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Steve Jobs started his Tuesday presentation with a recap of some of Apple ’s highlights from the former calendar quarter . He say that Apple now has 135 retail stores opened around the earth , and assure 26 million visitors over the vacation quarter . Apple ’s retail stores pulled in more than $ 1 billion in revenue for the quarter .
iPod and iTunes
Jobs said that Apple sell 14 million iPods this holiday season , compared to 4.5 million for the 2004 vacation time of year — that averaged to more than 100 sold every minute . The entire number of iPods Apple has sell since the music play was first introduced in 2001 — 42 million .
Apple has sold 850 million songs through its iTunes Music Store . Job sound out that 3 million Sung are being sold per 24-hour interval , worldwide — a run rate of more than 1 billion songs per twelvemonth . TV show sales have been operate well since they were introduced this past fall : Eight million have been sold and download from iTunes since the video service went online in mid - October .
Apple ’s new $ 49 iPod distant ascendance sports an incorporate FM tuner , making it possible for iPod users to mind to FM receiving set stations while they practice their iPod . The station oftenness is expose on the iPod ’s projection screen . It ’s compatible with current example . It ’s on cut-rate sale today .
ABC Sports and ESPN content is now useable through iTunes — last week ’s Rose Bowl was the top - sell sport programme on iTunes , said Jobs .
Job also used his sentence on the keynote stage to talk about Apple ’s late integration with Chrysler vehicles — as was of late foretell , most of the new 2006 model class fomite from Chrysler , Jeep and Dodge feature work up - in iPod connectivity as an option . Forty percent of cars sold in the United States have iPod integration as an choice , according to Jobs .
Mac OS X v10.4.4
Mac OS X v10.4 “ Tiger ’s ” Dashboard feature has been a big success , according to Jobs : More than 1500 Dashboard widgets have already been make . Apple on Tuesday will relinquish Mac OS X v10.4.4 , the late incremental update to Tiger — which let in updates to Dashboard including a new Google widget . Also new is an ESPN play score gismo , a “ white pages , ” calendaring doojigger , ski shape and new widget that works with Apple ’s Address Book app .
iLife ‘ 06
Apple on Tuesday also announced a major update to its iLife package — iLife ‘ 06 . call it a “ giant new release , ” Jobs touted the dramatically improved speed of iPhoto , which also includes new one - click issue . iPhoto feature a new limit of 250,000 photo . raw full - screen redaction has been added to this release .
iPhoto also has a new greeting card conception feature , and the ability to create calendars using iPhoto ikon .
The newfangled version of iMovie features the power to unfold more than one project at a time . Trickling down from Apple ’s pro video applications , iMovie now realize new real time titling effect . And , of line , with the introduction of the TV - adequate to iPod , iMovie now supports the power to export to iPod and create vidcasts — the TV version of podcasts .
At long last , backing for third - party DVD burners has finally come to Apple ’s DVD initiation software , iDVD . “ Magic DVD ” is a newfangled feature that lease you create a DVD using puff and drop techniques , rather than have to manually assemble your undertaking . Also , you could produce wide - screen computer menu for your DVD subject matter . novel root word and fresh slideshows have been add . Map prospect redaction has also been enhanced .
Podcasting has been a major drift in 2005 , with innumerable companies and soul hop on the bandwagon to grow audio file that they provide for download using RSS feeds . Last year Apple updated iTunes with podcast documentation , and now Garageband begin the podcast discussion with raw podcast studio features .
you may incorporate artwork and more than 200 different effects and sound snippet construct - in to GarageBand in your podcasts . iChat , Apple ’s own instant messaging , audio recording and TV teleconference software , can now be used for podcasting . Ducking is a new feature that will automatically lower the volume of medicine when a voice track is introduced .
A novel World Music JamPack — an add - on for GarageBand — has also been create .
iWeb
The rumors were lawful : There ’s also a new app bundled with iLife ‘ 06 called iWeb . iWeb has been developed to assist iLife users share their mental object — photograph , web log , music , movies and more — through Web publication . The unified media web internet browser provide you with direct access to the capacity managed by your other iLife program .
iWeb supports one - click publication to .Mac accounts , and have a form of build up - in guide , support for RSS feeds and more . A theme - based motif lets you create a tenacious website and update it whenever the mood strikes without having to worry about breaking the situation in the mental process .
iLife ‘ 06 is now available , and costs $ 79 — the same price as last class ’s version . It ’s also being bundled for barren on new iMacs start today .
