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Mayer finished playing store back up - but under HEAVY load Mayer still playing http://www.apple.com/home/ http://www.apple.com/iwork/ http://www.apple.com/macmini/ http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/ http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ John Mayer - up for 2 grammy's - for 'fathers' welcomes Mayer back on stage to play song keynote winding down - store still closed thanks developers and engineers for working so hard makes iPod available to a LOT more people iPod shuffle ad playing dock & case available - $29 each http://pictures.hentges.lu/tmp/shuf.jpg dock available shipping today can charge in the car manaul sync or automatic integration between the device and the jukebox autoplay shuffle or playlist 12 hours on battery cap covering inputs - USB simple to use controls weights under 1 ounce iPod Shuffle new device something happened in the ipod market - became most popular way to listen - shuffle flash player based around shuffle want to make something really great forget batteries - no need to make music hard to find on player next? marketshare of players has DOUBLED since last year Going back to Jan 2004 - marketshare was decent - introduced mini to go after high-end of flash market did phenominally cell phones - itunes client on cell phone - showing sample to the crowd brought cars to preview - on floor at macworld show mercedes offering ipod jack in new cars new ways to use ipod in the car now over 400 accessories available amazon's top buy consumer electronics product crossed 10 million ipods sold ipod & ipod mini constantly retooling for new contents 15 countries, 70% global market 70% market share, even with all the competition averaging half a billion songs per year iTunes - more than 230 million songs sold http://webpages.charter.net.nyud.net:8090/mattman7/mini.jpg $499 with 1.25 G4, 256, 40 gig, Combo prices for mac mini: $499 and $599 available Jan 22 most important new mac 'ever' another at 1.4 Ghz 1.25 Ghz G4 coming 1st half of 05 half as high as an iPod Mini, surface of a little dish comes with Panther & iLife 05 analog, digital video out pizza box style - like engadget fake quiet, fw, usb2, video out, ethernet - very very tiny very tiny Mac Mini Headleass stripped mac - Macs $79 automatic page layout controls - keep document pretty table support integrated Pages and iPhoto browser? demoing pages invites Phil on stage awesome starting points for documents 40 apple design templates included all featured you expect in a good word processor pretty easy to work in Pages can do almost anything Pages - word processing flash output scrapbook animation built in - fully automated new presentation styles - new transitions, animated text Keynote 2 Appleworks long in the tooth - time for replacement Next - iWork free on all new macs apps all work together, so iLife 05 like getting more than 5 apps there are unknown icons in steve's dock demo concluded another Mayer demo now possible to make your own loops realtime notation crowd impressed with the demo John Mayer comes on stage to demo debuted 1 year ago - great response - lots of requests multitrack simultaneous recording added recorded tracks now as flexible as loops new jampacks available today Next - Garageband iDVD demo over another demo _R, +R, -RW et +RW supported demo of iDVD one step dvd creation Next - iDVD "great to work with apple on great applications" this is the year of HD @ Home steve playing with HD camcorder while Sony president talking apple store offline Pres of Sony on stage to talk about cooperation cooperated with Sony - since the 3.5" floppy sony now offering prosumer HD camera year of HD "simplest video editor in the world now edits HD video" demo 720p biggest feature - now supports HD video magic iMovie - select transitions on import from camcorder more transitions & effects iMovie adding softcover option for books button on panel to buy books directly from iphoto iphoto demo over open edit controls from book creator book controls much better - much easier to make a book - more options slideshow demo better rotation controls playing with exposure controls example of new supported format - MPG4 video sorting by calendar dates 25,000 photos in iPhoto demo ken burns effect still available all works the same as on jpg & RAW formats iPHoto to support mpg movies from camera as well as RAW camera support demo of apps - start with iPhoto organize more efficiently - more formats supported major upgrade to all bring all the apps together - iLife 05 completely new version of every app Next - iLife 2005 year of HD video Next - HD end of tiger demo amazing quality - 3 way video chat sends phil away quickly as usual talking with a girl in paris - invites Phil to join in If you have an IRC client, please join #macrumors on server irc.tecknohost.com videoconference demo uses h.264 compression ichat demo dashboard icon in dock allows to either add new widget or to show widgets translation, calculator, etc. covering dashboard now cell phone up to HD - evreyone climbing on board demo over QT Demo no matter the beginning format - can support compressions new codec support for h.264 complete mpg4 compliance major upgrade to Quicktime in Tiger have everything right where you want it mail to receive lots of new features saveable searching - save previous searches to call up later search accross all mailboxes instantly completely change the way we work album art searching as well system preferences now searching for sunset now bug on stage - steve gets error message - crowd laughs searching metadata cross-program data searching very easy to use searching demo - searching through 4 million files finds instantly talking about spotlight Tiger Demo 200 new features 5th major release of X on target fr 1st 1/2 of 2005 most successful OS release 14 million active users Mac OS X 100+ retail stores 1 million visitors a week hard to heard people clapping lights coming down let's get it started in here - black eyed peas please turn off your cell phones and pagers music playing - vertigo by U2 9:00 people still coming into the room
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