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iLife '11 Coming in August with a New Mystery Application?
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Just as likely as an iBlu-ray app. iMovie has been doing HD since 2005 and still no disc output. TV in a Mac has been around a decade longer. Don't hold your breath for either.
Mr Jobs insists you to buy/stream from iTunes for twice the price of a DVD. He won't be giving you back the disc while he's alive. Probably be buried with a BD in his cold dead hands.
The sooner Apple dumps Jobs, the better off those who "think different" will be.
A. We won't know if iDVD is being kicked to the curb until the actual update is released. I use it with FCE. Would be a bummer if they did get rid of iDVD.
B. Merging iDVD with iMovie seems like a good idea. I think the existing interface for iMovie sucks anyway.
C. The new program as others have said could be an iPhone app builder of sorts.
D. The alleged update for iWeb is welcome.
E. Have we forgotten the tussle between Apple and Adobe? The new alleged program could be the basics of a Photoshop type product. With a pro app to follow down the road.
F. It's possible that Pages could have an update like adding more graphic design tools.
G. Its about damn time Apple talks about products for laptop and desktop users.
B. Merging iDVD with iMovie seems like a good idea. I think the existing interface for iMovie sucks anyway.
C. The new program as others have said could be an iPhone app builder of sorts.
D. The alleged update for iWeb is welcome.
E. Have we forgotten the tussle between Apple and Adobe? The new alleged program could be the basics of a Photoshop type product. With a pro app to follow down the road.
F. It's possible that Pages could have an update like adding more graphic design tools.
G. Its about damn time Apple talks about products for laptop and desktop users.
Do "we" think that Apple will offer free upgrades for people who buy within the month leading up to the release? I'm thinking of buying a new Macbook Pro for school and definitely don't want to wait that late to order it...school starts the next week.
upgrade
Adobe has a policy that upgrades are free from when they ANNOUNCE the new product, although Apple is think is more from when it ships. They may make it retroactive to announcement date.
Adobe has a policy that upgrades are free from when they ANNOUNCE the new product, although Apple is think is more from when it ships. They may make it retroactive to announcement date.
Facetime integration or Pixelmator...
My wish list is Facetime integration in iLife, Pixelmator type photo/graphic editing program, or Tivo/EyeTV like DVR software...
My wish list is Facetime integration in iLife, Pixelmator type photo/graphic editing program, or Tivo/EyeTV like DVR software...
I'm banking on this as well.
I'm typing now on my brand new MacBook Pro. I really hope I can get it for the $9.99 discount price.
iPhoto: I want to see better editing capabilities, better integration with iMovie (easily passover slideshow videos, slideshow transition effects, etc), and ability to upload video to Facebook. Oh, and also ability to easily merge/sync iPhoto libraries between Macs. I mean right now, if I have a Mac desktop and a Mac laptop, both have its own iPhoto library, and merging/syncing them is not easy.
iMovie: Better performance, more themes, transitions, and special effects (especially texts; sure iMovie 09 is great, but there's still a lot of effects missing from iMovie HD), better integration with iPhoto videos (right now, there's a disconnect between movies transferred to iPhoto and iMovie, I want to see them being unified in 1 "inbox"), and ability to upload videos to Facebook.
iWeb: integration with popular online blogging sites. MS can do it on Windows Live Writer, why can't Apple?
iLife is about digital life (digital media creator/aggregator), so I doubt we will see anything like App dev tools or Facetime. Have nothing to do with the concept of iLife at all. The one addition is probably iBooks. Also even though iTunes is not part of iLife anymore, it would be great if we see wireless syncing with iPhone/iPad.
iMovie: Better performance, more themes, transitions, and special effects (especially texts; sure iMovie 09 is great, but there's still a lot of effects missing from iMovie HD), better integration with iPhoto videos (right now, there's a disconnect between movies transferred to iPhoto and iMovie, I want to see them being unified in 1 "inbox"), and ability to upload videos to Facebook.
iWeb: integration with popular online blogging sites. MS can do it on Windows Live Writer, why can't Apple?
iLife is about digital life (digital media creator/aggregator), so I doubt we will see anything like App dev tools or Facetime. Have nothing to do with the concept of iLife at all. The one addition is probably iBooks. Also even though iTunes is not part of iLife anymore, it would be great if we see wireless syncing with iPhone/iPad.
