Official Apple Thread

[Josh]

Do I have to pay for that one too?

Also: where the balls are my new iphone applications. Its fucking June.

[B-Ri]

the SDK is being shown off right now, they are cockteasing. iPhone gets push email, and push contacts (for enterprise users)

sega is coming on stage to show off Super Monkey Ball Iphonw

[Dyne]

"Snow" Leopard? they couldn't use a cat they haven't used yet like Lynx or Cougar(which they already registered)?

[B-Ri]

Crap, these graphics look unbelievable compared to anything we've seen on a cellphone before. Seriously, these are DS-quality graphics, easily.

allow me to be the first to say...

REMARKABLE!




now being shown off, Mobile E-bay application. watch stuff, bid, ect.



typepad, for easy mobile blogging

loopt, wtf is this?

Showing photoblogging -- they've looped in to the camera API to take shots and fire them off to your blog. Dialogue looks more like an email than a CMS. TypePad will also be available free.

Hmm, not too shabby -- showing a piano, and what do you know, it's better than the multi-touch piano they showed at D with Windows 7. They played a riff from Lennon's "Imagine."

Mark Terry from Moo Cow Music, it's called Band, a collection of virtual instruments for creating music from scratch.

[Dyne]

i don't think a piano was what Josh is waiting for. what kind of junk idea is that?

[B-Ri]

latest scores, realtime video highlights, MLB.com

apparently apples stock has dropped $5 since they started showing off these lame demo apps, GIVE ME AIM ASSHOLES

also make the store available NOWWW

[Josh]

So, a bunch of faggot shit. AWESOME!

[B-Ri]

apparently the emphasis was put on OUR in "this is OUR last app"

- Looks a little like God of War, graphics somewhere between DS and PSP. Pretty friggin' impressive. N-GAGE has been after games that look this good for years. Will be ready by September

"And our LAST app [emphasis ours] comes from Digital Legends Entertainment... they only started two weeks ago." Let's see this fancy game, shall we?

can i just get aim and like, bejeweled plz?

"There has been one feature request that doesn't currently exist... it's mainly come from clients like IM, where by their very nature they want to get a notification even if the user isn't running the app. We absolutely want to solve this problem, the question is how?"

BY RELEASING THE APPLICATIONS ASSHOLE!

"The wrong solution is to enable background processes... to allow an app to continue to run even after their user thinks they quit it." Windows Mobile, we're looking at you. Why's it bad? "First, battery life, it drains power. Second, performance, it sucks up cycles and makes other things feel sluggish." Uh oh, he's showing the WinMo task manager. "We've come up with a far better solution -- a push notification service Apple will provide to all developers. Apple will maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone, where a 3rd party server can ping Apple's notification service to your device. It can push badges, sounds, and custom textual alerts (like how SMSs look).
"The great thing about this: it scales... it's a unified push notification service for all devs. It preserves battery life and maintains performance. And it all works over the air -- WiFi and cellular. Available in September, but next month we'll be seeding devs. This has been an update of the SDK, thank you!"

SEPTEMBER?!?!?!

fuck you apple, fuck you SO much.

"This is pretty cool. It's one of the great advantages of not having plastic keys for your keyboard!" Big applause. "We think the iPhone 2.0 software will be phenomenal and raise use to a whole new level. We'll release it in early July."

JULY! Fuck off apple.

[B-Ri]

official, 3g iphone

It's been a long wait, but Apple finally took the wraps off its 3G iPhone. Thinner edges, full plastic back, flush headphone jack. Apple's taking a lot of the criticisms to heart from the first time around. Obviously 3G is at the forefront, but they're also making sure it's available all over internationally... and for cheaper. Apple claims its 3G speeds trounce the competition, with pageloads 36% faster than the N95 and Treo 750 -- obviously it completely trounces the old EDGE data. Battery life isn't getting put out to pasture though, with 300 hours of standby, 8-10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio. GPS is also a go. Apple is using A-GPS, which supplements regular satellite GPS data with info from cellular towers.

Developing...

"iPhone started off at 599 for an 8GB iPhone, which sells for 399 -- we want to make it even more affordable. I'm happy to tell you it'll go for 199 8GB."

fuck, im getting the new iphone for GPS (seeing 3g internet pricing isnt ridiculous)

[Josh]

Oh fuck everything.

How much more is 3g a month? Its, like, $70 for my phone each month right now. ALREADY TOO MUCH.