Live from Macworld 2005: Steve Jobs keynote
posted Jan 11th 2005 12:09PM
It's the moment you've been waiting for: they're running a few minutes late, but it looks like the big, big, big keynote is about to get underway at Macworld. We have a couple of reporters there, and barring any unforeseen technical snafus (the WiFi sitch is a mess, apparently), we'll be bringing you live updates from Jobs' keynote as they happen. Keep refreshing to get the latest.
9:11am PST - Steve Jobs arrives on stage, starts talking up HD projection, he's showing off their new Apple store in
London, it's their largest store to date, and the second grossing store they have worldwide.
9:14am - Recapping the year, the iMac G5 launch "The most beautiful desktop computer." The best selling Mac they
have.
9:15am - Mac OS X update, "The world's most advanced operating system, 12,000 native apps, 14 million users." Tiger on
schedule to ship first half of this year with 200 new features. Any process will be able to address 64 bits of
memory.
9:16am - New Tiger features. Automator, collects and accomplishes routine tasks. Most important new feature is
Spotlight, desktop search allows you to find anything. Photos, PDFs, docs, integrated into OS and applications.
9:17am - Microsoft will be building support for Spotlight into their Mac apps.
9:21am - Spotlight just instantly searched 250,000 files, can sort by people.
9:22am - Spotlight offers searching within Corbis images.
9:23am - Steve just crashed Spotlight photo viewer! "Well, that's why we have backup systems here." Force quit and
recovered.
9:25am - Demoing "smart folders" in the finder. "View this week" everything opened this past week is shown. Searched
results actually show up in a spotlight effect. Very nice effect.
9:27am - New version of Mail for Tiger. Softer UI, no more brushed metal look. Can search across all mailboxes using
Spotlight. Steve showing demo with 100,000 emails.
9:28am - Smart mailboxes" monitor anything with the search phrase. If someone emails you a bunch of pix, there's a
"slideshow" button attached to the message. Can dynamically create slide shows from emails. Nice "expose" type ways to
view multiple photos. Once in slideshow view you can automatically save any of the pix to iPhoto library. Slick
transparent "genie" effect to add photos to iPhoto.
9:30am - QuickTime 7 - 24 channels of surround sound, support for high-def. video, live resizing. Full screen overlay.
One button audio and video recording. More transparent onscreen controls. Using H.264 as codec so it could transcode
movies for PSP.
9:31am - Lots of smooth resizing of HD video. Scalable from cell phones to full HD. Definitely a knock at
you-know-who.
9:34am - Dashboard - "Get in, find something, get out" Controller for iTunes, world clock, measurement converter.
Dictionary and thesaurus (applause). Translation, yellow pages, weather. Lots of yuks at stock ticker showing Apple and
Pixar up and Microsoft down. Widget bar overlaid under dock. Widgets appear with ripple effect. eBay developed a widget
for it to track auctions
9:36am - Demoing controls on "back" of widgets. They flip around like the tiles in that tic tac toe beanbag toss game
"Toss-across"
9:38am - iChat - Up to 10 people in one audio chat, multiparty video, up to 4 people in one video chat using
H.264.
9:40am - Demoing iChat video fullscreen. As more people are added to video chat, the screen positions them in a sort
of folded format. Shipping "long before Longhorn."
9:43am - HD. Declares 2005 the year for high-definition video. Final Cut Pro the most popular HD video app.
Introducing Final Cut Express HD. Adds powerful HDV editing. LiveType for animated titles, integration with iMovie
titles. Soundtrack for custom music. Seamless iMovie file import. $299 in February or $99 upgrade for FCE current
owners.
9:44am - iLife 05. "We are leading the digital media revolution." New cartoony logo, iPhoto has better organizing and
searching, new photo editor. Calendar view. New search tool. Supports MPEG4 movies for import from, say, Sony cameras.
Supports RAW image files from high-end digital SLR cameras. Editing view looks a bit like Windows filmstrip view.
