d.f said:
That would be amazing, and I'd order one immediately - Rev. A fears be damned.
As a design nerd, I'm more excited about the new laptops' form factors than the Intel chips they will have inside them.
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That would be amazing, and I'd order one immediately - Rev. A fears be damned.
As a design nerd, I'm more excited about the new laptops' form factors than the Intel chips they will have inside them.
DougJrS said:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/09/content_4028173.htm
A new logo for Apple for the dual core chips? Think Different to Think Twice?
Doug
THINK TWICE???
As in "I'd have to think twice about buying a Mac?"
Whoever comes out with that will be canned.
Could the iPod Boombox thing be a bose-sounddock like thing but with ethernet/airport to acess your shared music on you comp.
TiVo quiet at CES
TiVo Uncharacteristically Quiet at CES
Look at this link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901288_2.html
I think TIVO are quiet because they have struck a deal with Apple.
"It's always been my opinion that DVR is sort of a stepping-stone technology, more of a feature than an actual product," he said. "Really, the future is Internet delivered content _ not recording it and watching it later."
A feature as part of a Mac Mini with FrontRow 2. They mention selling movies over the net for $3.99. Apple will do this. They will also release a Airport Extreme TV card that plugs into your TV so u can contol your Mac with a remote which could be located in a different room. Mac Mini ViiV with FrontRow 2.0 will be DVR, Movies, Music, Photos, etc in your frontroom. the whole media experience and also function as your family MAC!
Thats my thoughts! What do u think? U rekon Mac & Tivo could be conhorts. This could mean if your have iMac G5, all you do is buy iLife'06 and Airport Express TV thing. You have DVR, etc accessible in your Living Room. Even if the Mac is in a different room! Could usse this new WI-MAX standard for delivery!
TiVo Uncharacteristically Quiet at CES
Look at this link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901288_2.html
I think TIVO are quiet because they have struck a deal with Apple.
"It's always been my opinion that DVR is sort of a stepping-stone technology, more of a feature than an actual product," he said. "Really, the future is Internet delivered content _ not recording it and watching it later."
A feature as part of a Mac Mini with FrontRow 2. They mention selling movies over the net for $3.99. Apple will do this. They will also release a Airport Extreme TV card that plugs into your TV so u can contol your Mac with a remote which could be located in a different room. Mac Mini ViiV with FrontRow 2.0 will be DVR, Movies, Music, Photos, etc in your frontroom. the whole media experience and also function as your family MAC!
Thats my thoughts! What do u think? U rekon Mac & Tivo could be conhorts. This could mean if your have iMac G5, all you do is buy iLife'06 and Airport Express TV thing. You have DVR, etc accessible in your Living Room. Even if the Mac is in a different room! Could usse this new WI-MAX standard for delivery!
monkeyandy said:
Given the deals that Comcast and Cox give subscribers to use their DVR boxes (with free upgrades, just turn the DVR in and say there is a problem with it) and in at least my apartment here in the DC area forget about antennas, no wonder TIVO is looking for new avenues.
macEfan said:darn, that wouldn't be any use to meI don't even have cable...
Where are you? Out in the deep woods?
When I moved into my new place I gave some thought as to not having cable TV. But the deal with Cox ended up costing me just $5 more to have both cable TV and 5/2 cable modem access. Damn I love deals.
doesn't hang together: the Madonna'Pods you envision sound ghastly to me, and I doubt Don Esteban will go for it. pacing & sequencing all wrong - no tension, no anticipation; video-streamer jammed up against refreshes? no.applemax said:
applemax said:
quite an imagination....
old news - Atlanta Airport had an iPod vending machine - every kind including nanos & minis as of Thanksgiving weekapplemax said:
nicely hidden.applemax said:
Capt. Obvious said:
Now if these units were freshly charged and had an iTunes station next to it, the Apple could clean up....
Predicting the iCam
The upcoming MacWorld Expo 2006 is in deed going to be interesting to follow here at the MacRumours this time around. Expectations are high for new product announcements in most parts of the Mac-community all over the world. What's it gonna be then? IntelMacs? iWeb? Widescreen iBooks?
