Live Keynote Coverage from MWSF 2001
This page will begin updating a few minutes before 9 AM Pacific Time on
January 9, 2001 to get live coverage of Steve Jobs MacWorld San Francisco
keynote speech. The page will be updated every few seconds during that time
to keep you up to date with the latest action on stage. It promises to be a
great show with several surprises, so be sure and bookmark this page!
We are now around 2 minutes away from the keynote, stay tuned!
People are still filing in to the room and finding their seats for the
speech.
The camera just panned over the stage showing a line of LCDs, that look a
little bigger than the 15"ers and a little smaller than the Cinema Display,
but I can't confirm that they are a new product.
A legal notice from Apple was just shown, so the show should be beginning
soon.
Steve Jobs just walked out on to the stage saying good morning. The crowd is
erupting into applause, they still love him! He thanked them for coming and
they are streaming tens of thousands of users the keynote, 3 gigabits of
data a second. He said that the last months have been rough, but they will
start off with a bang for 2001 and they have a lot of incredible stuff to
show.
Mac OS X will be the first topic! He's reviewing the architecture: Aqua,
Frameworks, Graphics, Darwin, etc. He's talking about the goal being Darwin
never crashing, protected memory, and pre-emptive multitasking, SMP, and
multithreading. Also BSD Unix services to talk to enterprise servers. Now
he's going over the open source nature of Darwin. He's talking about Quartz
being incredibly fast and stunning. OpenGL is the next thing he's talking
about for professional imaging and 3D. QuickTime5 for OS X is also built
into OS X and should be great. Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa are the next
topic. Classic of course runs the old Mac apps, Carbon is updated older
apps, and Cocoa are the OS X-native applications. Cocoa apps can be written
10x faster than other environments, and OS X will have full Java2 support.
Jobs said that they've just finished their beta release. Jobs said it is a
huge success. Apple anticipated 10,000 copies sold of the beta, and they
sold 100,000 copies, and 75,000 feedback letters. Some of them quite long,
according to Steve
Jobs says that the OS will be much better for the
feedback. He said the positive is the stability, aqua, Mac+Unix, super easy
to install, and Classic works really well. The missing features are Airport,
printing, location manager, dynamic network settings, and PPP over ethernet.
He said all these features are now in the OS, and that Airport only missed
it by two weeks. He said the things most complained about are the Apple
menu, disks on the desktop, clock in the menubar, and trash on desktop.
He showed a new screensaver which looks like the windows one with Aqua icons
Now Jobs will demo the new features in OS X. Of course first he's
showing the old features, like real-time window movement, sheets, etc. He
said sheets illustrate the goal of Mac OS X, to make the OS more powerful
but at the same time easier to use. Now he's showing the dock. He's touting
the dock as a place to put documents and applications, and showing how it
shrinks to fit more items. Now he's showing minimization to the dock at full
speed at slow motion. Now he's in the system preferences showing the ability
to shrink and grow the dock and using magnification. Now he's going to open
a QuickTime movie and show it running in the dock without a loss of
framerate. The trailer he's running in the dock is for the kung-fu movie
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Now he wants to show the fun new stuff, to
use his words. He moved a folder to the dock, and showed how you open the
folder to see the items. Now you can click and hold on folders in the dock
to see a listing of the contents. Or you can click and hold an app name and
see all the documents that it can open.