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The stock finished trading at $143.85, down 0.57 after being down as more than 3 percenty earlier inthe day. Speculation ahead of the San Francisco even centered on if CEO Steve Jobs would make his first appearance since takingb medical leave earlier this year and whether the companhy would unveil its next generation Jobs didn't make an appearance, but Bloomberg News citesd unnamed sources Monday who said that he had been activelgy involved in the company's preparation for Monday's The new iPhone is nearly three times faster to download Web page and comez with a 3-megapixel autofocus camera. It also has voice-controkl features and a built-in compass.
The 3GS also has improvedr battery life with up to nine hours on 10 hours whilewatching video, 30 hours using 12 hours using 2G talk and five hours usinvg 3G talk. It also features a new built-inh digital compass for instant navigation. The new iPhone, available in blaci and white onJune 19, will sell for $199 for a 16GB mode l and $299 for 32GB. New versions of the MacBook Pro. A 15-inchu version that starts at $1,699, a lower-priced 17-inchy that starts at $2,499 and a 13-inch versiomn that starts at — Lower prices for the MacBook Air ultra-thin cutting $700 off the 128GB model to $1,799 and cuttint $300 off the base model at $1,499.
A new version of the Mac operatingt system, Snow Leopard, that is faster to instal l and takes up 6 gigabytesa less harddrive space. The new operating systemn comes with a new version of the Safar Web browser that Applw says is more robust and faster thanpreviouas versions. — New iPhone software including abilitu to cut and paste data and an alert feature that helpse users find their device or remotely wipe its memoryy clean if it gets stolen and later restore it using aniTunes backup.
Apple said at the conferencr that it has now sold more than 40 millio n iPhones and iPod Touches and that users of the devicesx have a choice of morethan 50,000 softwarre applications they can download.