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iLife '11 Coming in August with a New Mystery Application?
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If iLife '11 is cloud-based, will anyone stick with '09 until the concept matures? I can understand getting rid of iDVD in a cloud-based version of iLife if broadband can approximate DVD transfer rates. But cloud computing in general makes me nervous, especially with the idea of cloud-based OS's.
Why would iLife be cloud-based? It'll take forever to upload media to the cloud just to edit. Editing videos still take a lot of CPU power unless Apple has overhauled iLife to use GPU. iLife will remain local for a long time, we haven't reach the point where everybody have enough bandwidth to transmit large amount of data upward. The only "cloud" based component would be what iLife already have now, the easy upload to Facebook/Youtube/MobileMe. There's no such thing as "cloud" OS, that's just thin client computers and we are not there yet.
iWork is already there with iWork.com, iWork.com needs a substantial upgrade to match against Google's Docs and Microsoft's Office Web. Hopefully it'll come with iWork '11 and offer an a deeper integration with iWork on iOS.
Vi?
What website maker do you mean? What is VI?
Unless they modified Time Machine to also be able to browse the web in the future, I doubt they could make iWeb fully HTML5 compliant. At most, I can see an integrated video tag player that you just need to include (and it includes all relevant Javascript code required) and a few Canvas template apps which would still be a good step forward for people that rely on it or things like Dreamweaver (which already has these HTML5 features).
HTML5 right now is far from finalized, except the video and canvas tags. And those are mostly just a big bunch of Javascript to manipulate the DOM to get them to do anything worthwhile.
Personally, VI is the best website maker and it supports all features of every HTML release, even future updates to the spec, so I don't see a reason to use anything else.
Touch on a device with a connected mouse is much inferior and much less precise. A touch based drawing app would require a seperate hardware purchase for most Macs and would be a toy if anything. I still say a image manipulation app is one of the best guesses so far, but it's not going to be touch based that's for sure.
What website maker do you mean? What is VI?
iWeb
with the new iLife version, I certainly hope iWeb will offer a lot more templates and easier management since I own 6 different website domains. I want to use iWeb for all 6. Right now, its real cryptic to set up between mobile me and Go Daddy. I'm still struggling to set those up.
with the new iLife version, I certainly hope iWeb will offer a lot more templates and easier management since I own 6 different website domains. I want to use iWeb for all 6. Right now, its real cryptic to set up between mobile me and Go Daddy. I'm still struggling to set those up.
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Here is another rumor for you guys
The new app is a DJ application with Itunes build in.
Great for DJ's, clubs, bars etc.
It could sell more music thru the iTunes store then ever before.
Now whats missing.... aah yes.... touchscreen IMacs
The new app is a DJ application with Itunes build in.
Great for DJ's, clubs, bars etc.
It could sell more music thru the iTunes store then ever before.
Now whats missing.... aah yes.... touchscreen IMacs
Not really that odd. The MacBook Air update has been imminent for about 6 months, with dozens of threads. They all eventually die .
I don't seen any iLife update coming this year now; surely they would have announced it at the event.
.I don't seen any iLife update coming this year now; surely they would have announced it at the event.
Not really that odd. The MacBook Air update has been imminent for about 6 months, with dozens of threads. They all eventually die
I don't seen any iLife update coming this year now; surely they would have announced it at the event.
September is about iPods. It made no sense for a MacBook Air update at all. Lately, Apple has issued mac updates in October. The Macbook Pro may see any update then, with the Macbook Air. iLife and iWork also very possible.
Will someone explain to me why this topic generates an 18 page thread.
What is wrong with the current version of iLife that causes such angst?
It's as if you are disappointed that Apple won't give you the opportunity to give them more money to replace a perfectly functioning suite of apps.
What is wrong with the current version of iLife that causes such angst?
It's as if you are disappointed that Apple won't give you the opportunity to give them more money to replace a perfectly functioning suite of apps.
11 pages.
For instance, iWeb is desperate for an update (a major one):
- Flash/HTML5 animations
- more shadow, reflection, rotation options (e.g., skewed, curled, angled)
- rollovers
- optimised coding
- comment box
- more sophisticated counter (hits vs. unique visits)
- Vimeo, Tumblr integration
- Mobile optimisation (iPhone, iPad, etc.)
- member page creation (e.g., visitors creating their own personal page [password-protected or not] on one's iWeb site)
- obviously, more themes, more image frames
- MP3 streaming player (vs. progressive)
- multi-coloured lettering (e.g., top half one colour, bottom half another)
etc. etc. etc.
That's essentially how Apple makes money - the same applies to hardware; plenty of old iPods and Macs are still functioning perfectly, as will be a lot of iPads when those get updated.
In the case of iLife there is actually more obvious motivation for an 18 page thread, given that much of the hardware and the OS have moved on to being 64-bit, and that Apple has berated other software makers for not shipping 64-bit apps for Mac.
And of course as seen in iTunes 10, there's always room to improve performance, change icons, break UI guidelines, remove colour from the interface and set up a social network but not let us hide the damn icon even though it is of zero interest. I just hope Ping doesn't expand throughout iLife.
Now that I've got a new MP, iLife is really behind in rendering my iDVD and iPhoto slideshows. It doesn't even seem to by multi-threaded let alone multi-core aware!!
My MP is sitting on it's butt while I wait for iLife to do its thing. Come on
let's make some progress here! People will buy it!
My MP is sitting on it's butt while I wait for iLife to do its thing. Come on
let's make some progress here! People will buy it!
Any news on iLife '11??
iPad this, iPad that, and everyone trying to make their own pad.
Where's the new iLife!!
iPad this, iPad that, and everyone trying to make their own pad.
Where's the new iLife!!
My guess for now is that -- generally, and not just in the iLife situation -- Apple is shifting its resources to the iPhone and iPad. I really hope that we get an iLife update eventually (the last one came out nearly two years ago!) but I am not holding my breath.
Actually, according to a very reliable Vietnamese source, iLife '11 has been cancelled. Instead, Apple is working on iLife '12 for January 2012 release.
I don't have any numbers to back it up. But I bet there are more people using iLife, and Office, than iLife and iWork. Again that's speculation.
Maybe the problem is that
gives iLife away and doesn't feel compelled to develop a better product. I'd pay a subsidized price for iLife when buying a Mac.