TAT: One of the regulatory genes of HIV. Three HIV regulatory genes- tat, rev, and nef-and three so-called auxiliary genes-vif, vpr, and vpu-contain
information necessary for the production of proteins that control the
virus’s ability to infect a cell, produce new copies of the virus, or
cause disease. The tat gene is thought to enhance virus replication.
See nef; rev.

Livid’s Immortal

The game is on! Keep refreshing this page for a steady stream of updates. The keynote should get rolling sometime after 9am PST.

7:54am
- We’re here, standing in line waiting to get in. People have been
camped out since 9pm last night, there are at least three or four
thousand people here minimum. Security detail is unreal.

8:11am - Paul Otellini and the CEO of Quanta are here, in the VIP line.

8:23am - Yup, Apple Store is down!

8:56am - We’re in! Almost the same seat as last time we did this.

8:57am
- Everyone’s shuffling in — including Jobs’ family, who just rolled
past. When the press barrier came down it was a mad rush to the
elevator, people being trampled.

9:06am - Apple’s standard
tracks are playing: Gnarls Barkley, Coldplay, Gorillaz. You’d think
they’d cycle through some of these tunes.

9:12am - “Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Macworld 2007 keynote address.” Just a few minutes more now here.

9:14am - Ok, here we go. They’re playing James Brown. Unreal applause for Steve, he’s wearing the classic Jobsian garb.

9:15am - People are standing on seats. “We’re going to make some history together today.

9:16am
- “It was just a year ago we announced we were going to switch to
Intel. A huge heart transplant. A beautiful seamless version of OS X
for Intel processors. Our hardware team got to cranking out a new Mac
with Intel processors every month.”

9:17am - “We’ve had an
extremely successful year, I want to thank our users very much. Our
retail stores are selling half their Macs to people who’ve never owned
a Mac before. Switchers. More than half the Macs sold in the US are to
switchers.” “Here’s a new one soon, Jim Allchin from Microsoft.” Heh.

9:18am - They made a Vista ad. Hodgman and Long; he’s in a hospital gown, going into “major surgery” upgrading to Vista.

9:20am
- “2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac. Over the next several
months we’re going to roll out some awesome stuff for the mac. The
first thing I’d like to do is give you an update to our music
business.” Introducing the 5G iPod, nano, and shuffle — “It’s the
world’s most popular video player by a wide margin, and the new nano is
the world’s most popular MP3 player by a wide margin. The shuffle is
the world’s most wearable MP3 player.” Chuckles. “We have sold over two
BILLION songs on iTunes.”

9:21am - “There was an article recently stating that iTunes sales
have slowed dramatically; I don’t know what data they’re looking at…”
shows chart with insane upward slope. “We are selling over 5 million
songs a day now. That’s 58 songs every second… the last time we
talked we were the fifth largest music retailer in the US. We have now
passed Amazon, we sell more music than Amazon and we are now #4.”

9:22am
- “And you can guess who our next target might be.” [#3 is Target] “I’m
very pleased to report we have sold 50m TV shows. Let’s go on to
movies… when we decided to sell movies, Disney was our pioneering
partner. In the first four months of selling movies we have sold 1.3
million movies on iTunes. And today we have a new partner selling
movies on iTunes — that partner is Paramount.” Loud applause, people
love Paramount. Tomb Raider, Italian Job, Wrath of Khan, Chinatown,
Zoolander, School of Rock, Sum of all Fears. “We are moving up to over
250 movies offered on iTunes.”

9:23am - “As I said, we have a
very strong lineup of players this holiday season. We had a new
competitor this holiday season, Microsoft’s Zune. How’d they do? They
garnered 2% market share in November 2006… we don’t have data for
December. No matter how you try and spin this, what can you say?” Zune
goes aflame. Oh, Steve.

9:26am - New ads. Same vibrant colors
dancing spastically on black background to indie rock. It’s a party up
in here. “Just to let you in on our process a little bit — these guys
are incredibly creative, they just couldn’t stop. They took these same
dancers and came up with what you’re about to see…” another ad, same
but this time with graffiti-esque background. Those will be running
shortly. “Now I’d like to talk about a product we introduced in
September. It’s called Apple TV.”