9:46am - Editor adds controls for Brightness, contrast, histogram, saturation, sharpness, straighten, temperature,
tint. And a straighten feature. Beefed up slideshow and new way to make books. Also adds a thumbnail list across the
top so you don't have to back to "organize" just to edit another photo.
9:50am - Steve just fiddling with photos.
9:51am - Straigthen overlays a grid on the screen, then you can rotate the pic to match the grid and it recrops the
photo.
9:55am - iPhoto demo thankfully ends.
9:57am - iMovie is dramatically faster. Non-destructive trimming. MPEG-4 support. "Magic iMovie." Support for HD up to
1080i. Loads all the video off of your camera and creates movie for you.
10:01am - Steve showing off high-def wedding video. "We're anxiously awaiting Blu-ray so we can burn high definition
DVDs"
10:03am - Kunitake Ando, president of Sony just walked on stage. Ando giving Jobs props: "Great admiration and respect
for Apple products." Jobs is filming Ando on Sony HDV camcorder.
10:05am - Ando talking about Grand Wega TVs and Blu-ray.
10:06am - Ando says "Just keep introducing great software" and "Stay off the PC!"
10:07am - Ando says looking forward he expects Sony to bring features of FX1 into smaller and lighter cameras. Seems
like he's definitely overstaying his welcome.
10:08am - Jobs saying that maybe some day they'll work with Sony on "computers and music, too."
10:09am - iDVD. Supports all DVD formats. Can suck all the footage off a cam and burn it to a DVD in pretty much
one click. Demoing new themes. Dropping movies into the theme. They continue to play as the window is rotating.
Slick.
10:10am - Jobs says, "Better than most Hollywood DVDs." Even Pixar?
10:11am - Sappy wedding and cute upbeat kids birthday templates.
10:13am - GarageBand. Up to 8 track recording. Pitch and time fixing (so you can do mashups!). Can now change recorded
tracks as flexibly as software instruments and loops. Create your own loops. Real time music notation.
10:15am - Vocal transformer. John Mayer walks on stage (just like last year!). He's about to start playing.
10:16am - Music notation does live transcribing as the music is being played. It's pretty sick. John sings "I didn't
win any Grammys for playing piano." Now John's playing guitar and singing with a bass accompanyist. Jam session
going on now. GarageBand is recording it all.
10:17am - They're recording bass, guitar, drums and vocals live into separate tracks.
10:20am - Steve's playing back the recordings. Playing each track by itself so he can demo that each voice was in a
separate track.
10:20: iTunes. No big changes. iLife 05 is $79, goes on sale January 22nd. Free on all new macs.
10:21: iWork. Successor to AppleWorks. Now we're getting into stuff people were getting sued over.
10:22am - iWork is OS X only, includes Keynote 2, as expected. Can create kiosk shows. Cinemaquality presentations for
everybody. 10 new Apple designed themes. Animated text. Powerful animated builds. Presenter display (applause).
Interactive slideshows. Speaker display is cool. Interactive display. Can output just current slide to video out
simultaneously. Compatible with AppleWorks, PowerPoint, Flash, PDF, QuickTime.
10:25am - Brand new app called Pages. Word processing with an incredible sense of style. Supports styles, multi
columns, advanced typography, 40 templates, each template comes with a number of pages so not every page in a template
layout has to look the same.
10:27am - Phil Schiller takes the stage. Phil picks a template. Don't start on a "scary blank white page." Can access
media browser. Autoresizes photos. Pages has incredible live update of all sorts of elements: picture drop zones in
templates, text wrap around graphics, etc. Can do charts, table objects.
10:30am - Pages does alot of automatic reformatting and resizing, so when one variable is changed (i.e switch from 3
columns to 2) other stuff is resized to fit. Compatible with Word files!
10:32am - iWork will costs $79, also available January 22.
10:33am - Things are getting good. "Why doesn't apple offer a stripped-down Mac that is more affordable?" The Mac
mini. About the width of a CD. Slot load combo drive (DVD/CD-R). DVI & VGA out. Ethernet. USB 2.0. Firewire. Runs
quietly.
