The initial reaction and reviews say that this is not a good film….
However I think I might watch it, when it comes out.
Steve Jobs Infographic
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Steve Jobs pitches to the Dragons
Excellent
WWDC Keynote
Today is Steve Jobs’ Keynote at WWDC.
Traditionally we get to hear about new products and new software.
As might be expected the web is rife with rumours about what we will hear about. I’ll let you Google them to find what they are.
Will probably follow the keynote via Macrumors.
Stephen on Steve
Time has a really nice article by Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs.
I have met five British Prime Ministers, two American Presidents, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson and the Queen. My hour with Steve Jobs certainly made me more nervous than any of those encounters. I know what you are thinking, but it’s the truth. I do believe Jobs to be a truly great figure, one of the small group of innovators who have changed the world. He exists somewhere between showman, perfectionist overseer, visionary, enthusiast and opportunist, and his insistence upon design, detail, finish, quality, ease of use and reliability are a huge part of Apple’s success.
Read more.
Incredible
Awesome!
iPhone 3G available 11th July
Apple announced iPhone 3G on Monday in a keynote by Steve Jobs at the WWDC in San Francisco. It will be available in the UK on the 11th July via O2.
New features include:
- 3G-capable. 2.8 times faster than EDGE.
- GPS built-in
- Thinner
- Better battery life – 300 hours of standby, 2G talk-time 10 hours (as opposed to 5), 5 hours of 3G talk-time (competition is 3 hour 3G talk time), 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.
- Flush headphone jack
Other new features are:
- contact searching
- complete iWork document support
- complete Office document support (now includes PowerPoint)
- bulk delete and move for Mail
- save images you receive
- scientific calculator in landscape mode
- parental controls
- language
I wonder if the Keynote (iWork) and PowerPoint support also allows you to show the presentation via an AV cable in the same way you can do at the moment with video and images.
It will be interesting to see also if iWork (or even Office) support includes editing and creating support, or is it just going to be reading, I suspect the latter.
Of course there are also all the features announced when the iPhone SDK was released earlier this year which include:
- Exchange and ActivSync support
- Applications
- VPN
Downside is that you now need to activate the phone in store, so now unlocking just became a lot more expensive as you will have to buy into a phone plan as well as the phone.
Though O2 do say they will be offering it on a Pay As You Go contract in addition to the Pay Monthly contract they had with the old iPhone.
Overall I am tempted by the new iPhone, it’s certainly a much
Download MacWorld 2008 Expo Keynote
Sometimes depsite all your planning, it all falls apart.
Not living in San Francisco, actually I don’t even live in the US, I knew it was going to be impossible to attend the MacWorld 2008 Keynote in person. Though I didn’t realise until listening to MacBreak Weekly that it’s like an iPhone launch if you want to actually get in there in person, it starts at 9am, but you really need to start queuing at 4am – now that’s dedication.
So I couldn’t be there in person, like I was ever going to get there!
I didn’t really want to “view” the keynote by watching the Macrumors’ feed, or refreshing Engadget on a regular basis, or watching multiple tweets on Twitter (which I believe went down during the Keynote). I do like watching the stream (as though it was “live”. I subscribed the Macrumors spoiler free link. However fifteen hours after the Keynote, no e-mail giving me the link, I thought to myself, either there is no stream (there had to be, it said it was going to be made available on the Apple website) or (more likely) the Macrumors e-mail service had failed! It hadn’t completely failed, the e-mail telling me about the steam eventually arrived eighteen hours after the start of the Keynote!
So I went to the Apple website, obviously saw the MacBook Air on the front page and thought ah well, and clicked the link for the Keynote stream.
Now maybe it was my connection or my computer, but could I get the Keynote to stream? No.
I tried on two different connections with no luck. I tried on about four computers with no luck.
Probably too many people trying to access the stream.
I am not a great fan of streaming, as too often (with long videos) I want to pause the video as real life gets in the way, you know phone calls, coffee, e-mails, etc… I have found with some streaming, if I pause the stream it never restarts, so I need to start the whole stream from the beginning.
I even tried to find online a place to download the Keynote with no luck.
I was resigned to the fact that I was not going to be able to watch the Keynote this year. Ah well I had found out what was released and I had seen the sixty second version.
So imagine my surprise when looking at the top podcasts in the (UK) iTunes Store when there was the MacWorld 2008 Expo Keynote.
Well I am downloading all 900MB of that then!
I am surprised that not only was it available, but that Apple hadn’t really mentioned it on their main website.
Still downloading, and you know about everything that was mentioned, so leave me to enjoy that distortion field which is Steve Jobs.
One more thing…