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The MWSF 2007 Keynote has taken place and this is a record of the live transcript

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11:10 amthanks for joining us - the keynote is now over
11:10 amShow is over - James Brown's "I feel good" comes back on
11:10 amSteve back on stage
11:09 amSteve and John hug
11:09 amapplause
11:09 amSong is now over
11:07 am"waiting for the world to change"
11:07 amBeginning another song
11:06 amMayer still on stage, thanking steve for making life more fun
11:06 amapplause
11:06 amMayer still on stage playing - just him
Song is now over
11:04 amThe Mac Observer: Steve choked up while thanking the families of his employees (for all the time they spent on the new products)
11:03 amsong is "Gravity"
11:03 amiLounge: "Not a lot of traditions at Apple, but one is that John Mayer has helped at almost every Macworld."
11:02 amlive music playing...
11:02 amwelcome John Mayer
11:02 amnominated this year for 5 grammy awards
11:02 amJohn Mayer is there - agreed to come and perform
11:01 amSpecial treat today
11:01 ammore applause
11:01 amhaven;t seen in the past few months
11:01 amthanks families.
11:00 amgives a round of applause to developers from apple in the audience
11:00 amlong appplause
10:59 amstanding O
10:59 amthank you very much,.
10:59 amgretzky
10:59 ami skate to where the puck is going to be not where it has been.
10:59 amgoing back over history
10:58 amno more Apple Computer, inc.
10:58 amfrom this day forward known as Apple, inc.
10:58 amname change!
10:58 amtoday we have added to the mac and the ipod not appletv and iphone
10:58 amThe Mac Observer: "it appears that apple will support the phone, not cingular"
10:57 amtry to grab 1%
10:57 am1% is 10 millions phones
10:57 ammobile phones 957m sold worldwide
10:57 ampc's 209m
10:57 ammp3 135m
10:57 amcameras 94m
10:57 am26m game consoles sold
10:57 am2006
10:57 amhe would mess it up and as soon as they would fix it he would switch it back
10:56 ampeople watching star trek
10:56 amwoz would have in pocket
10:56 amwhen i was in high school woz and i made a dvice called tv jammer
10:56 ambackstage scramble...
10:55 amuh oh...
10:55 am"clicker is not working"
10:55 am"how big it is"
10:55 amlook at Apple's Market Share
10:54 amcingular commercial is over - back to steve
10:54 amnote - iPhone prices include a 2 year contract - FYI
10:53 ammulti-year exclusive partnership
only available from Cingular or Apple
10:52 amworking to make sure integration works
10:52 ambrick and mortar + online retail stores - incredible distribution model
10:52 amreading off cards - regular business talk
10:51 ambest voice and data experience available
10:51 amfewest dropped calls, etc...
10:51 amgiving a Cingular commercial...
10:50 amtruly "raising the bar" with this partnership
10:50 amnew at&t family - help fulfill vision of all things on one device
10:50 amexceeded expectations
10:50 amevery time he sees it it is just "wow"
10:49 amentered agreement without ever even seeing the device
10:49 ambeen working on it for some time
10:49 amStan - congratulations
10:49 amStan Sigman
10:49 ampurchase at Apple or Cingular stores
10:48 amintroduce CEO of Cingular to the stage
10:48 amvisual voicemail requires better networks
10:48 aminnovation on the phone and the network
10:48 amexclusive partner in the US
10:48 amcingular*
10:48 amcincular is the partner
10:47 amasia 2008
10:47 amEurope by Cal4 this year
10:47 amFCC approval takes 2 months
10:47 amcrowd says "awwww"
10:47 amavailable: shipping in June
10:47 am8GB model - $599
10:47 am4GB model - $499
10:46 amcrowd laughing
10:46 amrelisting everything again...
10:46 amthought long and hard about it
10:46 amsteve is stalling...
10:46 amwhat should we charge?
10:45 amsmartphones are around $199 - $299 - $399
around $299 with 2 year contract
that's expensive if you buy and ipod too...
10:45 am$199 for 4 gig nano
10:45 amwhat do they normally cost?
10:45 amwhat should we price it at?
