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Macworld SF 2007 Keynote Notes
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re: Beatles Played During the Keynote
Interesting. I was wondering how the move from Apple Computer --> Apple Ltd would effect the ongoing row between Apple the gadget company and Apple the music company. I wonder if this overture to the Beatles (Apple music's largest name) fits into the equation somehow?
Interesting. I was wondering how the move from Apple Computer --> Apple Ltd would effect the ongoing row between Apple the gadget company and Apple the music company. I wonder if this overture to the Beatles (Apple music's largest name) fits into the equation somehow?
Somewhat disappointed in the Keynote Address
My observations:
1. I found it strange that the Apple TV, the new Airport Extreme and the Mini Mac all have differing dimensions. I think Apple would have been up on their design to use the same dimensions for stacking and aesthetic purposes.
2. I was very disappointed that there was no mention of iWork 07, iLife 07, Leopard, a 12 Macbook Pro, 8 core MacPro, or for that matter ANYTHING about computers.
3. I understand the name change, but isn't that an unnecessary financial or corporate risk to possible reopen the Apple Records/Beatles lawsuit, by changing their name to simply APPLE? Did it really MATTER?
4. Likewise, why iPhone when Cisco owns that trademark? (Unless the deal and settlement to rights of this name are already inked.)
5. I don't understand why Apple would commit itself to a multiyear exclusivity with Cingular and EDGE technology. Why not EVDO and Verizon, and what about the many other carriers? Most of us have friends connected with our carriers and we're not necessarily changing carriers just to get a cool phone. And why not just a full screen ipod without the phone? Why not more ram? Why so expensive?
6. I can already play movies from my MacBook to my Plasma using a mini HDI to HDMI cable. Do I really want to pay $300 for a 40 gig hard drive to do this right now? Is the USB port on the Apple TV for a possible additional external massive hard drive connection?
7. As I'm not about to change from Verizon which has the best coverage in my area of the country, I saw nothing I "had to have" this MacWorld.
My observations:
1. I found it strange that the Apple TV, the new Airport Extreme and the Mini Mac all have differing dimensions. I think Apple would have been up on their design to use the same dimensions for stacking and aesthetic purposes.
2. I was very disappointed that there was no mention of iWork 07, iLife 07, Leopard, a 12 Macbook Pro, 8 core MacPro, or for that matter ANYTHING about computers.
3. I understand the name change, but isn't that an unnecessary financial or corporate risk to possible reopen the Apple Records/Beatles lawsuit, by changing their name to simply APPLE? Did it really MATTER?
4. Likewise, why iPhone when Cisco owns that trademark? (Unless the deal and settlement to rights of this name are already inked.)
5. I don't understand why Apple would commit itself to a multiyear exclusivity with Cingular and EDGE technology. Why not EVDO and Verizon, and what about the many other carriers? Most of us have friends connected with our carriers and we're not necessarily changing carriers just to get a cool phone. And why not just a full screen ipod without the phone? Why not more ram? Why so expensive?
6. I can already play movies from my MacBook to my Plasma using a mini HDI to HDMI cable. Do I really want to pay $300 for a 40 gig hard drive to do this right now? Is the USB port on the Apple TV for a possible additional external massive hard drive connection?
7. As I'm not about to change from Verizon which has the best coverage in my area of the country, I saw nothing I "had to have" this MacWorld.
Yes, not actually that good. I'm a huge Mac fan, but:
Average Laptop - 100 pixels per inch
The Nokia 770 / N800 224ppi
The iPhone 160ppi
The Nokia is a fantastic product, it can display most webpages with no zooming... pity Apple couldn't get that screen into the device..
OS X is not Mac OS X
"OS X" is not "Mac OS X."
Apple wouldn't use two different phrases if they weren't two different things.
See: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/268363/
"OS X" is not "Mac OS X."
Apple wouldn't use two different phrases if they weren't two different things.
See: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/268363/
to all you people who say "why not my carrier..." i would just like to say that if your carrier got it then everyone else would say the same thing...
lets not argue about this anymore. they had to pick someone, it happened to be cingular. its unfortunate for everyone not cingular.
the world will keep spinning.
lets not argue about this anymore. they had to pick someone, it happened to be cingular. its unfortunate for everyone not cingular.
the world will keep spinning.
Think out of the box for a second. Say you have alot of DVD's and you've decided that they're just taking up room in your "TV" room, wouldn't it be nice to load them all on your computer (you know use MactheRipper on them, these are your DVDs, copy them onto a large hard disk and the create an alias to you Movies folder) and instantly you have a poor man's version of Kaleidescape (http://www.kaleidescape.com/) for only $299 (the last I check Kaleidescape costs around $10,000) and the price of a hard drive.
Now let's say you have two units on in the living room and one in the kids room. No more looking or flipping through DVDs. This is pretty awesome. Will this work. It should. It works for me today with Frontrow (and although it's nice to watch movies on my 30" ACD, it would be nicer to watch it from a couch (and hopefully my new Pioneer 50" 1080P Plasma)).
