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Apple.com: 'The first 30 years were just the beginning... Welcome to 2007'

I wonder what Apple have been thinking about doing?

With increased laptop sales, and (in proportion) declining desktop sales, I wonder if they'll look at the gap between these two types. What I imagine most people would like is a machine with the power and screen of a desktop, but with the portability of a laptop. Maybe the new screens will help with this?

Whatever they do, I hope that Apple will continue to innovate with the hardware they sell.
 
tiuccia said:
I joined MacRumors five minutes ago. I've kept an idle eye on MacRumors for a few years now, reading insightful thoughtful posts and threads with interest, wondering why some choose to use these forums as a means to wage semantic battles with other members, getting caught up in the hype before each new Stevenote, and wondering when the next big Apple initiated iPod/iTunes/iTunes Store cultural shift might happen.

After reading the title of this thread and seeing Apple's new homepage, I really think it's coming soon.

By cultural shift I mean something truly innovative and habit changing. Put simply, my life is different now than it was before I downloaded iTunes in 2002 and bought my first iPod in 2003. Music has always been a huge part of my life, but now I can take it all with me and access it from pretty much anywhere at anytime. I even have a solar-powered iPod charger for God's sakes.

I don't think the same can be said for many other recent products/technologies. Digital photography let me cheaply take and edit 200 pictures of baby pandas in Sichuan, China last week, DVDs did away with forget-to-rewind fees, smaller cellphones made them easier to lose, 802.11g lets me email from the couch, HDTV gets me a little too familiar with Lebron's pores, YouTube lets me watch Mentos-in-Coke experiments, and HD-DVD and Bluray are making me relive Betamax/VHS wars. Perhaps I oversimplify, but I can't think of any other innovation besides the internet/email and cell phones in the 90s that has completely changed my life on a day-to-day basis. Maybe Google.

Anyway, what I think I'm getting at is that we're due for another big (really big) thing soon. With Apple's foot in the door with music (more like entire body), photos, movies, and slick my-grandmother-can-figure-it-out interfaces and software, I think 2007 really could be a big one for the folks at Infinite Loop. Why celebrate your 30th in April when your big onemorethings aren't perfect yet?

Here's to wishing Apple a very happy new year in 2007!
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What about wikipedia?

First there was the wheel, then there was antibiotics, then there was wikipedia.
 
DarkNetworks said:
Welcome to 2007, Steve is finally stepping down...
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He already did once....

Machead III said:
What about wikipedia?

First there was the wheel, then there was antibiotics, then there was wikipedia.
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That sort of falls under the whole "internet" thing. Having access to all sorts of information at your fingertips is a huge change. I'm 42, and had to write papers in school by doing research by finding books in the library and reading through them. You don't need to do that today - and its just not wikipedia :D


D
 
Forget MW, I want a Shuffle now....

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tiuccia said:
I joined MacRumors five minutes ago. I've kept an idle eye on MacRumors for a few years now, reading insightful thoughtful posts and threads with interest, wondering why some choose to use these forums as a means to wage semantic battles with other members, getting caught up in the hype before each new Stevenote, and wondering when the next big Apple initiated iPod/iTunes/iTunes Store cultural shift might happen.

After reading the title of this thread and seeing Apple's new homepage, I really think it's coming soon.

By cultural shift I mean something truly innovative and habit changing. Put simply, my life is different now than it was before I downloaded iTunes in 2002 and bought my first iPod in 2003. Music has always been a huge part of my life, but now I can take it all with me and access it from pretty much anywhere at anytime. I even have a solar-powered iPod charger for God's sakes.

I don't think the same can be said for many other recent products/technologies. Digital photography let me cheaply take and edit 200 pictures of baby pandas in Sichuan, China last week, DVDs did away with forget-to-rewind fees, smaller cellphones made them easier to lose, 802.11g lets me email from the couch, HDTV gets me a little too familiar with Lebron's pores, YouTube lets me watch Mentos-in-Coke experiments, and HD-DVD and Bluray are making me relive Betamax/VHS wars. Perhaps I oversimplify, but I can't think of any other innovation besides the internet/email and cell phones in the 90s that has completely changed my life on a day-to-day basis. Maybe Google.

Anyway, what I think I'm getting at is that we're due for another big (really big) thing soon. With Apple's foot in the door with music (more like entire body), photos, movies, and slick my-grandmother-can-figure-it-out interfaces and software, I think 2007 really could be a big one for the folks at Infinite Loop. Why celebrate your 30th in April when your big onemorethings aren't perfect yet?

Here's to wishing Apple a very happy new year in 2007!
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Well said, and a big, happy "Welcome" to you "tiuccia". :)
 
MacboobsPro said:
I'm just guessing here :rolleyes: but maybe they are trying to say its a dawn of a new era. i.e. Leopard et al?
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Actually, as others have already suggested, the back lighting and distortion of the Apple logo have an appearance reminiscent of a solar eclipse, so Apple appears to be suggesting that what Apple is planning for 2007 will eclipse everything it has done in its previous 30 years.

Of course, having watched Apple hype for many years, I am becoming immune to it. And I agree that this does not necessarily suggest that anything significant will be introduced at MWSF.

So what are my predictions for MWSF?

