Last Minute Macworld San Francisco Notes

[SeaFox]

The Beatles are going to be unleashed on iTunes. Remember how they were remastering everything, and including some unheard tracks?

Dude, guess what the Macalope has at the top of his prediction list.

 

[iSplode]

I'm ready to freakin crap my pants, I am so excited about what Jobs may announce tomorrow!!! The suspense is killing me!!!

I think it will have something to do with the Beatles and/or OSX Leopard being released tomorrow or shortly afterward to one-up Microsoft. I sure hope all this hype isn't over a stupid cellphone.

Most likely it will be a whole new line if iPod Socks!! That would be freakin AWESOME !!!!!!!!!

 

[teme]

I'm hoping for a home media solution, some kind of storage server to work with iTV and computers. And I hope that iTV would stream all kinds of files from that server, not that just some specific video formats.

I'm going to buy a new laptop in next six months, so I'm looking forward for any announcements about that... maybe some ultra-thin 12" MacBook Pro with Leopard and iLife '07.

 

[dalvin200]

s...isn't it the 30th anniversary or something?

is it?

 

[Hattig]

The UI in Itunes 7 looks good - more professional. Apple is all about good design but Mac has none. Steve Jobs said Microsoft has no style and he means it in big way. Microsoft said they are going to make him eat those words ... and they showed they have style with vista. (in my opinion)

What most people should be hoping for is a return to a consistent UI across the board - Mac OS X, iWork, iLife, iTunes, etc. That means each window looks the same, with the curves in the corners being the same, the style being uniform, etc.

IMO Vista looks better than XP, but only because XP looked vile, chunky and childish. There's a lot not nice in Vista, from the strangely squashed window controls, to the blurry glass effect, to being too dark and getting in the way. A professional UI should be non-invasive and neutral - Mac OS X's grey is a good example.

Since Leopard will have resolution independence, I assume that Apple will have spent the extra small amount of time on top of this massive work to get everything looking consistent. Then there's Time Machine ... argh!

 

[mrthieme]

Once again I am amazed at how Apple keeps these products so top secret.
Whatever will be released today for sale has been designed, manufactured, packaged and shipped across the world. From management all the way down to the guy sweeping the factory floor, and everyone in the transport process, not one cell phone picture has surfaced that I know of. That's a tight ship.

 

[iMan]

It was 30 years ago today...

Someone fancy Sir Paul at the stage today?

... with a little help from my frieds...


Oh, and Welcome to 1984... sorry.. 2007!! Here we go again...

 

[Compile 'em all]

Once again I am amazed at how Apple keeps these products so top secret.
Whatever will be released today for sale has been designed, manufactured, packaged and shipped across the world. From management all the way down to the guy sweeping the factory floor, and everyone in the transport process, not one cell phone picture has surfaced that I know of. That's a tight ship.

Pretty amazing isn't it. What is even more amazing is that this phone has been in the works for a couple of years now. Let's hope the phone will be up to the Apple standards.

 

[peharri]

Most likely it will be a whole new line if iPod Socks!! That would be freakin AWESOME !!!!!!!!!

Powerbook G5, actually.

 

[JW Pepper]

iWork delay

My guess is that iWork is delayed so that it can open the new MS Office document formats. Office 2004 cannot open the new office documents created by the Windows version of Office. This will be a problem to Mac users untill MS updates Office for Mac which won't happen until they can make it a Unitersial Binary. If Apple can get iWork to open these new documents it give Mac users an immediate workaround.

Of course I may be wrong.

 

[MatthewCobb]

Keynote Bingo!

For those of you who haven't seen it, Arstechnica's John Siracusa has an excellent Keynote Bingo card, in which we can all tick off the various things Steve might - or might not - have up his sleeve.

http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2007/1/7/6514

 

[mrmma]

1) I've been thinking that Paul and/or Ringo might be there. Paul probably needs a new cash infusion after his marital problems. I say this is great. My Abby Road CD has a scratch that translated into a skip in iTunes...right in the middle of I Want You:

I w...ww...ww..ant y...y...you, I want you so baaad...

so I'd like to pick up that track for 99 cents.

2) I am with the why not release iLife/iWork today unless they truly aren't ready. I don't think they would release apps that are OS X version dependent. I suppose there could be features used by Leopard that are not accessable by other versions, but they'd lose out on a large base of buyers that want to buy/upgrade their iLife/iWork but not buy/upgrade their OS X.

3) I don't see Apple getting into actual HDTV displays. The competition there is pretty thick, and many people who would/could buy an apple TV sized monitor already have a HD monitor in the living room.

 

[JW Pepper]

1)

3) I don't see Apple getting into actual HDTV displays. The competition there is pretty thick, and many people who would/could buy an apple TV sized monitor already have a HD monitor in the living room.

How about a TV with wireless keyboard/internet access email and has the ability to store/record your favourite programmes to HDD, and a card reader to display your photos?

 

[DHUK]

iTV

I reckon iTV is going to be an apple branded 'slingbox'.

 

[OdduWon]

then what is this?

NO way i saw this a few weeks ago and made a mock up of what i saw. check it out
when did you see this??? The ichat support icon, i mean.