Apple October 22 LIVE BLOG
By Thank you everyone for following our Live Blog, be sure to check back, we will have all the latest news on all the amazing things announced today!
11:26 AM – Thank you guys!
11:25 AM – Designed by Apple in California!
11:23 AM – Tim’s thanking everyone at Apple for “bringing these products to life.”
11:23 AM – iPad is hidden behind a pencil, watch them move the pencil!
11:21 AM – New ad for the iPad Air
11:20 AM – Tim giving us a quick summary of the event!
11:20 AM – Back to Tim Cook
11:20 AM – And new cases and covers!
11:18 AM – Starts at $399 with Wi-Fi, $529 with mobile data.
11:18 AM – Silver and Black!
11:18 AM – 10 Hour battery
11:18 AM – Retina display and A7 Processor!
11:17 AM – “The one most requested feature to add to the iPad mini was a beautiful Retina display, and that’s what we’ve done.”
11:16 AM – Phil is back to talk about the iPad Mini
11:15 AM – This is for the people who love the Mini design but need the bigger screen!
11:14 AM – Here comes a video on the design!
11:13 AM – HUGE LIST OF COUNTRIES
11:13 AM – November 1st!
11:12 AM – Replaces previous iPad, starts at $499 for $16GB, cellular for $629.
11:12 AM – Available in silver and white, space gray and black.
11:11 AM – 10 Hour Battery Life
11:10 AM – A7 Chip inside!
11:09 AM – 43% thinner bezel
11:08 AM – Lighter as well: 1 pound, down from 1.4 pounds.
11:07 AM – iPad gets a new name – iPad Air!
11:06 AM – Phil is back to talk about the iPad
11:06 AM – Tim is Back!
11:03 AM – Video Time!
11:02 AM – 475,000 iPad apps and counting!
11:01 AM – What’s more important to us is that people love it. Rated number one in customer satisfaction and has been since the inception of the ratings.”
11:00 AM – 170 MILLION iPads Sold!
10:59 AM – Talking about how everyone said the iPad could never compete with the netbooks!
10:59 AM – “Our most advanced technology in a revolutionary and magical device.”
10:58 AM – iPad!!!
10:58 AM – Tim Cook is BACK!
10:57 AM – All these apps are free with a new Mac or iOS device, all downloadable today. Wonder what they will cost for everyone else!
10:57 AM – Having fun working together on stage!
10:56 AM – Adding collaboration for iWork
10:54 AM – Super easy to share with others
10:54 AM – Working on a Poster of Eddy!
10:53 AM – Now on to a new Demo!
10:52 AM – “What’s great about this is that we’re not cluttering the screen with a lot of controls.”
10:51 AM – Brand new UI. “It’s easier to do things while at the same time being more powerful.”
10:50 AM – iWorks also getting some love!
10:50 AM – New iLife is free with any new Mac or iOS device.
10:49 AM – Our Drummer is called Kyle
10:48 AM – Still a Demo of Garageband
10:47 AM – Drummer is a new feature in Garageband! Drummer is powered by performance by some of the best session players in the world.
10:47 AM – Demoing a new feature in Garageband. iCloud lets you start a song on an iOS device and open it on a Mac.
10:46 AM – All new Garageband for iOS 7. 32 tracks on an iPhone or iPad.
10:45 AM – Picture in Picture on the iPad
10:44 AM – Cleaner and Simpler iMovie
10:44 AM – Photobook creation now on the iPad.
10:43 AM – iPhoto has a brand new look!
10:43 AM – iLife update — new iMovie, iPhoto and Garageband for iOS and the Macs
10:42 AM – Here comes Eddie with iLife update!
10:41 AM – “That’s our news today for Mac hardware.”
10:40 AM – Gosh even the production video is amazing!
10:39 AM – Video Time! Factory tour and how it is built
10:39 AM – Mac Pro will be assembled in the US — 2,000 people over 20 states helping to build it.
10:38 AM – Not as expensive as I thought, but still kinda expensive
10:38 AM – Coming December!
10:37 AM – Starting at $2,199: 3.7GHz quad-core Xeon, 12GB RAM, dual FirePro D300s, 256GB SSD.
10:36 AM – Video Time!
10:35 AM – Up to three 4K displays, including one HDMI 1.4 4K TV. That’s pretty crazy!
10:34 AM – Up to 1TB of user-accessible Flash storage.
10:34 AM – WOW!
