Guy from Palm comes on stage, new USB cradles, bonus software for Macs, shipping in multiple languages. Palm Desktop Software product manager demos the new Desktop for OS X. Better drag-n-drop for Vcards. Demoed Palm sync. Public beta downloadable at www.palm.com/macintosh.
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
OS X update. Seeing Mac programmers becoming Unix programmers as well, and vice-versa. Press likes it 12 month transition period (on a clock face). At 6 o’clock in September, 10.1 shipped. Now it’s 9 o’clock. Now there’s tons of apps (>2500). Office:mac for X shipped last quarter, Steve applauds Microsoft. Next: Adobe. The Executive Vice…
Press likes the iPod. Steve is proud of the Apple retail stores, hit the 25 stores by 2001-end-of-year mark (27, actually). Point of stores if to try to convert “the other 95%.” 40% of retail Mac buyers are new Mac owners. 800,000 visitors in December to all Apple stores. State of Maine equipping all 7th…
Steve takes to the stage, the SteveNote begins.
FACT: I’m really hungry. I eat some apple muffin and have some Bottled Frappuccino�. The keynote has not yet started, but there’s some nice Peter Gabriel music to tide us over.
Okay, 11:55 EST, here we go� The requisite 4 Macs/PCs are on a table on stage for the inevitable speed-tromping tests. Another Mac is on stage, 90 degrees to the audience for Steve’s also-inevitable OS X demo, hopefully for 10.2, but that’s where I end my speculation. Everything from here on out is hard, solid…
Apple Hype Watch� Day 8: “Watch the live webcast in QuickTime.” Personally I think Apple’s gone a little overboard with this whopper of a tagline. I mean, I have some Windoze using friends who can’t seem to figure out how to install QuickTime on their machines (possibly because it requires an “administrator password”), and apparently…