Big news of the day, of course, is Steve Jobs’ keynote address at Macworld 2006. I just got home from school and watched the video stream of the keynote. Here’s the key points (plus occasional commentary from me here and there):

Direct from the keynote (when it’s working)…

  • Retail stores
    • 26 million customers
    • $1 billion dollars of business
      • Apple overall had $5.7 billion dollars of business
      • Highest quarterly revenue ever
  • Music
    • iPods
      • 4.5 million iPods sold holiday quarter 2004
      • 14 million iPods sold holiday quarter 2005
        • Over 100/minute 24/7 through the quarter
        • Still wasn’t enough to satisfy demand
      • 42 million iPods sold total since introduction
        • 32 million of those sold in 2005
      • New iPod ad featuring Wynton Marsalis
    • iTunes
      • 850 million songs purchased and downloaded
        • 3 million songs per day
      • 83% market share
      • Videos/TV shows
        • 8 million videos sold since Oct. 12
        • Sports (superbowl games) added last week
        • 15 minute condensed versions
        • Saturday Night Live content debuts today
        • Classic SNL!
          • Samurai Delicatessen
          • Coneheads
          • Blues Brothers
        • More recent skits too
      • New accessory: Radio Remote
        • Remote control and FM tuner
        • Tiny little thing
        • Nano and 5G iPod
        • FM tuner display on iPod screen
        • $99, available today
      • Car Integration
        • Chrysler just announced major iPod support
        • Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep models adding iPod support
  • Macs
    • Software
      • Aperture (recently introduced)
        • For digital photgraphers
        • Showing promotional video
        • ESPN
      • Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4
        • Available today through Software Update
        • Dashboard Widgets
          • Over 1500 widgets available
          • New from Apple
            • Google
            • New Address Book
            • Ski conditions
            • Calendar
            • Yellow/White Pages
        • Universal Binary (PPC and Intel)
          • OS and Apple applications
          • Pro apps (Aperture, Final Cut, Logic Pro) will be upgraded to Universal Binaries by March
            • Cross-grade upgrade from latest version for $49
          • Many vendors already introducing Universal Binary application versions
        • Rosetta
          • Runs PPC binaries on Intel macs
        • Roz Ho from Microsoft
          • She may be a great manager, but she’s never been a great presenter.
          • “On track” to deliver UBs of Office and Messenger
            • No target date given
          • Meanwhile, Office runs fine under Rosetta
          • Official agreement to ship new versions of Office for Mac for a minimum of five years
      • iLife ‘06
        • iPhoto
          • Much faster
            • I’ll believe it when I see it.
          • Upped limit from 25,000 photos to 250,000
            • Again, I’ll believe it when I see it. I could never get iPhoto ‘05 anywhere even close to 25,000 photos before it bogged down to the point of being completely unusable.
          • “Scrolls like butter…”
            • “Wait — scrolls like a hot knife through butter…”
          • Full-screen editing
          • Compare up to eight photos during edits
          • New special effects panel
            • B/W, sepia, vignette, blur, matte, etc.
          • New cards, calendars, better books
            • The photo calendars look really nice!
          • Photocasting
            • “Podcasting for photos”
            • Uploads photocast albums to .mac
            • Can subscribe to published albums through iPhoto
            • Subscribed albums automatically update
            • “If you take away the machinery, it’s just like magic.”
            • Must be a .mac subscriber to publish albums
              • That’s okay — it’s fancy and Apple-specific, but it’s nothing that I can’t do with Flickr.
            • Uses RSS, anyone can subscribe to published albums
              • What would happen if I dropped a Flickr RSS feed into iPhoto?
        • iMovie
          • Animated themes
            • Animated snippets similar to iDVD’s title menu animations that can be inserted into movies
          • Real-time effects and titles
          • Multiple open projects
