Steve Jobs Key Notes

I'm putting up my public notes on Steve Jobs keynote here, with special thanks to Steve Gillmor, who's providing the connectivity. In a long-standing Apple practice, there's no Internet access here.

No big news yet. A nice FM radio for the iPod. Big sales for iPods and the retail stores. 40% of new cars in the U.S. will have iPod integration. Big silo.

New tool for photographers: Aperature. "A quantum leap" says one of the photogs feeatured in the video. Album layout on screen. Handles RAW, fast, he says.

New widgets, with OS X 10.4.4, out today.

Revision of iLife. Improvements to iPhoto. Up to 250k photos. "Scrolls like butter." UI changes, compare function, effects panel. Books and calendars. Cards.

Also photocasting. "Podcasting for photos." Uploads them to .Mac. Not Flickr? Ah. It all appears to happen inside the Apple/iPhoto silo. "Like magic". Uses RSS. Not clear exactly what's silo'd and what isn't. I guess you need to be a .Mac member to publish, but not to subscribe. Of course, you can subscribe to more for .Mac members. "Photos for Grandma."

iMovie. Animated themes. Realtime effects, audio tools. Export to iPod. Video podcasts.

Amazing how much Dave Winer has done or modeled for Apple over the decades. Presenting (MORE), scripting (Frontier), RSS, podcasting...

iMovie and iDVD improvements. Garageband. "Podcast studio... the best tool in the world to create podcasts." Steve is demonstrating how to do it. "Super Secret Apple Rumors" (about an 8-pound iPod). Great demo. The man is good at this shit.

New app: iWeb. For building websites. Easy and beautiful. Hmm. Is it blogware? Yep. "Create blogs in seconds." "All the RSS stuff, all the subscription stuff, is done automatically." Works through .Mac. "Uses ajax technology." Very pretty and slick. Include music links to (of course) the iTunes Music Store. Integrated out the wazoo with all the other Apple iStuff. Photocasting. Podcasting. Video podcasting. Not just an authoring too, but a creative expression tool.

Steve is about creative expression. Like I said.

iLife is free with new Macs. $79 each, $99 family pack of 5.

How about APIs? Be interesting to see if any of this stuff is mashable.

In any case, it gives the Wordpress and other open source tool folks a lot to offer open versions of.

Paul Otellini of Intel just showed up on stage, in a space suit (acually a clean room suit). Explains why Microsoft wasn't on stage at the Intel announcement at CES. Even though Intel had been working with Microsoft for two years on Viiv.

Microsoft is the old wife. Apple is the new wife.

First Mac on intel is an iMac. Looks the same as the old one. Flat screen. Same everything (including prices) for 2-3x the old speed.

Uses the Intel Core Duo chip. Not the Viiv platform. Encouraging.

Everything on 10.4.4 runs native on both PPC and Intel.

Everything demo'd so far has been running on an iMac with Intel inside.

"Crossgrading" is how developers can make their products "universal".

New tech: Rosetta. Makes old apps run on new iron.

The thought balloon over audience heads: What will it take to run other OSes on this?

Microsoft announces a 5-year commitment to continue shipping updates to Office.

iMac available today. Whole product line will be transitioned in 2006.

Very funny ad, with a "1984" feel. "
The Intel chip. For years, it's been trapped inside PCs..."

"One more thing..."

New notebook with a Core Duo processor: MacBook Pro. 4-5x the G4 speed. 15.4 inch screen, ultrabrite. Built-in iSight camera at the top of the screen. (How many years after Sony?) Thinner than the 17". Remote control for watching movies from across the room, through an IR port.

Also has "MagSafe", a new very neat magnetic power adapter port. "Patent pending."

Two models: 1.67ghz for $1999. 80Gb. 1.83Ghz. $2995. Shipping in February.

That's it. Closing thanks to Apple and Intel employees. A note about the upcoming 30th birthday on April Fools Day.