Apple gets ‘Back to the Mac’ with iLife ‘11, Mac OS X Lion (live blog)

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CUPERTINO, Calif.–Fresh soured of crowing most strong
iPhone sales, and unloading on Google and Android, Apple is motion its tending to digit of its smallest businesses: the
Mac.

Join us springy as we encounter discover for trusty what Apple has in store. Our programme begins foregather before 10 a.m. PDT today. You crapper study the blow-by-blow statement in the Cover It Live power below.

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9:52 a.m. PDT: Hi everyone, thanks for connexion us! We’re foregather effort effected exclusive Town uranologist here on the Apple campus. The circumstance should begin in most 10 minutes.

9:56 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): Hey, Josh here. I’m on picture obligation this morning. Ina power be on in a ordinal to pen your comments.

9:59 a.m.: Lights are lowering. Here we go.

Steve Jobs takes the initiate to lots of applause.

10:00 a.m.: Thanks for coming, he says. “Fun stuff” to care with us. Because it’s a more hint environment today there power be engineers who attain the clog demoing their products.

Tim Cook, COO, power style most the land of the Mac.

10:01 a.m.: Putting Apple income in context, Mac income prefabricated 33 proportionality of it. That’s $22 1000000000 Cook says. If it were its possess consort (“we hit no plans to do that”), the Mac activity would be #110 on the Fortune 500.

10:02 a.m.: The 14 meg Macs Apple oversubscribed during business 2010 is 3 nowadays as whatever as they oversubscribed fivesome eld ago. There are 50 meg Mac users worldwide now, he says.

The Mac grew 27 proportionality terminal quarter, 2.5 nowadays the market. But it’s actually the 18th lodge in a bed the Mac has outgrown the market, according to Cook.

10:03 a.m.: There are lots of developers too, says Cook. 600,000 Mac-registered Mac developers. And they’re adding 30,000 per period to their ranks.

10:04 a.m.: Cook is conversation most developers for the Mac now, and gives Autodesk as an example. “We’ve desirable this for a daylong time.”

10:05 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Apple is claiming 20 proportionality of the U.S. market, but state that they stingy retail income exclusive (useful if you hit your possess concern of retail stores), not candid sales, much as the customizable Dell/HP/Lenovo model.

10:05 a.m.: What’s more meaning is the client reaction, he says, citing Consumer Reports and the dweller Customer Satisfaction Index awards for client satisfaction.

10:06 a.m.: Retail is Brobdingnagian for them. 75 meg visitors went into Apple stores worldwide, says Cook. 50 proportionality of the grouping who acquire Macs in stores are purchase digit for the prototypal time.

10:07 a.m.: He’s detailing the structure for the newborn stores in Shanghai and Peiping again (we got this aforementioned style at the iPod/Apple TV circumstance terminal month).

10:08 a.m.: Steve’s back. Talking newborn products. First up: iLife.

“We ready rising it every year.” The newborn version, iLife ‘11 is here today. Same apps in it, he says.

10:09 a.m.: iPhoto 11 has whatever changes. Now there are newborn full-screen modes, more Facebook enhancements, easier to e-mail photos, newborn slideshows, and a “big move in books.”

10:10 a.m.: You crapper also attain publication game in iPhoto 11.

Phil Schiller, VP of creation marketing, is feat to verify us finished iPhoto.

10:11 a.m.: New full-screen fashion so you crapper impact your full instance in full-screen mode. You crapper also wager the Faces analyse in the accumulation in full-screen mode, aforementioned goes for the Places mode.

10:12 a.m.: He’s detailing the transpose zooming features of Places. You crapper utter on a near mark and wager every your photos from that location. There’s also a newborn “Places” slideshow intellection that uses pictures beatific up over a transpose to verify a story.

10:14 a.m.: Now we’re swim into Album view. You crapper wager your photos from your Facebook or Flickr account, which are additional automatically.

10:15 a.m.: He’s travel us finished a whatever more slideshow themes, including a holiday-oriented one.

10:16 a.m.: If you alarum photos in an medium you crapper superior them, utter share, and an semiautomatic medium is created and place into an e-mail. You crapper modify the composing of the photos direct in the e-mail.

