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-Standing ovation for Tony Bennett, Phil is wrapping things up

-Now singing "I Left my Heart in San Francisco" (I'm sure someone out there is already working on an analysis of song choice)

-Everyone cheering loudly

-Tony Bennett singing "The Best is Yet to Come"

-It's fitting that we end our last Macworld keynote with an artist that has amazing music, a true legend in the industry: Mr. Tony Bennett

-Now we're remembering why we do this: Music

-This is available today (the iPhone stuff)

-Third thing is the iPhone: No longer the Wi-Fi music store, just the iTunes Music Store because you can download over WiFi and cellular networks. Same price as on the regular iTunes Store, same selection, same quality

-Really easy to go in and upgrade your entire library to DRM-free

-Worked with all the major music companies, starting today offering 8 million songs DRM-free, and by the end of the quarter there'll be 2 million more: all 10 million songs will be DRm-free (See chart below: our original interpretation was incorrect, back catalog isn't going to be tiered. Current catalog will be tiered.)

-The second thing we're doing is iTunes Plus (DRM-free music)

-First is price: There was one pricing model for all songs, 99 cents, but music companies want more flexibility. Starting in April, we're gonna give more flexibility with 3 pricing tiers: 99 cents, 69 cents, and $1.29. Phil says more songs will be 69 cents than $1.29.

-What's new with iTunes in 2009? Phil's gonna tell us three things

-World's largest music library, over 10 million songs, over 75 million accounts with credit cards

-Talking about the iTunes Music Store starting in April of 2003, now sold over 6 billion songs

-"One last thing..." which is iTunes

-In the ad, Apple calls Apple's notebooks the greenest in the world

-Now showing new TV ad for 17" MBP

-Green report card: arsenic free, BFR-free, mercury free, PVC-free system, highly recyclable, smaller packaging, longer-lasting battery

-One configuration and build to order any options you want. Same price as previously at $2799, base model is 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo/6MB L2/4MB DDR3, ships in late January

-If you ever do need to exchange it, there's a take-back recycling program

-Intelligent monitoring, adaptive charging, advanced chemistry: using discrete graphics you get up to 7 hours, if you use integrated graphics you get up to 8 hours

-Video is over, Phil is talking again

-Greener than ever, but Apple took it one step further, its lifespan is extended up to 5 years, fewer batteries end up in landfills

-There's a chip within the battery that talks to each individual cell and reports on its state back to the system, and the system adjusts the current appropriately

-Up to a thousand recharges, "more than 3x the charges on a typical battery"

-With the new battery cells, they expand the lifespan, reduce wear & tear on the battery as it recharges

-By creating custom-shaped cells, you can fill the space more effectively and customize it for all sorts of different sizes, using Lithium Polymer technology (this is all from the video)

-"When you design for a removable battery, there's a lot of wasted space"

-8 hours on a single charge, can be recharged up to a thousand times, more environmentally friendly computer

-Now showing video of engineers talking about battery technology and design

-Challenged engineers to develop longest lasting battery life. "Ever."

-"The one most innovative and greatest new feature: that's the battery"

-Works with the new cinema displays because of Mini Display Port

--2.93GHz processor, up to 8GB of memory, hard drives standard with 320GB or could upgrade to solid state drive of 256GB

-Showing off ports on the side, Phil says "And the integrated battery......... (long pause)... connector"

-60% greater color gamut, 700:1 contrast ratio, 140H/120V viewing angle, offering a glossy and matte version because high-end customers don't like glossy (people cheer)

-LED backlit display, 1920 x 1200

-Super-thin, 0.98 inches thin, "World's thinnest 17" notebook", and also the world's lightest at 6.6 pounds

-So these products are great, the new MacBook and 15" Macbook pro, and now we're gonna show you the 17" MacBook Pro

-All of the new notebooks are based on the precision unibody enclosure, "and it's working incredibly well, the customers love them, reviews have been fantastic"

-Third thing: the new 17" MacBook Pro

-Beta launches today, and you can get to it from the new iWork '09 applications shipping today

-In the end, it will be a fee-based service, but customers can send in feedback for beta right now

-"This is the beginning of a new service, customers can sign up free for the beta"

-Same applies to Keynote presentations posted to iWork.com

-In Pages, there's a menu item that says "Show shared documents" so you can go and look at a list of your shared documents on iWork.com

-"Can open them in Google Documents too"

-Both parties can leave sticky notes on the document, and leave notes to each other on the right hand side if they want, can download document to your computer if you want with the download button

-Browser view of the document looks just like Pages, except it's online. Very smooth looking.

