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off the Press Story
by
Keith Benicek, Editor 1/14/03
Macworld SF 2003 Wrap up and comments, page 3
Next, Jobs announced
the new versions of iPhoto2 (6 million previous copies)
with better on button retouch and iTunes integration, iTunes3
(18 million previous copies distributed) with a new archival feature,
iMovie3 (12 million previous copies) with a chapters
feature, sounds and the new Ken Burns Effect (movies from pictures by
panning), and
iDVD 3 (600k previous copies) with direct integration to burn
from iMovie. This package of four applications will be sold as
“iLife” for $49, or you can download in February
iPhoto 2, iTunes 3 and iMovie3 for free.
Jobs announced that iLife will be bundled will all new Macs of today and Apple has lowered blank DVD discs to US$3.00; Jobs believes the DVD blanks will be down to one dollar by year end.
Now “buckle
up” as Jobs announced a totally the new application, a turbo browser
called Safari in beta for right now. “It’s
first major new browser in five years, and it’s sweet” said
Jobs, “the fastest browser on the Mac”. Apple tested the
latest versions of Netscape, IE and Chimera by loading various web pages
into the browser and Safari was four times faster than
Internet Explorer.
Apple had two reasons
for getting into the browser wars, Speed and Innovations, and the innovations
are many. You should download
and explore those many features like integrated Google and the instant
“back button”, but Safari beta will only run on OS 10.2. Safari
is based upon Open Source code and the downloads on Tuesday broke all
previous Internet records. “I know our server farms will be busy
today” Steve predicted, boy was he right.
Not only is Apple taking on Microsoft in the Browser Wars with Safari, but also hang on Power Point users, Apple is here to knock you off your lofty perch.
Steve proudly spoke “Keynote is a presentation app, for when your presentation really counts, and Keynote was built for me” Jobs said, “ and now I want to share it with you, ….. we hired a low paid beta tester for a year” referring to himself. Jobs assured the listeners that this was a great application “trust me”. Keynote has fully anti-aliased for text, full Alpha Channel Graphics and Quartz Graphics support. It is an amazing application and it supports all major graphics standard including PDF, TIF, Flash, Photoshop PSD and Power Point. Retail price is US$99. It uses an Open File Format, which can import or export XML and Power Point or PDF formats.
As a long time user of Power Point, I have to say that Microsoft will have a long way to go to catch up with Keynote’s features and usability. Of course, Microsoft can just steal the Apple innovations, as they’re always done to catch up. We’ll just have to see, won’t we?
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