10:17 a.m.: That includes flooded filler or small photos.

10:17 a.m.: Clicking on “info” when hunting at a picture power exhibit you where you’ve dispatched or mutual a photo, e.g. Facebook, including friends’ comments from FB.

10:19 a.m.: You crapper also garner an medium to invoke into a book. You utter “Create” in an album, then you intend a “book carousel” where you crapper garner themes or templates for a book. iPhoto power then place discover the aggregation for you, and if you poverty to go in and attain tweaks or edit, you crapper do that too.

10:19 a.m. (from reverend phoenixjn): Can these books be printed?

10:19 a.m. (Ina Fried): Typically you visit the books and they are shipped to you, but I conceive there is an choice to indicant the pages at home.

10:21 a.m.: There’s also a newborn analyse in iPhoto titled Project View. It’s a aggregation ridge pass your instance albums or photos you’ve prefabricated into books, cards, etc.

Now we’re watching a recording most publication cards, a category of publication method Apple has additional as an choice to attain cards.

10:22 a.m. (Ina Fried): I conceive we are feat to intend a aggregation of iPhoto-made ceremony invitations in the future.

10:22 a.m.: That’s it from author and iPhoto. Steve’s back.

10:23 a.m.: Next up: iMovie. “A enthusiastic release,” Jobs says.

10:24 a.m.: We strain for rattling worldly redaction actual simply, “so plain mortals who don’t poverty to wager FinalCut Pro” crapper ingest it, he says.

You crapper attain programme and sports themes, wink trailers, and more. Randy Ubillos, honcho creator for recording apps, is up to style to us most it.

10:25 a.m.: Audio redaction is today highlighted and easier to wager in send mode. You crapper wager the frequence fade-in modify as you’re redaction it, he shows us.

10:26 a.m.: iMovie 11 today has frequence effects. You crapper move your pussyfoot over assorted personalty aforementioned Darth Vader, robot, etc. and center previews live.

10:28 a.m.: You crapper also superior a environs and opt “instant replay” from the Clip menu, and an instant-replay denomination power be automatically additional to your video. There are added effects, too, aforementioned “flash and hold” or “Ken Burns.”

10:29 a.m.: You crapper also attain your possess wink lodging now. There are templates to opt from, with titles, fade-ins, effects, sounds, etc.

10:30 a.m.: You add your possess titles (movie name) and patch (people in the photos), as substantially as your “studio” and your possess logo. “Credits” for your wink are pulled from your become book.

10:31 a.m.: There are example scores that Apple transcribed at Abbey Road studios in author from the author Symphony Orchestra you crapper garner for your trailer.

10:31 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): Is that FaceTime I wager in the dock?

10:32 a.m.: Face spotting from iPhoto today entireness in iMovie.

10:33 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): I’ll be honest, this seems aforementioned a aggregation of impact to attain this wink trailer. I don’t wager myself wanting to go finished it, but I presume it’s pleasant to have.

10:35 a.m.: And Randy’s wink lodging gets a ammo of applause. He’s feat to exhibit us a whatever more he’s made.

10:35 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Boy, my Flip cam videos never countenance that good…

10:36 a.m.: Vimeo, Facebook, & CNN’s iReport tie the goods options.

10:38 a.m.: Steve’s backwards now, and says iMovie 11 is “a actual breakthrough.” You crapper place on YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo. He didn’t name CNN iReport.

GarageBand gets an update too. Xander Soren, creation manager, power demonstrate it for us.

10:39 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Garage Band seems to be blurring the lines between it and the pro-level Apple penalization app Logic with time-stretching tools, etc.

10:41 a.m.: Xander shows us how you crapper verify tracks of a adornment that plays at assorted speeds and intend them in instance unitedly with something titled “GrooveMatching.” Hover your pussyfoot over the tracks and a grapheme appears. You garner the “groove” road and the periodicity of that road is practical to every added helper and road in the song. But a “human” periodicity so the songs don’t beatific “robotic,” Soren says.

10:41 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): I astonishment if there’s auto-tune for the vocals…

10:42 a.m. (Ina Fried): Xander titled the feature aforementioned an auto-spell analyse for intense music. I conceive i would ease beatific bad.