But still ... somehow the rumourmill has been strangely dull this time, don't you think? If we can't get our kicks from "confirmed reports from reliable sources" this time, how about we add a splash of adrenaline before the Stevenote speech with wild guesses and pure speculation? *s*
I penned this little piece in a mood of equal measures of cool reasoning and desperate longing for real excitement prior to this MacWorld Expo 2006 . Remember .... I am NOT an insider. I know nooothing!
However - wet dreams are dutyfree still, so here we go:
................................................
PREDICTING THE iCAM
Heres a prediction: Apple will release a brandnew hardware product, that will redefine the market much the same way the iPod did in the music business. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: The iCam.
Just think about it. Whats the missing piece in Apples digital hub strategy in this day and hour? Well, theyve got the music covered on all fronts, right from content creation (GarageBand) through desktop playback and organizing (iTunes), online music sale (iTMS), and last but not least theyve been hugely succesfull in the portable musicplayer business with the iPod of course. With a very strong dominance in terms of marketshare in both online music sale, as well as in portable players Apple has effectively reached its goal in that market already. The sources to further expansion in the music business are starting to dry up, and Apple is not not known to rest on its laurels.
So, which other growing market could Apple be looking at next with all this in mind? Well, what other digital media market is there out there which is booming these years, and already seems perfectly cut out for Apple to enter at this time? .... The digital photo and video market of course!
The market for digital cameras, both stillcameras and video, is quite possibly the only one exceeding the portable musicplayer market. While the iPod aims squarely at a costumer segment of young people, consumers in all agegroups can see the need for an easy to use camera to capture pictures and video of their holidays and grandchildren etc.
And Apple have already paved the way in terms of software! iPhoto for your digital pictures, and iMovie for your homevideos, and syncing with .Mac to easily publish your finished masterpieces with Homepage. Theyve even got the portable picture+video player in place with the new video iPod. So whats missing in the puzzle? The Apple-branded hardware for creating your photos and video of course!
So how could Apple make an entry into the already well established market for digital cameras that would cause a stir in the industry? Simply by repeating the lessons learned from their highly succesfull music strategy. Take wellknown technology from an existing market, wrap it up in a sleek and cool design a la iPod, and make a superior user interface for seamless integration with the (existing) Apple software for editing and sharing, and there you have it: The iCam. But, theres one more thing ...
What could really make the iCam stand out from the rest? Well, we already have digital cameras that can do video. But not very well. And we already have DV-camcorders that can record still shots. But not very well.
How about a harddrive-based camera the size of an iPod that does BOTH equally well? Pristine quality photos AND video in a 2-in-1 pocketsized camera?
Harddrive-based consumer camcorders are only beginning to show up on the market these days, and all their virtues untold, their performance and easy of use leave plenty of room for improvement for a company with Apples flair for design and user experience. How about an iCam that can record natively in H.264 encoded MPEG 4 format? Yes, were talking real HD-video in a consumer camera here. Automatically syncs through FireWire to your iMovie HD software, which - surprise surprise - is already prepared for handling HD video material as is. Ever wondered why? If so youre not alone. Many observers were baffled to see Apple introduce HD-capabilities in their otherwise very basic iApp for the average consumer. Why would Apple make iMovie HD-savy at a time when even the entry level HD-cameras are still expensive high end items for the semipro world? The planned release of the iCam is a pretty good guess why.
Pocketsized videorecorders already exist in the shape of digital stillcameras and even mobile phones with the ability to shoot grainy and jittering little clips in 320X160 or, at best, VGA resolution. ( Lets not even begin to talk about soundquality or sharpness). These existing devices have videocapability more as a gimmick, than anything you would seriously rely on for your wedding video. Apple could change that with the iCam.
The iCam could merge the digital camera and the digital videocamcorder and become the first serious all-in-one digital camera for the rest of us. And we all know Apples flair for elegant and simple all-in-one solutions, right?
Take Apple´s succes with the iPod, add in the overall digital hub strategy when it comes to handling digital media content, and take a look at the present lineup of software in the iLife suite, and I can only come to one logical conclusion: The iCam is coming.
First Apple managed to make a dent in the universe of digital music with the iPod. Coming up next; digital photo and video! And of course Apple will want to deliver the camera-equivalent to the iPod, which is The iCam.
