Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs Keynote – Live Updates

by Brian Solis on January 15, 2008

by Brian Solis

#1 – Leopard has already sold five million copies making it Apple’s most successful OS release to date.

#2 – Time Capsule, a wireless backup drive that resembles a Mac Mini. 500gb for $299, 1TB for $499.

#3 – Apple has sold four million iPhones to date earning the company a whopping 19.5% marketshare.

#4 – Maps with location on iPhone.

#5 – Multi SMS support on iPhone.

Photo courtesy of Duncan Riley of TechCrunch.

Apple store offline…

#6 – Icons on the iPhone are movable.

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#7 – iPhone v1.1.3 is available today!

#8 – Lyrics, chapters, languages, all new multimedia features on iPhone.

#9 – iPod Touch gets 5 new apps…mail, maps, stocks, notes and weather.

#10 – 4 billionth song sold on iTunes.

#11 – iTunes movie rentals has support from every major studio.

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#12 – Has movies 30 days after DVD release.

#13 – 1,000 films by end of January.

#14 – $2.99 for library titles, $3.99 for a new releases.

#15 – Available in the U.S. as of today.

#16 – Apple TV 2.0 now with HD support. Rentals built-in. No computer needed.

#17 – Support for podcasts also built-in.

#18 – Steve is renting movies. Shows music videos. Orders music from iTunes directly on Apple TV.

Photo Credit: Duncan Riley of TechCrunch

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#19 – WOW! Flickr support built-in. Uh oh…blank screen. This is very cool!

#20 – Price dropped to $299.

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#20 – Steve Jobs introduces CEO of 20th Century Fox Jim Gianopulos.

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#21 – Fox movies will have a free iTunes version of the movie residing on the DVD that you can transfer onto your portable devices by copying it over. The first movie is: Family Guy’s Blue Harvest, their Star Wars parody episode.

#21.5 – There’s something in the air!

#22 – AHHHHHHH THERE IT IS!!! Steve pulls out a manila envelope and from it, a new Macbook Air – the worldn’t thinnest notebook.

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#23 – 13.4-inch display. LED Backlit display. iSight. Backlit keyboard (full-sized.). .76-inches thin. WOW. I have the new Sony TZ series and I thought that was thin. Now I have to go out and buy this!? I wonder if it has built-in EVDO support and if it can power my 30-inch Cinema.

If so….up for sale are Sony TZ and Apple MacBook Pro laptops!

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#24 – Features new Intel chip that is 60% smaller than other Core Duos.

#25 – Ships with 80gb flash HD or 160gb solid state drive.

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#26 – No optical drive included. $99 option. Meant to be a wireless device with built-in Wireless 802.11n and latest Bluetooth technology. But no EVDO???

#27 – 5 hour battery life…similar to my Sony TZ.

#28 – $1,799…gulp.

#29 – Features remote disk to wirelessly install software from other computers. That’s cool! Optical drives? We don’t need no stinking optical drives!

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#30 – Ships in two weeks, but you can order now. Gives me time to plot how to get the cashola to go out and buy this thing…especially if I can replace two notebooks with one.

#31 – Ladies and gentleman – Randy Newman