10:45 amadvancing the state of the art of every facet
10:44 aminnovating like crazy
over 200 patents in it
10:44 amprecision enclosures, sensors, desktop-class apps, and widescreen interface
10:44 amminiaturization better than ever before
10:44 ammultitouch screen - 1st
10:44 ampushing the state of the art in every facet
10:43 am16 hours just for audio
10:43 am5 hours of battery life
10:43 ambluetooth headset - very small - looks like a pen cap
10:43 ambluetooth acc.
10:43 amaccessories for iphone
look like ipod headphones. but have mic switch
10:42 amcomparing features, after today, people won't thing those phones are very smart
10:42 amother handhelds look bad
10:41 amshowing blackberries, etc
10:41 amcompares to other phones - laughter
10:41 amhow does this stack up?
10:40 amfades in
10:40 amends call - music comes back on
10:40 amtalking through speakerphone the whole time
10:40 amlooking up in safari for movie now
10:39 amworks like iphoto
10:39 amlooking for hawaii photo - emails it to Phil while still on the phone with him
10:39 amphil needs a photo - steve goes back to photos
10:38 amadds him to address book
10:38 amPhil Schiller calling
10:38 amlistening to music - call comes in, music fades out
10:38 amdemo scenario
10:37 aminternet commicator, ipod, & phone
put them all together and see what you can do
10:37 amgreat having the 2 greatest companies
10:37 amjerry done talking
10:37 ambegging steve for iphone
10:36 ambig believers in iphone
10:36 amtake great form factors and great ui and take them to semless web experience
10:36 amyahoo trying to reinvent mail, spam and protection on yahoo mail
10:35 ammail is a killer app on phone
10:35 amyahoo go - yahoo one search
10:35 amincredible devices - would love to partner with apple
10:35 amyahoo search built in, yahoo imap mail - Jerry Yang co-founder of Yahoo
10:34 amcan't think about the internet without thinking of Yahoo too
10:34 amcongratulations to you for making this a reality - back to steve
10:33 ampushed hard to partner with apple
10:32 amtalking about collaboration
10:32 amwimax is coming
10:32 ammerge without merging
10:31 amif we merged - would it be applegoog?
10:31 amGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt on stage now
10:31 amgoogle - search built in, maps, thrilled with the results
10:30 aminternet in your pocket
10:30 amincredible technology
10:29 amall these amazing things - a breakthrough
10:29 amphone
10:29 amnow colosseum in Rome
10:29 amshowing eiffel tower
10:29 ampinch zoom on the map to zoom
10:28 amshowing washington monument - real picture from satellite
10:28 amgoogle maps supports staellite images
10:28 amafter all the tapping, screen is still clear
10:28 amfinds washington monument
10:28 amhangs up
10:27 amoh sorry - wrong number
10:27 amorders 4000 latte's to go
crowd laughs
10:27 ampresses a button and calls starbucks
10:27 amfinds a nearby starbucks
10:27 amfinds moscone west
10:26 amit knows where you are
10:26 amtruly incredible
10:26 amgoogle maps now
10:26 amtop down weather instead of left to right
10:25 amweather
10:25 amapple stock currently up $2.43
10:25 amlook just like regular widgets
10:25 amon to widgets
10:25 am"this is a revolution of the first order"
10:25 amchange webpages by using almost a coverflow to get to different page
10:24 amstillshowing whole page, double tap and it zooms
10:24 amcan load multiple pages - to move on page shrinks somewhat and slides off to side of page similar in effect to Expose
10:24 amgoing to amazon through bookmarks - dvd section
10:23 amcan look at multiple web pages as well
10:23 amor can double tap screen to increase size
10:22 ampinch screen to increase size of view - using multitouch
10:22 amlandscape to portrait switch is automatic
10:22 amshows the whole page
10:22 amloading NYTimes.com in safari
10:21 amcrowd impressed
10:21 amfull screen view or preview mail
10:20 amshowing photo attachments, scrolling through pics, etc.
10:20 amcan look at mail in splitscreen
10:19 amtouch username to call sender via phone
10:19 amsame icons for address, attachments, etc.
