Highlights from the 2009 Apple WorldWide Developers Conference keynote:
MacBook Pros
- The 13 inch aluminum MacBook has been promoted to MacBook Pro status
- All MacBook Pros upgraded to integrated extended life/capacity battery
- ExpressPort slot replaced with an SD card slot!
- FireWire 800 across the board
- Lower prices
Snow Leopard
- Official list of changes is here
- Most of the changes are “under the hood” performance improvements
- Improved Microsoft Exchange™ support
- Uses about 6GB less space than Leopard
- Intel Macs only! (see General Requirements here)
- Available in September for $29 (full retail not upgrade price??)
iPhone OS 3.0
- Everything previously announced plus …
- Rent and purchase movies from your phone
- Tethered Internet allows you to share iPhone’s internet connection with your computer
- Oops, sorry. AT&T won’t support tethering so U.S. users are shafted
- “Find My Phone” uses MobileMe and GPS to locate your phone or wipe it remotely!
- Free for iPhone users, $9.95 for iPod touch
- Available June 17th
New iPhone 3GS!
- The “S” stands for “speed”: 2x to 3x faster than iPhone 3G
- New camera: 3 megapixel, auto-focus (yea!), better in low light (2x yea!), tap to focus on an object, capture video
- Voice control, includes dialing but also works in iPod, etc
- Digital compass (needed for turn by turn directions)
- Built-in Nike+ support (for runners)
- Improved battery life
- Available in black or white
- $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB
- Available June 19th
The previous 8GB 3G iPhone is available for $99 starting today.
One More Thing
Sorry, no “one more thing” this time. Not even a cameo by Steve.
Detailed Recaps
- Ars@WWDC: live WWDC keynote coverage
- cnet: Live from WWDC 2009
- Wired: Live Blog: Apple’s WWDC 2009
Watch the Keynote Video
You can now watch the WWDC ‘09 keynote in streaming video or hopefully soon download the entire 1.3GB QuickTime video through iTunes.