This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 10, 2006). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Big news of the day, of course, is Steve Jobs’ keynote address at Macworld 2006. I just got home from school and watched the 2. Here’s the key points (plus occasional commentary from me here and there):
Direct from the keynote (when it’s working)…
- Retail stores
- 26 million customers
- $1 billion dollars of business
- Apple overall had $5.7 billion dollars of business
- Highest quarterly revenue ever
- Music
- iPods
- 4.5 million iPods sold holiday quarter 2004
- 14 million iPods sold holiday quarter 2005
- Over 100/minute 24/7 through the quarter
- Still wasn’t enough to satisfy demand
- 42 million iPods sold total since introduction
- 32 million of those sold in 2005
- New iPod ad featuring Wynton Marsalis
- iTunes
- 850 million songs purchased and downloaded
- 3 million songs per day
- 83% market share
- Videos/TV shows
- 8 million videos sold since Oct. 12
- Sports (superbowl games) added last week
- 15 minute condensed versions
- Saturday Night Live content debuts today
- Classic SNL!
- Samurai Delicatessen
- Coneheads
- Blues Brothers
- More recent skits too
- New accessory: Radio Remote
- Remote control and FM tuner
- Tiny little thing
- Nano and 5G iPod
- FM tuner display on iPod screen
- $99, available today
- Car Integration
- Chrysler just announced major iPod support
- Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep models adding iPod support
- 850 million songs purchased and downloaded
- iPods
- Macs
- Software
- Aperture (recently introduced)
- For digital photgraphers
- Showing promotional video
- ESPN
- Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4
- Available today through Software Update
- Dashboard Widgets
- Over 1500 widgets available
- New from Apple
- New Address Book
- Ski conditions
- Calendar
- Yellow/White Pages
- Universal Binary (PPC and Intel)
- Rosetta
- Runs PPC binaries on Intel macs
- Roz Ho from Microsoft
- iLife ’06
- iPhoto
- Much faster
- I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Upped limit from 25,000 photos to 250,000
- Again, I’ll believe it when I see it. I could never get iPhoto ’05 anywhere even close to 25,000 photos before it bogged down to the point of being completely unusable.
- “Scrolls like butter…”
- “Wait — scrolls like a hot knife through butter…”
- Full-screen editing
- Compare up to eight photos during edits
- New special effects panel
- B/W, sepia, vignette, blur, matte, etc.
- New cards, calendars, better books
- The photo calendars look really nice!
- Photocasting
- “Podcasting for photos”
- Uploads photocast albums to .mac
- Can subscribe to published albums through iPhoto
- Subscribed albums automatically update
- “If you take away the machinery, it’s just like magic.”
- Must be a .mac subscriber to publish albums
- That’s okay — it’s fancy and Apple-specific, but it’s nothing that I can’t do with Flickr.
- Uses RSS, anyone can subscribe to published albums
- What would happen if I dropped a Flickr RSS feed into iPhoto?
- Much faster
- iMovie
- Animated themes
- Animated snippets similar to iDVD’s title menu animations that can be inserted into movies
- Real-time effects and titles
- Multiple open projects
- Export direct to iPod Video format
- Export videopodcasts
- Animated themes
- iDVD
- Added widescreen menus
- “Magic iDVD”
- Automated DVD creation
- New themes
- Enhanced Map View
- Supporting 3rd party DVD burners
- GarageBand
- Added a Podcast Studio
- Artwork track
- Sound effects
- Automatic “ducking” (dropping soundtrack audio during voiceovers)
- Speech enhancers (audio enhancement)
- iChat audio import (remote interviewing)
- Added a Podcast Studio
- iTunes
- iWeb
- Website creation and management
- Apple ease of use and templates
- Pretty complex templates…table based? CSS? Might have to wait for some to start popping up before we know for sure, but I’d guess (hope) that it’s all CSS.
- One-click publishing to .mac
- Is it restricted to .mac? Looks like it.
- Automatically creates RSS feeds
- Clicking on photocast feeds are opening iPhoto, weblogs feeds opening in Safari’s RSS reader, podcast feeds opening in iTunes. If they’re all RSS/Atom, how are the different types of feeds being differentiated?
