Meta-meta pseudo-liveblog from WWDC 2010
As usual, I’ll be posting snarky comments about other people’s serious comments here1
11:01 am: Here’s my hoped for breakdown of the keynote:
- Steve Jobs announcing new products: 30 minutes
- Phil Schiller doing a speed runof Portal on an iMac and being blown away by it: 15 minutes
- Jony Ive talking about how his new industrial designs are better than the Mona Lisa: 5 minutes
- Full on flash bashing: 10 minutes
11:08: iPad (have you heard of it?) is apparently a “thing” that some people have “bought”
11:09: I have the Elements App. It was interesting for five minutes. I bought some iBooks. I have read them. I have far more than 2.5 per iPad.
11:10: iBooks will now be as cool as the Kindle reader on the iPad. (bookmarks, notes)
11:11: Ooooh, PDF in iBooks. Sorry, GoodReader!
11:13: “We are totally into Open, uncontrolled HTML5. As long as you do it our way. HTML5 isn’t standardized yet, you guys!”"
11:14: Apple rejects apps that crash. Kinda like my MS professors. Curse them.
11:16: Netflix really is pretty good on the iPad. And will probably be pretty good (if small) on the iPhone.
11:20: Oh crap. Not farmville for the iPad. Please no. Please please please no.
11:21 Not push notifications from your farmville farm. Please, please no.
11:23 Farmville Demo is over. Finally. I feel dirty now. Somehow.
11:25: Guitar Hero. I couldn’t really care less.
11:27: Let’s please get to something that isn’t a game, nkay?
11:29: If Steve starts marching around, sweating, clapping, and chanting ”Developers” I’m gonna cry.
11:31: Wait, there’s going to be a new iPhone? Who knew?
11:32: That new phone looks…familiar, somehow.
11:34: I’d really like an iPhone, but I really don’t want any AT&T stuff.
11:36: Wow, the new iPhone has ANTENNAE!
11:39: And PIXELS!
11:40: More about pixels. The new iPhone has better ones.
11:44: Network problems. Someone at Moscone West will be fired. Out of a cannon.
11:49: The new iPhone is full of not-very-interesting surprises.
11:51: It has a Gyroscope. I don’t know why.
11:53: Steve will now spend the rest of the keynote playing Jenga
11:54: the new iPhone has CAMERAS!
11:56: This pixel math sounds eerily like “Reganomics”. Video is useful.
11:57: iMovie for iPhone. Oh Man. Take that George Lucas!
11:59: As of next week, Pixar will make all their movies in iMovie for iPhone.
12:07: iOS 4. New features! Stuff! Less awkwardly-out-date name!
12:10: Things we already knew. But now we know them AGAIN!
12:13: Pandora: The only way to know that a mobile OS is worth anything.
12:17: iBooks on iPhone. It’s like Kindle, but better. Steve says so.
12:19: Winnie the Pooh on a very small screen, folks.
12:20: The notes you take will follow you. No matter where you go, no matter how you hide.
12:22: iAds. Connect emotionally to your customers’ wallets.
12:25: Target and citi want to have an emotional conversation with you in your iPhone apps.
12:26: What exactly is AT&T advertising on iPhones?
12:30: Ads are finally done.
12:33: “One more thing” is video chatting.
12:35: STEVE HATES YOUR WIFI
12:36: voice chat only works with Jonathan Ive, unfortunately.
12:38: Apparently it works with Babies too.
12:40: This will be some kinda industry standard or something.
12:41: AT&T will be semi-nice to you if you upgrade NOW
12:45: And that’s really about it.
12:49: Scott Forestall likes being excited about things.
12:54: Steve feels that a marriage of tech and liberal arts would work out well. Better than a marriage between techno music and folk songs.
12:55: And that’s all! It certainly is a new phone.
- I’ll answer questions about where we’ve been for the past month later [↩]