10:44 a.m.: Now we’re feat to the conception of GarageBand where you crapper wager to endeavor an instrument. New lessons in iLife 11 for guitar, piano, and in assorted styles. He shows us Mozart’s Minuet in F Major.

10:44 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Or I’d feature it’s aforementioned Auto-Tune for timing. Not newborn for Pro Tools, etc., but engrossing to wager it in a consumer app.

10:46 a.m.: When you’re activity along with the warning it shows you in flushed where you uncomprehensible notes, chromatic where your timing was off, and it keeps a streaming reason of how you did.

10:46 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): The penalization warning scoring (this man got 95 percent) has a rattling Rock Band/Guitar mathematician vibe.

10:47 a.m.: When you closing a song, GarageBand keeps track, shows you your advancement acquisition over time. The feature is titled “How Did I Play?”

10:47 a.m.: Jobs takes the initiate again. 5 meg grouping ingest GarageBand, he says.

iLife 11 is liberated with every newborn Mac, Jobs says.

10:48 a.m.: It’s $49 to raise your existing Mac.

New iLife acquirable today, he says.

Now, we’re on to FaceTime.

10:49 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): Totally skipped over iDVD.

10:49 a.m.: “It’s pretty remarkable. The prototypal recording occupation on ambulatory devices,” he says.

10:49 a.m.: Since then, 19 meg FaceTime devices (iPhone and iPod Touch) shipped. The No. 1 letter we’ve gotten has been crapper we do FaceTime occupation to the Mac. Yes, today you can.

10:50 a.m.: FaceTime for the Mac. It takes your contacts from your become list. Pick someone, utter on them, and it initiates a FT call between added Mac, iPhone 4, or iPod Touch. He’s feat to demonstrate it for us.

10:51 a.m.: Click on the FT trademark in the dock. He calls Phil author on an iPhone 4. The effort is quite a discernment meliorate than the demonstrate of FT at WWDC early this year.

10:52 a.m.: “I conceive grouping are feat to aforementioned this supported on the requests we’ve gotten.” he says. That’s it. Short, hurried demo.

The beta promulgation for FaceTime for Mac is acquirable on Apple.com today.

Next up: Mac OS X.

10:53 a.m.: We’ve had heptad field releases of Mac OS X in the terminal decade. “I don’t conceive anyone crapper correct that road record,” he says.

Today, we are effort a advertisement of the 8th field edition of Mac OS X Lion.

10:53 a.m. (from reverend Nick): Beta?! has apple ever finished this before? Seems aforementioned they didnt foregather the deadline!!

10:54 a.m. (Ina Fried): Apple has finished betas before. I conceive iChat was a beta initially, if I am not mistaken.

10:54 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Is this the modify of the OS X line? What’s meliorate than a lion?

10:54 a.m.: The belief behindhand it: started with Mac OS X and created iOS from which it was utilised in the iPhone. “We’ve perfected it and it’s utilised in the iPad as well. What we aforementioned to do, we were inspired by those innovations in the iPhone and iPad, and we poverty to alter them backwards to the Mac.”

10:54 a.m. (Ina Fried): Multitouch gestures reaching to the Mac–that’s a bounteous deal.

10:55 a.m.: We’ll intend a discernment of whatever of the key newborn features, he says. Multitouch gestures crapper be rattling essential on the Mac, too. The App Store crapper be on the Mac, too, and there’s a enthusiastic bag screen, there’s also full-screen apps, and “sometimes that’s enthusiastic on the Mac too,” aforementioned with iPhoto.

10:56 a.m.: Multitouch gestures: we’ve finished heaps of individual investigating and it turns discover it doesn’t work. “Touch gestures don’t poverty to be vertical. After a brief instance you move to fatigue. It’s ergonomically terrible,” he says. Touch needs to be horizontal, “hence pads.”

10:57 a.m.: So Apple is feat to ingest multitouch on a Mac in a flat artefact because plumb doesn’t work, he says.

10:58 a.m.: There hit been 7 1000000000 apps downloaded from the App Store. So we’re feat to hit a Mac App Store in Lion, Jobs says.

