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Wilson Rothman , NBC News
We have found our way to San Jose, to see what Apple meant when it said, "We've got a little more to show you." First on stage was Apple CEO Tim Cook, to share perspective on how the company has been doing. Will he mention the Maps fiasco? (Doubt it.)
The first news of the day was a new version of iBooks, with continuous reading, language support for Japanes and Chinese, and pages synchronized across iCloud, so like Amazon's Whispersync, your place is saved no matter what device you're on. You can download the new iBooks today.
After iBooks, Cook invited SVP of Global Marketing Phil Schiller came on stage and revealed a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display: It's got 4 million pixels, 4X the pixels of its predecessor. At the same time, it's .75 inches thick, and 3.5 lbs., much more slender than the older model. There's no optical disc drive, of course.
The base configuration, which you can order today, costs $1699, and comes with a Core i5 dual-core processor, 256GB of memory and 8GB of RAM. You can get custom order it with a storage array of up to 768GB of flash memory, and an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 processor.
Cook had started off by showing a video of the iPhone 5 sales, calling it the fastest selling phone in history. Next was a recap of iPod sales — over 3 million of the new ones sold already.
On to software, where Cook mentioned that iMessages have been sent 300 million times, at a rate of 28,000 per second. 35 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple App Store, and there are 275,000 titles in there that are just for iPad. Developers have made $6.5 billion from selling wares in the App Store.
From earlier:
Will it be an "iPad Mini" (or "iPad Air") with a display measuring 7.85 inches diagonally? If it's not, Apple will look pretty silly. But what other early Christmas presents will come from the Santa's bag that is an Apple keynote? New iMacs and Mac Mini? A new MacBook Pro? A slightly tweaked full-size iPad? Candy canes? The beauty is, we don't have to wait long to find out.
The event kicks off at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, and I will update this story regularly with the news. But if you want some pre-show buzz and realtime play-by-play, your best bet is to follow me on Twitter at @wjrothman, where I'll be live-tweeting all of the juiciest bits. (As of 9:15 a.m. PT, reporters were doing their customary milling-around-the-continental-breakfast thing. Talking about ... well, Apple.)
You can also follow Apple's own livestream of the event, but pay attention to the system requirements.
Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.
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We have found our way to San Jose, to see what Apple meant when it said, "We've got a little more to show you." First on stage was Apple CEO Tim Cook, to share perspective on how the company has been doing. Will he mention the Maps fiasco? (Doubt it.)
The first news of the day was a new version of iBooks, with continuous reading, language support for Japanes and Chinese, and pages synchronized across iCloud, so like Amazon's Whispersync, your place is saved no matter what device you're on. You can download the new iBooks today.
After iBooks, Cook invited SVP of Global Marketing Phil Schiller came on stage and revealed a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display: It's got 4 million pixels, 4X the pixels of its predecessor. At the same time, it's .75 inches thick, and 3.5 lbs., much more slender than the older model. There's no optical disc drive, of course.
The base configuration, which you can order today, costs $1699, and comes with a Core i5 dual-core processor, 256GB of memory and 8GB of RAM. You can get custom order it with a storage array of up to 768GB of flash memory, and an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 processor.
Cook had started off by showing a video of the iPhone 5 sales, calling it the fastest selling phone in history. Next was a recap of iPod sales — over 3 million of the new ones sold already.
On to software, where Cook mentioned that iMessages have been sent 300 million times, at a rate of 28,000 per second. 35 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple App Store, and there are 275,000 titles in there that are just for iPad. Developers have made $6.5 billion from selling wares in the App Store.
From earlier:
Will it be an "iPad Mini" (or "iPad Air") with a display measuring 7.85 inches diagonally? If it's not, Apple will look pretty silly. But what other early Christmas presents will come from the Santa's bag that is an Apple keynote? New iMacs and Mac Mini? A new MacBook Pro? A slightly tweaked full-size iPad? Candy canes? The beauty is, we don't have to wait long to find out.
The event kicks off at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, and I will update this story regularly with the news. But if you want some pre-show buzz and realtime play-by-play, your best bet is to follow me on Twitter at @wjrothman, where I'll be live-tweeting all of the juiciest bits. (As of 9:15 a.m. PT, reporters were doing their customary milling-around-the-continental-breakfast thing. Talking about ... well, Apple.)
You can also follow Apple's own livestream of the event, but pay attention to the system requirements.
Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.
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