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Apple Software Updates (this and next) Tuesday
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Well there is this band called Reggie and the Full Effect. On their albums along with the full tracks they have about 1/2 a dozen tracks less than 15 or 10 seconds. I wonder how they would be priced because I thought I read something about tracks shorter than 30 seconds were priced differently? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Well there is this band called Reggie and the Full Effect. On their albums along with the full tracks they have about 1/2 a dozen tracks less than 15 or 10 seconds. I wonder how they would be priced because I thought I read something about tracks shorter than 30 seconds were priced differently? Correct me if I'm wrong.
jayscheuerle
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MARKLAR!
(I'm kidding... I don't want Marklar... I want all my Windows friends to have to not only buy the OS from Apple but even buy the hardware... make them feel the full err of their ways)
(I'm kidding... I don't want Marklar... I want all my Windows friends to have to not only buy the OS from Apple but even buy the hardware... make them feel the full err of their ways)
It is nice. It's included with the latest developer seeds of Panther.
I'd see little reason to release, or even announce, new versions of the various bundled applications until Panther ships. I just don't see any sense in releasing new applications before the new OS is available.
Ok... this isnt the place for it but...it's obvious to me at least at this point that the delay in a new PB is for 1 major (prolly tons of minor) reason:
THE CHIPS AREN'T READY! G4's are a problem since MOTOROLA doesn't do anything they promise when they promise. I think for sure Apple's been waiting on the new G4's from MOTOROLA and they don't have them. I think you will hear of a PB announcement at the Paris Expo but it won't be for immediate release because the chips aren't at Apple yet. Apple would not have sat on new PB's for this long just to piss you off.
I think if you follow the news and rumors over the past six months, it's obvious to me that Apple wanted to release the new PBs but has not be able to.
Apple is not in the business of pissing you off personally, they are in the business of being a business...and they get as pissed as you do when they can't release a product. Trust they read these groups and know how people feel about it.
[STEP DOWN] off my soap box..
I think we're going to see Panther Announced next week at Paris Expo for a Oct/Nov time frame. I also think that we will see iCal 1.5 and iSync 1.2 tmrw..as well as maybe 10.2.7. I don't yet think we'll see the rumoured "DOCUMENT" yet. Although who knows what will be at the Paris Expo...
Someone said final iChat AV -- nope. It's going to come out with Panther and will be available for Jaguar users to BUY the same day Panther comes out.
Ok that's my 0.45 cents for today...
MacBoyX
nice job on the photoshopping of the powerbook. Just what I've always been dreaming about. (for what, 34 months now?)
iTMS for Europe
I think iTMS for Europe would be a pretty hefty announement. It is a bigger market than the USA and a one Euro/song cost would be way cheaper than surrent CD costs over there.
It would be dynamite.
I think having a phone partner on stage to announce a new product would be cool. Maybe the successor to Soney Ericsson's P800 phone. Symbian based phones are quite popular in Europe.
Doom III demo on a G5 with Carmack saying that OS X is the best platform for that game would be great, but it is probably too soon.
I could see a Word Processor and Spreadsheet application being cool, but they would have been announced before school started. Plus I think the whole 'no IE for Mac' thing because of Safari was a warning shot fired across Apple's bow. They will want to make sure whatever they release is good enough to be the only show in town when they release it.
Pro Apps? Maybe, but we would have heard something. Alpha and especially beta testers are leaky.
Any announcements at this point will be targeted at Christmas buying season.
PowerBooks? I don't think that the 12" and 17" rev B models are worth a big fanfare. Neither will the 15" be. Its just upgrades. Like the iPods and iMacs. They will be announced after BTS buying slows down.
I think the surprise will be from a partner. Maybe a big Enterprise app or a cool exclusive. Unless iTMS for Europe counts as a software announcement...
I think iTMS for Europe would be a pretty hefty announement. It is a bigger market than the USA and a one Euro/song cost would be way cheaper than surrent CD costs over there.
It would be dynamite.
I think having a phone partner on stage to announce a new product would be cool. Maybe the successor to Soney Ericsson's P800 phone. Symbian based phones are quite popular in Europe.
Doom III demo on a G5 with Carmack saying that OS X is the best platform for that game would be great, but it is probably too soon.
I could see a Word Processor and Spreadsheet application being cool, but they would have been announced before school started. Plus I think the whole 'no IE for Mac' thing because of Safari was a warning shot fired across Apple's bow. They will want to make sure whatever they release is good enough to be the only show in town when they release it.
Pro Apps? Maybe, but we would have heard something. Alpha and especially beta testers are leaky.
Any announcements at this point will be targeted at Christmas buying season.
PowerBooks? I don't think that the 12" and 17" rev B models are worth a big fanfare. Neither will the 15" be. Its just upgrades. Like the iPods and iMacs. They will be announced after BTS buying slows down.
I think the surprise will be from a partner. Maybe a big Enterprise app or a cool exclusive. Unless iTMS for Europe counts as a software announcement...
Re: My GOD, it's true!!
No way...I want it to be 3 lbs. With an OLED foldable display and an infrared keyboard and touchpad.
No way...I want it to be 3 lbs. With an OLED foldable display and an infrared keyboard and touchpad.