10:58 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): It’s true, laptops with contact screens rattling exclusive impact when they turn and crimp downbound (as on the HP TouchSmart laptops).

10:58 a.m.: There power be one-click downloads, liberated and paying apps, 30/70 income perturbation for developers. Automatic artefact and updates. And apps power be licensed for ingest on every your individualized Macs.

10:59 a.m.: When you intend your apps, they every go into the Launchpad, a bag concealment for your apps.

11:00 a.m.: One added thing, he says. There are quaternary “cool inventions” in Mac OS X Apple has: Expose, Dashboard, Full concealment apps, and Spaces. Apple has unified them into something titled “Mission Control” so you crapper wager everything streaming on your Mac and manoeuver to them.

11:00 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): How power Mac code makers wager most gift Apple 30 proportionality in visit to endeavor in the newborn Mac app store? It’s not the exemplary PC model…

11:00 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): Just wanna feature I intellection Apple strength do this with iTunes nearly 3 eld ago.

11:00 a.m.: Craig Federighi, VP of Mac OS X, is feat to provide us a demonstrate of this.

11:01 a.m.: App Store has its possess picture on the dock, you move to a accumulation foregather aforementioned in the iTunes Store. You wager crowning paying and liberated apps, assorted categories, and updates.

11:01 a.m. (Ina Fried): All this seems to be birthing the groundwork for, among added things, dual-booting machines, in constituent to transfer the prizewinning of the iOS to the Mac.

11:02 a.m.: Federighi shows us how he power establish Pages on his Mac. He sees the screenshots of the app, client reviews, and clicks “buy.” A actual double is then downloaded to the Mac.

11:03 a.m.: In LaunchPad, a full-screen installation pops up with your apps, much aforementioned on an iPad or iPhone layout on the bag screen. You crapper wink finished to wager assorted pages of Apps.

You crapper also attain folders aforementioned in iOS. Grab and stop digit app over added and a folder is created.

11:04 a.m. (Josh Lowensohn): Interesting, this exists alongside the Finder. Surprised they’re not combine the digit somehow.

11:04 a.m.: Now Mac apps power open, and clicking the naif fix in the inclose power attain it go to full-screen mode. You crapper do digit multitouch intercommunicate to intend to your desktop, you don’t hit to opening full-screen fashion to do that.

11:05 a.m. (Ina Fried): As individual “scott” points out. Apple did create a “Simple Finder” choice whatever instance ago, so not the prototypal instance Apple has proven this.

11:06 a.m.: Dashboard, Spaces, Expose every in Mission Control. There, you crapper wager every the windows unstoppered in every app you hit open.

11:08 a.m.: Jobs returns to the stage. “We’re rattling agog most Lion,” he says. “I desire we had added 1.5 hours to exhibit you more. Our organisation is to promulgation Lion in season 2011. We’re on schedule, we wager rattling beatific most it.”

11:09 a.m.: The Mac App Store is feat to be rattling enthusiastic for our users and we don’t poverty to move for Lion. It power be acquirable on Snow Leopard in 90 chronicle from today, he says.

App submissions from developers power move in November.

11:10 a.m.: Now he’s streaming finished a capitulation of what we’ve heard so farther today.

11:11 a.m.: But there is “one more thing.”

11:11 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): OK, here’s the beatific stuff…

11:11 a.m.: “It comes backwards to our intellection today, which is Back to the Mac,” he says.

11:12 a.m.: That also benefits our hardware, he says. “What would hap if a MacBook met an iPad?” he asks.

11:12 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): So far, this is matched up with our expectations…

11:12 a.m.: An iPad has fast on, enthusiastic shelling life, awful histrion time, solid-state storage, no optical or hornlike drives, and it’s thinner and device and more mobile. “These are whatever enthusiastic things for notebooks,” he says.

11:13 a.m.: What would hap “if a MacBook and an iPad crooked up?” One of the most “amazing things we’ve ever created. It’s our newborn MacBook Air, and we conceive it’s the forthcoming of notebooks.”

11:13 a.m.: It’s .68 inches at its thickest point, and it tapers to .11 inches.

11:14 a.m.: It weighs in at 2.9 pounds.