10:19 amlooks like apple mail
10:19 amtouc mail icon and you're there
10:18 amusing yahoo IMAP mail
10:18 amand widgets
10:18 amdemo - mail, safari, google maps
10:18 ampush imap - same as a blackberry
10:18 amannouncing with yahoo - free imap email to all iphone customers
10:17 amyahoo mail - largest in the world
10:17 amdemo'ing mail usage - imap & pop
10:17 amswitches automatically
10:17 amEDGE & wifi connection
10:16 amwidgets
10:16 amgoogle maps
10:16 ambest web browser on the phone - uses safari
10:16 amany imap or pop
10:16 amnow internet communicator on phone
rich html email
10:15 amApple has reinvented the phone
10:15 amthere's a lot to sum up
10:15 amsumming it all up
10:15 amcall management features - overview of phone
10:14 amcan make photos wallpaper for phone
10:14 amusing multitouch
10:14 am2 fingers together like pinch and bring them apart and pic gets bigger
10:14 amuse pinch to move photos bigger
10:14 amiLoung: there are 11 apps on screen
10:13 amone photo was supposed to be landscape, he turned device and it switched auto
10:13 amsee all photos, just like iphoto
10:13 amscroll through photos
10:13 amphotos
10:12 amwhen you send it, sounds like ichat sound
10:12 amwhen typing messages letters come up to face you like old typewriter, cool effect
10:12 amerror CORRECTING - sorry
10:12 amerror connecting onscreen keyboard
10:11 amhas bubbles
10:11 amwith keypad to touch message
10:11 ambutton for multiple session SMS messaging
10:11 amplay back in any order
10:10 amplays back on speaker
10:10 amsee all voicemail and click who you want to hear
10:10 amvisual voicemail
10:09 amyou can bring up keyboard if you want to call "last century"
10:09 amdemo of removing favorites
10:09 amIves - "not too shabby, is it?"
10:08 amtouch once and call
10:08 ammake a list of favorites
10:08 amcrowd is impressed
10:08 amjust touch to add callers
10:08 amconference call between the three
10:07 amJonathan Ive & Phil Schiller
10:07 ampush 2 buttons and now a conference call with johny and phil
10:06 ambig icons mute keypad speaker add call
10:06 ambuttons ons screen
10:06 ampush*
10:06 amto call all you have to do is puch his phone number
10:06 amscroll through contacts
10:06 ampush phone button on bottom (on screen) and the screen changes like coming out of dashboard
10:05 amshowing phone, photos calender and messaging
10:05 amdrums
10:05 amlike calypso
10:05 amhearing
10:05 amshowing ringtone
10:04 amquad band
10:04 amwifi bluetooth
10:04 amGSM+EDGE phone
10:04 amexcellent audio quality
10:04 amget 6th instead of 1st
10:04 amvisual voicemail
10:03 amuse contact like never before
10:03 amhard
10:03 amhad to make calls, most people dial or use recents
10:03 amthe killer app - making a call
10:03 amtold some outside apple, showed them and they said "you had me at scrolling"
10:02 amapplause after sum up
10:02 amclear as can be
10:02 ambest ipod they ever made
10:02 ambuilt in speaker for iphone/ipod
10:01 amthat... is the ipod
pretty cool
10:01 amvery cool
10:01 ampicture moved
10:01 amdouble tap goes from widescreen to full
10:01 amsundial moves while loading
10:01 amshowing pirates of the caribbean 2
10:00 amtouch controls to play and pause
10:00 amwhen done moves back
10:00 ammove to widescreen is autoatic
10:00 amvery good quality
10:00 amwidescreen view
9:59 amthe office
9:59 amshowing tv show
9:59 amscrolling
9:59 amshowing videos
9:59 amsteve says he can play all day with this
9:59 amapplause
9:59 amscrolling
9:59 amit is very fast, just like on a laptop
9:58 amplaying the BEATLES
9:58 amturn to landscape goes to coverflow
9:57 amshowing cover art with just touch of finger.
9:57 amclock and batter plus signal
9:57 amcingular logo on top
9:57 amtouch screen and scroll. smooth display.
9:56 amhow to wcroll through artist
9:56 amtouch and they launch
9:56 amicons on display
9:56 amsmooth.
9:56 amunlock phone, slide your finger across bottom
9:56 amcamera with steve's finger
9:55 amdemo....
