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New Macs, Updated iOS and Mac Software, No iOS Hardware Expected for WWDC
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I was wondering if i would read this on the first or the second comment! Third? Bit disappointed
Really dude? Maybe its saying something incredible about your kid...
I bet the iPad cant pick your kid up and know how to take care of her/him.
Sounds a bit boring to me. To heck with these evolutionary updates on existing hardware. Tiny bit more processor support here, more RAM there...retina display here, thinner footprint there...blah blah blah....
If Apple wants to get that stock price moving again, they are going to have to start launching innovative pieces at these events. Either that or share will continue to filter through Apple and out to the mass of competition, and they will likely go the way of Blackberry. Innovate or be gone!
If Apple wants to get that stock price moving again, they are going to have to start launching innovative pieces at these events. Either that or share will continue to filter through Apple and out to the mass of competition, and they will likely go the way of Blackberry. Innovate or be gone!
Ah, so by definition, if one's child knows how to work an iPad, then the parent is neglecting the child. I'll make a note...
This is true but the software would likely leak retina in the Mini and this fingerprint thing so we would probably hear about them at WWDC if they are happening. Because Apple doesn't like others to reveal their secrets before the official announcement
That said, I don't think either of these particular rumors are true. I don't think the iPad Mini is going to get retina just yet. And I don't think we will be seeing fingerprint security any time soon. Using it to recognize the difference between tapping finger and a resting one, sure. just not unlocking by finger print
You know, I have been using Macs since the early 90's and I love them. There was no iPod, iPhone or iPad, so I worked, played and was inspired by the Mac, it's hardware and software. When OS9 came around, I knew I was in it for the long haul. OSX came around and I lost myself in slick style and even developed my own game for exclusively for Mac OSX. That is how much I love the Mac.
While I do enjoy my iPod, iPhone and iPad, these things do not mean as much to me as the Mac. So, I am just hoping for an announcement of a new Mac Pro. I was very disappointed when rumors started flying around about Apple dropping the Mac Pro a while back. Also, financially, I am sure it makes sense for Apple to do so. But I love the Mac Pro and I have been very excited for a NEW model to be presented. I am hoping for a new design, though I absolutely love the current one. But something new would be fantastic!
While I do enjoy my iPod, iPhone and iPad, these things do not mean as much to me as the Mac. So, I am just hoping for an announcement of a new Mac Pro. I was very disappointed when rumors started flying around about Apple dropping the Mac Pro a while back. Also, financially, I am sure it makes sense for Apple to do so. But I love the Mac Pro and I have been very excited for a NEW model to be presented. I am hoping for a new design, though I absolutely love the current one. But something new would be fantastic!
Tim Cook publicly said there's something in the works for this year for the Mac Pro audience. The only question is what
No one ever mentioned neglect, lol.
Im saying, maybe the interface isn't so "amazing" and his kid actually is and has intelligence greater than he did when he was a kid.
New product called iScrewed; basically a MacPro with all the guts removed; so you can throw in a custom PC Mobo and actually get a performance driven machine.
Seriously, if no MacPro is announced; my faith on Apple will cease and will be forced to look elsewhere for what I require. This will also happen at work; seriously considering dumping Apple on the next round of hardware upgrades.
-mark
Half the point of WWDC is to preview the software immediately before releasing the developer betas, new SDKs etc.
I don't get all this talk about a 'real' TV. I say a new Cinema Display lineup with HDMI support, larger models and graphics support for tv/blu-ray viewing (even perhaps passive 3d). then a new STB with more network apps (even if right now you have to subscribe to cable for some of them to allow access) and a bigger drive for queuing up rentals, shows etc. I would love to have a season pass set to auto download the new ep or even the newest unwatched ep and have it waiting for me when i get home. Then when i finish I delete it and if it wasn't the newest ep it asks if I'd like to watch the next one, download the next one for later viewing or quit that show for now.
Change up the 'itunes' interfaces so that movies/music/tv show our stuff and just put a store button at the top of each rather than making us go to 'computer' etc. do the same 'in the cloud' as iTunes 11 with a toggle that lets us turn it off in group so then we only see what's being home shared and is on our computer. and yes perhaps it is time for an iTunes Server that would allow us to set up a computer as a media server and not have to have iTunes running for home sharing. I imagine many folks would be happy to pay $5-10 for that sort of thing. Or free for 'local' use and $10 if you want a version that works like Plex and lets you stream to devices when you aren't at home
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i wouldn't be shocked it was more like
intro
os x
ios 7
apple tv/ATV os
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notebook silently updated that afternoon. Mac Pro/Cinema Displays revealed at a later date along with perhaps iLife/iWork and ProApp updates
They will, at least in the minds of folks around places like this.
Basically anything short of every jailbreak tweak ever released being tossed in will be a fail to the uber geek types that tend to hang on sites like this
Flat Design - Just stop!
Enough already with the "flat design" bs. It's nothing more than marketing lingo. There is no such thing as "flat" design. What does it even mean?
Enough already with the "flat design" bs. It's nothing more than marketing lingo. There is no such thing as "flat" design. What does it even mean?
my thoughts on the issue are a bit to that direction. Not the G4 Cube look exactly.
But more the current Mac Mini. Say something rather like 2-3 Mac Minis stacked together. RAM and graphics upgrades would be via cards you can slide in and out the back rather like a hot swap drive in a RAID box. Thunderbolt would be utilized for increased storage and so on.
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Ask a designer what it means. because it isn't just marketing lingo
My mistake, Apple are not as stingy as I feared. Thanks.
Then you better start shopping. Because WWDC is their software developer's conference so the likelihood of major hardware announcements is slim. They announced what they did last year because the Mac OS developer previews would have leaked it anyway and they didn't want some blog beating them to saying it. But the chances of that happening again, particularly with the Mac Pro, are small.
The pendulum has swung back and forth on this.
When they mean flat, they mean not-shaded and not-shadowed to make it look like the different UI pieces are 3D. So a plain single-color box instead of a Windows XP button.
Things started out flat-looking: both in the OS and Web. Partially because things were more primitive then and doing those effects without anti-aliasing, transparent-colors, and we were still on 256 color and even 16bit as the max. So it was a chore.
Then 3D / textured / etc. buttons and such became all of the rage. Kind of like how the buttons started looking in XP... from simple gray squared to shaded things that look like they little rounded cylinders sitting on the screen. Or like little silver chocolate-bars pasted to the screen.
Now, things are going back towards flat again. Simple square boxes without the extra shading to make it look like it's a rounded cylinder. Windows 8 is "an" example of this. But a lot of web-sites are going back in this direction too.
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So in the opposite direction of "Flat" we have "fake 3D" or "fake depth"
So looking at the iPhone, with the screen locked and the "slider" saying "slide to unlock" When you look at that silver button with the arrow on it, it looks like it has depth.
Or like on the iPhone, the "Calcuator" or "Compass" or "Weather" buttons look like they have reflections and shadows to make them look like they are a piece of 3D object sitting on your screen.
Or how starting with Windows XP, the buttons (OK / Cancel / etc.) started to have some shadowing to them.