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We got the Justin.tv Cam River quick to go and we ’re run low to walk you through the latest oblation at Macworld 2008 between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. PST . In - profoundness looks at the MacBook Air , Time Capsule , Apple TV Take 2 and the new iPhone microcode can all be expect . Stay tuned .
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Jason Chen : Gizmodo Live at Macworld 2008 Keynote . The tonic start up Tuesday , January 15 @ 9:00 AM PST ( 12:00 PM EST ) , but we ’re going to start liveblogging hour before that , give you colour comment on the area , the attendee , and any secrets we can glean from uncovered banners .
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Jason Chen :
We ’re here ! It ’s drear as infernal region ( even for San Francisco monetary standard ) , but we ’re here , in telephone circuit , expect for the tonic to start . There ’s definitely something in the air , but to us it smells like the mordacious desperation of various metier types who were hale to wake up at mode too early .
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Jason Chen : Crazy . Instead of a Pikmin - like blob of citizenry mass outside the giant aluminum shutters , we ’ve really got an orderly stock .
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And here ’s it is . $ 5 if you’re able to spot Mossy / Waldo .
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And since there ’s no comment battlefield here in the liveblog proper , palpate liberal to discourse the coming proceeding over on the otherliveblog mail .
https://gizmodo.com/macworld-2008-keynote-live-344646
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Jason Chen : We see all our normal friends here : Wired , Ars … I pretend that ’s all the people I be intimate . OH , Macrumors . Ca n’t forget them .
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Someone ’s frantic about what Steve ’s going to announce today .
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There ’s Something in the Air Update 1 : The orderly line has thaw into a scene outside Britney ’s first car - cooter - pic : everyone ’s in a mob , pushing each other around with camera , randomly take a injection off hoping to get something deserving publication . What ’s in the atmosphere ? Sweat . And avarice . And more than a little desperation .
8:46 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Lightning Review . The Gadget : The food .
The Verdict : The orange juice dish out from a water cooler is posh , but the blueberry scones put it over the top . decidedly worth the money ( $ 0 ) we pay off .
8:59 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Update 2 : Mark here , we are trade off the duties of “ laptop bitch , ” make one another hold the computer so we do n’t need to take chances life , branch and foul - smelling crotch on the story to bring you these update .
9:03 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : We ’re in ! We ’ve done this many time now , so we can safely say that Coldplay is the set Apple designates as the official soundtrack to the “ running of the medium ” every single metre .
B. Lam :
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Jason Chen : It ’s 9:02 , hoi polloi are still filing in , so it ’s going to be a minute or two before the keynote gets lead off . Can you taste it ? CAN YOU SMELL IT ! ?
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Jason Chen : Steve ’s added a Modern song to his playlist this year . Kanye . No one can say Steve Jobs does n’t care about bootleg iPods .
9:13 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Here ’s a question for you : do you like the Macworld keynote during CES like last year , or after CES like this yr ?
Jason Chen : Still no Steve , but Feist ’s 1 2 3 4 is on . And the sparkle are dim ! Exciting !
9:14 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Steve ’s most in all likelihood expect for Feist to terminate . Nobody cuts off Feist … bitch .
9:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : It ’s begin ! A new Mac vs. microcomputer commercial : Happy New Year 2008 . And Steve Jobs takes the leg .
Jason Chen : “ Welcome to Macworld 2008 . We ’ve got some great stuff for you . There ’s intelligibly some great stuff and nonsense in the air today . ”
9:16 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Steve ’s taking us on a retrospective of 2007 . iPhone , iPod , etc . He ’s thanking everyone for an extraordinary 2007 .
9:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : He has four thing he wants to blab to us about today . The first is Leopard . Over 5 million copies sell , and about 20 % of Mac OS X ’s install base has promote to Leopard . Now Steve ’s cite Mossberg , Pogue , Ed Baig and PC Magazine for citation on Leopard . Two quarter round up , as it were .
9:20 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Time Machine : Leopard works great with a desktop automobile , but it does n’t play well with laptops because you have to keep plug and disconnect a USB drive . Now he ’s introducing a new backup post with 802.11n and host - grade backup station . It ’s an AirPort Extreme station with ports in the back , let you to back up your mackintosh wirelessly to Time Capsule .
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Jason Chen : Time Capsule will be sold in a 500 GB interlingual rendition and a 1 TB version for $ 299 and $ 499 . It ships February . It also looks exactly like an Airport Extreme , except with different ports on the back .