9:27am - “You should go with your codename — I might call this iTV
five times, but it’s Apple TV. You can buy great content on iTunes…
and you can put that content on your iPod. Now you can buy a widescreen
TV and hook up an Apple TV to it, and wireless transmit that content to
your bigscreen TV. It’s that simple. Let’s look at the back to refresh
ourselves. USB 2, Ethernet, WiFi, HDMI, component, audio, and optical
out.” Same as it was September, no real surprises here.

9:29am
- “Let me tell you more about what this box does. 720p high def video.
It’s got a 40GB hard drive, which comes in handy for something I’m
about to show you… and 802.11b/g/n, and an Intel processor. It’s a
really cool box. It works with video, music, and photos. You can
auto-sync content from your PC, and you can stream content from up to 5
computers.”

9:30am - “Let’s examine this in a little more detail. Just like in
iTunes you can setup your Apple TV — take my 10 most recent unwatched
movies and it’ll automatically stream in the background to Apple TV and
be stored on the hard drive. So whenever I got to watch something,
they’re there. I can stream wirelessly from five computers. I can watch
it from other computers in the house but it’s not stored on the hard
drive. PCs or Macs, I just choose the computer of my life.” [A MacBook
Pro.]

9:31am - Showing screensaver, shows your photos on your TV. Here’s
what it looks like, Movies, TV shows, Podcasts, music… we have all my
movies that are stored on my Apple TV. I can also look at theatrical
trailers, streaming right from Apple.com.” I’m gonna watch one called
the Good Shepherd, let’s watch this… ” It’s demoing live, but somehow
we doubt this is 720p, especially on a 40-foot screen. Whatever it is,
it looks pretty good. “You can sit on your couch and watch theatrical
movie trailers on your Apple TV. Let’s play Zoolander, here…”

9:33am - “So that’s movies, now let’s go take a look at TV shows
here. Again, it’s incredibly cool, let’s check out Heroes.” Demoing
more video.

9:36am - Still demoing… ok, we’re back. “Well, that’s TV shows. Now
let me show you music. Now iTV is– heh, Apple TV… it turns out it’s
awesome for listening to music on your home theater system. Let me go
down into playlists here, I’ve got a favorites playlist, I’ll just
shuffle some songs to show you what it’s like playing some music.”
Slick black iPod-like interface on screen, CoverFlow… it flips the
image. “It does that so it doesn’t burn a hole in your plasma TV.”

9:37am
- “Now let’s go to photos — these are high def, we can see your photos
right on your TV. Here’s an example of a photo album I made…”

9:38am - “What I’ve been demonstrating so far is primarily content
synced from my computer. Now let’s connect to someone else’s
computer… Phil Shiller my neighbor has come over.” Phil’s on stage.
Phil’s carrying a BlackBook — showing the streamed interface, looking
through 30 Rock.

9:39am - “Thank you Phil! That is Apple TV.”

9:40am
- “We think this is pretty cool. Movies, TV shows, music, and photos
all on your widescreen TV. Priced at $299.” “And, we’ll be shipping
them in February, we’ll be taking order starting today.” “Enjoy your
media on your bigscreen TV, we think this is really going to be
something special.” Steve takes a swig. “Ahem.” Apple logo.

9:41am
- “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half
years.” “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that
changes everything. One is very fortunate if you get to work on just
one of these in your career. Apple has been very fortunate that it’s
been able to introduce a few of these into the world. In 1984 we
introduced the Macintosh. It didn’t just change Apple, it changed the
whole industry. In 2001 we introduced the first iPod, and it didn’t
just change the way we all listened to music, it changed the entire
music industry.”

9:42am - “Well today, we’re introducing THREE revolutionary new products. The first one is a widescreen ipod with touch controls” The crowd goes wild. “The second is a revolutinoary new mobile phone.”

9:43am
- “And the third is a breakthrough internet communications device.”
Tepid response on that last one, but he almost got a standing ovation
on the phone. ‘

“An iPod, a phone,
an internet mobile communicator. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile
communicator…. these are NOT three separate devices!”

“And we are calling it iPhone!”

“Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is…” It’s a gag image, cheers.

9:44am
- “Before we get into it, let me talk about a category of things …
the most advanced phones are called smartphones. They typically involve
a phone, have plastic little keyboards on them, the problem is they’re
not so smart and they’re not so easy to use. If you make a biz school
101 graph, cellphones are at the bottom… smartphones are a little
smarter, but they’re harder to use.”

9:45am - “We don’t want to
make either one of these things — we want to make a leapfrog product,
smart and easy to use. This is what iPhone is.” How the hell are they
calling it iPhone, now? Linksys? Cisco?

