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Original Post: Notes From the WWDC Keynote (seen on video)
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WWDC 2004 - 3500 developers attending - 17% increase over last year
Apple Stores - started 3 years - now have 80 stores
20 million visitors per year
250 million $ sales of third-party software
ginza store in tokyo
itunes music store - 70% market share for legal downloads, europe 62% of sales, 700,000 songs
ipod = 50% market share by units sold
airport express & airtunes - rendezvous for your home stereo - lossless compression and encryption - itunes streaming to target base station
BMW - 3 series, minicoopers, etc., dealer-installed connection for ipod (in glove box) and car stereo/stereo-controls.
all powermacs are dual processor now.
1.25 gigahertz bus - faster than pcs
ibm = 2.0 to 2.5 gigahertz - 25.% increase
intel = 3.2 to 3.6 gigahertz - 12% increase
LCD displays - competitors buy the panels that apple rejects
20-inch, 23-inch aluminum, connect to pcs, macs, powerbooks, and 30-inch aluminum (g5 only with special video card using two dual-dvi connections). G5 can drive two 30-inch displays - 8 million pixels (single display) 2500x1600 4.1 million pixels 77% more than the 23-inch, $3299 ; all have dual firewire and usb ports built in - single cable that splits, dvi connection.
panther - pixlet? - 12 million users - 50% of installed base - no other "new OS" has this many users, - 12,000 applications "transition is now over"
industry has had only three major OS transitions so far
apple II to MacOS 1984
DOS to Win95 - 1995
MacOS to MacOS X - 2000
Win95 +etc to Longhorn - 2007
microsoft office 2004 - "better than windows version"
borland - java tools
quark
oracle - 10g database
peoplesoft
sun - java tools
alias - bob bennet - maya complete - 25% of maya sales are for mac - alias sketchbook pro - 70% of downloads are for mac - maya unlimited "cloth, hair, fluid" effects used in games and movies - Lord of the Rings
MYST IV - Revelation - simultaneous release on Mac and PC - music by peter gabriel
guitar rig - low-latency audio - daniel haver - garage band plugin (and stand-alone) - foot controller to step through pre-sets, custom tones, sounds like analog instruments/amps/etc. studio and live-stage performances
orbit - aran anderson - satellite simulations - 650 actual unclassified sats - computations to locate these used to take super-computer, developed in 3 months using xcode (one developer) - free freefall screen saver to ship
macos x 10.4 tiger - ship 2005 "first half of year" - apple is again innovator and others will be following ('other people still trying to copy panther') - 150+ new features - OS X is #1 "unix" os by unit shipments - new feature 64-bit for any process, 64-bit system library, can also run 32-bit processes, LP64 GCC support, better SMP fine-grain locking, XGRID built-in, access control lists
improved SMB performance, home directories, Kerberos and NTLMv2 authentication, HTML email, word tables in TextEdit
search - itunes search is fast, now do the same thing in the rest of OS - "spotlight" - standard files formats, extensible, works with current apps, spotlight integrated into address book, mail, system preferences, and finder, search copyright metadata, search fields built into finder window, search by "color space" to find CMYK images, save queries as "smart folders"
spotlight addressbook - save a query as a "smart group", search birthday "within next seven days"
spotlight mail - search 50,000 messages instantly, save a query as a "smart mailbox"
spotlight prefers - removed "favorites" bar - search for prefs related to "keyboard" or "desktop" including synonyms for microsoft terms ilke "wallpaper". ("wifi" = "airport" = "802.11")
search for "everything abuot bertrand" across multiple apps - system-wide search in menu bar - shows pop-down list for images, movies, mail messages, address book contacts, pdf documents (like "half dome" in a PDF map), can show in window for complete lists, sort by kind/date/people
spotlight sdk "today"
H.264 - quicktime video - standard codec from MPEG group for high-def DVDs, scalable from high-def down to "3G" cell phone - open industry standard, frank casanova - 250 million copies of QuickTime shipped, can display high-def image as same data-rate as today's std-def DVD rates, will be built into DVDs soon.
safari web browser - RSS and Atom support - "personal clipping service" - searching "tons of rss feeds" and save queries as bookmarks, sort by date or "this week", time, source of article, change length of articles to display in list format, i-tunes store has RSS feed of "top ten songs", group feeds together in 'tabs'
"core audio" already shipping - "core image" & "core video" to ship in tiger - uses "GPU" to do graphics processing in floating-point. allows real-time filters, 100+ filters built-in. extensions via "image units" and "video units"
phil schiller - "fun-house" demo app - over a billion floating-point calcs per second - "stack many effects" on top of each other - built on top of quartz - effects can be applied to text, non-destructive, live, active - any of the stacked filters can be tweaked independently, apply filters to quicktime video, implemented in one person-week in xcode
".mac" - half a million subscribers - sync engine built-into tiger, .mac preference panel, sync email, calendars, address boosk, etc., across .mac and multiple macs - sync sdk for other apps to use.
dashboard - "expose for widgets" - built on webkit - javascript - little accessory apps - calculator, address book, itunes, stickie, stock tracker, web-cam viewers, and others. one button to bring up the widget collection, single-key-press to show/hide all the widgets - sdk available today
automator - visual scripting - interactive scripts, 100 actions built-in, share and email scripts, iLife, email and access to other apps - sal soghoian - script to grab images from web (.mac home pages) - icons for various popular 'categories', list of actions for each category - drag action to "work-flow area" - automatically link actions together, click various settings for each action [radio buttons, pop-up menus, etc.], looks like this 'settings' GUI may be generated from applescript 'dictionary' of various apps. save "work-flow" scripts "into" various applications like Safari - makes scripting about as easy as hypercard, but different UI - SDK shipping today
ichat - personal video conferences that "just worked" - now using H.264 - multiple users - 10 chatters for audio + 3 with video/audio - the 3 video feeds are joined into a single image/window - the 2nd and 3rd video feeds have a "perspective" look to them. [actually 4 videos - yourself is shown in small image]
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