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7:12 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Jason Chen :
Man it ’s early . About 3 hours left to go . More expect more updates from now until then , as common .
7:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Schiller NEEDS to do today ’s presentment with the I am T - Pain app .
7:53 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Sitting on public conveyance is a lot like sitting on the can . reading material makes the time go by quicker , but finally you ’re going to get hit in the side with the odor of urine . If you ’re golden it ’ll just be the smell .
7:57 AM ON Sep 9 2009
What does everyone think about the Palm Pixi ? I like it . Even if it ’s slightly less powerful than the Pre , the size of it and the better keyboard make up for the losses , somewhat .
8:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
If Apple ’s inevitable tab has ebook reading functionality I will personally shake the hand of everyone who sour on that squad . take to switch back and forth between read a book on the kindle and reading a website on a laptop make me feel like I ’m getting a exercising , sure , but if I wanted to exercise I would n’t have bemuse out all those 24 hour fittingness aeronaut .
8:09 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Oh and I credibly would n’t in person shake their deal – I’d send an intern to do it . get ta watch over out for that piggy grippe .
8:14 AM ON Sep 9 2009
I ’m wondering what “ rock ” Song will be playing before the effect starts today , seeing as it ’s a “ careen ” topic . Rock Lobster ? Schoolhouse Rock ? Rachmaninoff ?
8:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
I recollect sitting down on a train while someone is standing right in front of you is one of the few time where you could gaze intently into a person ’s fork without other people chevy you about it .
B. Lam :
8:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
OH HELLO ! Good morning . Dan Nosowitz , Appleliveblog virgin , and I are at the Yerba Buena nitty-gritty downtown . Nothing starts for 1 60 minutes and 40 minutes but we opine we ’d get here early .
8:21 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Nice of you to qualify that last assertion with “ Apple liveblog . ”
8:22 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Dan Nosowitz :
There ’s someone pointing a video television camera at me right now . small does he know I ’m just catching up on last night ’s celebrity gossip .
8:23 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Just expect for Jason to get here . question how traffic is come from the east bay … probably defective , as common .
8:30 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Everyone ’s talking about iPod but I think it do common sense to see raw iTunes today , too . I mean , that ’s no revelation but I did detect when reviewing snow leopard that iTunes was not rewritten in 64 - morsel . One of the few apps still aboriginal to os x in 32 morsel .
8:33 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Everyone thinks Apple ’s going to bestow a camera onto the Nano and Touch but , especially for the Nano , I think it ’s kind of a dumb idea . Maybe it ’s just me but I do n’t need another icky camera in my biography .
8:40 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Hey guy cable , turning off the live blog poll for for now . I ’ll let you know when its back on , so you could vote on the word . you could do it by select the love life / hate buttons , as many prison term as you want – it’ll count each vote and graph it with the ease of the votes from other readers – or strike H or L key while concentre on the flash contrivance . But that ’s subsequently . Oh , also , I forget what the event is called “ Only Rock and Roll ” , not get ’s Rock . I get these blame events confuse now .
8:41 AM ON Sep 9 2009
I ’d love to see a major iTunes refresh . possibly we could in the end get a “ play next ” function , like Winamp ’s had since about the last Ice Age .
8:49 AM ON Sep 9 2009
On Apple event mornings I like to sample to reckon which indie band Apple ’s sound to feature . My bet / promise for today : Discovery . You know , just indie enough to be hip joint but not so much they ’ll be shuddery to old folks .
8:50 AM ON Sep 9 2009
There ’s a crew of 20 one-time people with swords around the corner .
8:53 AM ON Sep 9 2009
its cold but sunny . The bunch is dressed in suits , generally .
8:54 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Brian and I are liveblogging in sunglasses , because 1 ) we ’re coolheaded rebel and 2 ) the sun ache our frail blogger eye .
8:58 AM ON Sep 9 2009
That treadmill ledge for laptops really exercise . I walk three blocks and was not winded .
9:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Someone asked me if there are going to be any surprise . I call up it ’s endure to be Grey ’s Anatomy in space . ( The seven of you who got that jest are high fiving yourselves now . )
9:02 AM ON Sep 9 2009
My press pass says “ 9.09.09″ but if I look down at it it looks like “ 06.06.6 , ” THE MARK OF THE creature . What are you trying to assure me , Apple ?
9:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
The usual people are here – analyst , media and other hoi polloi who I do n’t recognize . Bald count bear at about 8 .
9:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009Dan Nosowitz :
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Catering update : Apple ’s spread of fruit and breads is totally prosaic . Does this have an entailment for the issue to come in ? discourse . At length .
9:16 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Wilson Rothman :
9:17 AM ON Sep 9 2009
40 minutes left . Greg Grunberg is here , and I go for I spelled his name flop . gracious bozo , and looks exactly like he does on TV . It ’s like the makeup department said “ meh ” and moved on .
9:20 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Every time I see the tagline “ It ’s Only Rock and Roll ” I get down hum Billy Joel ’s “ It ’s Still Rock and Roll to Me . ” Please tell me I ’m not the only one .
I do n’t love why , but someone is eating a banana and it is uproarious to me .
9:22 AM ON Sep 9 2009
There is a 13 - class - old boy here . I trust for his cut-rate sale he does n’t do like I did when I was 13 and get inappropriate erecting .
9:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Think about the individual in your life that does n’t have an iPod already . consider about the last time he or she offered to yield for dinner party . you could’T CAN YOU ? !
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Oh and if you want to stick to us on Twitter , our names are on the masthead on the main Gizmodo.com page . And mine is @diskopo .
9:32 AM ON Sep 9 2009
I want to display my Zune in a striking place so everyone know my loyalty to documentary journalism ( and to buying shit on Woot ) .
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What are your 3 predictions for announcements today ? Mine are iPods , iPods and more iPods . But also a novel version of iTunes that forces your musical tastes upon Twitter and facebook .
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We ’re inside . citizenry are scramble for seating room , and I ’m thirsty .
9:50 AM ON Sep 9 2009
First three songs : Aerosmith ’s “ take the air This Way , ” The Who ’s “ Baba O’Reilly ” and Green Day ’s “ When I Come Around . ” Did n’t Apple used to be nerveless ?
9:51 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Thanks to the guy at Hypermac for their awesome outside batteries . keep open us a lot of battery shift / worrying .
9:53 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Eight minutes left . Put your sound on vibrate and state your coworkers you ’re go to be in a confluence .
9:54 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Eric Schmidt is here , despite having been kicked off the Apple instrument panel . It ’s like attending your honest-to-god high schooling ’s promenade after you were expelled for hooliganism and sent to the other high school under the bridge .
9:55 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Definitely “ rock ” songs toy today . No Coldplay or John Mayer . The break between Mayer and Apple has never been bigger . Please , someone just apologize already .
9:56 AM ON Sep 9 2009
I infer they ’re doing different decades with the music , since Hendrix is playing now . Super boring hooey though . If Steve want to adopt my Zune I can show him some good tunes .
9:57 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Hey , I ’m having some trope difficultness , but we ’ll be back in a minute , before things start out .
9:58 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Nevermind , that was just a bad transition . Another song ’s up now .
10:00 AM ON Sep 9 2009
The Stones are play .
10:01 AM ON Sep 9 2009
The lights are dimming , and something is happening soon . Get ready .
10:02 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Steve Jobs is on stage and is getting a standing standing ovation .
hand clapping , clapping , sustained applause .
10:03 AM ON Sep 9 2009
“ I ’m very happy to be here with you all . As some of you might know , I had a liver graft . ” He said he now has the liver of a 20 year previous who died in a car crash , and he give thanks him for his generosity .
Steve also wants to thank everyone in the Apple community for the “ heartfelt sustenance ” , and give thanks Tim Cook and all the other execs at Apple .
10:04 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Steve ’s voice seems a little act subdued than we remember , a little fleck of a gruff whisper , but all in all he seems able-bodied - corporal ( if still skinny ) .
10:05 AM ON Sep 9 2009
He ’s give way to have Phil Schiller join him for part of the presentation . In 2 + year , Apple ’s sell 30 million iPhones .
