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Just thought it would be cool to keep all posts in one place for the announcements made today...

Lets see how many people got what they wanted from the wishlist!!!!
 

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Yes, good idea.

I'm going to post this, but who knows. It's from Kevin Rose. I hate to post rumors, but he was right last time about the Mac mini, before was announced, so I'm hoping he's correct this time also. ;)

Kevin Rose said:
I've heard:
15" intel Macbook - order tomorrow, ships Feb (thinner, dual core)
iPod FM receiver
iWork/Life '06
New remote of some type
Photocasting (iPhoto)
OS X.4.4 w/new widgets

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The Apple store has been taken offline. The message says that it should be updated within an hour.

hmmm....
 
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The Apple store has been taken offline. The message says that it should be updated within an hour.

hmmm....

Dang, I just came here to post that! Foiled by two minutes!

I'm waiting for the announcements to buy some laptops for work. Right now the leading contenders are the new Core Duo Laptops from Gateway, but I'd like to see what Apple pulls out of their hat...
 
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Dang, I just came here to post that! Foiled by two minutes!

I'm waiting for the announcements to buy some laptops for work. Right now the leading contenders are the new Core Duo Laptops from Gateway, but I'd like to see what Apple pulls out of their hat...

Me too. I want to buy a laptop. If a 12" or 13" Intel iBook is announced today, I plan on getting one and setting it up with Windows and Linux.
 
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Me too. I want to buy a laptop. If a 12" or 13" Intel iBook is announced today, I plan on getting one and setting it up with Windows and Linux.

Exactly what I'm waiting for, but it'll need to have a decent graphics card too. We have to be able to run windows and need to run CAD programs...I couldn't justify something with underpower graphics, and the Boss is lost with OSX when he tries to use his daughters iBook, so the choices are limited. I guess we'll see what they have in a few more minutes. ;)
 
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People are taking their seats....
 
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I willl be cutting and pasting running commentary..

Announcer: Welcome to MacWorld 2006. *various announcements for seating*

Please turn off your cell phones...
 
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iTunes music while waiting for the Keynote to begin*
 
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Notice: Program about to begin.
 
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Audience clapping, lights dimming
 
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Applause*
mwsf: Steve Jobs:
mwsf: Good morning and welcome to Macworld, we've got a lot of great stuff for you today
So I want to start off with a retail update, tell you how we did in apple retail stores.
 
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You know we've got 135 retail stores now, and these are just the best place to buy not only a Mac and an iPod but any product in the world.

And I am really pleased to announce that last quarter, we had 26 million visitors during the holiday season to our stores.

sf: I mean just think about it, that's more than any state in the union other than California.
mwsf: What was also amazing was that our retail stores had their first Billion dollar quarter.
mwsf: Over a billion dollars of revenue.
 
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Retail stores had their first $1 billion quarter this past quarter

Going to do something we've never done before at Macworld.
mwsf: It was a record for Apple, last quarter we sold 5.7 Billion dollars.
 
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This is one for the record books.
mwsf: That's a retail update.

Now I'd like to talk about our efforts in music.
mwsf: We went into the holiday quarter with the best lineup of music players on the planet, the new iPod nano and the 5th generation ipod.
 
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We sold 4.5 million iPods a year ago in the holiday quarter.
mwsf: How many did we sell last quarter?
mwsf: Some of the estimates were getting astronomical.
mwsf: I'm pleased to announce today we sold 14 million ipods last quarter.

That is over 100 every minute 24x7 throughout the whole quarter.
mwsf: And it still wasn't enough!
mwsf: More ipods are on their way, for those who didn't get a chance to get one.

total 42 million now
 
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Of those 42 million, 32 million were sold in 2005.
mwsf: Calendar year 2005.
mwsf: 32 million iPods
mwsf: Now I'd like to give you an update on iTunes

We have sold on iTunes 850 million songs
mwsf: We are well on our way to hitting 1 billion in the next few months.
mwsf: We are now selling around 3 million per day.

Our market share continues to be very string. 83%
 
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I'm showing off some new keynote features here too. *laughs

As you know, one of the newest things in iTunes are tv shows.

We started selling TV shows about 90 days ago.

I'm pleased to report we've sold 8 million videos
 
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Last week, for the first time, we added some sports.
mwsf: In partnership with ABC and ESPN we put up the ball games.
mwsf: Here's a sample.
mwsf: *plays rosebowl clip*
 

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