- Drop-in, WYSIWYG creation.
- Photos, text — even iTunes playlists (that create lists with pointers to the iTMS).
- Direct integration with GarageBand’s Podcast Studio
- Same price: $79 (individual, $99 family 5-pack)
- Available today
- I’ve already placed my order
- Update: Just a couple hours later, and I just received the shipping notice from Apple. Impressive! It’s FedEx Ground, so it should arrive within the next couple days…and, of course, I’m at work and school all day. Heh. I’ll have to figure that out when I get the first “We missed you!” tag…
- iPhoto
- .mac
- Over 1 million subscribers
- iWork
- Aperture (recently introduced)
- Hardware
- Sales
- Steady increase each quarter
- Intel processors
- Plan was to start shipping Intel Macs by June ’06
- Cute reference to the old “bunny” intel ads
- Intel and Apple both “reporting as ready”
- Steve’s Mac during the demo has been an Intel iMac
- First Intel-based Mac debuts today
- iMac
- Same design as current iMac line
- Same sizes (17″, 20″)
- Same features (iSight, Front Row, remote, etc.)
- Same prices (17″ $1299/20″ $1600)
- What’s different?
- 2-3 times faster than the iMac G5
- Latest Intel Core Duo chip
- Dual processor chip
- 2Mb L2 cache
- Every iMac uses dual processors
- Shipping today
- iMac
- Transitioning entire hardware product line Intel by end of ’06
- Sales
- Software
- One more thing…
- Powerbooks have been lagging
- Performance per Watt
- G4: 0.27
- G5: 0.23
- Intel Core Duo: 1.05
- Introducing MacBook Pro
- Intel Core Duo chip
- Dual processors in every MacBook Pro
- 4-5 times faster than Powerbook G4
- Thinnest Mac notebook ever
- 1 inch thin
- 5.4 lbs
- 15.4″ widescreen LCD display
- As bright as Cinema Displays
- Built-in iSight camera
- IR sensor
- Apple Remote
- Front Row included
- MagSafe
- Magnetic power cord attachment
- Yanked cord disconnects from computer
- This is frakking brilliant!
- Sudden Motion Sensor
- DVI Video Out
- Analog and Digital Audio in/out
- $1999
- 1.67 Ghz ICD
- 512 Mb RAM
- 80Gb HD
- $2499
- 1.83 Ghz ICD
- More specs that I didn’t catch.
- Shipping in February
- Orders accepted starting today
- Intel Core Duo chip
- One last thing…
- Apple founded April Fools Day, 1976
- Apple will be 30 years old this April 1st
“Beat Box [Diversion One]” by Art of Noise, The from the album (Who’s Afraid of?) The Art of Noise! (1984, 8:33).
ordered my copy of iLife ’06 this morning
What I could filter out iWeb will be one click to .mac, but there will be an export function or something. Wondering if the same will be true with photocasting.
on the website it reads: “*iWeb publishing requires Internet and webserver access (.Mac recommended).”
I would be astonished if it delivered clean HTML that passes W3C-validation. I have used several old WYSIWYG-programs, they all delivered hideous code, so I’m not optimistic.
But looking at the keynote… with a smart program that brakes up the page, it looks like it could be done with simple standard HTML & CSS that’s just marginally changed. So who knows…
Michael, you’ll have to do an in depth test for us, I guess… I’m holding off spending my money until I know iWeb is worth it.
Greetings
I’ll definitely be interested in seeing what I can do with iWeb, so I’ll do my best to get some sort of review up after the box shows up (though that will be at least somewhat limited without a .mac membership).
The big kicker for me is iPhoto…in fact, as I don’t do much video (no camcorder, so nothing more than the short snippets my camera gives me) neither iMovie or iDVD are used terribly often; iTunes is free separate from iLife; GarageBand is a fun toy, but I just don’t have the time to really dive into it; and iWeb is as yet an unknown. Essentially, I’m paying the $79 just to get the latest upgrade to iPhoto! Still, since any one of the apps could be sold for $79 on its own, the package deal is quite good, even if I only dabble with 2/3 of the whole thing.
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