The following Special Events were held by Apple Computer in 2005:
January 2005[]
- Main article: Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco 2005
Macworld 2005
The 2005 Macworld Conference & Expo was held January 11 to 14, 2005 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. During the keynote event on the opening day, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" with Dashboard widgets, and QuickTime 7 with support for H.264. New software releases included Final Cut Express HD, iLife '05 with iMovie HD, and iWork, which was presented as the successor to AppleWorks. New hardware announcements included the Mac mini G4 and 1st generation iPod shuffle[1][2]
June 2005[]
- Main article: Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
Apple WWDC 2005
The 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2005) was held June 6 to 10, 2005 at Moscone West in San Francisco. During the keynote event on the opening day, Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 7 for Windows and announced that Mac OS X Leopard would be the next major version. However, the major announcement about Mac OS X was that Apple had been secretly maintaining an Intel-compatible version since its inception and would begin a transition to Intel processors from 2006 to 2007.[3]
September 2005[]
Apple Music Event 2005 - Motorola Rokr E1 iTunes Phone
On September 7, 2005, Apple held a special music event titled "It's Showtime" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Steve Jobs introduced the Motorola ROKR E1 as the first "iTunes phone" with support for up to 100 songs downloaded from iTunes. At the end of the event, he revealed the first iPod nano.[4]
October 2005[]
Apple Special Event 2005 iPod video
On October 12, 2005, Apple held a special event at the Town Hall conference center in Cupertino where Steve Jobs introduced the iPod video.[5]
References[]
- ↑ Macworld 2005, All about Steve Jobs. 2005-01-09.
- ↑ Macworld Expo SF 2005 Keynote Coverage - Live Update by Peter Cohen, Macworld. 2005-01-11.
- ↑ Live from WWDC: Steve Jobs keynote by Peter Rojas, Engadget. 2005-06-06.
- ↑ Music Event 2005, All about Steve Jobs. 2005-09-07.
- ↑ Special Event 2005, All about Steve Jobs. 2005-10-12.
External links[]
- List of Apple Inc. media events: 2005 at Wikipedia