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Mysterious Box Arrivals...Current PowerMac Stock Diminishing

What does the Q stand for?

Spike Milligan had a comedy sketch series named Q6 and sequentially named each series to Q9.

Q6 could be a joke... or maybe it's a toaster/web browser and the Blackriders are what you get when you burn the toast.
 
Originally posted by cubist
Pyrotoaster, are you saying that, to public knowledge, no Q-numbers have been used yet?

In these rumors we've heard Q6 and Q8, and I think we heard Q36 for the new Power Mac.

What were the numbers for the MDD Power Mac? For the Cube? For the TAM?
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To my knowledge there's been to alpha-numerical codename with a Q in it. There has been the "Q" Newtons, though.

Cube: Trinity
TAM: Spartacus, Smoke and Mirrors, Pamona
MDD: P57 and P58
 
Re: More senceless rumormongering

Originally posted by painandgreed
Working in the tech industry, I have my own "sources". One I discounted weeks back told me that not only will the PM970 machines be shipping at WWDC, but Apple will also be revealing a port of Mac OSX to the IBM Blade server line. I thought that was too much, but it does fit the rumor of a mysterious hardware project using a version of Mac OS X.
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Although I think Apple would much prefer to have their own servers selling in the corporate sector, it does stand to reason that they would license OS X for blade servers. Maybe that was part of the deal to get the 970 out the door so fast, and the 980 on into testing?
 
Originally posted by Captnroger
This article is crap - I can buy a dual 1.4 tower today, same day shipping, from the Apple store.

I hope I'm surprised come next week, but I doubt we're going to see the 970s. A new PB, probably, but I doubt we'll see new towers.
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I'm decently skeptical about the towers as well, but there is a difference between the supplies available to the public (at the Apple Store, at resellers, etc.) and supplies that are "in the channel", i.e. in large distribution warehouses. A reseller might have a half-dozen on hand (The Apple Store online no doubt has a bunch of 1.4's on hand), but that doesn't mean that there are any "in the channel".

There's usually 8-11 weeks of inventory in the channel, so the fact that its drying up means that products need to come soon.

So its not so much that the Apple store is intentionally lying to you, its that there's a big difference between the stock of machines that are ready do go out on customer orders and the stock of machines making their way through the pipelines to, say, MacMall.

I hope that makes sense...I'm not sure I'm explaining clearly.
 
You don't want an Apple camera

I don't know why everyone is so fired up about the prospect of an apple camera. I'll be shocked if they do it for the following reasons:

- There's already a mature camera market out there.

- Cameras are really hard. Auto-foucusing, optics, exposure computations. The camera makers have been working this stuff out for years.

In short, why would they want to jump into this game?
 
Codenames - Smeagol, Blackrider,...

Codenames that are nouns are usually based on a "theme". This is a very common practice and is not isolated to Apple.

Microsoft used names of cities on several of their products.

Heck, even the Star Trek DS9 series names all of their shuttlecraft after Rivers.

The thing to note is that products within the same theme are generally closely related.

The theme for these new software/hardware products is The Lord Of The Rings.

Did anyone else catch the Bluetooth Displays? Somewhere in these threads (don't recall which one), someone mentions specs on what was in some of the boxes. One of the items was the Bluetooth monitor. I may have misread it, but this would be awesome and would allow for input via a touch screen. Perhaps simple browsing, control a media center, check e-mail, etc.

Quark
 
Originally posted by shecky
i think that Q6/Blackrider could very well be an Apple branded Media Server, ala the HP Digital Media Reciever

This would serve media to an entire househousehold, use Airport + ethernet. have a big HD, firewire + usb to put media directly onto the device, have integrated QT technology, etc..

it would run a light build of OS X to serve the data. You could have your iTunes library, iPhoto library, QT videos etc.. maybe it even has some TiVo functionality to it as well.

it could happen.
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TiVo has that covered, and Apple is working with them very closesly to enable AAC mp4's into the TiVo HMO.
 
Originally posted by scan300
The press release gose on to say:
"Press Registration--
Members of the media and industry analysts are invited to attend the keynote and can register by contacting Josh Morgan at (408) 974-7149 or joshm@apple.com. "

Press releases traditionally, in many organisations, are both posted to the PR manager's media contacts directly (fax/email etc) as well as being posted on the web site.

Add to this the number of Apple stores which are holding an event of some sort, and there seems to be enough of an event happening.
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As I said earlier, I sent an e-mail to the media contact person and received no reply. This was actually not long after they announced the rescheduling of WWDC to June so they might not have been geared up to respond yet. Still, they made no follow-up effort. Sadly, this has been my experience with Apple PR -- not a very efficient or helpful bunch.

The store events aren't really a substitute for being there. I doubt many media people will be satisfied with a byline "APPLE STORE, LOS ANGELES" when the story is in San Francisco. It will be interesting to see how well the event is covered.
 
Re: You don't want an Apple camera

Originally posted by mstecker
I don't know why everyone is so fired up about the prospect of an apple camera. I'll be shocked if they do it for the following reasons:

- There's already a mature camera market out there.

- Cameras are really hard. Auto-foucusing, optics, exposure computations. The camera makers have been working this stuff out for years.

In short, why would they want to jump into this game?
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I agree completely. the MP3 player market was relatively new when Apple introduced the iPod. They were able to set a standard. Cameras are a much more established industry, and the R&D required to develop optics and lenses alone makes it not worthwhile.

Its the same reason Apple got out of the printer business. Why bother?

Just because there's an iPod to go with iTunes, doesn't mean we're "missing" an "iCamera" to go with iPhoto. The metaphor is flawed anyway, because a camera is a media capture device, whereas the iPod is a media PLAYBACK device. The iPictureFrame is a more valid comparison, and a more likely target for Apple than an iCamera.

Now, videoconferencing is a differnet story. There's an opportunity for Apple to set a standard there, and add value in a way that it really can't with 'traditional' digital cameras.
 
Originally posted by shecky
ok well, even sans Tivo functionality, i think a media server is a strong possibilty.
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TIVO makes its money on monthly service, not on their boxes. An Apple TIVO-capable product might be something they'd benefit from.
 
Web/Video-cam thoughts..

If there was a separate webcam, and it used firewire to connect (and draw power).. could it be engineered to connect up to an iPod for easy recording of digital video? How does the size of an iPod's disk compare to the space on a Mini-DV tape? 30 Gig sounds like a lot to me.. hours and hours of digital video perhaps?

Continuing my thoughts about FireWire, it would be possible to have many of these things hooked up at once to a PowerMac, opening options for camera switching for webcams. You could have your own 3-camera studio shoot with relatively low cost.

Such cameras should be fairly inexpensive, say around $200-$300, and would thus be limited in their capabilities (fixed focus, small, cheap stereo mic), but there's no reason for the resolution to be anything less than DV (what is it -- 720 pixels wide?).

Ya, okay, so it's wish fulfillment time. I can dream, can't I?
 
Originally posted by shecky
ok well, even sans Tivo functionality, i think a media server is a strong possibilty.
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TiVO announced today that it has licensed its technology to Pioneer.
 
Q theory revisited

Funny, this Q6 seems to make sense in relation to my out-of-left-field interpretation of Q37 (37 fiscal quarters since the release of the original PowerMacs):

The original iPod was released 6 fiscal quarters ago. So maybe this is another digital lifestyle device we're talking about here.

That's my absurd theory, and I'm sticking with it!
 
Good that ThinkSecret has finally posted something about this stuff. Then again, several us have received e-mails from TechTV saying that they can't cover WWDC live. No live QT stream. I hope we aren't too disappointed.
 
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