Graphics editing or even just a flat out casual drawing app would be awesome. It is something that has always been missing from OS X, outside of the long dead AppleWorks.
They just did that whole donation of MacPaint source code thing - maybe they have its modern descendant ready
.MobileMe
Well, we've heard more than one rumor about MobileMe going non-subscription.....and Apple's data center in West Virginia should be done soon.....what if the new app is MobileMe?
Well, we've heard more than one rumor about MobileMe going non-subscription.....and Apple's data center in West Virginia should be done soon.....what if the new app is MobileMe?
I wonder what this will mean for iTunes? I've had a look at iTunes on the iPad and I'd love to see something similar to that on Mac OS X given how bloated it has become - yes it is bloated, I don't give a crap about half the stuff they added like 'Genius' and other bullsh-t that adds nothing to the usability. Strip it back to the basics and tell those who want more features to go f-ck themselves. I want a player, a ripper and a synchroniser, no more, no less.
As for iLife '11 - hopefully we'll see it take advantage of more features in Mac OS X such as OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch etc. to make it faster at encoding/transcoding/etc.
As for iLife '11 - hopefully we'll see it take advantage of more features in Mac OS X such as OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch etc. to make it faster at encoding/transcoding/etc.
Are you serious? PAL support has always been built into those apps. Just go and set it in the Preferences. That's it. Done.
You can do that now if you if you click "export to Quicktime" and put in PAL settings (i.e. 720x576 or 768x576 @ 25fps or 50i)
Are you serious? PAL support has always been built into those apps. Just go and set it in the Preferences. That's it. Done.
Did you actually read his post, he said "Simply add PAL as a standard video export size from iPhoto and iMovie." which insinuates if you setup a given country for your locale then all settings should reflect that including the format which the video is exported. For example I use Media Encoder CS5 - why doesn't it recognise that I live in New Zealand and switch automatically over to PAL? iPhoto and iMovie should recognise it too and change the settings according to the default locale's settings.
Considering it's a setting that takes all of a couple of seconds to change I don't see what the drama is. Hardly worth Steve Jobs having a press conference over is it?
iBumper?
I kid... I kid...
In all seriousness... I agree with those that say iPaint or maybe even iDraw. My reasoning is simple...
Apple is on the warpath against Adobe on Flash.
What's the easiest way to tackle that? To take it right to Adobe's doorstep and provide a way that's easy for competitors to simultaneously adopt and implement. Apple showed some "recent" proof of concept capabilities for Safari, and my gut tells me those animation capabilities are merely the tip of the iceberg.
It'd also help dramatically if there was development tools available to push Apple's goals for HTML5. They control *1* of the platforms in Webkit to deliver it, a platform that's adopted by a few others in the real world. After seeing the demo's that Apple showed for transitions that Safari supports, suffice it to say... increased and expanded capabilities for Ajax-frameworks = a high priority seemingly for Webkit going forward, and those features are right in the wheelhouse of where Flash is at today. The OpenGL ES-based web standards for gaming/rendering are, similarly, in the same realm as well. Apple seems keen to tackle both.
So... here's what I think is going to happen.
We're going to see the first fruits of this attack with an iPaint/iDraw in iLife, along with an improved featureset in iWeb. I think that the iPaint/iDraw app. will also bring benefits in that it'll allow Apple to create an integration with iWork apps. to provide a vector and bitmap editor that is compatible out of the box, and integrated in the ability to pass content back/forth between the 2. Buy an iLife/iWork bundle, the apps. will sync up right out of the box and you can drop bitmaps and drawings right into Pages, integrate them into Keynote presentations, and even include them in Numbers.
In a way, this looks harmless to Adobe right now because they're just iLife apps. It's not a Web Studio Express or Web Studio Pro that suddenly starts getting Adobe to squirm a little when looking at Dreamweaver. iWeb, thus far, has been one of them "Awww, how cute... they've dusted Claris HomePage off and given it some new features." vs. it being any kind of threat for anything Adobe's put out. It's not a MacPaint Pro that takes itself directly into Adobe Fireworks' wheelhouse. It's not a Dreamweaver alternative that brings full Ajax animations via MooTools/JQuery-like libraries.
Yet... my gut tells me that both will be coming.
