WWDC 08 — Keynote live…

11:46 22 countries july 11, max $199 price

11:45 and the price is….$199 for 3G 8GB, $299 16GB (white too), (no 32GB)

11:43 70 countries — no china or russia but everywhere else (aside from most of africa)

11:38 improved battery — and GPS! — now does tracking (too cool)

11:32 full plastic back, solid metal buttons, camera, same dim, flush hp jack, improved audio

11:31 iphone — cheaper! today get 3G!

11:27 mobile me replaces .mac — $99, available with sdk 2.0 — *early* july

11:21 mobile me — drag and drop very very impressive

11:13 personal dist of the iphone
also about to talk about mobile me (exchange for the rest of us)

11:10 10MB or less, can use cell/wifi

11:08 2.0 sdk released at end of july — 9.95 for ipod touch

11:01 going to get notifications!!! (but won’t be background processes?) — shared apple service doing push notification — (badge, sounds, alerts) — no big data — single connection to apple service
end of sdk update

11:00 end of demos

10:58 digital legends entertainment — krull — very cool game

10:54 MIMvista — medical imaging — multi dimensional slides — very cool (but not a doctor)

10:51 modality — medical — learning medicine

10:48 mlb.com at bat, if I was a baseball fan, would be good

10:46 band (solo developer) very cool — like garage band for iphone – blues player was just too cool

10:42 pangea — 2 games: enigmo (physics based touch game) very cool, croman rally — racing game for cave men, generic racing game — 9.99 each

10:39 associated press — does streaming video — plus sharing of photos/text — free

10:36 typepad — professional blogging — I had this idea for the phone, but not surprising that someone did this really well — free

10:33 loopt (some kind of location + social network program) — very cool — a mobile friend + blogging tool — free

10:31 ebay — online auctions – free

10:30 super monkey ball — looks awesome! makes me want to play it now– $9.99

10:27 sdk demos — first is sega

10:16 watched enterprise video…now getting an overview of the sdk

10:06 Jobs has arrived

10:05 saw Al Gore is here (is the rest of the board here too?)

10:02 Sitting down…waiting for things to begin…

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