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Apple Announces WWDC 2010 Dates: June 7-11
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Most of the sessions are for iPhone OS. Apple Design Awards are only for iPhone applications. You can't enter with Mac application...
The last WWDC focused a lot on SL, in particular Grand Central. They don't have anything of interest to show yet (yay, 10.6.4!). They do on the other hand have the iPad and a new iPhone, both of which will be running iPhone OS 4 which has quite a lot of new stuff like multitasking. It's no surprise that they put all their eggs in the iPhone OS basket this year. You need a lot of imagination and conjecture to interpret that as the end of OS X.
Steve has really taken a stance on Flash and he's shown his feelings about Blu-Ray. Considering his role at Pixar, I know it might be a slight conflict of interest with the iTunes Store and all, wouldn't Pixar benefit from Blu-Ray sales to Mac users? I won't buy any movie on physical media unless it's Blu-Ray. DVD just doesn't cut it for me anymore. I'd be willing to toss my PlayStation 3 if I can play Blu-Ray discs natively on the Mac hooked up to my LCD TV.
I can't see physical media for entertainment lasting beyond the start of the next decade, if not before
The way we use mobile phones isn't going to head directly over VoIP when Apple launches this new iPhone.
It'll be a few years before all we'll need is data networks to transmit voice. We only have 3G networks now and they aren't as secure or efficient as the voice towers etc. we use today.
I don't think it's so much about Blu-Ray competing with the iTunes Store, I think the "bag of hurt" he was mumbling about had to do with the fact that you have to pay a licensing fee to Sony/Philips/Samsung when you make Blu-Ray capable devices. Apple wants a share of everyone else's money (wireless carriers, record companies, TV networks, app developers etc) but they hate the idea of paying anyone else. It's what happens when you're so greedy you cry when you poop.
Whats funny is they actually dont make much money off the iTunes or App Store. The Mac is their second highest revenue generating division behind iPhone (for this quarter) and above iPod.
The vast majority of Apples revenue comes from hardware sales.
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Is it the drive or the codec/software, or both? Doesn't Apple usually "pass" the costs over to the consumer anyway? I'd rather have the choice than not.
And while they're at it, what's with 1050 resolution on the monitors? Squeeze in the remaining 30 so we can do 1080p!
Because thats where consumer dedication is. Kill the Mac and soon you have bunch of iToys which could be a huge now but might plummet due to high fluctuation of mobile communications industry. I would argue that for majority of dedicated Mac users iPhone etc. are just a "nice things to have" in comparison to Mac and Mac OS X which at least I see as most important Apple products.
It will... Think about 4K res etc. and you realise that there is no viable on-line delivery methods except fibre to home solutions and even that is not a full solution due to high capacity storage requirements of the media.
Yes, but the iTunes revenue is pure profit. Apple doesn't make most of the things sold on iTunes, but they get a cut from the sale. They get a cut of the revenue, not even the profit. No risk at all! Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. All they really have to do is maintain iTunes.
I just fear that Apple would just develop a new fad if/when the whole iPad & iPhone thing loses interest. And when iPads & iPhones do lose interest, they'd drop those & go with the new fad. I'm no expert in business, but isn't the point supposed to be go where the $$$ is? Right now, it's consumer electronics, not Mac OS X & desktop computers. Or at least that's how Apple is coming off to me.
I was just about to say that....
Each BluRay can go upto 50GB... Try downloading and then carrying that on your computer. Even if you use really good compression and cut down the bonus materials, you are still looking at about 15GB for the movie and DTS audio. And that translates into no more than 10 movies on a 250GB hard drive which is standard on the low end Mac laptops.
As an example, I never would have bought an iPhone, since I don't want a cell phone. But now that I have my first iMac, I'm thousands of times more likely to buy an iPhone and possibly an iPad or MacBook to go with it. The desktop and mobile product lines reinforce each other.
But we're not living at the start of the next decade. It would be like Apple saying in 1990, "floppy disks will not last past the start of the next decade so we're ditching them now." It wouldn't have been the best move.
And while the iPod has so far beaten off all competitors, its market is contracting. The iPhone, and maybe iPad, may be flying high now but they will soon face serious competition themselves. On the other hand with Macs Apple has clearly shown a competitive edge in some aspects of the computer market, and its share of that market has been noticeably gaining in some areas. It would be a shame to see Apple not try to follow up that momentum.
I'm thinking about this too. When Jobs said that the iPhone is five years ahead of the competition, he wasn't kidding. It's three years since he said that and there hasn't been a successful "iPhone killer" to date. However, with the introduction of the iPad+3G, I actually second-guessed my want/need for the "iPhone HD." My dumb flip-phone and an iPad 3G may be all I need, especially if AT&T is going to want ANOTHER $30 for the iPhone's data plan while I'm already paying $30 for the iPad's 3G. Of course, this would all be moot if AT&T would just enable tethering already.
Think about the massive server farms, bandwidth, support, maintenance, software development etc. It all costs money and as you see the revenue is small compared to other segments.
It's the drive itself. $10 for a player, $15 for a recorder. Apple probably wants $3 back for every dollar spent. But it wouldn't cost a fortune, it's more about principle than money I think.
Steve's exact quote was "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. I don't mean from the consumer point of view. It's great to watch movies, but the licensing is so complex. We're waiting until things settle down, and waiting until Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace before we burden our customers with the cost of the licensing and the cost of the drives."
Well, Blu-ray has taken off and things have settled down... the licensing used to cost upwards of $20 and there were several different licensing fees to pay, but they've changed to a unified system and lowered the fee a bit so maybe it's good enough for Apple now.
i've read the financial statements, its small but if the iTunes profit wasn't there or it was really break even then Apple's profits wouldn't be close to what they are. iTunes is a huge profit driver.
server hardware is dirt cheap
they probably have dedicated circuits to all the major ISP's to cut costs
from what i've read iTunes backend is a modified newsgroup server and it's all open source software
me=deeply ashamed with my big mouth. I am sorry and thanks! I never knew this.
With kind regards,
Bas