No, it won't be locked down device. Even if it was, it will be easy to hack. Just look at the PSP for a moment, which Sony thought was a locked down device.
Job's all but said that he does not want to update the iPhone everytime someone comes up with a new idea or use for it, so expect it to be open to developers. However, it will need OS X 10.5's developers kit.
My brother and I were talking about Yahoo just last night. They are often overshadowed by Google, but 250 million e-mail accounts! Wow, that's pretty impressive!
I agree engadget was better now if we could just integrate the live feed that macrumors had with the content that engadget had that would be ideal.
This will work just fine with Handbrake. Rip your DVD with handbrake place in iTunes, and it will show up on your iTV.
Apple TV USB Connector
When initially previewed, many wondered why the "iTV" (now Apple TV) contained a USB port. According to the Apple TV website, the USB port is for "service and diagnostics" use.
From http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/
"Instant drive sharing.
New to AirPort Extreme, AirPort Disk turns almost any external USB hard drive into a shared drive. Simply connect the drive to the USB port on the back of your AirPort Extreme and voila all the documents, videos, photos, and other files on the drive instantly become available to anyone on the secure network, Mac and PC alike. Its perfect for backups, collaborative projects, and more."
Rocketman
Furthermore it seems once you have iTV and an ethernet hub, you do not need an airport extreme as a separate device. The only incentive for AE over iTV is the price diffrential, but if you put an iTV in 2 or more places to service multiple TV's, one can place the non 802.11n supported computers within ethernet wireline distance of the device to bring older computers into the new world.
Rocketman
Rocketman
So Leopard's not going to innovative this year? Ahhhhhhhh.
No, seriously, what bothers me most of all is that there are no more keynotes until WWDC that would be suitable venues for demoing Leopard. That means no Leopard until... well, WWDC was in August last year.
Hmm, key flagship operating system, unexplained delays, what are they doing, copying Microsoft?
No they didn't.
It's a freakin' GSM phone, compatible with a whole host of operators. They could have sold it to Cingular, T-Mobile, SunCom, and a whole host of others. Instead, they choose to give it EXCLUSIVELY to Cingular and nobody else.
I wouldn't object if they said "$600 locked to Cingular, $850 unlocked for anyone GSM", but that's not what they're doing.
Did you not watch the keynote? There is a reason Apple picked Cingular. They needed to actually partner with someone who was willing to "partner" and just not be a reseller of a dumbed down phone. The new implentation of voicemail alone. Could you picture Verizon, a company known for crippling working features in their mobile devices, actually work with Apple to get this to done? I wouldn't be surprised that Apple had meetings with everyone and they just laughed at Apple and said "No one is going to spend $500.00 on a phone". It's almost like the iPod and FairPlay all over again.
Then Jobs wouldn't have had much use for the Cingular Suit then would he?
If Apple would have allowed the phone to be unlocked to any GSM carrier it would have been Cingulars Chief Exec up on stage reading cue cards trying to grab potential Cingular customers....
When I first tried to get my razr, only cingular had it, but I'm a verizon kinda guy (i go with what works). But after a while more and more carriers started supporting the razr. It might take a while (2009?), but who knows.
Woah, woah! Hold on there! You're going too fast!
So, let me get this straight. Apple needed to partner with someone, otherwise they'd have been forced to partner with Verizon. Who would have Verizoned the phone.
No, sorry, that's complete rubbish. They didn't need to partner with anyone. So far as I can see, they've asked Cingular to enhance their voicemail, but otherwise there is nothing Cingular specific in the phone.
They could have released it for all GSM carriers. They chose not to. That's not good. They did not "have" to partner with Cingular, and they certainly didn't have to make it a Cingular exclusive. And the phone, with enhanced voicemail, is not better locked to a carrier than unlocked, with regular voicemail, and available to all.
No, what I'm saying is that Apple had to partner with the various providers. I'm sure Apple had some terms they wanted met and after two years of negotiations the only US providers that agreed to Apples terms was Cingular/AT&T.
And yes they did need to partner with someone, because they didn't want to release a typical phone.
When I have the choice (which will be in six months) to choose between a locked iPhone or an unlocked non iPhone, I'm picking the iPhone. Not because it's an Apple product, but because it has the features I want.
Hopefully the providers in Europe will learn from this and cooperate with Apple.
Did something go wrong?
I was just thinking about John Mayer's performance. Did it seem odd to any of you that he performed? I know Jobs said it's a tradition or whatever, but it seems maybe they had some music-related announcement that was never made. (I guess iPhone and AppleTV are "music-related" but I think their other features overshadow the capability to play music.)
Maybe an iLife demo was planned but something went wrong?
I was just thinking about John Mayer's performance. Did it seem odd to any of you that he performed? I know Jobs said it's a tradition or whatever, but it seems maybe they had some music-related announcement that was never made. (I guess iPhone and AppleTV are "music-related" but I think their other features overshadow the capability to play music.)
Maybe an iLife demo was planned but something went wrong?