Steve Jobs is going to make you cry before he kicks your ass!!!
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Apple Announces Dates for WWDC 2009: June 8th-12th
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So trendy even back then - fingernail polish on one hand....
Don't be sad. Be glad!The invitation makes it look like the iPhone will again take center stage. This makes me a bit sad, I was hoping for Snow Leopard to make the news to promote OS X. More and more it looks like Apple is turning into a company that specializes in portable consumer electronics.
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Seriously, it'll be both. They were able to really be clever with the 4 letter words (ha) on the front of the phone so they went with that instead of somehow being clever in another manner with Snow Leopard. They'll be plenty to talk about with Snow Leopard I'm sure.
But we're probably going to get 3.0 goodness along with a preview of 3rd Gen. of the iPhone so that totally rocks.
SNOW LEOPARD. HAVE YOU HEARD OF IT!? Also, in 2009 (as recent as 3/3/9) we got updated Minis, iMacs and Mac Pros + 17" Mac Book Pros in January and Mac Books and 15" Mac Book Pros in Late Fall. Oh and (whether you love/hate it) a new 4GB Shuffle.
You are WAY OFF BASE if you think the Mac and OS X is on the wayside.
Trust me. Give it time. We have ALL of April and May to go. If you do a little research, as I did about a month ago, you'll see that last year before the 3G was announced the Rumor Mill really caught fire around mid April and then continued and rolled into May with just ridiculous amounts of Rumors.
I'm actually suprised we've seen some of the rumors we have so early this time around. We've already got 1 'leaked photo' with the matte black case and there's news of video conferencing at least once every two weeks (just like before the 3G
)We havn't even got started good yet, just you wait. You'll be so damned confused and over-anticipating by the time June 8th hit's you won't have a clue what to think!
Tip: keep expectations "low". makes it a little easier when they don't give you what (anything) you want.
Interesting. Thanks for that bit of information.
Thanx but NO thanx
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With that money I rather buy a laptop (Apple of course)
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With that money I rather buy a laptop (Apple of course)
Please, let's all collectively hope Apple always has the wisdom never to release a product called iPork Touch. That would be disgusting on so many levels. And even worse if they ever stole the "squirting" feature from the Zune.
Eww. Just... eww.
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With that money I rather buy a laptop (Apple of course)
I think you might be missing the point. The vast majority of the people who go to this every year already have Macs, because we develop on these things. The $1295 isn't for the keynote. It's for all the information and education over the week that help us do our jobs.
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With that money I rather buy a laptop (Apple of course)
It's clear that you're not a developer who would go to a five day conference to learn about how to prepare for changes in the new versions of the operating systems.
As others have said many times already, $1600 for a five day conference is on the low side. I do several a year that are $2000 or more for three days.
Look at it in context. A senior developer in the US is probably making $2000 per week - so the conference is quite a bit less than her salary for that one week. A convenient downtown business hotel is a good deal at $200/night - another $1200 or so depending on flight connections. Flights, another big chunk of money. Connections to downtown - not cheap unless (like me) you're OK with getting on BART at the airport and taking mass transit into the city.
WWDC is a training session for senior leads in engineering - not a "joy ride" for fanbois to watch a Stevenote. The price is justified.
It's already lame - where's your copy-and-paste?
OMG - they are going to release a porno lawn mower add-on for Garage Band!
I know this because "make your mark here wwdc" is an anagram for "A Whacker Drum Key Mower"
Gentleman... we are looking through the looking glass
I know this because "make your mark here wwdc" is an anagram for "A Whacker Drum Key Mower"
Gentleman... we are looking through the looking glass
aha
I gotchya. I had forgotten it was the (then) current model - I'm back on track now!
I gotchya. I had forgotten it was the (then) current model - I'm back on track now!
Wow.
I never type this, but; L.M.A.O.
OMG - they are going to release a porno lawn mower add-on for Garage Band!
I know this because "make your mark here wwdc" is an anagram for "A Whacker Drum Key Mower"
Gentleman... we are looking through the looking glass
I never type this, but; L.M.A.O.
Uh-huh, those Mac updates. The ones that Apple didn't think were significant enough to merit any kind of event even though a peek at their as-yet unreleased iPhone 3.0 OS did? A Mac update that included the Mini after it was neglected for well over a year? You think that reassures people? It doesn't for me. An extensive and overdue update to the Mac line-up merits almost no fanfare, but the iPhone OS did. Yeah, not too reassuring.
The reality is that Apple got those out so now they only have to spend a couple minutes on them in the keynote. "We just refreshed the Mac line-up... blah blah... selling great... customers love them... look at this pretty sales figure chart we made in Keynote... blah blah... now onto iPhone."
Look at the major events from the last couple years. The iPhone has dominated and frankly, it's getting a little tiresome and I think people will have every right to gripe if Apple does it again at WWDC.
Of course they are going to focus on the iPhone, because Apple is a business and businesses make profits.
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I think we'll see Snow Leopard there. Or at least a release date. Didn't they have Leopard and the first iPhone launching around the same time.
I think we'll see Snow Leopard there. Or at least a release date. Didn't they have Leopard and the first iPhone launching around the same time.
I read from a lot of people trying out the current Dev Version of Snow Leopard that it's still way too buggy to be released in June. So I guess we'll get some demo of Snow Leopard stressing the even fuller 64 bit support and some graphs comparing it to the performance of Leopard.
Maybe there'll be one killer feature (like Spotlight for Tiger and Time Machine for Leopard) to make people upgrade that think their Mac is plenty fast with Leopard. Resolution Independence could be such a feature; the framework was already there for Leopard and Apple told 3rd party Devs to make everything resolution independent. But that feature got silently dropped from Leopard.
Resolution independence would be useful on the fabled 10" tablet Mac. It would make sense for a tablet to have a higher resolution than an iMac (100PPI) and a Macbook (130) because you typically hold it closer to your head when operating. 150 PPI would be adequate I guess, that's 1280x800 (Macbook resolution) on a 10" display. The iPhone has 160 PPI by the way. Zooming in and out would be needed so you can accurately tap tiny buttons on the regular Mac OSX. Every Mac can already zoom (CTRL + scroll up), but it looks rather ugly because it just scales the pixels. 150 PPi would make for an awesome PDF viewing device (eBook Reader). Imagine a service technician carrying all the user and service manuals of all the devices he's servicing. He could also print out relevant instructions for the user thanks to OSX abundant printer drivers. Of course he could do that with a Macbook, too, but a tablet is much more portable. A slot for a 3G SIM card would be nice, too.
Make Your MArk Here
Surely this refers to a tablet Mac netbook.
I bet Safari will be snappy !!!
Surely this refers to a tablet Mac netbook.
I bet Safari will be snappy !!!
damn
If ever there was a baddass shot of jobs. Too bad he's not holding a bat or crowbar or something!
If ever there was a baddass shot of jobs. Too bad he's not holding a bat or crowbar or something!
What about those of us struggling to get by? Do we not deserve the same experience and helpful knowledge/education?
Actually I bet we need it more than you, or at least by your logic we do.
I love developing, but I'm still new to it and not making very much money. Like most people, $2000 for a week would break me.
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Should've been in the OP. Or a sticky. This ain't MacWorld.
Sure. But does Apple not deserve to be remunerated for providing it?