“ One of the intellect for that is the remarkable app computer storage . ” They have more than 75,000 apps , and users have downloaded 1.8 billion apps . That does not let in updates ( obviously ) .
10:06 AM ON Sep 9 2009
“ Today we have something young for iPhone and iPod Touch owners . ” It ’s iPhone 3.1 .
Now , Genius makes program mesmerism based on the apps you own in order – just like Genius for iTunes euphony .
10:09 AM ON Sep 9 2009
The 2d thing is ringtones to the iTunes store . They have 30,000 ringtones from the majors , and will be $ 1.29 .
iTunes is the number one medicine retailer in the world . They ’ve sell 8.5 billion birdcall , and there are 100 million accounts in iTunes . This take up to iTunes 9 .
10:10 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Something else new : Genius mixes – Genius applied to another surface area . 54 billion song submitted and analyzed since the Genius feature launched .
10:11 AM ON Sep 9 2009
wiz mixes is a Genius DJ playing Sung from your library that it thinks will go well together . iTunes will make 12 by default , and all you have to do is press one and it ’ll start playing indefinitely .
10:12 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Also new : improved syncing . So when you sync now you’re able to synchronise these playlists , but you’re able to now also take genres or artist forthwith from the Music sync tab key .
This applies to photograph as well , select event , people as well as albums that you ’ve already set up .
10:13 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Or movie , synchronise the most recent picture or something , and always consume one picture show .
What ’s even better is better app syncing for the iPhone , allowing you to manage page and app locations on iTunes now .
fresh “ base communion ” in iTunes lets you copy songs , movies and boob tube shows among the 5 authorise estimator in your house .
10:14 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Now you could sweep up song from other library into YOUR library and it will imitate it .
10:15 AM ON Sep 9 2009
Also , a redesigned iTunes entrepot that ’s well looking ( but not all that dissimilar from what you ’ve get a line before ) . It ’s “ cleaner ” , say Steve , but it does n’t seem like a immense parachuting .
Lastly , iTunes LP .
10:16 AM ON Sep 9 2009
For iTunes LP , it ’ll include videos , liner notes , deferred payment and other customized content that you used to get when you bought LPs in the past , except now it ’s digital .
10:17 AM ON Sep 9 2009
And now , Jeff Robin derive up for a demonstration of iTunes 9 .
10:18 AM ON Sep 9 2009
First he ’s going to show App Organization ( the rearranging of your apps on iTunes ) . select Applications and you ’ll get all the apps and page . you could cluck and drag apps from one page to another , or deselect apps from the remaining script side and not sync them . you’re able to also drag multiple particular at once .
10:23 AM ON Sep 9 2009
doubly - penetrate an app on the left - hand side will take you straight to the page that it ’s on . There ’s search ( type in the name and it ’ll show the app ) , and page rearranging , mean you could move whole pages up or down the waiting line .
Next , menage sharing . you’re able to reckon other people ’s library , as you’re able to now , and just select and trail song to your depository library . It ’ll disappear from the list of other multitude ’s library if you select to only show “ items not in my program library . ”
He ’s demoing the iTunes memory board now , and all pageboy have been redesigned to mate the newfangled style . There are also quick - sentiment popups for album , earmark you to see the integral album from wherever you are , instead of having to go into the album page .
Oh and Facebook / Twitter sharing : you could now press content and share links at once to them from the storage .
10:24 AM ON Sep 9 2009
As for iTunes LP , you could flip through picture and individual song , which expose words directly in iTunes for you to Karaoke along with .
10:26 AM ON Sep 9 2009
There can also be custom consultation ( in TV ) that come up with the iTunes LP purchases .
There are iTunes Extras for moving picture as well , pass on you extra feature ( think DVD duplicate ) but more interactive . And unlike .
10:27 AM ON Sep 9 2009
iTunes demonstration over . Steve Jobs is coming back on stage .
iTunes 9 is available today .
10:28 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Now , the iPod . Phil Schiller is coming up and taking over .
Apple ’s sold 225 million iPods to date .