-What the receiver sees is a new message that invites him/her to view the document on iWork.com, they click "View document," which launches the document in the browser on Mac or PC

-He's using Pages, there's a button at the top of iWork applications that says iWork.com, and it lets you share it with someone immediately (add people from your address book), and then puts it online with different formatted versions

-Now Phil is demoing iWork.com

-View documents, add comments, easily upload and notify, download a copy in multiple formats

-Lets you share documents with other people, invite other people to collaborate online with other people

-New service called iWork.com, announcing it in Beta

-Some customers haven't upgraded to Leopard yet but it can be expensive to upgrade to Leopard, iLife, iWork. Now there's a Mac box set with all of those for $169, shipping in late January when iLife ships

-"And that completes iWork '09," says Phil. It's $79, $99 for family pack, when you purchase a new Mac it's only $49, starts shipping today

-Now there are templates in Numbers, "rare for a spreadsheet application"

-If your chart is crosslinked between a Pages document and you update it in Numbers, it will automatically update in Pages, no re-cutting and pasting needed

-There are now table categories, easy formula writing (type in to search for functions, paste it into formula, easy to understand), advanced chart options (mixed chart types, charts with multiple axes, trend lines, error bars)

-Now Numbers '09: focused on filling out all those features that customers wanted

-40 new templates for newsletters, posters, create "really fun" flyers, certificates, business correspondence

-MathType & Endnote support

-Mail merge with Numbers: connects to address book, but also tables and lists that you set up in Numbers

-Dynamic outlines: start working on a doc in outline view, graphics inline if you want, different font sizes, lets you reorganize different sections, when you go back to page view it's all reorganized according to the outline

-Pages '09: first up is full screen view (kinda' like all those third-party apps that block out all the background stuff on your computer), lets you focus on what you're doing, ignore people IMing, etc.

-Vertical orientation shows you slide plus speaker notes, in horizontal it shows you your slide plus the next slide, flick with your finger and it'll go to next slide, and it sells on App Store for $0.99

-Just one more major new feature that's kinda' cool (says Phil): Keynote remote, an application to run on the iPhone or iPod touch

-"Beautiful" new themes like kyoto, showroom, brushed canvas, venetian "Those are just some of the new themes you can use in Keynote '09"

-Chart animations have been added: slide, rotate



(Demoing swing: from "Bush" to "Obama")

-Text transitions: swing, shimmer, anagram

-Now showing off new object transitions, like object zoom, object push up, and text transitions

-Talking about Keynote '09, adding new "Magic Move" that lets you show start and end points of objects and it'll transition on its own

-Now talking about a new version of iWork, iWork '09

-iLife is free on all new Macs, $79 for non-new Macs, upgrade to family pack for $99 for up to 5 computers in the house, will ship at the end of this month "Late January"

-Demoing another lesson, now with John Fogerty

-New section in Garage Band that lets you store all your lessons, as well as a built-in store where you can download the free bundled lessons and lets you purchase lessons for $4.99 per lesson

-such as John Fogerty, Patrick Stump, Sting for guitar players; Sarah McLaughlan, Ryan Tedder, Norah Jones on piano

-"We've enlisted the help of some amazing artists to help teach you to play their songs"

-Bundle Garage Band '09 with nine basic lessons for guitar and nine for piano for free

-Can turn on notation so you can learn to read music as well

-Now demoing the instructor video teaching guitar, and another teaching piano

-Brand new user interface. You can learn to play a guitar or keyboards, instructor above and a control at the bottom that lets you control the rate at which you learn

-Learn to play a musical instrument "Learn to Play"

-Now talking about the new GarageBand '09 "great new guitar effects, great way to jam, but we're not gonna tell you about those"

-People are cheering after watching the iMovie demo, Phil is back on stage

-Now showing off themes like comic book, scrapbook, filmstrip, photo album--these add titles and transitions with that theme