10:35am - Holding it in palm of hand. Looks about a third of the size of the cube. Like you took a slice of the Cube.
BYODKM: Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, and Mouse. It's about 6" x 6" x 2.5". Comes with Panther, iLife '05. $499
with 1.25GHz G4 processor. 40GB hard drive.
10:36am - Faster version is $599. Available January 22nd. Crowd is going wild.
10:37am - iTunes Music Store. Sold more than 230 million songs. 70 percent market share. Selling 1.25 million songs
per day.
10:40am - "As you know we have the iPod and iPod mini." Sold 4.5 million iPods last quarter. Sold 733,000 in Q4 2003.
500 percent growth. 10 millionth iPod was sold on December 16th. Steve kept it for himself, we're sure he'll be
ebaying it soon.
10:42am - Over 400 iPod accessories. Talking about iPod and BMW. More car adapters to come: Mercedes, Nissan, Volvo,
Scion, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari.
10:44am - Cellphones. Rehashing stuff Motorola announced at CES. Will be Motorola-branded phone, out Spring 2005. No
applause.
10:45am - One more thing... iPod market share last year: 31 percent. Flash had 62 percent. "Wannabes" were 7 percent.
iPod mini went after high end of the flash market. Now iPod market share is at 65 percent, flash is at 29%, wannabes at
6 percent. "We'd like to go after the remaining 29%."
10:47am - Attributes of current flash players: AAA battery, tortured UI, very small display, no click wheel. Needed an
original idea.
10:48am - Something happened in the iPod market. They discovered a new way to listen to music: shuffle. Basing new
flash-based player around shuffle. iPod Shuffle. No display on player. Looks like a little stick. Smaller than most
packs of gum. Like an elegant thumb drive. Weighs less than one ounce. Button to play and pause. Volume up and down
button. Previous and next song. That's it. Nothing else.
10:50am - Cap on bottom hides USB 2.0 connector (you can use it as a flash drive!). PC or Mac. Shipping with lanyard.
12 hour rechargeable battery. Integration between device and iTunes. 10:52am - Something called "AutoFill." Will
automatically build a playlist for iPod Shuffle.
10:54am - 512MB = $99. 1GB for $149. No 2GB version. Shipping TODAY from the factory. Accessories, armband, dock,
waterproof sports case. Battery extender. Accessories are $29 each.
10:56am - Showing TV ad for the new player. "Life is Random" ad plays on silhouettes, adds shuffle arrows.
10:58am - "Might be some at the Apple Store over here today."
10:59am - Steve giving kudos to development team. Thanking their familes and spouses.
11:00am - John Mayer is playing "Daughters" as people leave. That's it!
Does anyone have the URL for the live Quicktime stream?
FYI : This is what is on the apple store website as of 12:21 Eastern
We are busy updating the store for you and will be back within the hour.
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there is no live coverage from apple
YEY! THE EXCITEMENT!!!
There is no live stream this year. One won't be out until 6 PM PST.
There is no live stream this year... apparently a 9(!) hour delay :)
There is no live stream. Look for it later this evening.
There isn't one. They will be putting up a streaming version of the keynote later today.
there isnt one this year.
There is no live stream, will be shown tonight at 6pm PST
When they braodcast the keynote, we'll probably have to download the new QT.
Someone care to explain the reasoning behind them not broadcasting the live stream?
Other sites with live feeds are falling. Engadget still "snappy" though.
Wow, this is faster than any of the other *LIVE* updates that I've been watching. Way to go Engadget!
so let me get this straight, is there a live stream?
most likely no stream due to fear of a "STOP SUING US" protest
oh, the trouble of having to confirm your comments: 7 answers to 1 question
How much better he deals with it than Gates
how long does the keynote go on for.
get to the good stuff steve we know all this already
p.s is steve wearing a black tutle neck?
