Shows us that Apple wasn't quite sure what to do at the time. They ended up not following Google but doing an app centric cloud.
Event 1
iPad announcement
post PC devices made up more than 3/4 of revenue.
(store are great)
IOS
315M devices, 62 just last quarter
iOS 5.1
Brings Siri to Japan
Camera slide
4G sign when on HSPA+ which some UK networks have
photostream individual pic deletion
50 MB download limit
App Store
585000 apps on store, 25 B downloads
iCloud
100M users
iTunes
1080p support for movies and tv shows
not double the speed as Apple uses better H.264 compression
you can redownload purchased content from iCloud. Like redownloading apps
Apple TV
New UI for Apple TV
thumbnails are how you get to each part of Apple TV services (apps!!!!???)
iTunes playlists from iCloud
Photostream has its own app
Genius movies integrated
Netflix with 1080p and 5.1 Dolby digital
custom one core A5 chip - Discuss!
March 16th release (pre-order now)- same price
iPad
"Users with a gaming console and portable console said the iPad was their favorite for gaming."
200000 apps, Tim makes fun of Android apps (demo of Twitter and Yelp app on GTab), that are just stretched up phone apps. True!
New iPad
Retina Display - "until you see it…" "higher res than display behind me" - 2048 x 1536, 264ppi
(they went on to explain how this can still be called a retina display even though ppi is lower than iPhone)
double the LEDs
44% better colour saturation
A5X dual core
Comes with 1GB RAM, double that of iPad 2
quad core graphics (makes a lot more sense than quad core processor - apps on iPad don't normally use many threads, games need it)
4 times faster graphics than Tegra 3 (which many Android apps do)
5 Megapixel "iSight" camera, optics from iPhone 4S (backside illuminated sensor, stabilisation and all iPhone 4S camera goodies)
1080p recording
voice dictation (not Siri)
4G LTE - 21Mbps HSPA+; 42Mbps DC-HSDPA; 73Mbps LTE (they demo the speed difference) - Verizon, At&t, Bell, rogers, telus - so America only - Hello?
one version of iPad to AT&T and one for Verizon (bands are different)
hotspot -Hello? iPhone!
Same battery life, even with LTE
Accorgind to ZDNET, 11,666mAh, 70% more capacity than iPad 2, the thing is just a big battery
slightly thicker, slightly heavier
Same Price on same sizes
pre-order now, march 16th release (US, Canada, UK, France, germany, Switzerland, Japan, HK, Singapore, Australia), then 23rd for a bunch more countries
iPad 2 cheaper - £329, same price on iPad 3
Bluetooth 4.0
Slight update to AppStore on iPad
btw, new iPad is called "the new iPad"
Apple supposedly getting over 50% margins on the LTE iPads
Pre ordering in US was taken down
Event 2
Demos
Namco - Sky Gamblers
Autodesk - Sketchbook Ink
Epic Games - Infinity Blade: Dungeons (HDR graphs and tone-mapping, whatever that means) - looks a lot more like WOW - very impressive graphics
more memory and Res than Xbox 360 or PS3
Garage Band update - smart strings, Jam session (multi iPad playing), iCloud, better sharing
iMovie update - advanced planning and editing tools (response to Avid), trailers ad 1080p
iPhoto (iPhone and iPad)
• new way of browsing through photos
• multi-touch editing
⁃ straiten photo based on horizon line
• effects
⁃ effects are applied in a very nice, candy way (effects similar to Instagram)
• brushes
• photo beaming
• photo journals
⁃ a bit like flipboard
⁃ you can ad tiles such as notes, quotes, weather, maps and more
• a lot of sharing
⁃ beam from one device to another
• does not use google maps
⁃ uses openstreetmaps without mentioning
⁃ old maps - April 2010
⁃ maybe because they don't want to pay google, I would guess they have an agreement on iOS only
⁃ steping away
What a nice looking App. This for me is another one of those apps that Apple creates to show developers how it's done, setting the bar.
Another step into moving people away from the couplex pro desktop computers. My worry is that you cannot have access to all your photos, not through memory or iCloud.
Also, why is it not free being part of iLife? I suppose you don't pay for OS updates like on the mac.
Shows us that Apple wasn't quite sure what to do at the time. They ended up not following Google but doing an app centric cloud.
iCloud with iWork and Mountain Lion will make this worthless anyway. You can actually see things getting changed, much like with Google Docs
Gossip Land
outlining a number of companies making up Apple's supply chain for the device.
Legal Fights
Updates
• iTunes
• iOS 5.1
• iBooks Author
• Garaband on Mac
• iPhoto on Mac
• Garage Band for iOS
• iMovie for iOS
• iWork on iOS
• Pages on iOS
• Numbers on iOS
• Keynote on iOS
• Remote app