First you could stream the yesterday's keynote, then you could download it via iTunes, and now you can stream it in HD. Nothing beats seeing an Apple presentation in HD, you can almost smell the Old Spice on Phil Schiller.

Thanks, Jeff.

Normally I wouldn't even post about this, but several people have commented on the way Steve Jobs looked during his keynote yesterday. Most folks seemed to think that he looked a little thinner than usual, which of course makes one think back to his battle with cancer. An Apple PR person assured the Wall Street Journal that Steve has been fighting a 'common bug' for the last few weeks, and he is on the mend.

Everyone here at TUAW hopes Steve feels better soon! We should probably send him an iCard before they go away.

The dust has settled from the stampede of announcements from yesterday's WWDC Keynote so it's time to take a look back at our predictions and see how we did!

First, let's take a look at what was released at this year's WWDC:

• Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) seeds for developers
  
• MobileMe
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 2.0 firmware ship date

Let's see what we predicted:

• .Mac rebranding (with support for iPhone/PC)
• iPhone 3G
• Mac OS X 10.6 seeded
• iTablet
  
• Mac nano
• Flash on the iPhone
  
• Video on the iPhone
• Enterprise solutions for iPhone
• Over-the-Air syncing for "MobileMe"
• Redesigned MacBook Pro
• iPhone 2.0 delayed / ship date

So, how did we do?
Many of the things we predicted did actually come true (to our amazement!). We are extremely pleased with our predictions this year as we guessed everything that was released. All in all, we were 54.5% (6 right, 5 wrong) correct with our predictions. But we were spot on with the .Mac rebranding ("MobileMe"), 10.6 "Snow Leopard" preview, and the iPhone 3G / iPhone 2.0 announcement / delayed release.

Many people forget that Apple makes 2 variants of OS X for Macs: client (that's the one you run on your personal Mac) and Server (which is normally found on a server, oddly enough). We've already posted (twice) about the client version of Snow Leopard, but what about Apple's next iteration of their server product?

Head on over to the Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard page that Apple just put up, and you'll find out a thing or two about what your Mac server will be serving up in about a year or so. Amongst the new features we find:

• iCal Server 2: Adds group and shared calendars as well as a way to invite non-iCal Server users to meetings and events. Also includes a web app to let people access their calendars on the go.
• Podcast Producer 2: This little known Apple app makes creating content and getting it into the iTunes Store a snap. This version looks like it adds a number of great features including support for recording both the presenter and the presentation they are giving and a way to locally host your podcasts.
• Address Book Server: This new component lets you share contacts across machines, as well as create a central Address Book without having to have an LDAP server.
• ZFS: The long rumored addition of Sun's file-system is finally coming to OS X Server. Snow Leopard will be able to both read and write to ZFS volumes.

All in all, Snow Leopard Server seems to add quite a few new features.

Thanks, Nate.

It is clear that Apple isn't ready to talk too much about the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, but they are eager to set expectations. In addition to the press release we pointed to earlier today Apple has created a new section on its website explaining the focus of Snow Leopard.

Snow Leopard is all about making sure that users have a consistent experience across Apple products. Apple will be adding full Exchange support in Mail, Address Book, and iCal because it is in the iPhone. Apple is working on shrinking the amount of hard drive space OS X requires, no doubt because they figured out how to make OS X much smaller to run on the Apple TV and the iPhone. We'll also be seeing a new version of QuickTime, QuickTime X which will support 'all modern codecs.'

There isn't a ton of information on the site, but there is enough to leave you wanting more.

TUAW reader Lee Car noticed something odd whilst reading the Terms and Conditions of MobileMe (I'm impressed that anyone actually reads that stuff). The official System Requirements of MobileMe say that you need 'Mac OS X v10.4.11 or latest version of Mac OS X Leopard,' which isn't all that newsy worthy. However, as you can see above, the MobileMe Terms of Service lists Mac OS X v10.4.11, v10.5.4, or later. Very interesting, huh?

This leads me to believe that around the time MobileMe launches ( July 11) we'll see 10.5.4.

Update: Cory reminds me that one of our tipsters told us to expect OS X 10.5.4 during the second week of June. Looks pretty likely to me.

View Larger Map During this afternoon's WWDC madness, international Apple fans were treated to some great news on the iPhone front: the iPhone 3G will be available in more than 70 countries.

