If you spent your time yesterday under a rock (lol1) you would have missed Steve Jobs’ keynote. (Good thing, too, because it stunk.) But, for your viewing pleasure, Apple just posted the whole dog and pony show on its Web site. Relive great moments like, uh, when the EA guy comes out in his pajamas and describes Need For Speed: Carbon as a “car game” and when some application crashed right in the middle of His Steveness speaking. WWDC 2007 Keynote Address [Apple] → Read More
Because Jobs’ keynote stunk to high heaven yesterday, this dude is going to cash in. A simple black t-shirt with the incredibly apt phrase “Worst. Keynote. Ever!” scrawled across the front. Just under $20 will land you a convenient, if not entirely played out, method of registering your disgust with WWDC 2007. Product Page [MacMerc.com] → Read More
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Earlier today, during his WWDC 07 Keynote address, Steve Jobs said that the iPhone would be released on June 29, which “is 18 days from now. At, uh, 6PM.” This was said to a chuckle. I’m afraid he was joking, folks. He seemed very “off the prompter” when he said it, as a light-hearted aside. Look for the iPhone to be available when your local AT&T or Apple store opens its doors, whatever time that might be. And don’t line up, it’s not Star Wars or something. → Read More
“It turns out we were almost all wrong.” A concerned public servant once said about the existence of illicit weapons in a certain Middle Eastern country. That same quote now applies to Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2007, where nearly every single rumor that circulated around the Internet was completely wrong. No new iMacs; no new iPods; the 17-inch iMac and Mac mini are still for sale; nothing. These rampant and apparently baseless rumors are beginning to hurt Apple’s image, methinks. → Read More
Now that WWDC is over, it’s time to check out the aftermath. We grabbed Safari and were hit, quite unsurprisingly, with some initial errors. Considering Safari for Windows is still in its beta release, most of these problems will eventually be ironed out. → Read More
Ummm…WTF?!? Looks like the Apple site was tweaked with a nice new design, but nothing new in the Apple Store. Is anyone else left with a sense of nothingness from the keynote? We’ll have to take solace in the Safari 3 Public Beta. Woohoo…more like boohoo. *Cries in the corner* → Read More
Note: During Steve Jobs’ WWDC 2007 Keynote, this post will act as a static front page for CrunchGear. The rest of the site is accessible via direct link. Once the keynote is over, we will revert to to standard format. Matt is in place and ready to rock and roll. 9:53: Hey Sportsfans. I’m here at Moscone Center in lovely and chilly San Francisco. Things are about to get started. Right now, there’s some Dave Matthews playing. You’d think the man who spearheaded the digital music revolution would have better taste. → Read More
From 1 to 5 PM EST, Mophie will take 50% off of everything on their online store. What does Mophie sell? They have the Bevy, for one, that odd little Shuffle case with the bottle opener on it. It’s pretty good of them to honor us Mac geeks like that. Check them out. Product Page → Read More
Jack… there’s another island. Our own Matt Hickey is now entering the building with the rest of the Macinworld at the Moscone Center. As his reports stream in, we will turn off the main page and show only our WWDC 2007 page during the conference. Once the conference is over, we’ll switch back to the regular format and post the coverage to another dynamic page. If this plan backfires and our server explodes, we’ll probably go to a full HTML page for the duration. Just don’t be surprised or scared. Daddy still loves you. → Read More
Oh. My. God. His holiness’ keynote is less than four hours away and I can barely contain myself. This supposed keynote outline comes from a German site and we have no idea whether or not it’s true. Will there be anymore iPhone details revealed? Will Leopard be the star of the show? A new iMac perhaps? Well, if this “leaked keynote” is any indication of the things to come then we’re in for a wild ride, but I think that a demo of “iPhone@home” really throws a monkey wrench into it. The countdown begins. → Read More
Just a note to you, sports fans. Yours truly will be live blogging the Steve Jobs keynote on Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. PST right here on this nice blog of ours. We’ve got some pretty dope tools to make it a fun day, so we hope you’ll join us. His Steveness will most likely be talking about secrets. For weeks we’ve been speculating and guessing about what secrets lay behind the iPhone. And we’ve been trying in vain to divine what’s ahead for Leopard. On Monday, we’re likely to find out both. Other blogs (*koffgizgadgetenmodokoff*) might give you the play by play, but we’re different. Look for my expert analysis as well as signs of my cutting wit. That means you can expect jokes about that criminal Paris mixed in with my geekgasms of joy. We’ll see you here on Monday, friends. You don’t want to miss this. Seriously. → Read More
Some crafty photographer over at Roughly Drafted managed to get some key shots inside the WWDC conference before it’s even started. Inside, there are some banners that say “Welcome to WWDC07 Expand your universe.” and “Mac OS X Leopard Rocket fuel for your apps.” Clearly this means that OS X Leopard will be the star of this year’s WWDC. In addition to Leopard, new iMacs, Mac Pros, iPods, Speakers, USB cables, and Mac Minis will all be announced at the conference. Why? Because I said so and these banners are my proof. → Read More