          • Export direct to iPod Video format
          • Export videopodcasts
        • iDVD
          • Added widescreen menus
          • “Magic iDVD”
            • Automated DVD creation
          • New themes
          • Enhanced Map View
          • Supporting 3rd party DVD burners
        • GarageBand
          • Added a Podcast Studio
            • Artwork track
            • Sound effects
            • Automatic “ducking” (dropping soundtrack audio during voiceovers)
            • Speech enhancers (audio enhancement)
            • iChat audio import (remote interviewing)
        • iTunes
        • iWeb
          • Website creation and management
          • Apple ease of use and templates
            • Pretty complex templates…table based? CSS? Might have to wait for some to start popping up before we know for sure, but I’d guess (hope) that it’s all CSS.
          • One-click publishing to .mac
            • Is it restricted to .mac? Looks like it.
          • Automatically creates RSS feeds
            • Clicking on photocast feeds are opening iPhoto, weblogs feeds opening in Safari’s RSS reader, podcast feeds opening in iTunes. If they’re all RSS/Atom, how are the different types of feeds being differentiated?
          • Drop-in, WYSIWYG creation.
            • Photos, text — even iTunes playlists (that create lists with pointers to the iTMS).
          • Direct integration with GarageBand’s Podcast Studio
        • Same price: $79 (individual, $99 family 5-pack)
        • Available today
        • I’ve already placed my order
        • Update: Just a couple hours later, and I just received the shipping notice from Apple. Impressive! It’s FedEx Ground, so it should arrive within the next couple days…and, of course, I’m at work and school all day. Heh. I’ll have to figure that out when I get the first “We missed you!” tag…
      • .mac
        • Over 1 million subscribers
      • iWork
        • Pages/Keynote
          • 3D Charts
          • Advanced image editing
          • Tables with calculations
          • New themes and templates
        • $79/$99 Family 5-pack
        • Available today
    • Hardware
      • Sales
        • Steady increase each quarter
      • Intel processors
        • Plan was to start shipping Intel Macs by June ‘06
        • Cute reference to the old “bunny” intel ads
        • Intel and Apple both “reporting as ready”
        • Steve’s Mac during the demo has been an Intel iMac
      • First Intel-based Mac debuts today
        • iMac
          • Same design as current iMac line
          • Same sizes (17”, 20”)
          • Same features (iSight, Front Row, remote, etc.)
          • Same prices (17” $1299/20” $1600)
          • What’s different?
            • 2-3 times faster than the iMac G5
            • Latest Intel Core Duo chip
              • Dual processor chip
              • 2Mb L2 cache
            • Every iMac uses dual processors
          • Shipping today
      • Transitioning entire hardware product line Intel by end of ‘06
  • One more thing…
    • Powerbooks have been lagging
    • Performance per Watt
      • G4: 0.27
      • G5: 0.23
      • Intel Core Duo: 1.05
    • Introducing MacBook Pro
      • Intel Core Duo chip
        • Dual processors in every MacBook Pro
        • 4-5 times faster than Powerbook G4
      • Thinnest Mac notebook ever
        • 1 inch thin
        • 5.4 lbs
      • 15.4” widescreen LCD display
        • As bright as Cinema Displays
      • Built-in iSight camera
      • IR sensor
      • Apple Remote
      • Front Row included
      • MagSafe
        • Magnetic power cord attachment
        • Yanked cord disconnects from computer
        • This is frakking brilliant!
      • Sudden Motion Sensor
      • DVI Video Out
      • Analog and Digital Audio in/out
      • $1999
        • 1.67 Ghz ICD
        • 512 Mb RAM
        • 80Gb HD
      • $2499
        • 1.83 Ghz ICD
        • More specs that I didn’t catch.
      • Shipping in February
      • Orders accepted starting today
  • One last thing…
    • Apple founded April Fools Day, 1976
    • Apple will be 30 years old this April 1st

iTunes “Beat Box [Diversion One]” by Art of Noise, The from the album (Who’s Afraid of?) The Art of Noise! (1984, 8:33).

[See also: Mac mini (and more) | iPhoto 6.0: Flickr Photocasts | This is just goofy | iPhoto Quandries | iLife ‘06: First Impressions ]

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