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Live Blog: Appleв s Digital Media Event

2010-09-01 12:59
It 8217;sВ a packed room, with more than 200 people at the Yerba Buena Center here in San Francisco, Calif. Steve Jobs arrives to a standing ovation. Scroll down for the latest updates at the bottom of the live blog: 10:00 a.m.:В Steve says, My partner in crime, Steve Wozniak is here. В (Big ovation.) Talking about the cool stuff. 10:02: Steve is giving an update on Apple retail stores. A second store has opened in Paris near the Opera House Ed note: Palais Garnier . It 8217;s a gorgeous store that 8217;s fantastic; the company spent 18 months restoring it. Apple is really excited about the event. A second store opened in Shanghai, China: a landmark in glass engineering, with curved glass entrance. The third big, new store is in London, where the company restored a complete building in the heart of Covent Garden; the old and new work beautifully. 10:03: Apple has 300 retail stores in 10 countries and is soon going to open in Spain to make it 11 countries. On some days, over a million people visit the retails stores. That happens several days a month. Retails stores hold over 80,000 one-on-one sessions. 10:05: iOS is a revolution in touch and apps. Over 120 million iOS devices have shipped since launch, with 230,000 iOS new activations every day. Jobs says some of our friends are counting updates in their activations, a possible dig at Google Android. 200 apps are downloaded every second, and the iTunes Store has 25,000 iPad apps and 250,000 total apps. 10:07: He 8217;s now introducing iOS 4.1. Lots of bugs have been fixed, including proximity bugs and performance issues using iOS 4 on 3G devices. The update includes new High Dynamic Range photos and HD video upload over Wi-Fi. TV show rentals and Game Center is making a debut today. HDR photos are pretty awesome, and are essentially a way to give photos a HD-type face lift. 10:09: Game Center is an app as well as an API for app developers, designed for multiplayer games. Functionality includes challenge games and finding friends, with notifications for game invitations -В pretty exciting. EPIC games is going to introduce a new game. Mike Capps, president of EPIC, introduces the new game 8212; Project Sword 8212; a role-player multiplayer game. The game is pretty stunning and visually awesome. It is powered by Unreal technology, an aptly named company, since the game itself is unreal in terms of execution. 10:12: On a phone! It 8217;s pretty remarkable. 10:15: iOS 4.1 is downloadable next week. Now, for a sneak peek about iOS 4.2: It 8217;s about the iPad, and brings everything to the iPad. Apple is adding wireless printing toВ iOS 4.2, as well as something cool called AirPlay. The multitasking can show you the Print Center. It 8217;s very powerful, and the next generation of what was AirTunes. Apple is changing the name from AirTunes to AirPlay, and now you can stream audio, video, and photos over Wi-Fi. iOS 4.2 will come out in November, and will be a free update.В The company couldn 8217;t b...
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