Some of our regular readers may recall a stupid and irresponsible rumor we started right here on this blog, that being the idea, based on a slip by an Apple PR type, that future Macs might shortly ship with Vista pre-installed as a dual-boot option for Leopard. The idea isn’t just to run Windows, but to run Windows apps in the Mac OS. Many of you scoffed at the idea, and we even thought it bogus ourselves. Then a coworker showed me the Unity in VMware Fusion video above, and you can see just such things happening. We’re not saying Leopard’s going to ship with this type of scenario, but it certainly does stoke the fire and add food for thought, and other metaphors. → Read More
Sun opened its big, fat mouth today and announced that Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X Leopard will use its ZFS file system as its default. (Macs currently use HFS+ with journaling enabled as the default file system.) A full list of ZFS’ advantages can be found on Sun’s site, but this one caught my eye while quickly glancing over it: All operations are copy-on-write transactions, so the on-disk state is always valid. There is no need to fsck(1M) a ZFS filesystem, ever. Every block is checksummed to prevent silent data corruption, and the data is self-healing in replicated (mirrored or RAID) configurations. If one copy is damaged, ZFS will detect it and use another copy to repair it. Oops, now big Papa Jobs is gonna be angry. Video Announcement [Sun via Mac Rumors] → Read More
Uh, oh. Now it looks like there will not, repeat, *not* be any new iMacs at Apple’s WWDC next week. That’s what AppleInsider has learned, at any rate. But AI promises that a major overhaul of Apple consumer computers is still on track for this year, it’s just that next week is too early to launch them. (Apple might have a certain other product launch to worry about.) AI still believes that Apple will kill off the 17-inch iMac and the Mac mini and that the iMac will get a makeover in the upcoming months. Will it look all brushed metally? We shall see (and hopefully soon… all these Apple rumors are getting hard to keep track of). Poor bets placed on new iMacs at Apple’s developer conference [AppleInsider] → Read More
Can you feel the electricity? We’re just one week away from Apple’s WWDC and last-minute rumors are coming a mile a minute. But seriously, the latest “well, it might be true” rumor is that Apple will announce a way for third-party developers to easily convert their Mac OS X apps for use directly on the iPhone. Does this mean X-Chat Aqua, Adium and VLC will work on the iPhone? The hype (and hope) machine is in full effect. Apple better not screw it up. Fever Builds for iPhone (Anxiety Too) [New York Times via Loop Rumors] → Read More
Well, now that the iPhone release date hoopla is sort of over, let’s fire up the rumor mill about what’s coming our way at WWDC. Could it be a brushed metal iMac, ala Mac Pro, perhaps, with a Santa Rosa chipset? Doesn’t look like it’s the black iMac that was rumored last month. It’s buzzing around that the newest iMac will also be super sized to proportions larger than the current 24-inch model. I’ll bet my bottom dollar that this one is true because the 17-incher was axed not too long ago and flat-panel prices are plummeting. Oh and don’t forget that the Macbook Pros could be upgraded tomorrow. Brushed Metal iMacs Dropping At MacWorld [9to5Mac or Gizmodo or BGR] → Read More
[Update, 05-31-07, 2:37PM PST] So some other famous bloggers and I were discussing this unlikely rumor, and we started to realize something: With core elements of Vista in place on Intel hardware, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to imagine OS X running Windows apps. Then, by chance, I ran across this article at Mac Daily News posits the very idea, and that this could be the way big secret Steve is keeping for WWDC. Bootcamp 2 isn’t in the current preview of Leopard, nor are many other expected toys. We still think the whole thing is a little suspicious, but what a possibility it creates, no? This is probably the most insane Apple rumor we’ve ever heard, and most likely crap. But in the interest of generating site traffic, and to secure bragging rights of being “first!” if it’s somehow real, and because we’re reckless, we bring it to you now. Our Trusted, Reliable Source™ at the WSJ’s D conference that fed us all the Foleo goodness was chatting with some other PR types who work for Apple during Steve’s chat yesterday. He/She said they were nervous over Mr. Jobs accidentally spilling Leopard secrets two weeks before its official unveiling at WWDC. The source said something jokingly about how it’s really a re-designed version of Vista, and, to their surprise, the PR type said, “No, Vista runs great on the new Macs by itself, and Bootcamp 2 lets us ship it as an add-on option for dual-boot.” Or something to that effect. We’re thinking the Apple PR person was messing with our source, the idea is to run ideas up the flagpole to see if they fly. We really don’t see any Macs shipping with dual-boot to Windows anytime soon, but Steve has surprised us before, so who knows? We mark the likelihood as very low, but stranger things have happened. Thanks for giving me something to post on a slow news day, Apple PR dude/lady! → Read More
Another week, another big Apple rumor. This one stems from the upcoming WWDC, which starts next month. Analysts say that Steve Jobs will debut a new version of the iMac and a new Macbook Pro during the conference. Though the Macbook Pro I don’t see being updated for a little longer, the iMac is definitely in need of an overhaul. Rumor has it that the new design will be thinner and completely restyled. I don’t take Apple rumors with much truth nowadays, but this one seems to be on the money. Apple has every reason to draw more excitement as the iPhone looms closer and closer to its launch date. Perhaps Santa Rosa may make a debut with the Macbook Pro… Analysts call new MacBook Pro, iMac at WWDC [Electronista] → Read More
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