Jason Chen : And that ’s the first thing ! The second thing : The iPhone . Today is exactly the 200th day that the iPhone has been on sale . Apple has sold 4 million iPhones to date , which means 20,000 iPhones sold per twenty-four hour period on modal . What does this mean compared to the overall smartphone grocery ?
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Jobs : Joo ! ( thunder reliever ) ,
Jason Chen : And today , he ’s enclose fresh iPhone features :
Maps with locations , webclips , customizable home screens , SMS multiple citizenry at once , chapter , caption , and language support in TV , and words bear out in audio .
9:30 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Here are the numbers for the iPhone ’s first full quarter of cargo ships ( Q3 2007 ) . RIM has 39 % , Apple has 19.5 % , Palm has 9.8 % , Motorola has 7.4 % . In just one fourth , they managed to grab 2d spot .
9:31 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Webclips : On the iPhone ’s Safari web browser , just pick out a website , hit the “ + ” button , and strike “ contribute to home filmdom ” , and it ’ll be add as an icon on your home concealment . Hit the button from the abode screen door and it ’ll raise up Safari and take you there . you may even customise the shortcut to a specific part of the internet page .
9:33 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : rearrange image : carry down an ikon and all the icons on the screen jitter ( the leak was right ! ) , let you to drag poppycock around to rearrange . you’re able to now have 9 different filmdom to apply all your apps or webclips ( internet shortcuts ) .
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Jason Chen : All these updates are available today , for loose , for all iPhone user .
Jason Chen : So how do you get locations without GPS ? Apple ’s partnering with Google and Skyhook . Google aid you triangulate cellphone towers , and Skyhook helps you triangulate Wi - Fi data . When you go past a Wi - fi hot spot or a mobile phone column , the phone remembers the information and habituate it to reckon where you are .
9:36 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : How about the iPod touch ? They ’re adding Mail , Maps , Stocks , Notes and Weather . For existing iPod sense of touch users , it will cost $ 20 . If you buy a new iPod signature , it ’ll be free and work up - in .
9:37 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Multiple receiver SMS : Just as you ’d expect . beak different recipient role at the top , type stuff , hit send . It ’s also customized for the iPhone ’s “ conversation ” because it remembers all the recipients under that one “ conversation ” , so you may send multiple messages to the same people easy .
9:38 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : The third thing Steve ’s let the cat out of the bag about today : iTunes . They ’ve sold 4 billion songs , 125 million TV shows and 7 million moving picture . TV show and pic have sold more than “ everyone else put together ” , but “ did not run across our prospect ” . “ There ’s a better way to deliver movies over the cyberspace . ” What is it ? iTunes Movie Rentals .
Jason Chen : Here are the studios involve : Touchstone , Miramax , MGM , New Line , Lion ’s logic gate , Fox , WB , Disney , Paramount , Universal and Sony . What ’s miss ?
9:39 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Steve state “ We have every major studio ” , and that they ’ll have all the keen first - run motion-picture show .
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Jason Chen : 1000 pic by February , and movies will be available 30 days after the videodisc release . you could watch them anywhere : Macs , PCs , iPods and iPhone . you may watch instantly , meaning streaming . You ’ll have 30 days to “ take up ” watching it , and then 24 hour to “ finish ” watch out it once you ’ve start to follow it . you could watch the first half on your computer , transfer the movie to your iPod , then watch the rest of the movie on the airplane . Here ’s the cost .
9:43 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Old expiration : $ 2.99 . New releases : $ 3.99 .
Jason Chen : iTunes movie rentals launches today , and it ’s a innocent software update for iTunes . innocent update for iPods and iPhones so as to indorse this . bread and butter for the US comes today , but external support comes later this year .
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Jason Chen : But how about the AppleTV ? It was designed to be an accouterment for iTunes , but people wanted it to be “ moving picture , movies , film ” . Here ’s AppleTV , take 2 . It still syncs with your computer , but no calculator is ask for AppleTV . you’re able to rive movies directly onto your AppleTV and follow them on your high-definition television . you’re able to engage in either Mount Rushmore State quality or HD Quality with 5.1 environs sound .
Jason Chen : you may also see audio frequency and video podcasts on the AppleTV , photos from Flickr or .Mac , YouTube telecasting ( > 50 Million ) , Buy television show and medicine ( which will be streamed back to your estimator ) , or dally iTunes contentedness & photos stream from your computer .
Jason Chen : HD Rentals pricing : $ 3.99 for old title and $ 4.99 for young title . $ 1 more than SD .