I think our waiter trouble are over ? Let ’s hope !
10:29 AM ON SEP 9 2009
As for Marketshare , iPod ’s got 73.8 % , Sandisk has 7.2 % , and Microsoft has around 1 % . The residue is “ other ” .
The fast growing iPod is the iPod Touch .
10:30 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Apple ’s sold 20 million iPod touch . Add that to the iPhone issue and you ’ll get a big number of equipment that can run your apps .
Hey , we disabled the poll . Looks like you guys really liked clicking on it . Caused some problem with the waiter .
10:31 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Phil is going over the talking points of the iPod Touch ; the same things you already have it off . It run apps , playing medicine and watching TV .
10:32 AM ON SEP 9 2009
you could also use Genius Mixes ( the feature introduced in iTunes 9 ) on the iPod Touch , with the songs you ’ve already loaded onto there .
10:33 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Phil , the consummate salesman , is fail through the features of the iPod Touch as if it has n’t been available for 2 eld now .
10:34 AM ON SEP 9 2009
“ Not everybody ’s computing machine fits in your sac ” , Phil suppose , as he points to a photo of a beau thrust a Dell laptop computer into his ass pocket .
10:35 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Phil is comparing game on the PSP to the DS , saying they have no multitouch and that they ’re expensive . You even have to GO TO A memory board TO grease one’s palms A biz . Nobody ever say Phil does n’t have the ball to say thing like this on stagecoach with a straight face .
10:36 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Here ’s an image of the compare between the amount of iPhone games vs. the amount of PSP and DS biz . Misleading graph if anything , see as the amount of biz does n’t signal that they are all GOOD game .
10:37 AM ON SEP 9 2009
And now a montage of games from various iPod Touch Action Titles .
10:38 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Phil ’s inviting up Ubisoft to demo Assassin ’s Creed . It ’s NOT Jade Raymond , unfortunately .
10:39 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Assassin ’s Creed 2 is being demoed now . It ’s a sidescrolling plot , and has some moderately nice graphics .
you could even put your boldness into the want bill with the television camera . Does this have in mind that the iPod Touch is getting a tv camera ? ?
10:40 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Ubisoft is releasing this app on the same day as the Assassin ’s Creed game for cabinet .
10:41 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Their latest biz mixes medicine and racing .
Next up , Tapulous , which makes Tap Tap Revenge .
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Riddim Ribbon is their late biz , piddle you a “ DJ ” . You ’re “ racing ” down a track by tilting the phone , and you could choose different remixes of the current song you ’re on . you may flick the earphone up to jump and add usance sounds . The guy rope play the biz is really into it .
After you ’re done playing the secret plan you ’ll have made your own “ mix ” of the strain , which you may divvy up .
10:44 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Next is Gameloft . They ’re shipping 35 gambling titles in the App Store right now , with 20 million downloads .
Nova , a first somebody shooter , puts you into the shoes of a outer space marine . SPACE MARINE , how get along nobody ’s come up with this before ?
10:45 AM ON SEP 9 2009
The HUD looks a spate like Halo , and it feels quite a bit like Halo .
You use the odd side of the screen for the analog joystick , and the correct side to germinate . Plus the center for changing weapons .
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There will be multiplayer over Wi - Fi and Bluetooth .
Last is EA .
10:47 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Here ’s a game that ’s been around “ for over 20 twelvemonth . ” It ’s Madden , which has been announced already , and look like PlayStation 1 nontextual matter .
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The analogue stick control motion , just like the normal Madden , and John Madden gives super obvious advice , again , just like the normal Madden .
“ Usually the squad that work the least mistake will pull ahead the plot , ” declares Madden .
Need For Speed Shift , Command and Conquer and NBA Live are also make out to the App Store .
10:50 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Phil says the iPod Touch is the “ most affordable gateway to the App Store , ” which is honest .
10:51 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Phil says “ $ 199 is a magic price decimal point in the iPod securities industry . ” So , they ’re lowering the iPod Touch cost to $ 199 for the 8 GB rendering .