MacWorld Expo 2006 coming up very soon. None of us know if Steve Jobs is going to surprise us with a completely new product this time. Neither do I.
But from a logical and business-strategic point of view it appears to me that the time is due for Apple to introduce just one more thing ... The iCam®
Garion (Denmark)
The upcoming MacWorld Expo 2006 is in deed going to be interesting to follow here at the MacRumours this time around. Expectations are high for new product announcements in most parts of the Mac-community all over the world. What's it gonna be then? IntelMacs? iWeb? Widescreen iBooks?
But still ... somehow the rumourmill has been strangely dull this time, don't you think? If we can't get our kicks from "confirmed reports from reliable sources" this time, how about we add a splash of adrenaline before the Stevenote speech with wild guesses and pure speculation? *s*
I penned this little piece in a mood of equal measures of cool reasoning and desperate longing for real excitement prior to this MacWorld Expo 2006 . Remember .... I am NOT an insider. I know nooothing!
However - wet dreams are dutyfree still, so here we go:
................................................
PREDICTING THE iCAM
Heres a prediction: Apple will release a brandnew hardware product, that will redefine the market much the same way the iPod did in the music business. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: The iCam.
Just think about it. Whats the missing piece in Apples digital hub strategy in this day and hour? Well, theyve got the music covered on all fronts, right from content creation (GarageBand) through desktop playback and organizing (iTunes), online music sale (iTMS), and last but not least theyve been hugely succesfull in the portable musicplayer business with the iPod of course. With a very strong dominance in terms of marketshare in both online music sale, as well as in portable players Apple has effectively reached its goal in that market already. The sources to further expansion in the music business are starting to dry up, and Apple is not not known to rest on its laurels.
So, which other growing market could Apple be looking at next with all this in mind? Well, what other digital media market is there out there which is booming these years, and already seems perfectly cut out for Apple to enter at this time? .... The digital photo and video market of course!
The market for digital cameras, both stillcameras and video, is quite possibly the only one exceeding the portable musicplayer market. While the iPod aims squarely at a costumer segment of young people, consumers in all agegroups can see the need for an easy to use camera to capture pictures and video of their holidays and grandchildren etc.
And Apple have already paved the way in terms of software! iPhoto for your digital pictures, and iMovie for your homevideos, and syncing with .Mac to easily publish your finished masterpieces with Homepage. Theyve even got the portable picture+video player in place with the new video iPod. So whats missing in the puzzle? The Apple-branded hardware for creating your photos and video of course!
So how could Apple make an entry into the already well established market for digital cameras that would cause a stir in the industry? Simply by repeating the lessons learned from their highly succesfull music strategy. Take wellknown technology from an existing market, wrap it up in a sleek and cool design a la iPod, and make a superior user interface for seamless integration with the (existing) Apple software for editing and sharing, and there you have it: The iCam. But, theres one more thing ...
What could really make the iCam stand out from the rest? Well, we already have digital cameras that can do video. But not very well. And we already have DV-camcorders that can record still shots. But not very well.
How about a harddrive-based camera the size of an iPod that does BOTH equally well? Pristine quality photos AND video in a 2-in-1 pocketsized camera?
Harddrive-based consumer camcorders are only beginning to show up on the market these days, and all their virtues untold, their performance and easy of use leave plenty of room for improvement for a company with Apples flair for design and user experience. How about an iCam that can record natively in H.264 encoded MPEG 4 format? Yes, were talking real HD-video in a consumer camera here. Automatically syncs through FireWire to your iMovie HD software, which - surprise surprise - is already prepared for handling HD video material as is. Ever wondered why? If so youre not alone. Many observers were baffled to see Apple introduce HD-capabilities in their otherwise very basic iApp for the average consumer. Why would Apple make iMovie HD-savy at a time when even the entry level HD-cameras are still expensive high end items for the semipro world? The planned release of the iCam is a pretty good guess why.
Pocketsized videorecorders already exist in the shape of digital stillcameras and even mobile phones with the ability to shoot grainy and jittering little clips in 320X160 or, at best, VGA resolution. ( Lets not even begin to talk about soundquality or sharpness). These existing devices have videocapability more as a gimmick, than anything you would seriously rely on for your wedding video. Apple could change that with the iCam.
