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The stock finished trading at $143.85, down 0.57 percent, aftedr being down as more than 3 percent earlie inthe day. Speculatiom ahead of the San Francisclo event centered on if CEO Steve Jobs wouldc make his first appearanc e since taking medical leave earlief this year and whether the company would unveil its nextgenerationn iPhone. Jobs didn't make an appearance, but Bloomberg News cited unnamed sources Monday who said that he had been activelyh involved inthe company's preparation for Monday's conference. The new iPhone is nearly three times faster to downloas Web page and comes witha 3-megapixel autofocus It also has voice-control featuree and a built-in compass.
The 3GS also has improvexd battery life with up to nine hours on 10 hours whilewatching video, 30 hours usinf audio, 12 hours using 2G talk and five hour using 3G talk. It also features a new built-inh digital compass for instant Thenew iPhone, available in black and white on June 19, will sell for $199 for a 16GB modell and $299 for 32GB. New versions of the MacBook Pro. A 15-inch versio that starts at $1,699, a lower-priced 17-inch that startx at $2,499 and a 13-incbh version that starts at — Lower prices for the MacBoom Air ultra-thin line, cutting $700 off the 128GBv model to $1,799 and cutting $300 off the base modeo at $1,499.
— A new version of the Mac operatinbg system, Snow Leopard, that is faster to install and takes up 6 gigabytes less harddriver space. The new operating systenm comes with a new version of the Safark Web browser that Apple says is more robust and fasterf thanprevious versions. — New iPhone software including abilityt to cut and paster data and an aler feature that helps users find their device or remotelgy wipe its memory clean if it gets stolen and latee restore it using an iTunes Apple said at the conferenc that it has now sold more than 40 millionj iPhones and iPod Touches and that users of the devicew have a choice of morethan 50,0000 software applications they can