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WWDC 2004 keynote highlights
June 28, 2004 - 13:08 PDT
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is presently onstage at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Below are the highlights. Items are listed in reverse-chronological order (most recent first).
- Video in Tiger's iChat will be based on H.264 for better quality
- New iChat to allow video/audio conferencing with multiple people
- "Automater" is a visual scriptng application for repetitive tasks
- Tiger will feature "Dashboard" -- "Exposé for Widgets." (like Konfabulator)
- Tiger will include much tighter .Mac integration
- New "Core Image" graphics technology coming in Tiger
- New version of Safari to include RSS newsfeed support
- H.264 MPEG video standard to be part of Tiger
- Major OS search upgrade called "Spotlight" allows powerful searching
- Tiger will offer full 64-bit processing, over 150 new features
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger will ship in first half of 2005
- More than 12 million OS X users; over 12,000 apps
- Jobs moves on to Mac OS X
- 30-inch model ($3,299) requires Power Mac G5 with $599 Nvidia card
- 20-inch model costs $1,299, 23-inch model costs $1,999
- FireWire and USB on new displays; require DVI instead of ADC
- New models feature one piece aluminum stand
- New 20, 23 & 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays
- Jobs gives overview of iTunes, iPod, AirPort Express, Power Mac G5
- 3,500 developers at this year's conference (17% increase over 2003)
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