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

[mdriftmeyer]

Apple would gain, Sun customers would lose.

Steve has a long standing distaste for Sun management. It harkens back to the Openstep debacle.

Having been on the inside of NeXT and Apple the best people will see are some of Sun's OpenSolaris tools be augmented and added to OS X.

 

[dgdosen]

My Prediction...

Lots of cool stuff, "with a catch"

If it's Appple's DRM on music, some new cell phone, or potentially whatever they ship for the living room, I'm predicting the reaction will be "really cool, but..."

...Can't transfer recorded programs to an ipod
...Must use a third party cell phone provider
...Only compatible with iTunes
...You'll need Leopard to do it

If they're setting high expectations, you might want to be prepared to be let down...
... That, and as they get bigger, certain "marketing" decisions will get made to pump up the hype to justify the lofty stock price...

 

[doo-hik-ee]

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!

Put beautifully, if I may say so my self.
My thoughts: Something ground-breaking is coming, hopefully.
By the way, is there a possibilty of a "new and improved .Mac" with some kick-butt new features? That would be certainly welcome.
Anyways, only 6 days and 23 hours to go.

 

[pake]

... You my friend hit the nail right on the head. This is totally reminiscent of the new UI rumored to be named "illuminess". I think one of the Top Secret features of Leopard will be a completely new UI. Windows is running out of breath, this is Jobs' chance at sprinting past Microsoft for the first time since Windows 3.1

I feel that this banner alludes to events to happen throughout 2007, not just MWSF, but I think we'll get a good view of it during the keynote.

Couldn't agree more. I feel 2007 will be a very exiting year. New technologies to come.

 

[weldon]

Isn't CES running concurrently with MWSF? That might be another good place if the larger screen rumors are correct.

That seems more likely IF there are new large screen displays to be announced. I personally doubt it will happen.

 

[mo0805]

It all begins...

So this year we have Sony's entire future resting on the success of PS3, with Nintendo and MS going all-out to stop the rise of the big black box; we've got Blu-Ray at the throat of HD-DVD and Zune steadily rising in the background to counter the iPod; we've got Vista, a next-gen OS from MS at a time when Apple are in the strongest position they have been in for years to take marketshare from Redmond and we're seeing all of these battlefronts colliding in our living rooms as battle breaks out across the world.

This year is 2007. This year is war.



MA.

(And i don't know about you, but i'm bloody excited.)

the zune steadily rising in the backround to counter the ipod? haha, good one!

 

[XForge]

Cool! Wonder what they'll pull outta their sleeve this year.

Sleeve?

(visualizes Dom Deluise in "History of the World Part I" saying "Wash this.")

Heehee!!!

 

[YetioDoom]

Wow, no wonder there are so many people consistently underwhelmed by Apple announcements.

This seems like just a "Happy New Year" from Apple...

 

[Diatribe]

Macshrine.com states (http://www.macshrine.com/2007/01/02/exclusive-macworld-2007-keynote-plan/) that

"this time we’ve got hold of exactly what Steve will be showing off at the Keynote next week. Sadly it seems that Apple has hyped this event up way too much, unless there have been last minute changes (like last year)…".


Hope this weekend will come VERY fast, so we'll see.
And Macshrine be wrong.
That teaser is SOO terrific and "promisingly suprising"...
Hope it won't be a delusion

Luca

Yeah if this is really true, it is pretty disappointing. But I guess they wouldn't talk to anyone about releasing the iPhone, etc. so other things still may come.

 

[mo0805]

Lots of cool stuff, "with a catch"

If it's Appple's DRM on music, some new cell phone, or potentially whatever they ship for the living room, I'm predicting the reaction will be "really cool, but..."

...Can't transfer recorded programs to an ipod
...Must use a third party cell phone provider
...Only compatible with iTunes
...You'll need Leopard to do it

If they're setting high expectations, you might want to be prepared to be let down...
... That, and as they get bigger, certain "marketing" decisions will get made to pump up the hype to justify the lofty stock price...

we're not dealing with microshaft, you know. i'm pretty confident that apple will give the "iTV" the ability to transfer recorded programs to both ipods and networked computers. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to transfer them to your ipod after converting them to the right format.

as for the iphone, if the rumor is actually true, i'd like to think that apple would be making more of a smartphone. not like that shotty ROKR or anything like that. And seeing as it will probably be smartphone-like, my guess is it would be quad-band to support use on all providers.

and as for only being compatible with iTunes... isn't that a good thing? what other program would you rather use??

I really doubt that Apple would do something so drastic to their established Tiger-using customer base as to require Leopard for any new product. It's just not like Apple to do that sort of thing.