9:55 amcover flow
9:55 amfind music faster
9:55 amwidescreen video
9:55 amyou can touch your music
9:55 amstartwith ipod.
9:54 amcan tell if held in portrait vs landscape - rotate it
9:54 amturning it on
9:54 amfor display/
9:54 amacceleromoter
9:54 amAmbient light sensor as well
saves power
9:54 amwhen you bring it to ear, turns off display and sound
9:54 amproximity sensor
9:53 am3 advanced senseors
9:53 amand ipod connector
9:53 ammic
9:53 ambottom speaker
9:53 amone switch for slim and wake
9:53 amsim card
9:53 amtop headset jack 3.5mm
9:53 amupper left top
9:53 amring'silent corol and vol up and down
on the back 2mp camera
9:53 am11/16" thin
9:52 am"home button"
9:52 am160 pixels per inch
9:52 amone button on front
9:52 am3.5 inch screen - highest res screen ever shipped
9:52 amsomething for your hand
9:52 amDesign
9:52 amcalendars
sync all through ituens
itunes
9:51 ambookmarks, etc
9:51 amhas a cradle to sync jusy like dock
music movies podcast tv photos
contact email notes
9:51 amsyncs all your media on your iphone
9:51 amsyncs with itunes, just like iPod
9:51 amlearning from the iPod
shipping 100 million ipods this year
9:50 amtalking about Alan Kay from XEROX PARC fame - interface visionary
9:50 amon phone and networking
9:50 amdesktop class applications
9:50 amcore animation, etc
9:49 amit has everything you need
9:49 amapplause
9:49 amshows software interface
baby software on mobile phones now
breakthrough 5 years ahead of anything
iphone runs OS X
9:48 ambuild on top of that - software
9:48 amhas made possible a revolutionary product
9:48 amPATENTED
9:48 amfar more accurate
9:48 ammultifinger gestures on it
9:48 amignores unintended touches
9:47 amuse fingers - uses multitouch
works like magic
9:47 amnobody wants a stylus
9:47 amstylus control
9:47 amget rid of buttons nad make giant screen
9:47 amhow can they take that to mobile device
9:47 ambitmap screen can show ui, pointing device.
9:46 amcan't add a button to phones, doesn't work. buttons and controls can't change
they solved it in computers 20 years ago
9:46 amproblem is bottom 40 keyboards there, make a mess
control buttons fixed in plastic
apps want different UI's
9:46 amrevolutionary interface - interplay of hardware and software
showing treo & blackberry, etc
9:45 amyears of development
9:45 amwe want to make a product way smarter than what's been around before
here it is
9:44 amreally complicated
9:44 amsmart, not easy to use
9:44 ammost of htese types called "smartphone" - steve kind of bla blaing it
9:43 amlaughs
9:43 am3g with rotary dial
9:43 amshows comedy picture
9:43 amthey are calling it the iPhone
9:43 amone device, not 3 separate
9:43 amcrowd goes wild again
9:42 am3rd
internet communicator
9:42 amrevolutionary
9:42 ammobile phone
9:42 am2nd
9:42 amcrowd goes wild
9:42 amwidescreen ipod
9:42 amfirst
9:42 am1984 - first mac
2001 first ipod
today - introducing 3 revolutionary products
9:41 amto be able to change the world since 1984
9:41 amevery once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything
apple has been very fortunate recently
9:40 amApple logo on screen (2007)
9:40 amnow on to something else
9:40 amshipping in february - taking orders starting today
9:39 am$299
9:39 amSteve - "we think this is pretty cool"
9:39 amplaying demo of streaming content from Schiller's laptop
9:38 ambrowsing content
9:38 amshowing streaming demo from phil schillers laptop
going to show his movies using streaming
9:37 amdemo of connecting to another computer
9:36 ammove photos to itv or stream them
9:36 amlooking at photos on Apple TV
9:36 amGreen Day
9:36 amJohn Mayer song
9:35 amplaying music
9:35 amiLounge: Apple TV display has episode summary text on screen, plus episode navigation
9:34 amquality looks good
better than just watching on MBP
9:33 amheroes tv show
9:33 amlooking at tv shows now