If Apple wants to take it to Flash... the easiest way to do so is to drive the standards bodies to adopt their innovations. If they provide the delivery methods that make an open-standard compatible with Flash, the W3C is almost assuredly going to adopt it. Especially since it's part of an open-source web browser platform that various other products are embracing. If it was Microsoft providing IE-only functionality on a tightly-closed platform it'd be one thing, but adding to an existing open-source platform that came from the open-source community and giving back... makes it a lot easier for Google, Nokia, Samsung, Opera, KDE, Gnome, Microsoft, and others to adopt it.
In terms of web design, Apple hasn't ever really delivered. That's going back to the Claris days. iWeb, similar to Claris Homepage, is geared more towards the low end user vs. the person that adopts something like Dreamweaver. Apple hasn't always generated very good code here, and that's something that most definitely would need to improve. Yet for a company that can nail ACID compliance, I think it's high-time they deliver on tools that build to that same standard, and maybe even supercede it by pushing the whole market in terms of web-based innovation. A move like this could very well be it.
Yet... what better way to attack Flash by providing a site design platform that gives you all of the capabilities of Flash but via a slick UI that makes animated and interactive sites and epublishing tools right there at your fingertips, easy, and affordable to implement? Think of Web Studio Pro (Design Studio Pro, Mac Publish Express and Studio, whatever you want to call it) as a sort of two-pronged tool that can do RGB-based eBook designs and layouts (which with many print publications thinking iPad's are a wave of the future and that print is dying, Apple would be giving them the tools to do so on the iPad and iPhone and Macs themselves), but can also generate websites that operate like a Flash site (integration with iMovie or Final Cut Express/Pro for video = a no-brainer), or that provide the necessary functionalities to get the video tag to where it needs to be to render Flash pointless in this vain. Full-screen HTML5 video rendering, playback scrubbing via a playhead in-browser, etc. are all things that need to be brought to the table... and Apple has the resources to get it there.
The more Apple drives this... the better off their snubbing of Adobe on Flash will look. I mean, Google could do just the same as Apple... but uniquely, with their choice to give Adobe an outlet, they've made the HTML 5 video tag less of a priority for them than it is Apple. Google called Apple's hand on this one, and it's up to Apple to deliver this functionality... not Google. If Apple builds it, Google will come (if it's equal or better than Flash)... but if Apple doesn't, there's no incentive for Google to extend and embrace nor help Apple out of this situation.
The above move would literally redeem Jobs' draconian ham-fisted amongst those that have bemoaned his stance because what they felt was the better technology, to date, isn't quite ready. Apple needs to change that to save face. It'll also force Adobe's hand simply because they will *HAVE* to embrace similar technology in Dreamweaver going forward or face watching Apple steal the market completely from under them in that space, esp. if their alternative comes out cheaper, more robust, more intuitive, and more empowering. Adobe will also be forever tied with the competition to provide an alternative to the iPad and woo people back, an alternative that has a hefty disadvantage as entrenched as the iPad has become in sales in a short time. The longer Apple waits to deliver on all of this, the more chance they give on the competition to catch-up and for Flash to regain the momentum with the publishers.
All above... the quicker Apple hedges these bets, gets the tools out there, delivers the tools at a lower price that makes it a no-brainer to drop some impulse-buying cash on a new app. that promises the moon and stars... and the easier Apple makes it to integrate into a Final Cut Express/Pro framework and heck... maybe even Logic, the easier it is for Apple to provide end-to-end tools for the forthcoming digital publishing revolution. At this juncture, that revolution is pretty much up in the air. Will it stick to the standard desktop publishing apps., will it rely on Flash-based delivery, or will it go to an open-standard that at least as of this moment... isn't quite ready. Microsoft has been known to leverage their leads and drive the market, drive the W3C to assess and adopt similar functionality. In Apple's case... not only could they drive the technology that takes it all there... they'd integrate it into a platform that makes it's widescale adoption as well as the W3C's adoption more of a no-brainer. They can even take a tip from Google with Gears and roll out with open-source plugins (themselves based on Webkit's source) as "Christmas gifts" to Mozilla, Microsoft, and Opera to get them up to speed until they can roll the code in themselves. If Apple gets the W3C to adopt it, you can bet that Mozilla and Opera at least will. I think Google would do so just to show that they're as open as they say they are and just to keep pace with Apple.
iWeb and iPaint would just be the consumer push in that direction. Yet considering the longstanding efforts to provide a consumer -> prosumer/pro apps., it makes sense to me. Apple also already has a group of developers with paint program experience having the people that helped create TIFFany for OpenStep years ago. Having the amount of time Apple has taken on iLife (which skipped a year), I expect that could've freed Apple developers to push things significantly further, but I don't know how much further iLife needs to go for consumers, and I think that, a few updates and tweaks and improvements to an already fairly solid app. base could push the way for Apple deviating some of those resources into the pro market apps. even as they integrate some of those fruits into revitalized and improved iLife apps.