9:46am - A revolutionary UI, the result of years of development –
the result of years of development.” Shows Q, Treo, E62, BlackBerry.”

9:47am
- “The problem is really in the bottom 40% — keyboards that are there
whether you need them or not. They have control buttons that are fixed
in plastic. Every app wants a different button. You can’t add new
buttons. How do you solve this problem? We solved this problem — we
solved it in computers 20 years ago. A bitmap screen that can display
anything we want — with a pointing device.”

“So
how are we going to take this to a mobile device? Get rid of all the
buttons, and just make a giant screen. So how are we going to
communicate? We’re going to use a stylus — no. Who wants a stylus??
Yuck!”

9:48am - “So let’s not use a stylus, we’re going to use
the best pointing device in the world — our fingers. We have invented
a new technology called multi-tuch. It works like magic, you don’t need
a stylus, far more accurate than any interface ever shipped, it ignores
touches, mutli-finger gestures, and BOY have we patented it!

9:49am
- “We have been very lucky to have brought a few revolutionary user
interfaces to the market — the mouse, the click wheel, and now
Multi-Touch. Each has made possible a revolutionary product, the Mac,
the iPod, and now the iPhone. We’re going to build on top of that with
software. Software on mobile phones is like baby-software. Today we’re
going to show you a software breakthrough. Software that’s 5-years
ahead of what’s on any other phone.”

“iPhone runs OS X!”

Huge
cheers. “Why would we want to run such a sophisticated OS on a mobile
device? It’s got everything we need. Mulittasking, networking, power
management, graphics, security, video, graphics, audio core
animation…”

“9:51am - It let us create desktop class
applications and networking, not the cripled stuff you find on most
phones, these are real desktop applications.” He’s quoting Alan Kay
-”People who are really serious about software should make their own
hardware.” “So we’re bringing breakthrough software to a mobile device
for the first time.”

“The second thing we’re doing is we’ve
learned from the iPod, it syncs with iTunes. People know how to sync
all their media with their iPod. iTunes is going to sync all your media
to your iPhone — but also a ton of data. Contacts, calendars, photos,
notes, bookmarks, email accounts…”

9:52am - “We do that through iTunes.” It shows 8GB on the screen.

9:52 - “The third thing — I want to talk a little about design. We’ve
designed something wonderful.” 3.5-inch screen, highest resolution
screen we’ve ever shipped, 160ppi. There’s only one button, the “home”
button.

“It’s
really thin, thinner than any smartphone. 11.6mm, thinner than the Q
and the BlackJack, all of them. Ring and silent, volume up and down.”

9:53am
- “We have a 2 megapixel camera built right in, let’s take a look at
the top. A headset jack, 3.5mm, SIM tray, and a sleep-wake switch.
Let’s look at the bottom, we’ve got a speaker, mic input, and an iPod
connector.”

9:54am - We’ve also got some stuff you can’t see — 3 advanced sensors.
It’s got a proximity sensor, bring the iPhone to your ear and your
display shuts off and toushccreen shuts down. Ambient light sensor –
adjusts brightness, saves power. Third thing is an accellerometer, it
can tell whether you’re in landscape and portraid. Let’s turn it on.”

Cingular.

9:55am
- “Let’s start with the iPod. You can touch your music. Widescreen
video, you can find your music faster, gorgeous album art, bilt-in
speaker, CoverFlow, why not?”

“Let me show it to you..” Demo time!

9:56am - iPhone is up on screen. He’s got digital video running out. He’s starting the power on, and has a gesture. Unlocks the phone by sliding finger across — something you can’t do by accident in your pocket.

9:57am - “Here’s the home screen –
simple icons. Push this icon — boom, I’m in the iPod. How do i scroll
through my list of artists? I just take my finger and I just scroll.”
Loud cheers, people are starting to lose it a little. He’s picked the Beatles… a sign of things to come?

9:58am - Everything is totally
touch, big shiny icons. “I turn my unit landscape mode, and look what
happens! “it goes into CoverFlow… not the fastest scrolling. We
wouldn’t exactly say it scrolls like butter — but close.

9:59am -”I just pick something and play something — it’s that easy.” Plays more. “It’s that simple, isn’t that great?”