9:32 amshowing zoolander movie
9:32 amthat was a trailer it was streaming
9:32 amStreaming video from Apple.com onto expo screen - glass smooth perfect 720p
9:32 amshowing the good shepard video
9:31 ammovies scrolling on side like album art in itunes, new flip mode
watch trailers from apple.com. stream from internet
menu on right, move up and down, covers on left
9:30 amshowing menu
9:30 amand images
9:30 amscreensave shown, cover art
9:30 amuse the apple remote
9:30 amdemo
9:30 am5 systems can stream but no storing on HD
9:30 amUse itunes to sync movies from Mac to iTV - place what movies you want on iTV's local store
9:29 amstream from up to 5
9:29 amstore on HD
9:29 amsync 10 most unwatched, sync them up
9:29 am1 system from itunes set up apple tv just like ipod, playlist and syncing
9:29 amstream up to 5 pc
examine
9:29 amauto sync content from 1 pc
9:28 amvideo, music & photos
9:28 amintel proc in it
9:28 am802.11 wifi - all three - b, g + n
9:28 am40GB HD
9:28 am720p HD video
9:28 amcomponet
rca
9:27 amusb2, ethernet, wi netowrking, HDMI
9:27 amlooks the same
9:27 amwirelessly trasmit content to tv
9:27 ambuy content on itunes
9:27 amWay to enjoy your media on your bigscreen TV
9:26 amenjoy media on your tv
9:26 amApple tv
9:26 amiTV
9:25 amanother ad - same song, different style
9:25 ambright people dancing - different
9:25 amiLounge: new ipod ad with colored silhouettes on a black background
9:24 amshowing a new ad
9:24 amnew ads for ipods
9:24 amzune logo up in fire
9:24 amno zune data for dec.
9:24 amrest had 36
9:23 amipod 62
9:23 am2percent market share
9:23 amstrong lineup of musicplayers
zune
how did they do
november data
9:23 amhope to add more as other studios join in
9:23 amover 250 movies offered now
9:22 amshowing titles
9:22 amapplause
9:22 amnew partner - Paramount
9:22 am1st 4 months - have sold 1.3m movies
9:22 amtalking about Disney partnership
9:21 ammovies
9:21 am350 shows on itunes now
50m tv shows sold
9:21 amtv shows on itunes
9:21 amnext is Target
9:21 amgrowth, now sell more than amazon
applause
9:21 am5th largets music reseller
9:20 am58 songs a second
9:20 amitunes sales up - don't know why they say they're down
showing graph
2005 614m, 2006 2.0b 2x more
5 million songs aday
9:20 amcrossed a major milestone
over 2 billion songs sold
9:19 amiTunes
9:19 amincredible lineup of ipods
9:19 ambecome the world's most popular VIDEO player
9:19 amfirst - ecosystem
ipod
ipod nano
shuffle
9:18 amwe're only talking about the mac today
9:18 amif i die i want you to have my periphgerals
9:18 amim a pc, guy in hospital robe, getting upgrade today.
major surgery
ram, hd, graphics.
9:17 amshowing an ad for vista
9:17 amquote from jim allchin - I would buy a mac today
9:17 amus retail stores - over half of mac sales to people who have never owned a mac before
9:16 amextremely successful
9:16 amrapidly moving apps to run natively on intel procs - thank you very much
9:16 amThank you very much to developers
9:16 amcranking out a new mac with intel every month during the transition
9:15 amsmooth and successful, history making
made os x for intel
9:15 amthank you welcome
year ago up here announced swtiched to intel
huge transplant
9:15 ammake some history today
9:14 amheavy applause
9:14 amSteve on stage
9:13 amEngadget: Steve Jobs' family is present in the audience
9:12 amJames Brown - "I Feel Good" playing now
9:10 ampeople still seating, ushers wearing turquoise shirts
9:10 am"every day is a winding road"
9:09 amSheryl Crow playing in background
9:08 amplease turn off all cell phones and other devices
9:08 amcrowds cheer
9:07 amlots of people - upwards of 2k
9:06 amAttendees still taking their seats
8:59 amThe keynote will begin after everyone is seated - just a few minutes to go
8:59 amAttendees are being let into the hall
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