WWDC 2009 part 1

Okay, hey guys! This is Maids 101, and sorry I didn't make a video lately. I was really busy with homework and stuff, but now, um, WWDC. The video just came out, took the time to watch it, and I'm going to do a recap video. So I'm going to be doing several videos for WWDC. If you want me to make a video on a specific thing, like Snow Leopard or something like that, I'll make a video on that. But right now, I'm doing a recap video. Later, I might be doing a "my thoughts" video. I'm also going to be getting the new iPhone when it comes out, and I'll do an unboxing for that. I'm also going to compare the new iPhone to the old iPhone. So, without further ado, let's get started!

Okay, so they talked about three things at the WWDC because they always usually talk about three or four things. Number one was Macs, number two was Snow Leopard, and number three was the iPhone. So, the first thing they did was an update to all of their Mac notebooks. They gave the 15-inch MacBook Pro a seven-hour battery life. All of the Mac laptops can get up to 8 GB of RAM. I don't know if you know much about RAM, but 8 gigabytes is crazy! I mean, I have a really fast laptop that's really powerful and it can only have a maximum of 4 gigabytes, so 8 gigabytes is a lot.

They also added an SD card slot to all of those notebooks, so you're not going to have to put in your camera card into a USB converter and then stick that. You can just stick that right into your thing! The 15-inch MacBook Pro is actually going to be $1,699, which is $300 less than it was before. They also did a couple updates to the MacBook, the aluminum MacBook, which they're now calling the MacBook Pro. So, now there's a 13, 15, and 17-inch MacBook Pro, and they're back to how they were before with the MacBooks, with just the white ones.

In my opinion, they should go back to the black ones, but I guess I can talk about that more in a recap video, I mean, in my thoughts video. So now, they don't have any aluminum MacBooks, just MacBook Pros if it's aluminum. They also updated the MacBook Air. The lower model is $300 less and the higher model is $700 less, so now I don't think the MacBook Air is really overpriced.

Okay, the next thing is Snow Leopard. Now, Apple really wants to make this clear, and I don't know if it's clear enough, so I'm going to try to make it clear on my own. Okay, so Snow Leopard is not really made to be GUI changes and GUI graphical user interface. Meaning when they made Snow Leopard, this is when an operating system is an operating system, not an application. So, when you buy an operating system, you shouldn't be buying it for stacks and spaces, 'cause that just updates the dock or applications. You should be buying it for the actual software, like what makes Finder work.

They said that they wrote all the Finder, but they didn't do one GUI change, so it looks exactly the same. You can even know by the name that they're not going to be changing much about the interface of Snow Leopard. They said they're trying to make a better version of Leopard. Okay, and you know that it is better because just by installing it. For some reason, a lot of people ask me, um, they say, "I have a 200 GB laptop, and if I go to my laptop, hold on. If I say go to slash, okay, and then I go to my hard drive, it says capacity 185." So, where are those other, um, where is that 25 gigabytes or if I calculated that right?

That's all in the memory of the computer; that's the stuff that makes the operating system and stuff work. So, just by installing that, you'll have 6 GB back. And they also did do one or two GUI changes, like they have a dock expose where you can just see one application in the dock. One of the dock's applications windows where they already have something kind of like that. But, um, you'll see, you have to see the video on it. And it is only 29 bucks! 29 bucks is an amazing price; it's like a steal.

Okay, 'cause, like, um, in Linux, it's free, so I'm going to compare it to Linux. But, um, I think 129 bucks was a good price for Leopard, um, and, um, more than that, it's overpriced and less than that, it's way underpriced. So this is way underpriced, and this is what an operating system is. People just don't know that because Apple usually introduces cool stuff that way kids like to buy it, but this is actually what an operating system is.

So, and with that is Safari 4, and Safari 4 is out today! So you can go get it for Tiger or for Leopard, or if you're a developer, I guess, you already have it. But Safari 4 is already out today, so you can just go to apple.com/safari and download that, the full version, no longer the beta.

Now to the main event of the show: the iPhone. For a while, they were talking about the iPhone 3.0, so they were just reintroducing all their features, and they were talking about one or two new features. So one of the new features in the iPhone is called "Back to My iPhone." Okay, so "Back to My iPhone" is a web app for MobileMe members, where they can just sign in and see where they lost their iPhone.

Now, there weren't that many rumors, in fact, no rumors at all about this, and I actually saw this for myself because I'm an iPhone developer. I went into the MobileMe section, and there's a checkbox saying "Back to My iPhone." I didn't know what that was, and I went to the information box and it said to find your iPhone on the MobileMe application. I didn't know they would put that there yet, so I actually spent two hours on MobileMe looking for the application, and then two weeks later this happened.

So, um, I did know about it; I just didn't know it was a secret. So, um, yeah, that's only for MobileMe members though. So, if you want to, um, if you want to not lose your iPhone, you might want to get a MobileMe account, and you can wipe it wirelessly through the thing. You also see a map showing exactly where your iPhone is, and if you lost it in your house, you can make a noise to find it, whether the iPhone is on vibrate or not.

Now, tethering is also coming to the iPhone. Tethering means you can get internet off your phone to your laptop. Now, AT&T did not partner this up for this yet, but I have— I had an iPhone developer account, like I mentioned, and I got tethering working with AT&T, so if I can still get that working, maybe I can get a video up to show you guys.

Now GPS, um, there's going to be a digital compass. Why? Why is that on the new iPhone? But, um, people are going to start working on turn-by-turn direction maps, and so, TomTom's one of the people that did that, and they were working on a new GPS turn-by-turn direction. So, that's the first one we know about, and it should be really nice.