Makuhari Messe, Chiba —
I am happy to report that I have two bars of wireless digital PHS cell coverage from the fourth row center of Makuhari Event Hall – a Go2Mac.com exclusive!
Steve, Phil and Avie were mingling around the front of the stage as the traditional Grateful Dead intro music [American Beauty] was playing over the PA system.
Note: several great pics from the keynote address can be found on the Mobile Dog Web site!
11:04 am Keynote address starts
- more Macs shipped than any previous quarter
- 1,350,000 shipped last quarter
- Q4 market share
- japan 7.8% market share, making Apple the #4 computer manufacturer
- first time buyers in the US – 30%
- in japan 50% FTB
- in japan new customrs 65%
- 93% interenet
- 62% first date
- 52% purchased goods on the interent
- 66% didn’t consider any other computer
iBook
- PC data Q4
- #1 selling consumer portable
- 21% FTB
- 15% windows
- 56% first portable in home
- 16% airmac installed
- 90% internet
- 70% purchased goods on the internet
iBook enhancements
- 2x memory
- 2x disk
- same price
- JPY198,000 64 MB, 6 GB, shipping this friday in Japan
iBook Special Edition
- graphite
- 366 MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- 6 GB
- JPY218,000
- ZZTOP Sharp Dressed Man (video)
- TV commerical airing in Japan tonight
- Jeff Goldblum (“Black tie optional”)
New Pro PowerBook! – PISMO
- same award winning design
- amazing performance
- 500 MHz G3
- fastest portable in the world
- 100 MHz ssytems
- ultra ATA66 disk drives
- ATI Rage Mobility 128
- Dual Firewire ports
- AirMac ready, antennas built-in
- 5 hour battery life, 10 hours with 2 batteries
- 2 models at same prices
- 400/64/6/DVD/JPY298,000
- 500/128/12/DVD/JPY398,000
- BTO option too on apple store
G4 Desktop
- 500 MHz
- 400/450/500 at the same or less
- 198,000/298,000/428,000
- Cinema Display shipping again
AirMac
- shipping in Japan this Friday
- 11 Mbps
- 150 feet away
- [steve is having slide problems]
- IEEE802.11
- All Mac Systems are Airport ready
iMovie/Desktop Movies
- 10% US 20% JP have made an iMovie
- 50% of users in Japan plan to make an iMovie
- “This is the coolest thing I have ever done with a computer in my life”
- iMove demo called “rex’s bath”
- importing music from CD or MP3
IBM ViaVoice
- IBM announcing ViaVoice Japanese today
- Kensaku Sugino, IBM Marketing Manager giving a demo
- demo transcribes Japanese perfectly according to translators
Apple.co.jp
- tabbed interface like the us site
- he did not announce iTools, iDisk for Japan
- solution is to use the American version
- localized version later this year
Mac OS X
- single OS strategy
- state of the art plumbing
- killer graphics
- designed for the Internet
- gentle migration
- all versions on one CD-ROM (Japanese, and other languages)
- 12month rollout
- jan – annc
- final beta – spring
- summer – on sales
- jan 01 – pre-loaded on all machines
- just shipped DR3 to developers
- Darwin
- Quartz, Open GL, QuickTime
- Classic API, Carbon API, Cocoa
- most computers ship with 8500 Kanjii characters in Japan
- high quality fonts cost about $10k per machine to license
- Mac OS X will ship with 17,000 kanjii characters
- licensed the fonts from Dynacom
- extended charachter set
- great design
- five weights and faces in 17,000 character
- another in 8,500 characters
- user interface: aqua
- steve jokingly posts a Mac 1984 Finder
- design goal of the UI: make you want to lick it
- demo: aqua
[Chiba, 12:22 keynote ends, Jason D. O’Grady]
