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- 09:15 - everybody is outside, waiting to go into the conference room;

- 09:45 - people are in their seats, waiting for the event to start;

- 09:55 - Jos and Katie Cotton from Apple are getting ready;

- 09:55 - "Our presentation will begin shortly, please silence cellphones and pagers."

- 10:01 - "Good morning everyone, welcome to the campus." Greg Joswiak!

- 10:02 - He's talking about the success of the iPhone with more than 17 million units sold in more than 80 countries;

- 10:04 - combined with the iPod that's more than 30 million copies of iPhone OS;

- 10.05 - now talking about the success of the developers that chosed to create content for the iPhone OS;

- 10:07 - a video of the creator of the game Trism;

- 10:08 - the App Store had over over 800 million downloads;

- 10:08 - Now bringing Scott Forstall to preview iPhone OS 3.0;

- 10:11 - He focuses on the SDK and again on the developers and the easy way to make money developing iPhone apps;

- 10:15 - Allows subscriptions to be includen in the apps;

- 10:16 - support for peer to peer connectivity;

- 10:18 - Allows comunication with the accessories via dock or bluetooth;

- 10:19 - example is a blood pressure reader that displays info on the iPhone screen;

- 10:21 - Google Maps can be embedded directly into applications;

- 10:23 - Finally they enabling developers to use core location for turn by turn directions;

- 10:24 - Push notification for email and IM clients;

- 10:28 - We're introducing a new API for streaming video and audio. And we're adding an API for in-game voice."

- 10:30 - introducing Meebo CEO that presents the iPhone app they developed;

- 10:33 - Scott introduces EA, "one of the largest game deevelopers in the world with 10 great games on the App Store."

- 10:34 - Travis from EA introduces The Sims 3.0;

- 10:36 - Sims characters can paly the music from your iPod library;

- 10:36 - Scott Forstall now introducing Oracle;

- 10:39 - they prezent some business software, stock alerts and some things about sales, they lost me at "Hello!";

- 10:41 - Bringing up Oke Okaro of ESPN. He introduces ESPN native app, it has push notifications for game scores, streaming video and such;

- 10:45 - Next is LifeScan, a Johnson&Johnson company in glucose monitoring;

- They sure show lots of third party apps and few internal new features of the OS. We starting to lose hope on "copy - paste".

- 10:48 - They're showing glucose testing, the device connects to the iPhone via Bluetooth;

- 10:50 - has alot of usefull features like graphs and dieting plans;

- 10:52 - Next, ngmoco - iPhone games developers;

- 10:54 - Prezenting Touch Pets which seems to be a social pets game;

- 10:55 - Now demoing LiveFire first person shooter with some in game trading system;

- 10:58 - Now up is Smule, creator of Ocarina iPhone music app;

- 11:00 - New app: Leaf Trmobone - i'm so excited;

- 11:03 - You can duet with other players, wooppyyy!!!!

- 11:05 - finally CUT, COPY and PASTE

- 11:06 - simple tu use: double tap a word and a copy/paste menu comes up. Also some controls to allw you to customize the selection;

- 11:07 - pretty much how the rumors described it;

- 11:08 - works with all aps, native or third party;

- 11:10 - There’s a photo icon inside the SMS app, and Scott called it the “Messages” application, which means there SHOULD be MMS coming soon too;

- 11:11 - you can send multiple images at once;

- 11:12 - introducing landscape keyboard in all apps;

- 11:14 - "But the big news is that we're adding support for MMS."

- 11:16 - "Next, Voice Memos."

- 11:18 - Some calendar updates, and now a search function in mail, calendar, iPod and other apps;

- 11:20 - they created a new homescreen for serch called Spotlight;

- 11:23 - Shake to shuffle arrives on iPhone and iPod touch;

- 11:23 - Stereo Bluetooth is now supported;

- 11:25 - Wrapping up, recapping highlights.

- 11:25 - Developer Beta available today;

- 11:27 - iPhone OS 3.0 will ship this summer, free to all iPhone 3G customers;

- 11:28 - original iPhones can use it but not all the features will be available, like stereo bluetooth;

- 11:28 - iPod Touch will have to pay $9.95 for the update;

- That's all folks! Q&A time.