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Titolo: Apple Worldwide Developers' conference

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Apple WWDC '98 Keynote LIVE coverage
NowSpeech highlights follow: 
Employee "attrition" rate, the rate at which people left Apple, used to
be 33%. Since then, it's dropped to 15%,
which is below the Silicon Valley average. 
CompUSA Mac sales went from 4% to 15% of total sales since the
introduction of the Apple Store. 
Apple's Web sites now receive 10 Million hits each day. 
Apple's market share has increased by about 15% since its low last year.
Apple has 1.8 Billion in cash now. 
Apple's Market value has gone up from 1.8 Billion (8 months ago) to 4
Billion now. 
Steve talks iMac....gives the clear advantages of this unit over
comparable x86 offerings. 
Steve wants to bundle lots of games with the iMac. 
New consumer portable in '99 
Apple sees QuickTime as a similar idea to PostScript, which allowed all
printers and all applications that print to
talk to each other with a standard language -- which is what Steve sees
QuickTime as doing with all the
standards for digital imaging and video. 
New Fall release of QuickTime will include "real" streaming video, using
RTP (Real Time Protocol). 
Steve makes some great faces for the streaming QT cam....audience laughs
uproariously. A great moment =) 
Streaming QuickTime will not just be on the Web...the new streaming QT
client will work as a stand-alone or
can be written into third-party applications. 
A QT-based presentation can be synchronized with the streaming video. 
Metrowerks, Netscape, Apple, and Microsoft will be standardizing a new
Java Virtual Machine for the Mac OS.
Allegro will ship this Fall. 
Apple's Java Virtual machine delivered slow performance compared to
Microsoft's on the Pentium II -- Steve
has pledged to make the Mac's JVM just as fast by the time Allegro
ships. 
Steve set out to combine Rhapsody and the Mac OS, allow developers to
use some of their old code. 
The new Mac OS will be Mac OS X: that's "Mac OS 10" 
2000 out of the current 8000 APIs in the Mac OS are gone in Mac OS X. 
The new APIs will be called "Carbon." In Steve's words, "All Life Is
Based On It." 
The average existing application is 90% Carbon-compatible in Apple's
tests. 
Carbon will run on top of Mac OS 8. 
1-5 days to "Bring Up" your app to Carbon-compatible. 
1-2 months to ship for Carbon 
Compared to 1-2 Years for Rhapsody. 
"Carbon dater" app will show developers how much of their existing code
works under Mac OS X. 
Carbon will have:
*Protected Memory
*Extremely fast I/O -- saturates high-speed Ethernet cards easily.
*Advanced virtual memory
*Extremely fast threading.
*100% PowerPC native.
*All Mac OS 8 apps will run on Mac OS 10, they just won't take advantage
of the new features until they're tuned up. 
Allegro will be Mac OS 8.5, and ship probably in September. 
8.6 will ship in January next year. 
Rhapsody 1.0 will be shipped in Q3 this year (Fall). 
Mac OS 10 (Sonata/Cyan) will be in beta in January of next year -- will
ship in Q3 1999. 
Avie Tevanian and assistant show off AppleWorks, ported to Carbon
running on top of Rhapsody DR2. This application, with 350,000 lines of
code, only needed a fraction of a percent of its code changed to run
perfectly in the demo. 
Avie has trotted out people from Microsoft, Macromedia, Adobe, you name
it -- all to show their support for Mac OS X. 
Adobe's Photoshop software VP personally (with the help of a couple of
engineers) ported Photoshop 5 to Carbon, and demonstrated it. A very
exciting experience..... It seemed to work perfectly. This is with less
than two weeks of work by one developer. 
Steve and Avie gave an excellent wrap-up, with no new announcements. 
Stay tuned for complete live coverage as the conference continues all
week long. 
-- 
Andrea The Troll Meneghini
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