Jobs refer in passing that Apple ’s .Mac service , a subscription - base on-line divine service that ply user with World Wide Web publishing , online synchronization and other tools and feature , now has more than one million pay contributor .
iWork ‘ 06
Last twelvemonth Apple enclose a new product rooms called iWork . The cortege comprised Apple ’s Keynote demonstration software with a newfangled Son central processor / page layout diligence called Pages . iWork has been updated for 2006 .
merchant vessels today , iWork ‘ 06 price $ 79 , same as before . There are no novel applications in iWork ‘ 06 , but new to this expiration is the power to create 3D charts , more innovative imagery , mask , calculating table and more . A 30 - day costless trial demo will be include on novel Macs .
Intel inside the new iMac
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini go forth from the stage in a white “ bunny suit . ” He called his company ’s efforts to get their CPUs working on the Mac “ energise , challenging and merriment . ”
“ We ’re a small head of schedule , ” said Jobs , introducing the first Mac to feature an Intel microprocessor .
Using the raw Core Duo chip from Intel , Apple ’s new iMac , which goes on sale today in 17 and 20 - inch versions , is two to three time quicker than its predecessor , allot to Jobs . It ’s available in the same purpose as before , with the same cost .
Both cores of the new dual - core Intel chip are faster than the G5 was , according to the benchmarks Jobs showed on the projection screen . Mac OS X v10.4.4 , which ships on the novel machine , is draw natively on the Intel microprocessor . What ’s more , Apple ’s unexampled iLife ‘ 06 and iWork ‘ 06 covering have been produced as “ world-wide double star , ” which means they ’ll also endure natively .
job indicate that Apple ’s pro program , including Final Cut Pro and Aperture , will be available in universal binaries start in March . If you already own the software , you may trade up to the world-wide binary versions for $ 49 .
For third - political party pro app support , Microsoft is “ on track ” for worldwide binaries of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Messenger , but for now , the troupe has made trusted that its software runs well using Rosetta , the emulation engineering that make it possible for Intel - based Macs to run PowerPC - optimized software program . Quark is releasing a beta adaptation of a QuarkXPress universal binary version today .
call it an “ incredibly successful merchandise , ” Microsoft ’s voice Roz Ho reiterated its support for the Macintosh variant of Microsoft Office , and told the bunch that the company is “ here to stay . ”
“ Rosetta is going to be a great span until we get all apps Universal , ” said Jobs .
MacBook Pro
Of course , no Steve Jobs tonic would be consummate without his hallmark “ one more matter . ” This class ’s was a doozy : a newfangled laptop computer computer called the MacBook Pro . That ’s right — no more PowerBook .
The MacBook professional features an Intel Duo Core chip that melt down four to five time faster than the PowerBook G4 , according to jobs — he shout out it the immobile notebook computer ever . All this , in a chassis that ’s really slender than Apple ’s 17 - inch PowerBook G4 fashion model , and weighs in at 5.6 pounds . It feature a 15.4 - inch LCD screen that ’s as lustrous as Apple ’s desktop Cinema Displays .
The new MacBook Pro features a built - in iSight camera , much like Apple ’s iMac systems , and an integrated InfraRed ( IR ) detector supports Apple ’s outside controller , which can operate Front Row — the software that helps turn a Mac into a media center , which Apple first infix in a refresh iMac model in 2005 .
Apple is taking orders today , but does not expect to start shipping the MacBook Pro until sometime in February . A 1.67GHz model will be $ 1,999 . A 1.83GHz model will cost $ 2,499 .
The keynote name and address closed with an image of Steve Jobs and Steve “ Woz ” Wozniak , who establish Apple on April Fool ’s solar day , 1976 . April 1 , 2006 will be Apple ’s thirtieth anniversary .
