WWDC 2009: Apple keynote liveblog

9:49
Everyone’s getting into position. The big news of the moment is the musical soundtrack. French wizards Phoenix are currently on but Gizmodo are hoping for MGMT... and Coldplay. MacRumors and MacWorld are yet to gear up.

9:50
Apparently people appearing in the keynote had to get to the conference by 5am. That’s what Rolando creator Simon Oliver tweeted anyhow.

9:53
MacRumors is up. Rather prosaic post says “Seated in the main hall; awaiting the start of the keynote.” Gizmodo boasts their laptop has an 8 hour battery life.

9:56
Slashgear reports its MiFi personal wireless connection is getting scrambled. Geeks

9:58
We’re getting close. Phones are being switched to silent. Pulse rates are increasing. Hearts in mouths...

10:00
Lights dimming and we're off

10:03
Ye Olde PC versus Mac advert plays. Mac crowd loving it still

10:05
Apple marketing dude Phil Schiller is on stage talking about the 5,200 developers attending WWDC, from 54 countries.

10:06
Says the keynote will cover Mac, OS X, the iPhone and the iPod touch. Starting with laptop stuff

10:08
New 15" MacBook Pro with up to 7 hour battery life and more eco-friendly

10:10
Has SD card slot, up to 3.06 GHz Dual Core CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, up to 500GB HD. From $1,699

10:13
17" and 13" MacBooks also getting refreshed in terms of battery life, RAM, slots etc

10:17
MacBook Air range getting similar treatment, including a pricecut. So that's where some of the $29 billion warchest is going.

10:18
OS X Snow Leopard is now under the spotlight. Leopard is Apple's best selling software ever.

10:20
Sideswiping Vista and Windows 7. Snow Leopard will improve Leopard OS in 90% of areas.

10:24
General performance boosts. Install 45% faster. Working with images faster. Gain 6GB of HD space when you install Snow Leopard, thanks to new compression.

10:25
Safari 4 shipping for Leopard, Tiger and Windows. Fastest browser in terms of rendering and Javascript operations.

10:28
Now onto Quicktime X. Keeping the iPhone powder dry until the end, obviously.

10:30
Think this is sugar crash part of the keynote

10:33
Getting into the details of how fast Google Maps is and how Safari will track you favourite websites and let you know when they've been updated. Which is pretty lame.

10:38
Now a history of core technologies: 64-bit, multi-core and...

10:39
OpenCL, an extension to graphics standard OpenGL that enables GPUs to be used as co-processors.

10:43
Oh, my eyes. This is so dull. They're now talking about the Exchange software. Microsoft Office. Yawn.

10:45
15 minutes to go. We want iPhone. We want iPhone.

10:47
Snow Leopard will cost $29 for upgrade from Leopard.

10:48
Good. Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone software now on stage.

10:50
40 million iPhones and iPod touches sold globally. More than 1 million downloads of SDK. More than 50,000 apps on App Store.

10:53
Video of developers talking about how much they love iPhone. EA, Gameloft, plus general app devs Igloo, Airstrip. Also how great 3.0 OS will be for streaming and micro-payments.

10:55
Scott's now talking up some of the 100 new features in 3.0. Cut & paste...

10:58
Landscape mode...

10:59
MMS, although AT&T won't support it in the US until the summer.

11:00
Can now rent and buy movies from the device. Also TV shows etc

11:02
Parental controls, tethering for Macs and PCs using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth 11:03
22 carriers will support tethering at 3.0 launch, including O2, but not AT&T.

11:04
Safari on iPhone and iPod touch improved with form auto-fill, better streaming performance, HTML 5 support.

11:05
Support for 30 languages on each device. Find My iPhone feature - cue video from TV show 30 Rock.

11:07
Service via MobileMe. Can track down phone, call it, message it, wipe it remotely, and restore it too.

11:10
Micro-payments - these can only be used for paid apps.

11:11
Peer to peer support for finding players for local multiplayer modes.

11:13
Can integrate Google Maps into any app, includes games.

11:14
Push notification: these include pop-up alerts, sounds, and icon badges.

11:15
Gameloft's Mark Hickey coming out talk up 3.0. Asphalt 5. Can use music on your device in the game. Says game is console quality. Smooth framerate. Nice lighting.

11:17
Will also support Peer to Peer multiplayer over Bluetooth, worldwide multiplayer over Wi-Fi, in-game voice chat, extra content - 1 racktrack and 3 new cars for $0.99.

11:20
Can do neat medical stuff with Push notifications, such as viewing a patient's vital signs remotely.

11:21
Now focusing on app for newspapers, magazines and books with company ScrollMotion. Supports 50 magazines, 70 newspapers, 1 million books.

11:23
TomTom bringing navigational turn-by-turn app.

11:25
Has text-to-speech and there will be a in-car cradle.

11:28
Now our friends from ngmoco take the stage. Go Rolando 2.

11:29
Nope, it's Star Defense.

11:29
It's launched today at $5.99. BAM!

11:30
Will include head-to-head play anytime, anywhere plus 3.0 features such as updates and game packs when 3.0 launches.

11:31
Is time running out for a big iPhone announcement?

11:32
Now we've moved onto an educational app called Spark that links into a physical input/output device. Appleguy Scott is blowing up a balloon.

11:35
This is getting tedious - zipcar; an adhoc car rental service will use Maps integration to help people find cars.

11:38
Although you can remotely operate the horn and remotely unlock the door too.

11:38
Final app demo: Line6 and Planet Waves are working on an app to control your guitar and amp from your iPhone. Doesn't work.

11:41
Is the stage set for an Jobsian entry?

11:43
3.0 OS available worldwide on June 17th. $10 for iPod touch users. Free for iPhone.

11:44
All apps will now need to have parental age controls enabled.

11:45
Here we go. Build up to new iPhone devices...

11:46
New version of the iPhone - iPhone 3GS. S stands for speed.

11:48
"This is the most powerful, fastest iPhone ever made"

11:49
Supports OpenGL ES 2.0, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. No front facing camera. Has rear 3MP with auto-focus. In general, speed bump is around 2x old iPhone.

11:51
Has video mode. 30 frames per second, VGA resolution with audio, auto-focus, auto-white balance, auto-exposure.

11.53
Has neat trimming feature to edit. Can upload to YouTube, MobileMe, MMS and email. Video will get an API so developers can integrated into apps.

11:55
Has voice control fo triggering contacts and apps such as playlist and music playback. And a built-in digital compass.

11:57
Has data encryption including remote wipes of device and encrypted iTunes backups.

11:58
Big improvement in terms of battery life. with up to 9 hours of surfing, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, and 12 hours of 2G talk-time and 5 hours of 3G talk-time claimed. (Obviously not all at the same time but individually).

12:01
Available on June 19th for $199 for 16GB model and $299 for 32GB.

12:02
The iPhone 3G 8GB will continue to be sold at reduced price of $99 from today. It effectively now becomes the entry level model.

12:04
iPhone 3GS will launch in US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and UK. More countries as the summer rolls on.

12:05
And that's a wrap. Time to get a big fatboy American dinner in a diner.