“I’ve also got audiobooks, I’ve videos. I’ve got TV shows and movies, this is an episode from the Office…”

10:01am - Touch play control overlays… it looks really good. You can
drop into widescreen or pan and scan mode. “Again, on-screen controls,
is this cool?”

10:02
- “So that is the iPhone. Pretty cool, huh? We’ve just started. So
again, touch your music, scroll through your songs and your music. “

10:03am
- “It’s unbelievable. Here’s some album art… no matter what you like,
it looks pretty doggone gorgeous. … with onscreen controls. I was
giving the demo to someone a little while ago, and I finished the demo
and I said what do you think? They said ‘You had me at scrolling.’”

10:04am - “We want to reinvent the phone. What’s the killer app?
The killer app is making calls! It’s amazing how hard it is to make
calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before
– sync your iPhone with your PC or mac. Visual voicemail — wouldn’t
it be great if you didn’t have to listen to five of them to list to the
sixth? Just like email you can go directly to the voicemails that
interest you. iPhone is a quad-band GSM + EDGE phone.” No 3G! “We have
WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0″

10:05am - “This is what it looks like when you get a call — this
is one of our ringtones. I want to show you the phone app, photos,
calendar, and SM messaging. The kind of things you’d find on a typical
phone. So let’s go ahead and take a look. So let’s go to our phone
first, the phone icon in the lower left corner? Boom, I’m in the phone.
I have favorites, contacts, …” Whoa, they put Jonathan Ive’s phone number up on screen. Ummm… not smart Steve, I hope that’s a PAYG line.

10:06am - “I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to make the first public phone call with iPhone.” It’s in speakerphone mode.

10:07am
- “I remember when we first started working on this…” Phil Schiller’s
on the other line. “Steve, I wanted to be the first call!”

10:08am
- “Hey listen, Phil called, you mind if I conference him in? I just
push that right here and now I’ve created a conference call. “Attendees
scrolling up on top. “So here we are and listen, I have to get back to
my keynote… Johnny, do you have anything to say on the first phone
call?” “It’s not to shabby, is it?”

10:10am - “Phil, thanks very much I
gotta get back to the keynote now.” Demoing favorites, it looks pretty
easy, no doubt. “It’s that simple to edit these things. I’ve got
recents right here, I can see all my recent phone calls… and those
are all the calls I’ve placed or have gotten. If I want to dial the
phone and I’m real last century, I can dial the numbers.” Dialing
digits, the numbers get smaller as he dials. “Now let me show you
visual voicemail, this is a collaboration which I’ll talk more about
later. It allows us to have random-access voicemail. Oh, there’s a
voicemail by Al Gore.”

10:11am - Tim Cook’s voicemail was of revenue results: “You know, this can wait until later…” Laughter.

10:12am - “I can have multiple SMS conversations. Here’s the
conversation I’ve been carrying on [shows QWERTY keyboard on screen].
I’ve got this little keyboard that prevents error, it’s really fast to
type on, faster than the little plastic keyboards on all those
smartphones. ‘Sounds great, see you there.” Some predictive text it
seems, he’d probably rock this thing faster with thumbs. “I can just
pick up that conversation where I left off.”

10:13am - “The third app I want to show you is Photos — we also
have the coolest photo management ever. Certainly on a mobile device,
but I think EVER. Let me go to photos, scroll through here… to go
through pictures I just swipe them. There’s one that’s landscape, I can
just turn my device and there it is. I can swipe while I’m in
landscape.” Audience guy: “Awesome.” Steve: “Isn’t this awesome??”

10:15am
- “So photos, SMS, and the phone app — that is part of our phone
package for iPhone. Really great call management, scroll through
contacts with your finger, all the information at your fingertips.
Favorites, last century [shows dialer], calendar, SMS texting,
incredible photo app, the ability to take any picture and make it your
wallpaper. I think you’ll agree… we’ve reinvented the phone.”

10:14am - I can just take my fingers and I can move them together and
further apart, and make the photo bigger or smaller.” HUGE applause –
touch gesturing apparently really hit a chord with these people.

10:16am
- “Now let’s take a look at an internet communications device. We’ve
got some real breakthroughs here. We’ve got rich HTML emails on iPhone.
It works with any IMAP or POP3 email service. We wanted the best web
browser on a phone — so we picked the best one in the world, Safari.
We have Safari running on iPhone — it’s the first fully-usable browser
on a cellphone. We have Google Maps.” Big applause.

