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Last Minute Thoughts on iCloud, iOS 5 as Keynote Line Begins
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And I'll stick with ThinClient computing.That's what I was raised on. (and yet others will stick with Dumb Terminals, as that is what they were raised on). I even remember everyone laughing at Scott McNealy when he proclaimed "The Network is the Computer" back in 1998, ushering in this whole age of "cloud" computing as he introduced the NC (Network Computer, a play on PC, Personal Computer. Basically, a thinclient solution).
Here we are 13 years later and now it's hip and in and not completely ridiculous anymore. Now that guy was ahead of his time... if only on a marketing level. Thinclient computing had been around for decades by the time McNealy uttered those words and the people laughing at him weren't laughing at the concept, only at the fact he was talking about something we all already knew about.
Isn't this different though? I thought the apps ran on the server and the Thin Client was just a display only device?
Being very much conditioned by German grammar and spelling, this is to me still 'one word'. I mean it is one single, non-qualified physical object, why should it not be one word?
because it's still two words
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Can anyone tell me how long the keynotes are usually? I watched it last year for the first time but I can't remember.
Can anyone tell me how long the keynotes are usually? I watched it last year for the first time but I can't remember.
Apple purchases prior to WWDC
I'm curious how different sales are for Apple on a day like today or the weekend prior. People are hoping/anticipating for some new hardware announcements today, like an iPhone 4S/5, MacBook Air, etc... so I think it would be interesting to see how that translates to people holding off on any Apple purchases.
Could make the cost of holding WWDC signifigantly more, and it's not like they wont make that money back, but I'd love to know some of the stats behind purchases of Apple products leading up to an event like this.
I'm curious how different sales are for Apple on a day like today or the weekend prior. People are hoping/anticipating for some new hardware announcements today, like an iPhone 4S/5, MacBook Air, etc... so I think it would be interesting to see how that translates to people holding off on any Apple purchases.
Could make the cost of holding WWDC signifigantly more, and it's not like they wont make that money back, but I'd love to know some of the stats behind purchases of Apple products leading up to an event like this.
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Hahahaha!!!
Although I understand what the guy is talking about when it comes to annoying sensationalism over an overly pushed marketing term. His last post and your comment played out hilariously.
OllyW said:
Hahahaha!!!
Although I understand what the guy is talking about when it comes to annoying sensationalism over an overly pushed marketing term. His last post and your comment played out hilariously.
Prefer "client-server" computing then (since that takes into consideration fat clients) ? thinclients are many things, amongst which 1 is deported display (ICA, RDP, X11, VT100, even ... the Web!).
Most "cloud computing" is just a Web 2.0 app (ugh... I was writing web apps with server logic and Javascript based front-ends that were fully dynamic before someone coined it Web 2.0) and the Web browser is now the ultimate "deported display" technology where the app logic runs on the server and the client does some display and some display based logic.
Online storage is essentially just a file server... over the Internet! A component of thin client computing (where there is no local storage, only a very small amount for the local client software) if I ever saw one. Using fat client applications to access this storage (iTunes or Finder or whatever else) doesn't make it anything new to me.
None of these concepts are new or even novel. But it's now wrapped in new marketing lingo to make it seem like we need to spend cash on this stuff. Hence why I think Apple could've done better than just join the herd and go with iCloud.
I have been wondering the same thing, and I wonder if this is why we see more product updates not at events like this, (eg iMac updates recently).
Maybe you should switch to windows to avoid this.
Wait, I forgot to mention Windows 8 (in progress) is completely based on a mobile operating system. It's made for mobile touch tablets and pcs to run on the same OS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
It looks nice but a removable battery will never happen.
Why wont people accept that ?
about the live feed. engadget and huffington post have posted links
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/wwdc-2011-apple-announcement-live_n_871607.html
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/engadget-broadcasting-live-from-wwdc/
can't 100% be sure there live till show time..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/wwdc-2011-apple-announcement-live_n_871607.html
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/engadget-broadcasting-live-from-wwdc/
can't 100% be sure there live till show time..
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Did anybody notice The weather app, it has a 23* instead of The 73*. Maybe in iOS 5 we look at the weather app an we know the temperature .. Any thoughts ???
Did anybody notice The weather app, it has a 23* instead of The 73*. Maybe in iOS 5 we look at the weather app an we know the temperature .. Any thoughts ???
It's a UK - based mockup. Here in the UK we use Celsius, unlike our US friends who use Fahrenheit, hence why the icon says 23 and not 73.
Hope this helps clear it up!
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Ones own lack of vision or imagination shouldn't be projected on the future success of an extraordinary company that has proven themselves revolutionary time and time again.
d4rkc4sm said:
Ones own lack of vision or imagination shouldn't be projected on the future success of an extraordinary company that has proven themselves revolutionary time and time again.