10:33 AM – Inside: Xeon E5 with up to 12 cores. Fastest memory: 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory. Two AMD FirePro GPUs.
10:32 AM – “It’s not a stretch to say people have been blown away by this incredible new design.”
10:31 AM – Here comes the MAC PRO!
10:31 AM – Starts at $1,999, down from $2,199.
10:30 AM – Now the 15-inch. Crystalwell chip with Iris Pro graphics. Can also add a discrete GeForce 750M.
10:30 AM – Now on to the 15 Inch MacBook Pro Retina
10:29 AM – Starting at $1299. That’s a $200 drop from before.
10:28 AM – PCIe-based Flash, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Thunderbolt 2.
10:28 AM – Haswell chip, Iris graphics, up to 90 percent faster.
10:27 AM – Major updates to both 13 and 15-inch Retina Pros.
10:26 AM – We are here to talk about the Macbook Pro
10:26 AM – Here comes Phil Schiller to talk about Macbook
10:25 AM – TODAY!
10:25 AM – “We’re doing free in not a small way. Whether you have our latest release or you’re a complete laggard and you’re still on Snow Leopard, you can update.”
10:24 AM – WOW, taking a stab at Microsoft!
10:24 AM – Price: FREE
10:23 AM – “For the last several years we’ve been on a mission: we’ve re-engineered our development cycle so we put out more releases.”
10:23 AM – Demo DONE!
10:22 AM – Maps app will tell you how long it takes to get to your appointments
10:21 AM – Forms still remember all your information.
10:20 AM – Still going on about Mavericks! Website notifications
10:17 AM – Showing off the features of Mavericks, nothing new here guys!
10:16 AM – DEMO TIME
10:16 AM – New iBooks and Maps App!
10:16 AM – Run apps up to 1.8x faster
10:15 AM – Special focus on improving integrated graphics.
10:14 AM – Compressed Memory can instantly compress inactive parts of memory, can fit 6GB of data in 4GB of RAM. More applications and never slow down!
10:14 AM – Working on memory!
10:13 AM – Up to an hour longer web browsing and 90 minutes longer watching iTunes video using Mavericks on the latest MacBook Air.
10:13 AM – Starting with Mavericks!
10:12 AM – Lot of new Macs coming today!
10:12 AM – “Now, our competition is different: they’re confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they’ll do next?”
10:11 AM – Users just love our experience!
10:11 AM – “Incredible hardware and beautiful design coupled with OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, and incredible apps.”
10:10 AM – Talking about the Mac!
10:10 AM – Talking about App Store!
10:09 AM – 20 Million users listening on iTunes Radio!
10:08 AM – Talking about iTunes Radio!
10:07 AM – 64% of iDevices running iOS7
10:07 AM – Makes the hard work worthwhile when you see happy customers.
10:07 AM – And Tim is back on stage
10:06 AM – Lots of happy people, loving their iPhones!
10:06 AM – Brief video from launch
10:05 AM – 9 million iPhones sold at the end of the first weekend, biggest iPhone launch ever.
10:04 AM – Talking about the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c
10:03 AM – “You’re going to see some amazing products this morning that could have only have been developed in that way.”
10:02 AM – Here comes Tim Cook
10:02 AM – We perfect, we start over!
10:00 AM – Starting with a video!
10:00 AM – Lights down, we are ready!
9:59 AM – Kings of Leon, wait for me playing on the stereo!
9:58 AM – We are getting closer!
9:57 AM – They are asking people to switch their Phones to silent mode!
9:55 AM – The Verge has a great photo of the audience.
9:54 AM – As always Apple is playing jams on the stereo!
9:49 AM – People are starting to take their seats!
9:46 AM – Personally I can’t wait for the new iPad design and to hear more about the Mac Pro, what about you guys?
9:41 AM – Well it seems as if Tim Cook is as excited to get started as we are!
9:39 AM – The view from outside!
9:34 AM – Less than 30 minutes to go!
9:33 AM – Hi Guys! Marie here, hope you are ready for our Live Blog!
Come back at these Times around the globe:
07:00AM – Hawaii
10:00AM – Pacific
11:00AM – Mountain
12:00PM – Central
01:00PM – Eastern
06:00PM – London
07:00PM – Paris
09:00PM – Moscow
02:00AM – Tokyo (October 23th)
Of course you can also check back after the event, we will tell you everything about the keynote then!