10:17am -
“We have widgets, it communicates with the internet over WiFi and EDGE
– you don’t have to do anything, it connects to the WiFi seamlessly.”

10:18am - “It connects to any POP3 or IMAP email — Yahoo Mail, MS
Exchange, Mac Mail… POP3: Gmail, AOL mail, and most ISPs… let’s
highlight one, Yahoo mail. Today we are announcing Yahoo will offer
free push-IMAP email to iPhone customers. This isn’t just IMAP, this is
push-email, same as a BlackBerry.”

10:19am
- “I’d like to show you mail, Google maps… I’ve got my inbox here,
this is running live on Yahoo IMAP email. I’ve got inline photos,
rich-text email. Let’s look at another one… again, inline photos,
rich text. Shopping list, rich text, pretty cool. iPhone parses out
phone numbers, they’re in blue and I can just call this place.”

10:20am -

“I can look at my
email in a split view, just like I’m on my computer. I like the
fullscreen view — we have the standard inbox, drafts, all the folders,
real email just like you’re used to, right here on your phone. Again,
free IMAP email from Yahoo. Let me create an email message, let me show
you what that’s like… I just type PH and boom, address completion.”
He’s typing slowly… but hey, he’s only got one thumb since he’s
holding the device for the demo. We can’t wait to see it in landscape.

Now I want to show you somethign incredible, I want to show you
Safari running on a mobile device. I’m going to load in the NYT, rather
than just give you the WAP version, we’re showing you the WHOLE NYT web
site. I can put this into landscape mode and there it is, I can scroll
up and down here…”

The resolution is unbelievable looking from back here. We don’t yet know the dimensions, but It looks unbelievably fine grained.

10:23am - “I can double-tap and it’ll zoom in — I can make this text
bigger if I want to, and there it is. Isn’t this cool? There is the New
York Times. Unbelievable. You can look at multiple web pages as well, I
just push this button in the corner, shrinks it down, and I can add a
new page. Let’s go to Amazon. I like looking at what DVDs are selling
– I like especially when Disney DVDs are on top.”

10:24am
- Page is loading, albeit a bit slowly. “And here we are, and there’s a
section over here, and these are the top sellers. Oh look, Als’ An
Inconvenient Truth is number one. Now I can go back to the NYT if I
want, I can get rid of these by just hitting the X.” Looks a bit like
the UIQ browser, but much more slick.

10:25am - “I hope you
never really know how incredible this is… it’s bad out there. This is
a revolution of the first order. I’m going to load stock information
off the web, and right onto the phone here.” Apple’s shares up over
$2.50. Ha.

10:26am - “I can go look at the weather, let’s see
what it’s like outside… 49 degrees, but we’ll just stay in here until
it warms up.” Showing various time zones, scrolling left and right.
“Now, to conclude with the internet device section, I want to show you
google Maps on iPhone — it comes up and I’m going to go to Moscone
West. And here we are, boom, I’m going to want a cup of coffee
afterwards, so I’m going to search for StarBucks.” Shows Gmaps POI info
including number and address, which drops right into the dialer. He’s
calling StarBucks.

“Yes, I’d like to order 4000 lattes to go please. Sorry, wrong number thank you!” Huge laughs, huge applause.

10:29am
- “Pinch if I want to, or I can double-tap to zoom in. Let’s go
somewhere else…” People are rapt, everyone is actually literally
leaning forward and on the edge of their seat. We’ve never seen a
presentation like this before.

“Isn’t
that incredible? Right on my PHONE! Look at this, the Eiffel tower –
isn’t that incredible? Here’s the last one, the colliseum in Rome.”

10:30am
- “All these amazing things — this is a breakthrough internet
communicator built right into iPhone.” Reviewing the features…
“Incredible new technology for entering text, a real browser on the
phone, we can zoom in, Google maps, Widgets… it’s the internet in
your pocket for the first time ever. You can’t really think about the
internet without thinking about google.”

10:31am - “From google
what we have on the phone is google search built right into the browser
and google maps. We’ve been working closely with them.. it’s my
pleaseure now to introduce Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO.”

10:32am - Eric: “I’ve had the privilege of joining the board and
there’s a lot of relationships… if we merge the companies we can call
it Applegoo — but I’m not a marketing guy. You can actually merge
without merging. Each company should do the absolutely best thing they
can do every time, and he’s shown it today.” Huge applause, again.