A surf'n Safari
Nobody has mentioned Safari 1.1 (or .2) as a potential software announcement. Something a little more stable perhaps?
Nobody has mentioned Safari 1.1 (or .2) as a potential software announcement. Something a little more stable perhaps?
Re: Re: My GOD, it's true!!
oh yeah... right. i want it to fit on my wristwatch with an input device controlled directly by my mind and an output device that projects onto contact lenses that i have on. yeah. it's coming out next tuesday, you better believe it.
I'm hoping for a webobjects announcement. Haven't had one a Webobjects announcement for a while and with xCode coming out it will need revamping to work with that.
I think if the smaller announcements are coming out in full force this week, something big might be on it's way next week!!!
I think if the smaller announcements are coming out in full force this week, something big might be on it's way next week!!!
Hmph. Apple Insider says, "Sources could not confirm a date or time for the official announcement, but did mention September 9th or 10th as likely candidates."
Arn says no PowerBooks tomorrow. Could they be announced Wednesday then, Arn?
Arn says no PowerBooks tomorrow. Could they be announced Wednesday then, Arn?
Re: Re: Re: My GOD, it's true!!
Steve: "There will be no Powerbook updates... ever. Because of this one more thing."
*crowd watches in amazement*
Steve: "See this watch I've been wearing? Well it's a G8 processor with 86 GB of RAM, a Geforce 7 video card, and real surround sound. It's all projected onto this contact lense that you wear in renders so real you can't even tell the difference between it and reality. Actually you've all been wearing them for your whole life. I created Bill Gates to take the focus off me by the general world. Welcome to the Matrix ladies and gentlemen."
*steve vanishes*
Obviously I know you're joking but wouldn't that just rock something fierce.
Steve: "There will be no Powerbook updates... ever. Because of this one more thing."
*crowd watches in amazement*
Steve: "See this watch I've been wearing? Well it's a G8 processor with 86 GB of RAM, a Geforce 7 video card, and real surround sound. It's all projected onto this contact lense that you wear in renders so real you can't even tell the difference between it and reality. Actually you've all been wearing them for your whole life. I created Bill Gates to take the focus off me by the general world. Welcome to the Matrix ladies and gentlemen."
*steve vanishes*
Wristwatch? Hell I want it nanotechnology and implanted in my brain, as well as all nine (tiny) fans.
Don't flame the messenger thinker but though I'd love love love Apple to make something as robust (and far less buggy) as Microshaft Orface BUT I'd rather they tread lightly that direction. I'm not too convinced now is the good time to release it, let Microcrud develop VirtualPeeCee for the G5 first, or something. I hate running M$ on my Macs as much as anyone but if Apple handles it wrong, i.e. irks M$ and they make their entire Orface for Windoze suite intentionally not open any Mac iWorks (or whatever they call it) some of us Macheads would be screwed.
Most of my clients are on peecees, and we have to send back and forth creative briefs and contracts, those contracts are in Word and my creative briefs in Word (so they can easily open them and read without confusion). Without this interplay I'd be dead in the water lest I buy all my clients Macs (would if I could) or (gulp) bought a peecee just so I could communicate with them (dumb). Orface for Mac, for being from Microsuck, isn't horrible either, considering I've worked on peecees it may be the best product they make actually. I don't want Apple burning the M$ bridge, not until there's good timing, that or M$ Redmond's campus gets a thermal nuclear dropped on it (I'm working in my basement to build one, it's really hard without the radioactive isotopes). One thing at a time.
Don't flame the messenger thinker but though I'd love love love Apple to make something as robust (and far less buggy) as Microshaft Orface BUT I'd rather they tread lightly that direction. I'm not too convinced now is the good time to release it, let Microcrud develop VirtualPeeCee for the G5 first, or something. I hate running M$ on my Macs as much as anyone but if Apple handles it wrong, i.e. irks M$ and they make their entire Orface for Windoze suite intentionally not open any Mac iWorks (or whatever they call it) some of us Macheads would be screwed.
Most of my clients are on peecees, and we have to send back and forth creative briefs and contracts, those contracts are in Word and my creative briefs in Word (so they can easily open them and read without confusion). Without this interplay I'd be dead in the water lest I buy all my clients Macs (would if I could) or (gulp) bought a peecee just so I could communicate with them (dumb). Orface for Mac, for being from Microsuck, isn't horrible either, considering I've worked on peecees it may be the best product they make actually. I don't want Apple burning the M$ bridge, not until there's good timing, that or M$ Redmond's campus gets a thermal nuclear dropped on it (I'm working in my basement to build one, it's really hard without the radioactive isotopes). One thing at a time.
The clock is ticking on the Mac native version of Office. VPC will bring you MS OS and bloatware to your Mac and Linux boxes.
They will still get your money.
EVIL!!!!
They will still get your money.
EVIL!!!!
Ummm.. For a couple of dollars more and 10 minutes to rip the CD I would buy the CD and do without the even light DRM have my songs as MP3 and not AAC and be able to sell or trade the CD if I want to. I think that iTMS is better for someone that watns to buy few songs of an album. If you want to buy the whole album you are better of buying the CD.
