Apple Acquires Video Discovery and Recommendation Startup Matcha.tv

[LethalWolfe]

Engineers....that work in companies.

Engineers... that work for the people that decide whether or not to go the open standards route or the proprietary route. For example, I doubt it was the engineers at Sony that decided Sony products will use their proprietary memory sticks (or MiniDisc or MicroMV or UMD, etc.,) but it was the engineers that were tasked with executing the vision of the people that run Sony. If Steve Jobs wanted iTunes and iDevices to be open platforms I can't see the engineers at Apple going, "We don't think so, Steve. We are going to do whatever we want because we are the engineers and we want a closed ecosystem! If you don't like it you can GTFO."

 

[Illusion986]

The others I can understand, but Spotlight?

Spotlight is by far the best out of them all and for quick search like an app it works very well. But if I'm looking for some weird file that I don't know exact name of it becomes pretty useless and I have to use a third party app with filters to find it. I just wish spotlight had some more advanced options with easy acces to them. But from what I'm seeing I won't hold my breath for it as apple is really focusing on simplicity (that is on the surface under the hood is a different story) and is removing advanced features making OSX more and more like iOS but I sure hope I'm wrong or uninformed

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Pocket change investment for Apple.

 

[a0me]

Spotlight is by far the best out of them all and for quick search like an app it works very well. But if I'm looking for some weird file that I don't know exact name of it becomes pretty useless and I have to use a third party app with filters to find it. I just wish spotlight had some more advanced options with easy acces to them. But from what I'm seeing I won't hold my breath for it as apple is really focusing on simplicity (that is on the surface under the hood is a different story) and is removing advanced features making OSX more and more like iOS but I sure hope I'm wrong or uninformed

I'm not a Spotlight expert by any measure, but I've always been able to find what I'm looking for, often by using the bunch of filters and criteria available.

 

[Illusion986]

I'm not a Spotlight expert by any measure, but I've always been able to find what I'm looking for, often by using the bunch of filters and criteria available.

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Wow I have not seen these filters! Thanx for posting this. I will play around with them later on hope this is what I was looking for. This reminds me of a time when I just got my first Mac in 09 and it took me 20min to figure out how to rename a file "right click" where is "rename" ? After getting frustrated and googling it felt stupid of how simple it was I guess I'm still learning something new over and over about OSX

 

[Klosefabrinio]

looks like they are gonna use this to attract more people towards apple TV, good trick, but i can tell you, there is no true recommendation app yet, they dont know what to recommend,

 

[a0me]

Wow I have not seen these filters! Thanx for posting this. I will play around with them later on hope this is what I was looking for. This reminds me of a time when I just got my first Mac in 09 and it took me 20min to figure out how to rename a file "right click" where is "rename" ? After getting frustrated and googling it felt stupid of how simple it was I guess I'm still learning something new over and over about OSX

Spotlight on Mac OS X is really great; it's actually one of the features that made me switch to Mac, shortly after the release of Tiger.

You should definitely check out these articles:

Expanding Spotlight: Advanced tips for the Finder window
All the Awesome Spotlight Shortcuts You Didn't Know Existed