Apple Live Stream

I'll admit, the quality of the Apple Live stream is quite good. Watching it on the iPad right now. I feel so...conflicted. Updates as they're warranted.

Stores
The second Paris store looks beautiful, especially with the architectural columns. The Shanghai store...little derivative of the 5th Avenue store (which is pretty cool inside).

iOS

• 230,000 iOS activations (iPod touch, iPhone, iPad) compared to 200,000 Android (phone) activations. The big question is how quickly Android will match that rate. Come Christmas, I wouldn't be surprised to see Android besting activations a day (if they aren't already).
• HDR Photos is just a feather in their cap and shouldn't be hard to replicate (see Camera 360 on Android), but is a nice built-in feature.
• Gaming: I still dislike on-screen controls, but that Unreal engine looks pretty sweet. Game center...we'll see, it's X-Box live derivative.
• Printing: I guess I'll quit putting my iPad on a copier.
• Multitasking on the iPad: looks pretty nice, with the swooping.
• Update for iPad coming in November. The silence is deafening and for good reason. That's a quarter of a year off, and that's way too far away. Keep your Jailbreak.

Half clap when iPods cames up

• iPod Shuffle: people miss the buttons; um no shit Steve. New iPod shuffle doesn't look much better then the 2nd gen (which, admittedly, was quite good); it's smaller and has a black ring. $49; that's a good price.
• iPod Nano: touchscreen obviously; it's basically a screened, bigger, iPod shuffle. Looks OK, but the square screen is a bit odd. If it's $100 that'll big a good deal. Quote: "I can hold down anyplace...whoops, not there." Screen rotation...interesting they decided no accelerometer. Price: $149/$179...that's too high.
• iPod Touch: iPhone without contract (AT&T dig there). They said they've sold more touches than DS's; that would have to be more than 132 million devices. Retina display, thin, blah blah blah. Front camera for facetime...back camera? Back camera. Skinny, phone-less iPhone 4. $229/$299/$399 (8/32/64GB, next week). Seems nice, but not a must-buy.
• iPod Classic: I think it's dead.

iTunes:

Lala, it'll be online, streaming of TV, $.99 rentals and...hrm. Maybe you guys can make iTunes 10 much, much much better than it's current incarnation? iTunes is slower than a frozen Zombie, and the UI is shit. iTunes ping and.....dead stream. So when the stream dies on their tech, it starts you back to the start of the stream. It looks like the connection is back. OK, so Ping is what, just facebook for iTunes? Interesting?
It'll go live right now. Jobs was expecting a some applause there it seems like.
Ping: iPhone and iPod touch, but no iPad? That's weak. iTunes 10 is available today.

One more thing: one more hobby
iTV is a go. He's up his ass about a lot of it, but I have no doubt that it'll be popular. "People don't want to think about storage" (sigh). :People don't want to sync to their computer" then why do the iPhone and iPad NEED TO SYNC TO FUNCTION?!?!
iTV is a screenless iPad without major storage.

Anyway, looks like I missed out on the end of the keynote; I suppose the new Apple TV, at that price, actually looks OK. Not game changing, too focused on buying stuff, and too much iTunes lock-in, but it certainly could work just fine.

Chris Martin, he'll be available in store within 6 weeks.