10:52 AM ON SEP 9 2009
The 32 GB will be $ 299 and 64 GB will be $ 399 .
Also , the $ 299 and $ 399 versions of the iPod Touch will be 50 % quicker , and run OpenGL ES 2.0 – the same as the iPhone 3GS .
10:53 AM ON SEP 9 2009
So , the 8 GB version is incline the older central processor and the 32 and 64 GB are running the newer one .
10:54 AM ON SEP 9 2009
There ’s an iPod Touch advertizement show off multiplayer by having multiple people play at the same time , show off interaction .
Next up is the iPod Classic . Today , there ’s a 120 GB version for $ 249 . They ’re going to raise the size of it to 160 GB for the same $ 249 .
B.Lam :
Then , the iPod Shuffle .
10:55 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Customers desire to “ expand ” the reach of headphones that work for the iPod Shuffle , which include metre by Dre .
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What ’s new ? young colors that ’s what . Black , silver , pink , gullible and grim . A low cost of $ 59 for 2 GB , in addition to the $ 79 at 4 GB .
All these ship today .
There ’s also a $ 99 limited 4 GB exemplar made of refined blade . Special Edition .
And here ’s Steve again .
10:58 AM ON SEP 9 2009
One more thing …
A TV tv camera ?
My hypothesis is a camera on the iPod Touch . But we ’ll see in a moment .
10:59 AM ON SEP 9 2009
He ’s compare a Flip at $ 149 with 4 GB of memory . “ So what are we gon na do ? ” They ’re proceed to habituate an 8 GB model , and it will be “ free ” . Yep , it ’s going to be on theiPod Nano . There ’s a camera and a mike .
There will be a speaker as well , for playback .
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“ So how good is it ? ” Steve shows a demonstration TV shot with the Nano .
He ’s make us take in the same lame video recording twice .
11:02 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Apple ’s sold 100 million iPod nanos to make it the “ most popular music player in the human beings . ” They ’re contribute voiceover , a superstar mix feature of speech , and FM wireless .
11:03 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Also , a pedometer and a part record-keeper . you could sync the pedometer flat to Nike+ as well , to keep track of your step .
B. Lam
And , new colors . “ We ’ve in conclusion calculate out how to do colors that are unthinkably beautiful . They ’re polished anodized Al . ”
There are two models . 8 GB for $ 149 and 16 GB for $ 179 . They ’re available today .
11:04 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Here ’s an ad for it .
We ’re bend off live refresh , so you ’ll have to chatter refresh to get fresh updates . Please , refresh !
11:05 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Now the obligatory Environmental Checklist . Arsenic , BFR , Mercury , PVC - barren .
11:06 AM ON SEP 9 2009
That ’s not it , Steve has some more to say .
“ Like you , we love music . There ’s no better way to prompt us all than to have a live carrying out . We are really prosperous today that Norah Jones is joining us . ” Norah Jones yay !
11:07 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Norah Jones is coming up on degree , and she look Norah Jonesey . Very overnice .
11:08 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Not only is she a great Isaac Merrit Singer , she was full in the Wong Kar Wai movie as well . The film itself was n’t all that fantastic , but SHE was adept in it .
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My knee hurts like a mofo from baby-sit so long . I am officially an old humanity .
11:11 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Here ’s a new song that they ’re go to release this November .
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So to recapitulation , no existent new “ design ” in any of the iPods , but there are some lower monetary value and novel feature . No television camera for the iPod Touch , but there is one for the Nano .
Steve Jobs is coming back on leg to give thanks Norah Jones .
11:15 AM ON SEP 9 2009
I feel like he ’s gon na say “ Goodnight everybody , stick around tuned for Craig Ferguson . ”
11:16 AM ON SEP 9 2009
Steve thanks everyone for come , and Brian , Dan and I thank you all for reading !
You guys really love pushing that clit so much that it crashed our machines , so we ’ll make indisputable to put more clit - handling in there for next fourth dimension . October , maybe ? There ’s always the pill .
11:17 AM ON SEP 9 2009
metre to get some hands - on with the new iPods . See you all shortly on the main Gizmodo page . BYE !
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