Steve Jobs keynote
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by Dave Winer.
A few minutes before it started someone on Twitter asked how long before the rate of updates on Twitter brought it down. 
I'm watching the updates on Engadget, far from an optimal experience. Somone ought to make live-blogging a bit easier on the reader.
So far he's announced "Time Capsule" -- a hardware device that backs up any Mac in the house over wifi. It's like a router with a hard drive.
The market is down, and so is Apple, almost 4 points at 175 at 9:30AM.
They've sold 4 million iPhones. As an Apple shareholder that makes me happy.
5 million Leopards. He quotes quotemills, Mossberg and Pogue.
Twitter is still down at 9:37AM.
Maybe they took the system down so they could demo it at Moscone without any load?
http://www.macrumorslive.com/ -- much better! Thanks!! 
Movies on iTunes, this is what Netflix was worried about. Lots of questions. Only 1000 titles. 30 days after release on DVD. What's the quality? HD? I don't think Netflix has much to worry about, they have much more than 1000 titles (I think I've probably already watched 1000 movies on my Netflix account) and they get them the day they come out on DVD, and ahem, I have to say this, so does BitTorrent. Hollywood is still scared of the net. They didn't give a great deal to Steve, or so it seems.
Ahhh -- AppleTV 2.0. No need to synch with a desktop or laptop. Why don't they just sell the Mac Mini. Perfect product for the living room.
Community movie features. Just like Netflix.
Just checked Twitter at 9:52AM -- it's up.
More stuff about AppleTV. It's a software upgrade. Does pictures from Flickr and .Mac. That's good everybody, good. RSS everywhere.
At 10:05AM, Twitter is dead again.
I see they came out with a thin sub-notebook, MacBook Air.
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