10:33am - “We can take the enormous brain trust of the Apple team and
the open protocols of companies like google and put them in an
environment for end users. From a gooogle perspective we’ve pushed very
hard to partner with Apple and working with many many different data
service, — Steve showed a little bit. It comes together seamlessly.
This is the first of a whole new generation…”

“Steve, my congratulations to you, this product is going to be HOT.”

10:34am
- “As a board member you’ll get one of the first ones!” Har. “You also
can’t think about the internet without thinking about Yahoo. We’ve got
Yahoo search built right in, and we’ve got Yahoo IMAP email services.
So it’s my great pleasure to introduce Jerry Yang, co-founder and Chief
Yahoo!”

10:35am - Jerry’s up on stage, “Thank you Steve. I’m not a board
member of Apple, but I’d love to have one of these too. We’re really
proud of Yahoo to be partnering with Apple. One of the things we’re
going to be doing is launching some of our new services , Yahoo Go and
One Search on this phone. Mail is a killer app on the phone, Yahoo is
trying to redesign the web and email experience on mobile devices. The
best spam protection, address books, and calendar when you’re on yahoo
– It’s like BlackBerry without an Exchange Server.”

10:36am -
“We want to take what Apple’s doing reinventing the phone and do that
on the internet — great form factors, user experiences, and UI, and
translate them into a seamless internet experience. We want to take the
Web 2.0 into the device world — you have my address Steve, please send
it to me.”

10:37am - “It’s been great having the two greatest
companies on the web right down the block. Thank you guys so much,
you’ve really helped us put the internet in the phone.

10:38am -
“So, an internet communicator, an iPod, and a phone. Let’s put them all
together and see what you can do in a real-life scenario…”

10:39am
- Another hands-on demo. “Let’s see what happens when a phone call
comes while listening to music — music fades out and the call comes
through.”

Phil wants photos to use as his screen saver, one of
the phones from Hawaii. Go figure! Steve is emailing the photo –
shrinks, compose window pops up (he’s still on the phone with Phil,
mind you), and he sends it.

10:40am - Phil wants photos to use as his screen saver, one of the
phones from Hawaii. Go figure! Steve is emailing the photo — shrinks,
compose window pops up (he’s still on the phone with Phil, mind you),
and he sends it.

He ends the call, and the music pops right back up, no pauses, no fuss. Uproarious applause.

10:41am
- “Today Apple is reinventing the phone. How does this stack up? Let’s
look at the competition…” Treo, BB, E62, Q… comparing mail,
contacts, calendars, web… “Let’s see the web, we tried to make it
look as good as we could. And this is what you get.” Comparing music…

“After today, I don’t think anyone’s going to look at these phones the same way agaoin.”

10:42am - Accessories: stereo headphones with a tiny dongle, mic and a switch. Push it together to answer or hang up on a call.

Bluetooth accessory: headset, black and thin “incredibly small” one
button on the top, automatically pairs, “It’s really simple.”

“It’s the coolest one we’ve ever seen.”

Battery
life: “A lot of these phones have low battery life. We’ve managed to
get 5 hours of battery of talk time, video, and browsing. 16 hours of
audio playback.”

10:44am - We’ve been pushing the state of the
art in every facet of this design. We’ve got the multi-touch screen,
miniaturization, OS X in a mobile device, precision enclosures, three
advanced sensors, desktop class applications, and the widescreen video
iPod. We filed for over 200 patents for all the inventions in iPhone
and we intend to protect them.”

“We’ve advanced the state of the art in every aspect of design. It’s
the ultimate digital device. So what should we price it at?”

10:46am - “Our most popular iPod is $199 — what’s a smartphone cost? Somewhere around $299 with a two year contract.”

He’s combined the two for a $499 for the combo– “What should we
charge for the iPhone? We should charge more for this stuff!… “

10:47am -

So how much more
than $499 should we price it? We thought long and hard about it… it
does so much stuff…” He’s stalling for the drama. Enough Steve!

“What should we price it at? For a 4GB model we’re pricing it at $499 — no premium whatsoever.

“We’re going to have an 8GB model for just $599.”

10:48am - “When’s it going to be available? We’re shipping them in June
– we’re announcing it today because we have to go get FCC approval…
we thought it’d be better to introduce this today rather than let the
FCC introduce this.

Europe in the 4th quarter of this year, Asia in 2008. “We’ve chosen Cingular.”

