![]() “There’s no GPS inside the iPhone,” Jobs says. ![]() (This is a really clever interface to show that the icons are editable.) He can rearrange them, and when he’s done he presses home and they stop wiggling. When he’s going to change things, the icons start wiggling, signaling that they’re movable. Now he has the zoomed-in technology section of the Times technology section as a web clip. He zooms up to the technology section, and says add to home screen. Web clips can remember where he zoomed and panned to, he says. Now the Google icon is added to his home screen. He can “Add to home screen,” and he says add. He goes to Google, and goes to a plus button at the bottom. Now he’s demonstrating sending SMS to more than one person. I think this is the first time we’ve heard that Apple writes the front end of Google Maps for the iPhone.) “We write the front end” and we really like working with those guys. “We develop our Maps application in collaboration with Google,” Jobs says. Then he can move the pin and easily get directions. He cans also quickly get directions to a nearby Apple Store. This makes directions easy he just taps in “Apple,” and it gives directions back to the headquarters. Push a pin, and it pinpoints the phone’s location on the map. You can SMS multiple people at once, and have chapters and subtitles in videos. Also, you can now make web clips on your home screen - up to 9. But Apple wanted to roll out new features, including maps with location. What everyone’s excited about is the software development kit in late February, Jobs says. In the December quarter, Jobs says, he thinks Apple did even better. What’s equally interesting, Jobs says, is that Apple equally Palm, Motorola and Nokia in Q3. In terms of the overall market, according to Gartner’s Q3 data, RIM had 39 percent with the Blackberry, Apple had 19.5 percent with the iPhone, Palm had 9.8 percent, and Motorola had 7.4 percent. Today is the 200th day since the iPhone went on sale, he says. That’s the first thing Jobs wanted to share. There are a lot of Macs explaining that Time Machine automatically makes copies of him so that nothing ever gets lost. The 500 will be $299, and the terabyte will be $499. Time Capsule will be sold in a 500 gigabyte drive and a terabyte drive. “You can back up your notebook wirelessly to Time Capsule.” In fact, you can back up all the Macs in your house. I has WiFi and a hard drive in it (802.11n) and together it lets you wirelessly sync your stuff. (Jobs calls it Tiger, the previous version, by mistake.) Today Apple is announcing a companion product to Time Machine, called Time Capsule. He’s talking about Time Machine in Leopard. “This is the last big app to go native on Intel.” He’s going through the reviews, including raves from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Almost 20 percent of the Mac OS X installed base has upgraded, he says. More than 5 million copies of Mac OS X Leopard have been delivered, making it the most successful release ever. He’s got four things he wants to talk about today. Jobs says he wants to look back at 2007, and says thank you to the crowd.
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