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QuickTime video-on-demand of the Apple iPad special event 2010 keynote

Christian — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:02:08 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs presents the iPad on January 27th 2010 (Picture: Apple)

Finally Apple officially published the video-on-demand of the Apple special event “Come and see our latest creation”. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27th 2010. You can watch it as a QuickTime video stream or as MPEG-4 … and it’s really worth it

Apple Event Keynote “Come and see our latest creation” – Live Coverage [Update]

Christian — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:25:43 +0000

This is the day: Apple will start their press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. At 10:00 am PST or 07:00 pm MEZ.

Like the legendary Steve Jobs Keynotes in the past, it is quite a tradition that some journalists blog live from the event … so Apple fans all over the planet can take part on the press conference. Here are the most important liveblogs:

As soon as the videorecording of the event is online as a Quicktime videostream … there’ll be an update

Quicktime-Stream Video of the Apple Special Event “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it”

Christian — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:13:46 +0000

On Sep 9th 2009 at 9am PST Apple invited selected journalists to a special event in San Francisco. Apple did not bring up the Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger on stage of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater … but their song “It’s only Rock’n Roll (But I like it)” from 1974 was the intro of the event
Steve Jobs showed up on stage the first time since his liver transplantation and got a very warm welcome. Great to see, that he is doing better, now. He and Phil Schiller shared a lot of news and innovations:

Video-on-demand Quicktime-Stream of the Apple Special Event September 2009

Here are the facts of the 75min event:

Sales figures:

Apple sold 30 million iPhones over the last 2 years
In total they sold 220 million iPods since now. 20 million of these are iPod touch and 100 million are iPod Nano devices
This means of over 50 million customers have access to the AppStore and can buy apps.
1.8 billion AppStore app-downloads (without updates)
iTunes is #1 music retailer in the world
iTunes has more than 100 million accounts

iTunes & iPhone OS update:

iTunes 9 and iPhone OS update 3.1
Genius-recommendations for apps in the AppStore
30.000 ringtones
Genius Mixes … automatic mixes of songs in your library
Improved synchronization
Management of the iPhone / iPod touch apps within iTunes
Home Sharing of songs
Improved interface and optimized navigation within iTunes
iTunes LP for music albums – the interactive replacement for LP-booklets
iTunes Extras for Movies – Extras and chapter-selection for movies
iTunes wish list

Sneak previews of new games:

Ubisoft – Ben Mattens: Assasins Creed II Discovery
Tapulous – Bart Decrem: Riddim Ribbon
Gameloft – Mark Hickey: Nova
EA Electronic Arts – Travis Boatman: Madden NFL 10

Update of the iPod product line:

iPod touch – new price tags for iPod touch: $199 8GB – $299 – 32GB – $399 64GB. The two bigger models also have a faster processor and are up to 50% faster and they also support OpenGL ES 2.0 – like the iPhone 3GS.
iPod classic – now comes with 160GB at the same price
iPod shuffle – new colors and better prices as well as a new polished stainless steel special edition.
iPod Nano – comes with a video camera, an fm-radio, audio recording, a pedometer and in many different colors.

WWDC09 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2009: June 8-12

Christian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:30:30 +0000

Now, it’s official: The WWDC09 starts on June 8th and will end on Friday, June 12th. iPhone OS is just in the front row Mac OS X just behind – so it’ll be interesting to be at Moscone West in San Francisco and meet all those iPhone- and Mac-developers.
If you are a student – checkout the WWCD Student Scholarship and apply for a free pass. Deadline for the Stundent Scholarship application is April 14!!!

500 WWDC student scholarships from Apple

Christian — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:01:11 +0000

From June 11 to 15 it’s all about the Mac developer community in San Francisco under the warm sun of California: At the Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference the whole hardware and software developer community is gathering to get and exchange Mac first-hand insights.
The company is running a scholarship program for students developing for the Mac – 500 students will get scholarships to enter the conference for free (a US $ 1,559 $ value). But coming to California has to be arranged by the student him- or herself.
Application deadline is March 19, 2007 – so, if you are a student and want to join the conference, apply now.

Source: development.apple.com