While 22 countries will see the phone launch on July 11, 2008, the phone will be hitting other parts of the world as well. Apple wasn't kidding about making the international presence of the iPhone known, from Madagascar to Mali, Chile to Croatia, the iPhone 3G is coming.

You can see the complete list of countries here, but I went ahead and put together a little Google map representing as many of the countries as I could find/fit.

The WWDC keynote is still ongoing, but one tidbit that we have to bring you immediately: we have a launch date for the iPhone 2.0 firmware and the iTunes App Store, "early July." iPhone users get the upgrade free of charge, and iPod touch users can download it for a $9.95 charge. Applications under 10 MB can be downloaded over the cellular network, and larger apps can be delivered over WiFi or via an iTunes sync.

Enterprise users can deliver apps directly to their users, and there's also an 'ad-hoc' delivery method for up to 100 iPhones.

More in the liveblog, and in the feature page...

Happy Stevemas! (Peace on earth, OS X to all.) Welcome to TUAW's Live metaliveblog of today's WWDC keynote.

There is nothing better than sharing the joy of a Steve Jobs Keynote with fellow Apple fans. That's why several of TUAW's bloggers (myself included) are hanging out in the tuawrocks room in IRC (the server is: irc.freenode.net, channel is 'tuawrocks'). Join us to chat about what we hope to see, the live coverage, and the aftermath.

If you're looking for a good OS X IRC client give Colloquy a try.

It started with the Australian store, but now it looks like the rest of Apple's online stores are down. What will greet us when they come back up? A 3G iPhone? New MacBook Pros? The Mac Fusion? A free pony with every purchase? Only Steve knows for sure.

While San Francisco still lies sleeping (with a few notable exceptions), we're gearing up for a full day & week of WWDC coverage. Here are some of the times to pencil in on your iCal reminder list:

• 1pm ET -- our metaliveblog coverage of the keynote begins, anchored by Erica and enthusiastically supported by the entire team. We'll be monitoring live coverage from all over the Internet and bringing it to you.
• 3:30 pm ET -- Live reader Q&A session via CoveritLive on the front page. We want to hear your keynote impressions and answer as many of your questions as we can.
• 10 pm ET -- If circumstances permit, we're going to do a special WWDC talkcast tonight, with live reactions from developers and our man on the ground. Check the TalkShoe page for updates and precise schedule.

You can follow all our coverage from our feature page at tuaw.com/wwdc08, and we'll be updating breaking news throughout the week via Twitter, Pingie, and (if the prior two collapse) FriendFeed. You can also subscribe directly to our WWDC tag and category feeds in your favorite newsreader. The excitement is in the air! No, wait, sorry, that was Macworld Expo. Uh... the iPhone has left the building?

Today marks the official start of WWDC, and we at TUAW plan to cover the heck out of it. As always you can check out all of our coverage at our WWDC 2008 page, via our RSS feed, or by following us on Twitter (assuming Twitter stays up during the keynote).

I know what you're thinking: why can't TUAW send the most important news from WWDC right to my phone? Thanks to Pingie, we can! Head on over to TUAW's Pingie page to enter your phone number and we'll send you news throughout the week directly to your phone.

You can also subscribe to TUAW's Pingie posts simply by texting 'ping tuaw' to 95495 and if you're had enough of our ramblings you can stop the notifications by texting 'ping stop' to the same number.

On WWDC Eve, we at TUAW are hard at work keeping an eye out for the unknown and unexpected. We just received a tip showing what appears to be the Mac Nano computer that we've all wanted -- and it looks to be aimed towards the developer crowd.

The pictures appear to show a Mac geared towards developers on Windows and Linux systems. "Leave Windows behind. Build your Apps for OS X" states the title. While we are extremely cautious about rumors like these right before WWDC, we did have a rumor that a "new Mac" or at least an updated Mac might be released.

Thanks Jackie!

Last week's talkcast included some great WWDC preview discussion with developers Kai Cherry and Todd Ditchendorf along with an expanded panel. Apologies for the scratchy audio (we had to use the Talkshoe low-bandwidth recording instead of the local Skype copy). Download the show from Talkshoe, play it from the Flash player in the continuation of this post, if you like, or pick it up on iTunes.

Join us again later tonight, Sunday June 8 at 10 pm ET for more WWDC conversation -- let us know what you want to hear about and which developers you want us to interview, and our man on the ground in San Francisco will try to track them down. Time and personnel permitting, we'll be back on the air Monday night with another show; keep an eye on the TalkShoe page and our Twitter feed for scheduling.