1. iTV details/specs, to be released by March. Alongside iTV will be non-Disney movies at the iTunes store and support for pre-N wireless in the current MacBooks and MBPs. All other Macs to be updated to include pre-N by March.

2. New displays, likely with integrated iSight.

3. "Secret" features of OS X 10.5 revealed. To be released in the first half of 2007 (actual release date to be in June, but Apple will not announce this until April).

4. iWork '07 with spreadsheet app.

5. iLife '07 will not be introduced until the Apple phone arrives, since features of the phone will be supported in iLife. Furthermore, no phone at MWSF; look for it in May instead.
 
mo0805 said:
it may just be me, but i don't really count 'The First 30 years were just the beginning... Welcome to 2007' as a pre-Macworld teaser. just a thought.
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I agree, while some things may get previewed at MWSF, I think the implication here is that there will be more stuff throughout the year. e.g. the Phone which I understand is expected in the Feb/March time frame.

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MacinDoc said:
5. iLife '07 will not be introduced until the Apple phone arrives, since features of the phone will be supported in iLife. Furthermore, no phone at MWSF; look for it in May instead.
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iLife '07 WILL be released in MW. There'll never be iPhone for God's sake, at least not in 2007.
 
hokullani said:
does anyone else notice that the apple logo in it is shiny black, just like in time machine and the same that itunes is starting to become, anyone wonder if that is going to be the new look?
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I took it to be backlit, nothing more. But I think I like the shiny black anyway, so if that's whats to come, who am I to argue? :cool:
 
On a slightly different note...

In spite of things people here say from time to time, Steve Jobs is only human. So he, too, will probably use the internet from time to time. Since people often visit sites related to work or hobby, he will probably come across this site, and this thread, sooner or later.

And laughing his iAss off. I mean, look at this thread. Look at all the speculation. Look at the people analyzing the light rays and black logos. Look at all the people actually expecting to be disappointed because a lot of stuff never even mentioned by anyone from Apple will not be released. Look at the 10 pages worth of posts within half a day. All because a small image with a new year's greeting appeared on a website.

Well, Steve, enjoy your laugh. You've deserved it. That's what you get for making products so 'cool' people go 'Hmm, new iMac, $1999. Oh well, who needs food?' Give us a nice show on the 9th, about half of the rumoured products and one more thing no-one saw coming, and we all will remain loyal followers for the next thirthy years. Welcome to 2037.
 
Or, to put it a little differently...

It doesn't matter whether you love or hate Apple's products, you just have to respect their marketing department. ;)
 
doogle said:
obviously the graphic references the black monolith from "2001, A Space Odyssey"...it's actually kind of foreboding.
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The reference is there, but surely you don't mean forboding? If this were M$ an image like that might be forboding, but this is Apple. It is more of a statement for the ressurection from the ashes.
2007 is the year Apple changes the landscape in a very powerful way. Apple is back, fighting in the ring again. Not just makers of music players, but true software and hardware contenders for the decades to come. I see Apple marketing pulling out all the stops, this baby is gonna roll. Thanks to Zune, Xbox, Media Center and more to come; the fight is on. Prepare to watch a battle of the titans, grappling giants in the age old rivalry.
 
I really do belive now there will be a 30" iMac, and a revised design to the iMac looking similiar to the new ACD's. Every MacWorld they do something to the iMac
 
Sigh, one of my new year's resolutions was to stop reading every single post on rumor forums. I lasted about 30 hours, but only because I was in airports all day yesterday...

Anyways, I'll comment on the Apple.com main site picture, since that is what this thread is about (naturally it evolves into what's coming out next week). While it's definitely what can be considered a teaser, I don't think its necessarily a teaser for MacWorld. First off, it doesn't mention MacWorld at all in the picture, whereas that previous teaser in 2002 (or 2003) that someone posted earlier did.

For me, that signifies a few things. First off, a lot of things will be released this year ( Leopard, 8 core mac, iTV for sure, phone and new interface and revamped iMacs possibly). However, it also means that none of it will be released at MacWorld.

My hope, however, is that they will be announced at MacWorld, but with a scheduled release of later. That seems to be the trend with Apple lately, of announcing products, but just not having them ready yet (new shuffles come to mind and to a greater extent the iTV).

By downplaying the Macworld expo, and instead focusing on the year as a whole, I'll predict that Macworld will be a demonstrations of great things to come, but I doubt if anyone will have a large (or larger) credit card debt the day after.

-Marcelo002
 
d_saum said:
wow.. its gonna be funny when you eat those words after MWSF. ;) The "Welcome to 2007" should be a dead giveaway that they are about to release some new products that they are excited about. If it was just a "Happy New Years" announcement, it would've been just that.
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Apple releasing something new at MWSF? OMG! I'm shocked! SHOCKED I SAY, SHOCKED! :p
 
Time Limits

In anticipation of Steve's keynote, it's time limit should keep expectations reasonable. Apple's looking forward to the all of 2007; but they remember 2003's reaction too. Normal keynotes are now 2 hours; but Macworld NY was 4 hours one year when there were more "one more things". 2 hours, with the normal updates and reviews of 2006 plus a guest demo and OS X, leaves enough for one or two genuinely new announcements.

Should we learn that the keynote length is more than 2 hours, it might be a blockbuster expo. Bring it on!
 
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