HardwareLust -
just guessing, but with all the press, it might just be too difficult (technically, bandwidth) and make Apple look bad (QuickTime having to buffer every ten seconds, etc...)
like I said, just a guess, since I don't really know much about streaming video, but I think it is more of a PR decision than anything to keep Apple in the best light. Which is worse - disappointing people because you have no Keynote or disappointing people because your technology appears inferior?
Actually the reasoning for no live broadcast is a technical one.
The keynote this year is the biggest EVER - it would be a colossal mistake for Apple to be demoing Quickitime technology and Quicktime not functioning for desktop users at home.
Take in to account that almost 12 million more people have iPods this year - meaning a good percentage of those have Quicktime - meaning there is a lot more potential for things to go wrong in a stream.
Apple's servers are already strained around expos any way.
Adam Curry said that you can see a live cast only from inside an apple store. I'm not in an apple store so I can not verify this.
Ah, so is there a live stream this year ;-)
Nathan, that's a valid point. I have noticed in years past that the stream wasn't of the best quality, probably due more to the sheer numbers of peeps watching it than anything else. They should just let TechTV televise it. It's just such a shame as I enjoy watching Jobs speak. This is the high point of the Mac year for me and many others. Oh, well. Guess I'll just have to come back and watch it at 6pm like everybody else, but it won't be the same since we'll know all the details by then.
Quicktime upgrade == M$ competition in the MCE world?
In lieu of an actual live feed from Apple, this is the next best thing. I feel like I'm peeking through the keyhole. You guys rock!
Additional "live" coverage is here also:
http://mwsf.macnn.com/
Apple always contracted the streaming out to Akamai anyway, as far as the servers the public connected to goes... I think Akamai's proven themselves time and again, and am surprised that they wouldn't want to step up to this and maybe cut a deal with Apple... then if successful, Akamai can claim they handled the streaming with no problems and all us Apple fanatics can enjoy watching the keynote as we always have.
Akamai handles the bandwidth and streaming and apparently even they struggle with the demand for apple's keynotes!
Awesome you guys. This is thrilling. Can't wait until the "FlatMac" is introduced!
Just so I'm really super-clear here, am I right in understanding that there is no live feed?
the apple store is down.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore/
Where's the live stream????
any news on what steve is wearing yet?
Adam Curry said that you can see a live cast only from inside an apple store. I'm not in an apple store so I can not verify this.
Hi guys! don't you have camera with ultra-zoom? This picture seems to be without zoom at all...
by the way: superb reporting!!! congratulations!
There is no live video stream of the keynote. Period.
Any Response to the leaked pictures of POTUS using an iPod??
Boy, instant search (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/) and live email folders (http://email.about.com/cs/evolutiontips/qt/et111802.htm)! It's nice to see apple catching up to GNOME!
I'm just playing around, this stuff is really nice to see, and the cheap headless mac will sell through the roof. Well done!
Steve's clearly wearing a lacy bra and fishnets.
Oh sorry, wrong website...
Thanks, Engadget. Just discovered your website.
I'm hearing rumors that muscle-bound thugs in "think different - but not when Steve is talking" t-shirts are wandering around the hall intimidating anyone who looks like they might get rowdy...
Can anyone confirm?
Muppet, are you fucking retarded?
But if I'm not in an apple store, how can I see the live feed!!!?
the apple store is down.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore/
I'd love to see the stats on this page after all this excitement has died down...
well, i can't even get maccentral's update page to load at this point.
this is almost silly. within an hour, Apple's store will be updated with all the new products anyway.
buuuuuut look at me, frantically hitting refresh along with the rest of you.
Way to go Engadget! :-D
WOW! iCar?!!
I can't believe Apple is entering the automobile industry by partnering up with Toyota. I wonder how that giant scroll wheel will compare to a steering wheel! Amazing!!
(you see, when I get bored, I tend to invent the news myself...)
By the way, you people have to stop worrying about a live video feed and just READ the fricking updates.
