[UPDATE: Event over; iPhone 4 is here. And it’s awesome.
Of course, the best part of the demo was when Steve Jobs had network connectivity issues while trying to demonstrate the new, super high definition screen:
Yeah… somebody‘s getting fired. Heh. To make matters worse (and more hilarious), at one point, Jobs asked for suggestions from one of his techies, and someone in the audience yelled out, “Try Verizon!” HAHAHAHA.
Last but not least, here’s an ad for the new “FaceTime” video-chat program, whose blatant emotional manipulation touching family images are sure to give you (carefully engineered and manufactured) goosebumps:
I don’t recall the radiologist having Wi-Fi in the patient rooms when Becky was pregnant — which would be necessary for the scene depicted at the end to actually happen, since FaceTime only works via Wi-Fi. Also, FaceTime requires both ends of the conversation to have iPhone 4s; it’s not even compatible with iChat. Since these are software issues, not hardware issues, those “features” (or lack thereof) will undoubtedly change with time. For now, though, a bit underwhelming for a “one more thing,” methinks.
Having said that, it’s conceivable I may actually be buying my first iPhone in the near future. We shall see. I note, in passing, that they go on sale four days after Father’s Day. Hmm… 🙂
Original post below.]
At 11:00 AM Mountain Time, Steve Jobs will officially announce what we already know, thanks to those enterprising journalists/thieving rat bastards at Gizmodo: OMG IT’S A NEW IPHONE AND IT HAS A HIGHER-RESOLUTION SCREEN AND A FRONT-FACING CAMERA AND OMG IT’S AWESOME!!!!1!!! And, er, he’ll probably also tell us some stuff we don’t know. I won’t be liveblogging, per se, but these folks will:
MacWorld
Mac | Life
Mac Rumors Live
Apple Insider
Gdgt (they had the best, most reliable, non-crashing iPad liveblog coverage)
Engadget
Ars Technica
New York Times Bits Blog
Wired
Technologizer
Mashable
Also, for those of you who aren’t boycotting Gizmodo — which, for some odd reason, wasn’t invited to today’s event, go figure — they’re doing “a consolidated, meta liveblog with the help of other sites like gdgt, Ars Technica, Mac Rumors, Wired, Technologizer, NYT, Mac Life, and Apple Insider.” Sounds like a helpful one-stop shop, if it works.
Meanwhile, anything I tweet (or, more likely, re-tweet) will appear automatically in the window below:
UPDATE: I’ve created a Twitter list for WWDC. It’s following 79 accounts of folks who are there, and/or are live-tweeting the event. You can watch that list’s latest posts live below:
Hmmm, I didn’t know until today that Helen Thomas is the daughter of Lebanese immigrants. That at least explains some of the animosity of her comments.
ZOMGFARMVILLEISONIPHONEANDIPADAHH!!11111oneoneoneone!111!!231#!4151%!45!#@$ (Note: this is a joke.)
I think one of the things affecting Jobs connectivity was the amount of media types sending updates via their MiFis. Which means this may be the last keynote we get to follow in real time with pictures. It’ll have to be determined what caused the issues with his network connectivity, but a lot of stray WiFi signals in the room from tech journalists strikes me as plausable.