

Yep...we can get our dose of RDF once they put up the stream :)

If you go to macsurfer.com they always have a list of available transcripts and streams for these events. I usually have several open in tabs because some sites get totally slammed and others do a better job of reporting.

Mac OS X Leopard: Introducing Vista 2.0
http://images.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc06...WDCleopard.jpg

The Apple Store (online) is down!

Come on Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros!!

IT'S STARTED !!!!!


Among others, HERE is one site with tracnscripts.


Hightlights:

Mac Pro:
- PowerMac is gone, replaced with Mac Pro ("Woodcrest" Xeon and dual-optical drives)
- Mac Pro looks the same (outside) as G5 PowerMac, but inside it's completely different due to less cooling required. Lot sof extra room.
- Minimum: Dual 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB RAM, Geforce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), SuperDrive, $2499
- Maximum: All quad, up to 3ghz, 16 GB RAM. 2 TB storage, graphics up to radeon x1900 or FX4500

Xserve:
- Intel transition complete in 210 days
- Xeons
- Small chip means more space so they added a redundant power supply.
- Up to 5x faster than previous Xserve.

Leopard
- Jobs says he can't show a lot of what Leopard has to offer as he doesn't want it photocpied by MS this soon.
- Support for 64 bit applications (can run 32 bit apps side by side with 64 bit - no emulation, no translation)
- Time Machine, app for automated backups with restore and recovery options.
- Next generation of Boot Camp, Front Row and Photo Booth will be built into Leopard.
- Virtual desktops called Spaces (I've been waiting for this feature since I first saw it in Gnome or KDE years ago)
- Spotlight willsupport Boolean expressions
- Mail gets an overhaul, seems to have same features that Outlook eg: notes, to-do list) and various HTML based stationary that you can alter.
- DashCode, developers tool to easiy create complex dashboard widgetseasily.
- Web Clip, user tool in Safari to create widgets from parts of webpages.
- iChat overhaul: multiple logons, voice chat recording, realtime VoIP while displaying slideshow or Keynote via iChat Theater, and differnent backdrops (even video based ones) while doing a video chat.

Other:
- xcode 3.0 released today

Ah, no MBP announcement...there's always the next few Tuesdays, though :)

Store is back up.

Is there already video material of the keynote speech available somewhere?

Probably later tonight, from the Apple site

Go to Apple's website. Everything mentioned is being displayed. The Leopard sneak-peak has several QT video showcasing the new features mentioned.

Ha ha ha, I just knew everybody rumoring about an Apple phone or Apple tablet was going to be wrong, dead wrong.

I was hoping there would be a better media center though.