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WWDC Live: First reactions from attendees post-keynote
It's the first of what should be many videos coming to you straight from San Francisco: Two Apple developers, three opinions! At least that's the way it seemed coming out of the keynote this afternoon at WWDC. We caught up with several attendees and asked them for their thoughts. One of our favorites: "All I wanted was voice dialing, I've wanted it for the last two years... and then they do it, and it's just so much better than you expect it to be."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JustinGurbisz said 5:56PM on 6-08-2009
LOL at the hippie who has yet to figure out how to search in the App Store.
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Evan Walsh said 6:01PM on 6-08-2009
How to find apps in the App Store? Search, maybe? Categories?
Yeesh.
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Doc Rock said 7:58AM on 6-09-2009
I hate hearing developers bitch about the app store. Not long ago freeware and shareware developers had to gain customer by hard work and actually marketing their apps.
I think iPhone Devs have a "If you build it... They will come mentality"... Wrong frigtards download a basic business or marketing audiobook into your ipod and get schooled before you whine about the hand(s) that are feeding you.
Appstore is a blessing to all of us users and developers alike. Seems to me the incredible iFart oxygen-suckers had no issues with their customer finding their apps.
That is all...
jim said 6:04PM on 6-08-2009
The older gentlemen is correct it is mostly evolutionary stuff today. Apple must not feel threatened by the Pre.
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Charlie said 6:28PM on 6-08-2009
LOL at the guy who thought search is what "the hippie" was talking about. Search doesn't help people discover your app. That's what he was talking about.
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homerpa33 said 6:29PM on 6-08-2009
I'm not that impressed.
1. It's not the same without Steve.
2. The 3GS just isn't that impressive; it's not that great of an update.
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Alexander Voloshyn said 6:44PM on 6-08-2009
agreed, much more features were expected...
1. Video recording was added, but come on, it's been pretty a while ALL phones have video capturing, it's not something cool & new.
2. Camera is ordinary and instead touch to focus other devices focus automatically, not big deal.
3. MMS is supported on ALL devices and it's not new feature, it's just something apple "forgot" to include from the very beginning
4. I'm sure voice recognition is the same quality as on the Mac (i.e. barely usable)
Although video editing, location services and battery performance and overall performance are great improvements and that's why I will buy it!
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macuser said 7:16PM on 6-08-2009
The so called "Hippie" is clearly a developer whose app is not doing so well. lol Along with the guy who must not be one of Apple's favorites.
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Alexander Voloshyn said 7:35PM on 6-08-2009
you can advertise your app in the internet giving the URL to App Store, so it's not a problem to "find" your app.
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Erick said 9:36PM on 6-08-2009
I made an app that has turkey calls and did well (not so much now) so it's possible even a retarded monkey can make an app that makes at least a few thousand.
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Frank said 10:55PM on 6-08-2009
am i wrong, or did i hear something about cut & paste during the keynote? and, if so, what isn't a bigger deal being made about that? so many people have been whining for it since v1.0.
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ianlive said 11:49PM on 6-08-2009
I find I am dissapointed in the lack of any new design to the casing of the iPhone. Some of the photoshop images floating around looked pretty cool.
That beiing said, l have to take a step back and look at how friggin awesome 3.0 and the iPhone in general really is. This thing is so unbeleivably powerful, slick and packed with features I have to remind myself what cell phones, and life in general was like before it came along. Same goes with OS X. Maybe even more so.
I find myself falling into the trap of wanting to see very specific features during the keynote and I always walk (or click) away dissapointed, yet Apple is simply blowing my mind lately with their software and hardware. I can only immagine where we will all be in just a few years time. As one blogger said after the oroginal iPhone announcemtnt, "we really are living in the future".
Let's hope if Skynet is coming, it's from
Cupertino. At least well all go out under a gorgeous UI.
John Connor out.
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bily said 12:21AM on 6-09-2009
hey is it me or did he say in the Peer to Peer Demo that that two kids with their iPod touches could connect via Bluetooth?
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Dan said 1:17AM on 6-09-2009
I think apple is cutting their own costs by removing features from the MacBook Pro line and leaving the price the same.
First they removed the firewire 400 ports, now they have removed the PC card slots from the MacBook Pro lines. Unless you buy the 17inch version.
I don't need a 17inch screen. I do however have a few PC-cards. I liked the ability to buy PC-cards in order to add functionality. For laptops this is the only way to add functionality.
I can see the Microsoft ads now. Buy a PC laptop you can use PC-exress cards.
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Byran Newell said 1:33PM on 6-09-2009
I'm what you would consider an Apple fanboy- I've got a silly amount of Apple products, and I love almost all of them. But I switched to the Pre, and have not been happier with my phone since I got the 1st iPhone a couple years back.
To be excited about voice recognition, and a video camera, and MMS is LUDICROUS. These are all apps that should have been on the iPhone from the start. I gave Apple two years worth of chances to put features on the device that almost all phones have- they failed. To do it now is ok, but to get excited about it? Man, people really like that Apple high, huh?
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Chris Whalen said 2:31PM on 6-09-2009
I agree with Bryan. Apple came to the plate with new hardware and a new rev of the software. What did they give us? Standard features that are on my wife's motorola razer that she's had for three years.
This update did nothing more than patch feature holes that should have been in 1.0.
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