The iCam could merge the digital camera and the digital videocamcorder and become the first serious all-in-one digital camera for the rest of us. And we all know Apples flair for elegant and simple all-in-one solutions, right?
Take Apple´s succes with the iPod, add in the overall digital hub strategy when it comes to handling digital media content, and take a look at the present lineup of software in the iLife suite, and I can only come to one logical conclusion: The iCam is coming.
First Apple managed to make a dent in the universe of digital music with the iPod. Coming up next; digital photo and video! And of course Apple will want to deliver the camera-equivalent to the iPod, which is The iCam.
MacWorld Expo 2006 coming up very soon. None of us know if Steve Jobs is going to surprise us with a completely new product this time. Neither do I.
But from a logical and business-strategic point of view it appears to me that the time is due for Apple to introduce just one more thing ... The iCam®
Garion (Denmark)
iCam - or rather an Apple-designed/programmed/integrated camera - is off-mission...dead in the water.
Not to piss on your passion, but Apple won't make a camera - or a musical instruments, microphones, nor phones or golf clubs or anything like that.
The whole thrust of the digital hub is to absorb whatever gadget or instrument & enable you to use it more effectively, more easily. Apple's consistently done this by identifying broad areas of application (ie music, video, photography) building capabilities that cater to those areas.
For all the 'art-house' flak Apple catches for their design capabilities, they aren't actually IN the gadget business - they don't go to CES because by self-definition, they are not a consumer-electroncs firm (iPods notwithstanding).
If Apple ever does anything that is not in keeping with this, (that is, pumping out vast piles of iCams & iPhones & iGuitars & iChihuahua!) I will know that something important has broken inside Infinite Loop.
Not to piss on your passion, but Apple won't make a camera - or a musical instruments, microphones, nor phones or golf clubs or anything like that.
The whole thrust of the digital hub is to absorb whatever gadget or instrument & enable you to use it more effectively, more easily. Apple's consistently done this by identifying broad areas of application (ie music, video, photography) building capabilities that cater to those areas.
For all the 'art-house' flak Apple catches for their design capabilities, they aren't actually IN the gadget business - they don't go to CES because by self-definition, they are not a consumer-electroncs firm (iPods notwithstanding).
If Apple ever does anything that is not in keeping with this, (that is, pumping out vast piles of iCams & iPhones & iGuitars & iChihuahua!) I will know that something important has broken inside Infinite Loop.
Capt. Obvious said:
As much as I hate to point it out to you, Sir, an Apple-designet and manufactured camera already exists today. It's called the iSight.
And what's that about Apple not being a consumer electronics company again? As far as I know Apple has taken a rather succesfull step in that direction with a little gadget called the iPod? In fact iPod sales alone have accounted for the better part of Apple's earnings in recent fiscal years.
Does it really take such a long stretch of the imagination to see Apple build upon their succes as a consumer electronics company, and come out with a product like the iCam, whether integrated or not?
The iCam would fit right in with Apple´s iLife-software strategy, just like the iPod does - if not even better. After all TWO present iLife apps, iPhoto and iMovie are just waiting for their perfect hardware match - the iCam.
Is the iCam really that hard to imagine?
Does averything Apple make have to have a friggin i in front of it? iPod, iBook, iSight, iMac, iWork, iLife, iTunes, iTMS, iSnyc, iCal, iChat, iSpeak, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iPuke. Jesus.
Guess you didn't read my post.Garion said:
So your wish has come true: the iSight. Use that.
See how perfectly it fits?
Just like the Apple-brand paintbrushes & sculptor's clay....
Capt. Obvious said:
Pardon me, but I think you'll agree that a webcam like the iSight isn't quite the same thing as a digital photocamera or video camera?
I have merely tried to point out why it would make good sense for Apple to make a product like the iCam described above.
You claim Apple will never make a product like the iCam, and of course you're entitled to believe that. But what makes you so sure?
How many would have guessed that Apple would enter the MP3-player market undtil the iPod was suddenly introduced?
Apple have already proven succesfull as a consumer electronics manufacturer with the iPod, so wouldn't it be a logical next step to take on the digital camera market with an Apple branded camera?