WWDC 2008 Live Reactions
I've been following along and plurking a little bit, but I wanted to give a bit more detail on my thoughts. I'm listening to an audio feed and reading MacRumors and MacWorld.
The first interesting detail is that the SDK is very popular. Twenty-five thousand people have applied to the paid program, and only 4,000 have been allowed in.
There have been some fun applications announced so far, but in reality, I'm getting a little bored by it all. All of the products end with "will be available for INSERTPRICE when the App Store launches." Let us know when already!
They're building in a push-notification service to all developers. External servers can push notifications to Apple which will then push it to the phones.
Finally answered the question: early July launch for iPhone 2.0. Interestingly, you can use the App Store on the cell network, if the app is less than 10 megs.
.Mac seems useful now: MobileMe pushes your data around wherever you are. Even syncs photos. This is the sort of functionality I was hoping for out of it.
6 Million iPhones sold, not too shabby. New iPhone obviously. Challenges were 3G, Enterprise, 3rd party apps, more countries, and more affordable. Comes out on June 29. Thinner, black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same display, flush headphone jack, and better audio.
GPS, I wasn't expecting it even though it was being rumored. The GPS tracks in the maps application, showing a dot as you move. Awesome.
Battery life looks really impressive. Standby 300 hours, 2G talk 10 hours, 3G talk 5, browsing 5-6, video 7, audio 24.
Tons of countries -- 70 total countries including China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexio, etc. Update: According to some sources and pictures, it appears that MacRumorsLive may be mistaken about China being part of the 70 for this year. I'm sure more details will follow on other sites, just wanted to make this post be as accurate as possible.
$199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB. White version in 16GB will be available too.
Rolling phone out in 22 countries on July 11.
That's it. Snow Leopard is being kept further under wraps, and will only be talked about in the Mac OS X State of the Union. Overall, I'm happy. It's certainly easier on the pocketbook (heck, at that price I may even get my wife a 3G one too).
Now, the waiting game.
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008, in development, wwdc, random, apple, iphone