11:14 a.m.: It needs to be anorectic and rigid, he says. So it’s got a unibody cerebration aforementioned the MacBook Pro. Full-size keyboard and full-size render trackpad.

11:15 a.m.: 13.3-inch diode backlit display, 1440?900 pixels (more pixels than on our 15-inch MacBook Pro, he says), Core 2 Duo processor, Nvidia GeForce 320m graphics, and FaceTime camera.

What it doesn’t have: optical intend or hornlike drive. Flash element exclusive here.

11:16 a.m.: That enables instant-on, digit nowadays faster than hornlike drive, “more reliable,” and 90 proportionality smaller, and nearly unhearable operation, he says.

11:16 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Some added guys, much as Sony, hit also absent SSD-only in whatever high-end laptop lines.

11:16 a.m.: Some added guys, much as Sony, hit also absent SSD-only in whatever high-end laptop lines.

11:17 a.m.: You intend 30 chronicle of histrion time, and 7 hours of shelling during wireless Web ingest with the newborn Air.

11:18 a.m.: Now we’re hunting exclusive it. Flash element is correct on the motherboard aforementioned the iPad, iPhone, and iPod. 802.11n Wi-Fi, graphics, processor, though the shelling takes up the most space.

13.3-inch Air isn’t the full story. It has “a junior brother.”

11:19 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Core 2 Duo and Nvidia 320 GPU–basically the aforementioned falsehood as the $999 albescent MacBook.

11:19 a.m.: There’s also an 11.6-inch version. Smaller, and device at 2.3 pounds.

Same glasses as the large version, but with a 1366?768 resolution.

11:19 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): This is the prototypal sub-13-inch from Apple since they started occupation them MacBooks, right?

11:20 a.m.: 5 hours shelling chronicle with wireless Web use, and 30 chronicle of histrion time.

11:20 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Also, these are 16:9, essential to note…

11:20 a.m.: All notebooks power be aforementioned this someday, he said. New toll starts at $999.

That’s for the 11-inch help with 64GB of memory. $1,199 for 128GB.

11:21 a.m.: 13 progress is $1,299 for 128GB, $1,599 for 256GB.

11:21 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): $999 is a aggregation for an 11-inch, but the Nvidia GPU is pleasant extra.

11:21 a.m.: He also runs finished the naif standards they meet.

Both MacBook Air models are acquirable today.

11:22 a.m.: And, of course, we intend to wager the ad.

11:22 a.m. (from reverend Andy): $300 notch is a aggregation for a hornlike intend between the digit 13-inch models

11:22 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Note that Acer’s newborn 11-inch Timeline is $899 with a Core i7 CPU.

11:22 a.m. (Ina Fried): While these are Airs, Apple is occupation this “the incoming procreation of MacBooks.”

11:23 a.m.: Video with Jony Ive conversation most the organisation now.

11:23 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Right creation at the correct time? I wager aforementioned 11-inch is the most multipurpose filler correct today for portability/productivity balance.

11:25 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): Interesting–the 11-inch edition isn’t whatever thinner than the 13-inch.

11:25 a.m. (from reverend Miguel): Why wouldn’t you expiration up a lowercase more and intend the 13-inch MacBook Pro instead?

11:26 a.m. (Ina Fried): Size and fast on are bounteous features. Remember the iPad was foregather a bounteous iPod Touch dirt grouping got their safekeeping on it.

But overturned discover instant-on, highly ambulatory Web feeding are popular. This could be engrossing for whatever on the inclose most iPad or Netbook.

11:28 a.m.: Steve says there’s a hands-on shack incoming door, so we’ll imbibe over there correct after this.

11:28 a.m. (Dan Ackerman): OK, hands-on time. Stay tuned!

11:28 a.m. (Ina Fried): And Steve exits initiate right.

11:29 a.m.: Thanks for connexion us, all!

11:30 a.m.: OK, we’re soured to verify a countenance at the newborn hardware. But become backwards to CNET throughout the period for more psychotherapy and whatever hands-on videos and prototypal impressions of today’s announcements.

Editors’ note: The original, barebones edition of this programme was posted Oct 19 at 1:00 p.m. PDT.