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Jason Chen : There ’s a new interface for AppleTV ( picture add up in a sec ) . The UI is centered around the film lease experience .
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Jason Chen : Steve ’s demonstration - ing a sample motion picture , Blades of Glory . Once you ’ve queued up enough of the motion-picture show , AppleTV will pop up a substance saying that it ’s ready to diddle . He say it usually takes about 30 second before something ’s quick to play .
9:51 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : He ’s now showing a scene from Die Hard , featuring Justin Long ( the Mac guy wire ) .
Jason Chen : Damn , they cut it off right before Justin Long came in !
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Jason Chen : Now Steve is demoing podcasts and music video downloading . Podcasts queue up and rain cats and dogs just like you ’d expect , and music video work the same agency they do on iTunes on your PC .
Jason Chen : Fake Steve is also liveblogging this AS REAL STEVE , which may or may not louse up your mind . Check it out .
9:56 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Slideshows stream directly off the .Mac servers , which means you may be capable to consider your friend ’ pictures straight on your TV .
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Jason Chen : Flickr : you’re able to consider a friend ’s pictures , or even their friends ’ exposure . Of course , this is all set to euphony from your own iTunes library . Uh oh , tech demo problem alert ! No photos , just euphony . The screen is vacuous ( because of flickr ) . WE SWEAR IT ’S NOT US .
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Jason Chen : Apple telly : The young software system will be usable via complimentary software rise , which means you do n’t need to purchase a raw boxwood . Nice !
10:03 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : New pricing as well . It ’s $ 299 now , but they ’re kicking it down to $ 229 starting today . They ’re shipping the destitute software update to be owners and new building block in just 2 weeks . ( Polite applause follow . )
10:06 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : “ The first studio apartment that signed up with us for iTunes movie rentals was twentieth Century Fox ” . Now , he ’s introducing Jim Gianopulos , the Chairman & CEO of Fox . Jim ’s rent the stagecoach and mouth about movies and business concern .
10:07 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Non - Steve Jobs intermission , essentially . Jim , the Fox CEO is talking about formats , and business models , and grant the great unwashed choices . “ The next format will be Blu - electron beam , apparently . ”
10:08 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : We were veracious ! Jim says his movies will have a free iTunes version of the film residing on the videodisc that you could transfer onto your portable twist by copying it over . The first movie that has this : Family Guy ’s Blue Harvest , their Star Wars parody episode .
Jason Chen : And now the fourth affair they want to talk about today . “ There ’s something in the air . What is it ? ” MacBooks , apparently !
10:09 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Today they ’re introducing a third variety of notebook , MacBook Air . “ It ’s the world ’s thinnest notebook computer . ”
10:10 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : What does this mean ? The Sony TZ series are thin . “ We looked at all of them out there . They generally librate about 3 pound sign . ” In Sony ’s case , it weighs 3 pound , 0.8 - 1.2 inch thick , and a 11 - 12 column inch display . They also have miniature keyboard , and they do n’t “ run them as tight as they could . ”
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Jason Chen : Thinness : MacBook air goes from 0.76 column inch down to 0.16 inches at the thin end . The thickest part is tenuous than the Sony TZ Series . 0.76 vs. 0.8 . It ’s so slender , it even gibe inside a vanilla gasbag . Steve whips out a manilla envelope .
10:14 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Out make out the MacBook Air . It ’s silver ( atomic number 13 ? ) , has black key , is super super flimsy , and Steve can have it easily with his fingertips . “ It ’s the world ’s thin notebook , ” he iterate . It has a 13.3 - column inch widescreen exhibit . “ And the display is gorgeous . ” It ’s an light-emitting diode backlit display that ’s instant - on . It also has a build - in iSight photographic camera , and a full - sized keyboard . Backlit too , with a trackpad and multi - touch gesture support on the trackpad .
10:15 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : you’re able to turn on dissimilar eccentric of gestures in the setting , like moving around a window with your fingerbreadth , trash around a photo with two finger , rotate a photo by twisting a finger’s breadth , swipe between photo with three figners , and soar in and out with pinching .
10:16 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : “ How did we accommodate a Mac in here ? ”
10:17 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Here ’s what ’s inside . 1.8 - column inch hard drives , like in the iPods . There ’s also an optional 64 GB solid res publica disk . What else is in there ? A complete Mac board , which is a niggling blanket than the duration of a pencil .
