Apple's Special Event: AppAdvice.com Is Covering It Live!
BY Alexander Vaughn on
Welcome to AppAdvice.com’s live coverage. We are so excited for this event to finally be here and you guys out there should be too! Come join in the festivities by commenting and sharing your thoughts with us as the event unfolds.
10:10 : The event just started.
10:12 – Steve Jobs just announced the iPad
It’s basically a big iPod with large apps
10:14 It includes the App Store, HD youtube and so on.
10:17 – It allows you to check your emails, surf the web (no flash here still)
10:20 – It features an on-screen keyboard
Allright, so far all we have is pretty much a big iPhone.
If it’s priced too high we might be getting disappointed
10:24 – It has a new iTunes
10:26 – Of course, It has videos, music and so on…
10:28 – Steve Jobs demoes movies.
10:29 – It’s .5 inch thin and 1.5 pounds
10:30 – It features SSD Storage, with memory up to 64 GB
10:30 – It can hold up 10 hours!
10:32 – Now focusing about the App Store!
10:32 – It runs all present apps natively!
10:36 All apps can be ran either on 1:1 or maximized for the screen
The developers can also adapt their apps to take advantage of the higher resolution
Apple believes this is going to be another gold rush for developers. The new SDK is available today.
10:44 – The NYT rumor gets confirmed. They just made a special iPad dedicated app :
10:46 – It seems like Jobs didn’t change his mind about Styluses. The iPad is very finger centric.
They are now demoing all kinds of apps. Brushes for example will let you draw
10:48 – There also is a need for Speed!
10:50 – Further coverage of individual apps, nothing interesting for now folks
Are you guys disappointed ? Feel free to share your thoughts!
10:53 – Jobs just announced iBooks, the Ebook readers Application for the iPhone
10:54 – It comes with an Ebooks Store
10:58 – It comes with a tablet-special iWork, it apparently has a revolutionary interface
11:00 – Phil Schiller comes on stage to present a touch-oriented keynote
11:08 – It’s getting slow in Cupertino – Still focusing on interface of iWork
The real news left now will be the price tag, it’s just a large iPhone so far, if it’s a $1000 they will have a tough time selling it.
11:09 – Still iWork, Spreadsheets now, it’s very much how you would imagine iWork on an iPhone I would say.
11:10 – It’s $9.99 each
They’re moving on now
11:12 – It syncs with iTunes, it’s compatible with Mac and PC. It’s just like an iPhone
11:13 – It features wifi n
some version come with 3G!
11:15 It comes with no contract, and you can get $30/month for unlimited data of $15/month for 250mb
International this summer… it uses micro-sim
11:17 – Jobs is making a recap now
11:19 It’s just $500 and it’s unlocked!
11:20 – It will hit america in 60 days, rest of the world in 90 days
That’s a long time!
11:21 – It comes with a keyboard dock
11:23 – Allright recap here,
- it’s a big iPhone
- it’s not going to be around for 60 days
- It starts at $500
- 3G costs extra
What’s your take on this ?
11:26 – They’re now showing off their traditional infomercials
11:30 – Steve Jobs is back on stage, he seems happy about the iPad. (Apple’s stock is going down)
11:32 – So it has 3 stores, iTunes store, App Store, and Ebook Store
11:34 – Ok, the event is off. No “one more thing”, no verizon, no firmware update
http://www.apple.com/ipad/ seems to be coming up seems like
11:35 – Thanks for following us, stay tuned on AppAdvice.com today, we’ll be detailing all of this today in depth.
Credit to Engadget for the pictures
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