 

[Much Ado]

the zune steadily rising in the backround to counter the ipod? haha, good one!

Had to get something non-sensical into there. After all, this is macrumors

MA.

(Let the battle for my living room commence. Starting with an acceptance of Europe as part of the planet Earth, to begin with.)

 

[hscottm]

that image is decidedly un-apple. the balance is all off and the light rays aren't coming from a consistent source. the distortion in the upper left of the apple coupled with the bit mark being cropped make it look more like a rotten apple.

my first thought on seeing it, and when seeing your text here, was to call the posted image FAKE. boy what macrumors posts do to you..

 

[50548]

First of all, Happy 2007 to all fellow posters...this is my first message of the year..!

Second, I must say I am proud of being an Apple fanboy...Apple is gonna blow us away in the MWSF, and finally lead MS to bankruptcy...GO APPLE!

 

[Machead III]

Had to get something non-sensical into there. After all, this is macrumors

MA.

(Let the battle for my living room commence. Starting with an acceptance of Europe as part of the planet Earth, to begin with.)

lol, this is the 21st Century and Apple still acts like it has the geographical restrictions of 1930's industry. I can't think of many companies of Apple size that even make a distinction between continents these days.

And sure, it's probably partly down the studios, but if NTL can negotiate on demand movies, than Apple sure as **** should be able to.

Hey Steve! Try harder...

 

[pwfletcher]

Wow ...

... I bet it is a two-button mouse

 

[conradzoo]

I am just wondering why the new First Page is showing only at the US and UK version of apple.com.

So yeah, guess its just a nice teaser, nothing else.

 

[jholzner]

we're not dealing with microshaft, you know. i'm pretty confident that apple will give the "iTV" the ability to transfer recorded programs to both ipods and networked computers. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to transfer them to your ipod after converting them to the right format.

As far as I know, the iTV is not a DVR and will not be a DVR. Apple said they had no interest in this money losing market. They've said similar things in the past and then released products but if you can record shows on the iTV what's the point of buying and streaming them from you Mac/PC?

 

[sionharris]

If there was any doubt that Apple is going black.....

I hope they don't release Leopard. From what I've been reading it seems like it would be a bit early.

I think iTV will be the main focus of MacWorld, hopefully to be released at a reasonable price.

 

[chuckiej]

that image is decidedly un-apple. the balance is all off and the light rays aren't coming from a consistent source. the distortion in the upper left of the apple coupled with the bit mark being cropped make it look more like a rotten apple.

I disagree and I apologize if someone already said this. Its fairly clear to me that the image is like the sun peeking out from a lunar eclipse (the moon being the apple logo, of course) I really like it!

Happy New Year everyone!

 

[rdrr]

Not going to get excited for this one...

I clearly remember the time we all bought into the hype of the Video iPod going to be announced at the "Special Media Event". Then we were left with the apple Hi-Fi.

OK, so I lied! I cannot wait to be disappointed next Tuesday afternoon.

 

[chuckiej]

If there was any doubt that Apple is going black.....

I hope they don't release Leopard. From what I've been reading it seems like it would be a bit early.

I think iTV will be the main focus of MacWorld, hopefully to be released at a reasonable price.

I believe the price was stated in the presentation?

 

[Manuel Moreno]

is the Wizard of OZ coming to apple again?

 

[MacinDoc]

Not going to get excited for this one...

I clearly remember the time we all bought into the hype of the Video iPod going to be announced at the "Special Media Event". Then we were left with the apple Hi-Fi.

OK, so I lied! I cannot wait to be disappointed next Tuesday afternoon.

I believe that Apple promoted that event as the introduction of several minor "fun" products. It was the rumor community, not Apple, that overly hyped that event.

Speaking of the Apple Hi-Fi, it still strikes me as a product that doesn't fit into Apple's scheme of things. Apple doesn't make other consumer products, so why a bookshelf speaker system? I think Apple has more planned for the Hi-Fi, and I wonder if there will be a tie-in to iTV.

Stay tuned.

 

[shelterpaw]

Wow, no wonder there are so many people consistently underwhelmed by Apple announcements.

This seems like just a "Happy New Year" from Apple...

You may be right, but why no just say "Happy New Year" instead of pretending something special is going to happen.

We know Apple will launch iTV and 10.5 this year. Those should be a pretty big deal for the company, though they probably wont compare to the iPod in terms of wow factor.

 

[sionharris]

I believe the price was stated in the presentation?

It was? I don't know much about these things... just getting caught up in all the speculation.

As for the eclipse theory, does that mean there are two suns now?