I'm not saying that they'll be announced on the same day... but I'd not be surprised if Apple doesn't announce something similar to this strategy soon, nor would I be shocked if a Fireworks killer and a Dreamweaver killer that push Apple's desires and agendas and bring the fight to Adobe over Flash aren't in the cards. If not... then Apple's seriously going to eat crow in the future if Adobe gets Flash and Air to play well and play efficiently on Android.
Apple has put their foot down over Flash, now they need to either deliver the better mousetrap or suck it up and accept that they were wrong just as their competition seemingly jumps on Adobe's bandwagon. Right now, I have to say advantage Adobe because it's pretty well accepted that the Video tag isn't ready for primetime... yet... but you know that if Apple brings out an HTML and Ajax alternative to Flash in Webkit, Google is liable to adopt it (they like open standards, adopting the Apple standard breeds compatibility for Android, likely a potential compatibility outlet for WebOS, for Chrome, ChromeOS, Konqueror/KHTML, etc.), most Webkit-enabled phones are liable to adopt it, and there's possibility that the W3C would adopt it. If the W3C does, my gut tells me Microsoft, who has vaunted HTML5 support (though on what level) would have to as well.
Keep in mind... just such a Web-based Publishing Tool could also have an export as iOS application with the ability to integrate with Ajax code and/or PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. For those wanting to see an Apple iOS app-maker... that could be part of iWeb going forward (more likely creating simple widgets) as well as a pro-level tool such as this (that could tap into bigger frameworks and even allow coding in those languages from inside the app.). Jobs once harped about how HTML5 was a great "open" development platform that the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad and Macs support, all of the above moves could fall right into that as well. Throw that cloud-based data center in NC into the mix (what it's for is anyone's guess but something tells me it's built pretty large for a reason)... it might be a bit elaborate, but I almost feel it is a MUST do for Apple at this juncture.
Apple have invested a lot resources into sproutcore even if the main dude has just left them, they have still spent a lot of time working with and developing up and in the framework. There must still be a reasonable number of people in Apple who know it just as well the main guy.
So what if the mystery App is maybe a combination of things but first and foremost it's a sproutcore visual development environment.
It could be used for iAd, iTunesLP, expanded iBooks and of coarse for iOS and other smartphone web apps. Apple has already said it's not going to have a curated store for web apps so pushing sproutcore as an alternative platform would take some pressure off the AppStore to have every app even when native app development does make much sense.
They could offer hosting of the web app but not the data on MobileMe which would be no worse hosting free apps plus another outlet to place iAds to make money out of apps.
So it doesn't really replace AppOmater they are still fostering native apps.
It would be attractive to companies who might not want to go through appstore review and want greater control of the app updates for various reasons but still want a more native feel app. The most obvious example would be the banks. Who would host there own, but could then use to build up a single app for all devices desktop and a number of smartphones and future tablets.
The thing that all these things need is animation ability add that and they have the start of a HTLM5 flash supplanter. Being open and in the wild anyone can add new features. but Apple and it's customers will get the benefits as well so it has merit in them pushing it.
What doesn't quiet fit about the idea of an App generator is Dashcode already is meant to do a lot of this. So wouldn't this all be be better as a Dashcode upgrade. Plus it comes free with Dev tools and that would seem to be a more natural place for it. Plus if they wanted some of it iLife then it could go in to iWeb.
So i'm just not sure it warrants a new mystery app.
Then again the other ideas like a social network app and the like all seem to have a lot of overlap with existing products as well. Even a consumer version of Motion to replace iDVD could be part of this web app environment. The one app that ties all your media together.
P.s. And I thought mine was a long post.
No, iMovie is for creating the actually movie. iDVD is for creating the dvd portion that includes your iMovie file on it.