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Jason Chen : Here ’s the CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo Inside , 1.6 GHz banner , with a 1.8GHz ascent usable . Apple postulate Intel to shrink their Core 2 Duo processors down to a bundle 60 % smaller to agree it inside the MacBook Air . And here ’s Intel ’s chief operating officer Paul Otellini to talk about it .
10:21 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Paul say : The CPU is the width of a dime bag , the thickness of a nickel , and we did n’t think we could do it .
Jason Chen : The other feature : flip - down door that has USB 2 , microDVI port , and a headphone squat . The other side is a MagSafe connection . As for wireless , it ’s nonplus 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR . It does n’t have an visual thrust interior , but you’re able to buy a separate USB - power SuperDrive that ’s especially made for the MacBook Air . $ 99 .
10:22 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : What do you do with an optical drive ? Play movies , install computer software , make backups , burn CDs . What ’s Apple ’s choice ? iTunes movie lease , Time Capsule for support , iPods for listening to stuff in your car , and a new feature of speech called “ Remote Disc ” for installing hooey via CDs and DVDs .
10:23 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Remote Disc : exceptional software loaded on other machines with optical drives that reserve MacBook Air to take over their drives to establish thing from cadmium / videodisc . you could even adopt drives from personal computer .
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Jason Chen : Battery life : With Wi - Fi on , browse the web , you get 5 hour of battery life .
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Jason Chen : MacBook Air damage : $ 1799 . Ships in two weeks . you’re able to pre - order online now .
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Jason Chen : So to retread , here are the features . 3.0 pounds , 0.16 -0.76 inch , 13.inch exhibit , full - sized keyboard , multi - touch gestures , iSight , 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo standard , 2 GB memory banner , 80 GB knockout drive standard ( 64 GB SSD optional ) , 802.11n Wi - Fi standard , Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR standard , and MagSafe .
Jason Chen : Steve just threw up a Modern ad showing off the MacBook Air , using the same MANILLA gasbag technique he used earlier .
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Jason Chen : And here are the details on the MacBook Air that eco - fanatics fear about . It ’s got an Aluminum case , and a mercury - costless and arsenic - free crank display . The circuit board are BFR innocent and polyvinyl chloride detached . The publicity has 56 % less volume than the regular MacBook . ARE YOU HAPPY NOW ? !
Jason Chen : To recap on what he ’s tattle about today . 1 ) Time Capsule , the wireless reliever service program . 2 ) iPhone update and iPod Touch update . 3 ) AppleTV + iTunes picture show rentals . 4 ) MacBook Air .
“ All this stuff in the first two weeks , and we ’ve got 50 more weeks in the yr to go . ”
10:32 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : And for the amusement at Today ’s keynote , Randy Newman .
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Jason Chen : Randy ’s swinge a song about America , the prexy , and comparing them to Hitler and Stalin . USA ! USA ! USA ! ! ! ! !
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Jason Chen : “ It pisses me off a little that the Supreme Court is go to survive me . ” What the crap is he singing about ? We have no idea . We think he ’s gone daft .
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Jason Chen : The first song ’s over , but now Randy Newman ’s just riffing about random hooey . The next birdsong is from Toy Story . Randy says he write another song to go with the love aspect between Buzz and Woody , but the scene was foreshorten . This guy is blowing our minds right now .
10:43 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Aaaand it ’s over . Holy crap . Who knew Randy Newman , the guy who makes the songs your kids play over and over and over again , would sing such crazy crap about our politics ?
11:31 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : And it ’s over ! Thanks to everyone for version , and check Gizmodo ’s main pageboy for hands - on updates VERY presently . See everyone shortly . -Jason , Mark , Brian and Adrian
11:32 am ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : We ’ve gothands - on of the MacBook Air here .
https://gizmodo.com/macbook-air-hands-on-345115
Jason Chen : We ’ve gothands - on of Time Capsulehere as well .
https://gizmodo.com/time-capsule-hands-on-345130
1:26 pm ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : Here’shands - on of the gesture padon the MacBook Air .
https://gizmodo.com/macbook-air-multi-touch-gesture-pad-hands-on-345139
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Jason Chen : And ourAppleTV take two picture .
https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-take-2-impressions-345155
Jason Chen : We also discovered theMacBook Air ’s fatal flaw .
https://gizmodo.com/macbook-airs-fatal-flaw-battery-ram-hd-sealed-like-a-345177
1:33 premier ON Jan 15 2008
Jason Chen : And our hands - on video and impressions of theiPhone 1.1.3 microcode .
https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-iphone-firmware-1-1-3-345179
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