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1:07 P.M. Mr. Jobs Talks About iBooks
Mr. Jobs looks about the same as he did the last time he showed up at an Apple event. He says, "We've been working on this product for a while and I didn't want to miss it." He starts talking about iBooks. He says that 100 million books have been downloaded from the service in less than a year, and that Random House books will now be available in the service. They were a notable holdout when iBooks started. Mr. Jobs now is talking about the three stores: iBooks, iTunes, the App Store -- and says there are 200 million accounts with credit card numbers registered.

1:03 P.M. Steve Jobs Takes the Stage
Steve Jobs has just walked onto the stage.  Standing ovation.

12:57 P.M. Getting Started
We're in our seats here at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts waiting for the presentation to begin. People are still filing in as music from The Beatles ("Here Comes the Sun") is playing over the public address system. My colleague Miguel Helft, who is here with me, notes that seated in the front are Timothy D. Cook, Phil Schiller and other Apple executives. But if they are in the stands, who is going to be on stage? There's been speculation that Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive who is on medical leave, will appear. We'll just have to wait a few minutes to find out.

1:12 P.M. The iPad's Success
The company has also shipped its 100 millionth iPhone, Mr. Jobs says.

He now is talking about the post-PC era -- first iPod, then iPhone, now iPad. "The majority of our revenues come from these post-PC products," he says. "People laughed at us when we described the iPad as 'magical', but it is."

He makes a dig at competitors being unable to match Apple on tablet pricing. In nine months in 2010, Apple sold 15 million ipads. "That's more than every Tablet PC ever sold ever," referring to Microsoft's effort. "Tablet PC crashed and burned."

In the list of accomplishments projected on the screen, one of the points is "competitors flummoxed."

There are 65,000 apps that take "full advantage" of the iPad, he says.

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1:20 P.M. Details on iPad 2
Mr. Jobs is back on stage. "What about 2011?" he says. "Is it going to be the year of the copycats?"

Apple is really coming out swinging.

And now it's time to talk about the iPad 2. It's an all-new design, he says. "It's dramatically faster. It has a new chip called A5. It's dual-core, so we get twice as fast performance on the cpu and nine times better graphics performance."

Competitors like Motorola have a dual-core processor, so this evens the playing field for Apple.

There are now rear and front cameras.

1:17 P.M. More on the iPad's Success
Mr. Jobs is really going after the competition, losing no opportunity to draw comparisons to Google, Samsung and other companies that show the iPad's dominance.

He also praises the apps, especially business and medical apps. And now they are showing a video, "2010: The Year of the iPad," which treats the unveiling of the tablet as a historic moment.

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CAMERAS! YAY!

1:30 P.M. Accessories
And now, accessories.

There is an accessory cable for HDMI out, for connecting the iPad to displays. It supports 1080p. It works with all apps, and supports rotation. The cable has an additional connection to support charging. It costs $39 more.

1:27 P.M. Available on March 11
Models are available in 16, 32, and 64 GB versions, wireless and non-wireless. It ships beginning on March 11 in the United States, and March 25 to 26 to more countries.

"And that," he says, "is iPad 2."

1:26 P.M. Pricing
The new iPad will be available with data plans from AT&T and Verizon.

It has the same 10-hour battery life, and one month of standby.

It will cost the same, starting at $499.

1:45 P.M. iMovie App for iPad
Mr. Jobs is back. He says he'll introduce two more apps.

First is iMovie for iPad. It features a precision editor, multitrack audio recording and the ability to share videos in HD. Randy Ubillos, chief architect of video apps, has come on stage to talk about this. The iMovie app's home screen is an old-time movie marquee. Cute. He's now editing a home movie from Hawaii. (What is the travel budget for Apple's film crews? Oh wait, they have $60 billion in cold, hard cash -- never mind.)

They should make it so you can make calls on the ipad. 

Imagine jailbreaking the iPad 2.



SO MUCH POTENTIAL!

ihaveamac wrote:

agscratcher wrote:

Imagine jailbreaking the iPad 2.



SO MUCH POTENTIAL!

Yeah.

+1

ihaveamac wrote:

I worry about Steve Jobs's health more than the iPad 2. He was on a medical leave. D:

What?!? Who will run Apple and Pixar if something happens to him?!?

bananaman114 wrote:

ihaveamac wrote:

I worry about Steve Jobs's health more than the iPad 2. He was on a medical leave. D:

Yeah, me too. I have even heard he might die in about 4 weeks, but I heard that on the internet, so you can't always trust the reliability.

Where is it from?

Yes... It is coming out today...

bananaman114 wrote:

ihaveamac wrote:

I worry about Steve Jobs's health more than the iPad 2. He was on a medical leave. D:

Yeah, me too. I have even heard he might die in about 4 weeks, but I heard that on the internet, so you can't always trust the reliability.

It was in the National Enquirer.

I think that's all you need to know to know it's false.