Oh really?? Then this sounds to me like you very well might be getting something that is new as of today.
All speculation for another 2-3 hours, of course...
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Oh really?? Then this sounds to me like you very well might be getting something that is new as of today.
All speculation for another 2-3 hours, of course...
There were rumors of an iPod@Home feature for 10.3, and then again for 10.4, and they never panned out. It's basically a way to take your home directory with you on your iPod (or now iPhone I guess)
oh the agony!!!
lets all wish really hard, as if its the night before christmas day, and maybe steve jobs will drop down from the ceiling at WWDC with a bag of goodies!!!
lets all wish really hard, as if its the night before christmas day, and maybe steve jobs will drop down from the ceiling at WWDC with a bag of goodies!!!
And there was another rumored product name that didn't make much sense.
"You see, it's called iPod@Home; the idea is that you use it, err, when you're.... not at home?"
The keynote is due to start in 1 hour, 43 minutes.
What times veryone heading to mac rumurs live? is there gna be a irc chat there again?
Better shine those shoes and start stretching now, because I'd be surprised if Jobs didn't talk at least a little about it.
I don't think that's dumb at all...
What makes it dumb? If I don't have to carry my laptop everywhere but I can carry my files and settings and such on my phone/iPod, and sync or connect to another computer, wouldn't that be clutch?
I'm not so sure I understand why you all wouldn't like this...I think it's a great idea and I even thought about it on my own before I saw their patent a while back.
-=|Mgkwho
You better hope they don't read this forum and get ready for your kick. Unless you like hopping on one leg LOL.
The problem I see with it is that it's only useful when you go somewhere else with Macs; it becomes completely useless assuming most of the other PC's you encounter are Windows-based.
But overall as a concept do you like it? I don't really care about the perceived difficulties...obviously if you're using an OS right now it's hard to emulate it onto another directly from your cell...
-=|Mgkwho
As a concept it's kind of cool; on the PC side there are sort of things like this, where you sort of have your personal settings, apps, etc. on a Flash memory stick and can use them on another.
I mean, what would be awesomely cool of course would be if the "iPod@Home" feature as rumored was actually like being able to take your Mac with you on the go and could actually work inside a PC. Like as a virtual machine or something...... you hook your iPod up to any Windows PC even, and a Windows app loads up and has your Mac desktop running inside it.
The big problem with that I guess is that it would basically open the door to running OS X on a PC, which Apple doesn't want.
BMW won't make a good looking car anytime in the future. Things went wrong when BMW hired an American as chief designer, Chris Bangle.
An "iPhone@home" would be nice to have if it were anything like "Asterix@home". But it's something you could set up yourself. It is a small PBX that connects many different telephone technologies. For example VOIP services and the PSTN. One simple thing this would allow is when you are home you could use the iPhone's wifi to place and pick up a calls over the Plain old wired phone line as if the iPhone were a "cordless phone". It the PBX also allows more complex connection such as conference calls using mixed technologies. Other features are voice mail and an voicemail/email gateway. (I really like getting my voice mail as a web site with clickable .wav files.) Asterix@home was a pre-packed version of Asterix for the home user. See http://www.asterisk.org/ for more details
It was not just a rumor, I remember it on the OS X page (it was called Home on iPod) and then it got taken down. It's too bad, it would have been useful.
Well the keynote is over now, and guess what, that transcript was a TOTAL and UTTER fake!
Bullshott indeed!
Bullshott indeed!
