Oh please stop drinking the cool-aid. Apple is still way behind the competition--MMS messaging, Flash, Video Recording, GPS, etc., etc.
Way behind.
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Oh please stop drinking the cool-aid. Apple is still way behind the competition--MMS messaging, Flash, Video Recording, GPS, etc., etc.
Way behind.
So I'm assuming you can't think very far into the future can you?
You seemed to have missed the fact that I'm talking about what the iPhone can become and the capabilities that it will have in the future due to the possibilities that the SDK provides.
The iPhone in its current state IS way behind. That is my point. With the introduction of this limitless SDK and beautifully structured delivery system, the iPhone will be leaps ahead of any other mobile platform a year from now.
I feel like MMS isn't a big deal to make, and if Apple doesn't someone (or likely many someones) will do it with the SDK. I don't think any mobile phones run the full version of Flash, which is what Steve's point is about...he doesn't want the iPhone running just the mobile lite version, but the current hardware can't handle the full version...which will potentially change with future hardware updates that bump the processing power, memory and video card. Video recording might be possible with current hardware, in which case you can bet someone will do it with the SDK (it's already been fooled around with on jailbroken iPhones). GPS is probably in the next hardware revision.
The point is, Apple can either spend its time addressing some of these things themselves, getting them done, and not advancing the platform, OR they can do what they're doing - make the platform extensible, get thousands of third-party people working on it, and then let them all build way more than Apple ever could. I'm happy to have a glass of kool aid in celebration of the SDK approach.
Opening song?
This might be nearly impossible, since the clip was so short, but does anyone recognize the song played at the opening of the presentation, right before Steve came on?
EDIT: Doh! A quick Google search and subsequent listen on SeeqPod gave me the answer - Brendan Benson's "What I'm Looking For". (This may be due to the recent release of his new album, what with Apple trying to stay hip and all .)
This might be nearly impossible, since the clip was so short, but does anyone recognize the song played at the opening of the presentation, right before Steve came on?
EDIT: Doh! A quick Google search and subsequent listen on SeeqPod gave me the answer - Brendan Benson's "What I'm Looking For". (This may be due to the recent release of his new album, what with Apple trying to stay hip and all
.)Was the first page too hard to find?
that is a link to a stream. i want a download
Read the whole first page. Hint: there's a clue somewhere between the 14th and 15th posts.
Well, it wasn't me who gave you the first clue. But anyways, are you downloading now?
yes the first time read it i read it fast and thought it was a link to the SDK not the video (because the sdk dl link was blocked all day i guess). Yes i'm dling
4 minutes in...
Did anyone else notice that the CIO from STANFORD (or some nimwit at Apple) had a grammatical error.
"The iPhone has worked effortlessly at Stanford[,] and the user acceptance just astounded us. We have been inundated with orders."
- Bill Clebsch, CIO
They seriously need to go back to 4th grade grammar. You think someone would have caught that.
Can't wait until June!!
Did anyone else notice that the CIO from STANFORD (or some nimwit at Apple) had a grammatical error.
"The iPhone has worked effortlessly at Stanford[,] and the user acceptance just astounded us. We have been inundated with orders."
- Bill Clebsch, CIO
They seriously need to go back to 4th grade grammar. You think someone would have caught that.
Can't wait until June!!
Because Microsoft is a software company and the more potential customers using their technologies (read: Exchange ActiveSync), the more potential revenue they will earn.
Apple only wants you to think they are anti-Microsoft in their commercials. The truth is, they have a very good relationship with Microsoft, and vice versa.
Phil's had a quite a few keynotes in the past, most noticeably in 2004 when he introduced the G5 iMac, and had an entire keynote to himself.anyone else think Phil was given a chance to practice his keynote speeches for when he takes over?
For the first time, I get chills down my spine from iPhone news.
This changes everything, the iPhone is the future. It will surpass anything we have ever expected.
The iPhone has no buttons, what more dynamic interface exists?
This changes everything, the iPhone is the future. It will surpass anything we have ever expected.
The iPhone has no buttons, what more dynamic interface exists?
Oh please yourself. As the iPod has proven time and time again, a great device is not about who has the most features, it's about who has the most well designed features that are easy to use.
Maybe I need to go back to 4th grade grammar [class] too, because I don't see anything wrong with that sentence.
P.S. Your grammar aint perfect either. I know the circumstances are different between a forum comment and a speech, but I'm just saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Most of those features he named can't be remedied with the SDK.
I truthfully think the iPhone is at its peak in terms of distance from the competition. Apple isn't competing against the no-names they did when they first brought out the iPod [which then led all the other companies to fight an uphill battle]. They are competing with multi-billion dollars like Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, LG, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Sony Erricson, and soon Google all at once, with each having their eye on the iPhone. Thinking these heavy weight companies will be even farther behind
a year later comes off as a little silly to me, personally. I mean, is good, but they've never been in such a competitive business before. Im not saying they can't do it, but its not going to be as cut and dry as people are making it out to be.
what? i assume your still in school as youve probably been taught 'juvenile' English where you are told never to put a comma before 'and'.
Bill Clebsch is simply denoting a break with that comma: " worked effortlessly at Stanford, [BREAK] and the user acceptance just astounded us. ". i have written a comma before and to denote a break dozens of times in my final year at school and during University and never got corrected... because i used it the RIGHT way.
you have to be careful when putting a comma before 'and' but i assure you theres no rule stating that you cannot. you can probably compare this to the 'an' rule. when at school i was told to always put the word 'an' before a word starting with a vowel. that rule is complete bull as you can also put 'an' before a word that has a vowel sounding first letter such as 'hour' & 'honourable' and some words starting with a vowel have 'a' proceeding them such as 'user' or 'unique' because they are pronounced as if beginning with an initial "y" constant.
sorry for the rant but English is a very complicated language and some rules can never be rounded up in a single sentence.
p.s. dont correct my capitals or apostrophes as thats how i always type on forums.
He forgot the comma, I added it in the bracket to show what he missed. It is two complete sentences...should be a comma! We are agreeing, I probably should have been a little more clear.
I know my grammar isn't great, but I guess I just expect a Stanford CIO to be able to correctly write a sentence. I'm not trying to prove a point or anything! Just thought it was kind of ironic.