“They’re
going to be our exclusive partner in the US — it’s a unique
partnership though. We’re going to be doing innovation together. We
worked on visual voicemail, the first fruit of this collaboration.
We’ll be selling iPhone through our own stores and Cingular stores.”

10:49am - “It’s my pleasure to introduce the CEO of Cingular, Stan Sigman.” Why hello Stanny boy.

“We
entered into contractual agreement without ever even seeing the phone
– that’s because of the confidence I have of Steve to deliver on his
vision…

10:50am - “It’s a real honor for Cingular to be
partnering with Apple — it’s AT&T. Days ago Cingular became a part
of the new AT&T…” AT&T logo up on screen.

10:51am -
“We’re announcing a partnership that takes the mobile phone experience
to a new level by bringing together the best network with the best
device. Networks are the foundation of what Cingular and AT&T do.”

“When
it comes to networks AT&T wrote the book — their quality is
legendary. Put this with Apple products together and what do you get?
You get the best voice and data experience…” Man this guy is a total
snoozer.

10:52am - We’ve immediately dropped back into cuecard
keynote mode, stats on Cingular, stores, distribution, yadda. “We’re
pleased to partner with Apple to deliver one of the most eagerly
anticipated products ever — the iPhone.”

10:53am - “We are changing the way companies work together. Apple and
Cingular have a multi-year exclusive partnership. This is not an MVNO
– ours is a unique relationship that lets Apple be Apple, and let’s
Cingular be Cingular.”

10:54am - “iPhone owners will be Cingular and AT&T customers –
they’ll get the best network and service in the business. Apple…
Cingular… and AT&T have come a long ways.”

“I hope you’re as excited as we are… this is going to be a terrific ride.” Huzzah, he’s off stage!

10:56am - And
Steve’s back… “As Stan’s said, we started working together about two
years ago, and we come from two different worlds. We love these guys,
we’re going to bring some great stuff to market over the years
together. Let’s take a look at this market and how big it is. So how
big is this market…” Clickers are dead, even his replacement. “They’re scrambling back stage right now.” Laughter.

10:56am
- “You know, when I was in high school, Steve Woz and I made this
little device called the TV jammer — this little oscillator that put
out frequencies that would screw up the TV… We’d go into a dorm at
Berkeley we’d screw up the TV while people are watching Star Trek.” Ok, we’re back…

10:57am -

26m game consoles sold, 94m digital cameras, 135m MP3 players, 209m PCs, 957m phones…
1% market share is 10 million phones. “Exactly what we’re trying to do,
1% market share in 2008, 10 million units and we’ll go from there.”

10:58am
- “So, today we’ve added to the Mac and the iPod, we’ve added Apple TV,
and now iPhone. And you know, the Mac is the only one you really think
of as a computer, and we’ve thought about this and we thought, you
know, maybe our name should reflect this better than it does.”

“From this day forward we’re going to be known as Apple, Inc. We’ve dropped the computer from our name.”

10:59am
- “You know, I didn’t sleep a wink last night, I was so excited about
today. We’ve been so lucky at Apple, we’ve had some real revolutionary
products. The Mac in 84, the iPod in 2001, and we’re gonna do it again
with the iPhone in 2007 — we’re VERY excited about this.”

“There’s
an old Wayne Gretsky quote I love — ‘I skate to where the puck is
going to be, not to where it’s been.’ That’s what we try to do at
Apple. Thank you very, very much.” Huge, huge applause, standing
ovation.

11:00am - “Thank you, thank you. I’d like to highlight
the folks that worked on this product… can all the folks here who
worked on this product please stand up? Let’s give them a round of
Applause.”

11:01am - “I also can’t leave without thanking our
families — they haven’t seen a lot of us in the last 6 months. Without
their support we couldn’t do what we do. You don’t know how much we
need you and appreciate you, so thank you.”

“We’ve got a really
special treat today, we don’t have a lot of traditions at Apple besides
making great products. One of them is that John Mayer has helped us at
every Macworld over the years.”

11:02am - “It’s our pleasure to welcome John Mayer,” who will now play
the keynote off. Anyone else remember that Chappelle show sketch?

That’s it!

iTunes is going to sync all your media to your iPhone — but also a ton
of data. Contacts, calendars, photos, notes, bookmarks, email
accounts…”

9:43am
- “And the third is a breakthrough internet communications device.”
Tepid response on that last one, but he almost got a standing ovation
on the phone.

“And we are calling it iPhone!”

“Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is…”