-Can create animated maps with starting and ending locations from your videos

-Can add video effects like cartoon, vignette, X-ray, aged film

-Now demoing video stabilization

-Making audio on the first clip extending beyond its end point and go into next clip, "this is a really complex edit"

-You can splice out audio and video, overlay audio over other video clips

-Andy Ubillos, the engineer behind iMovie '09, is now on stage demoing

-Video stabilization that takes out all the jitters in the movie, animated travel maps, dynamic themes, advanced drag & drop, precision editor

-When you drag videos into timeline, context-sensitive menus pop up

-Advanced users can bring up an expanded view of the timeline with audio, video, etc.

-New version of iMovie '09 has so much depth and power that the customer will be "blown away"

-Now talking about iMovie '09.

-Still demoing Places with Phil

-Contrary to some other sites' reports, there's no information on Steve Jobs going on right now ;)

- Now showing Places, can look at all photos created in a certain spot no matter when

-You can automatically create smart albums with photos of specific people (like your kids, family members, etc.)

-iPhoto then groups photos that it believes are the same person when you go into the Faces section. Pretty cool.

-When you click on a photo and click name, it automatically detects a face (or faces) in the photo and you can tag it with a name (functionality is very similar to Facebook's photo tagging)

-Schiller is now going to demo iPhoto '09 on stage

-One of the things that has been really popular has been the ability to print out photos and books, now Apple has updated with more themes and better printing. Now there are maps in the books based on geotag data too that shows where the photos were taken.

-You can also save the slideshows directly to iTunes and then sync to iPhone or iPod touch

-Demoing a few slideshow themes now (it's actually pretty cool)

-Also a great new feature called "Slideshow Themes"

-About Flickr, it reads the data sent up from iPhoto and people can automatically see the places where you took your photos (people are cheering at Facebook and Flickr support)

-If you have your Facebook account set up, it will sync the photo right up to Facebook already tagged with your friends' faces because of the face tagging, and can sync back down from Facebook with tags as well

-We noticed there are Facebook and Flickr buttons in iPhoto as well

-The maps are coming from Google Maps. "If you've used Google Maps on the web, you already know how to use this map." You can go down to street level, and satellite imagrey

-You can also associate locations with events, so you can enter an event location in iPhoto

-Figures out where your stuff is and identifies nearby locations, like Eiffel Tower

-Uses Geotagging that's built into cameras like Coolpix and the iPhone, etc.

-In addition to Faces, now there's Places. Now iPhoto can organize your photos around where they were taken. When you click on Places, you see a map that has pins where all your photos were taken

-It can find the same person across multiple photos, even

-iPhoto now uses face detection, which finds the face in the photo and lets you click on it and type in the name

-In addition to Events, now there's Faces. "Wouldn't it be great if iPhoto let you organize your photos with all your favorite people?"

-There's nothing as good as iLife on a personal computer. First up, brand new version of iPhoto: iPhoto '09

-An entire new version of iLife: iLife '09

-"If you wanna hear some new things today, I have three new things to tell you about"

-Last fiscal year, Apple had the biggest year in the history of the company selling 9.7 million Macs, and they did it by growing more than 2x as fast as the rest of the industry

-Today, we're gonna talk all about the Mac. Appropriate at Macworld.

-They want to come and touch an iPhone, an iPod touch, and yes, the Mac, "and that means so much to us"

-3.4 million customers visit an Apple Store every week around the world

-Customers coming to bring energy and love to all of Apple's stores, get help with the geniuses, getting one on one training

-Very exciting time at Apple, so much going on across all of the businesses around the world

-"I can't tell you how appreciative I am that you all actually showed up"

-Everyone is cheering. Not a very silent protest!

-Phil is coming out on stage

9:03am: Lights are going down, people are beginning to cheer

8:59am: Things are starting soon! They just told us to silence phones and pagers, so Phil is sure to come out in a few minutes.



Apple's iPhone PR guy Simon Pope watching over the crowd



The stage



People standing in front of the stage

8:45am: We're in the hall and sitting down. When the doors (or rather, door) opened, the media almost Walmarted everyone in front. Fun times!



The media waits to get into the auditorium



The line as of 8am PT this morning

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