If you're not in an Apple store, you're outta luck. Just sit here and keep reloading this page for the latest on what's being said.
hahaha 4 minutes of fiddling with photos. nice to know when our commentator is getting bored.
BlaBlaBla more lame Apple news. Haven't heard anything exiting that is not available somewhere else!
Where's the freakin' ipod at? Stop wasting our time!
All I want from MacWorld is...
1) A sub-$500 iMac that can double as a media center
2) A Mac tablet (a guy can dream, can't he?)
take out the picture so it doesnt waste bandwidth.
And for those waiting on a life cast, get a life...
You guys are making Gizmodo's coverage look silly... first you slam them with CES, now you kick them to the curb at MacWorld.
I read Engadget as much as I read slashdot now... actually, now that i think about it I read E more then /.
you guys rock my world!
I don't even like apples but I keeps refreshing this page
Anyone else getting "Service unavailable" pages on here?
nice one apple, let everone else serve up the bandwidth...
Well done Engadget--you've got the best live coverage of the event, by far.
I can't stop laughing at the fact that Engadget's servers must be getting hammered with traffic over this right now. I know I am refreshing the page every 4 or 5 minutes to see what has changed!
Why is Apple stock tanking? What could they have said that made the stock fall?
a mac tablet - a very nice dream...
the ~500 mac, i hope... if so hopefully it will be on the store today, i will be buying mine today if it is...
Who cares about a flash iPod? This is not a new idea -- barely even interesting to me.
"Why is Apple stock tanking? What could they have said that made the stock fall?"
Why? Profit taking that's why...all the anticipation drove the stock up, now that we know, it's time for profit taking. Very natural market reaction.
can you play tracks normally on this flash player, or do you HAVE to shuffle?
There's a pic of the mini-mac here
http://webpages.charter.net.nyud.net:8090/mattman7/mini.jpg
you can play them in order or shuffled
Well...the iPod shuffle is going to kick-ass in the market. They will sell millions of them for sure, and really help solidify the leadership of ITMS.
The Mac mini? Seems like the cube all over again to me. I'll be surprised if it takes off. Like the cube, only the faithful will order it. It's too cool for "red America" and it ought to come with a keyboard & mouse.
I hope I'm wrong...but I doubt it. I hope they at least did not make too many, so they won't be stuck with them.
:( :(
"Why is Apple stock tanking? What could they have said that made the stock fall?"
Why? Profit taking that's why...all the anticipation drove the stock up, now that we know, it's time for profit taking. Very natural market reaction.
Darn, I was hoping for a price cut on the 20/40 Giggers.
Darn, I was hoping for a price cut on the 20/40 Giggers.
The Mac mini will be marketed to people who already own a PC and already have a keyboard and mouse.
Quote from Apple: "Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard."
The Mac mini will help get PC users who might already own an iPod to switch.
buy on speculation
sell on news
Following the 'down;oad new QT' comment earlier, Maybe the 9PM feed will use the new H264 codec?
the stream is available already from the apple quicktime page... kinda small but hey - it's there now!
btw, no need to download new version
... so I don't think it's H264
So were there any people shouting "Stop suing us"?
We've got a pretty extensive gallery from the expo at the ipod studio.
http://ipodstudio.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=544
Thanks Lindrone!
so, the president of sony is telling people to stay off of pc's? am i missing something or is sony's computer lineup still running windows? and they just announced a bunch of new pc's at ces? hmmmm
Actually all my friends who have PCs have been bugging me today about the new mini.
It seems like they all want one. The price is so good they don't even have to think before they buy it!
I might sell my cube and buy one!
ho yin.. you have a cube! are you crazy?
did it go moldy?
IMO, should have made the MacMini more media friendly e.g. scart i/o, DVD-R, remote, PVR.
Very few will move Mac because they have an iPod, please think about it.
"Ando says Just keep introducing great software and Stay off the PC!" -
Like stay of the Viao? A really dumb thing to say, almost like the Chairman of Ratners.
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/macworld/2005/macworld_hi_300_100_56_ref.mov