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Rumors Revisited: Next-Generation iWork and iLife Plans? Apple Tablet Design Surprise?
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Please Apple...give us multiple Mac iPhoto syncing, just like you did with iTunes and purchased content. I want the photos on my Mac to automatically transfer (not just be viewable) to iPhoto on my wife's Mac (and vice versa) without any kind of janky workarounds.
Please.
Oh, and what ever happened to the Lesson Store in GarageBand? Not much progress there.
Indeed. With Adobe's disdain/neglect for the Mac platform over recent years, it's time for someone to try to step in and fill the void. Perhaps that someone is Apple?
Please.
Oh, and what ever happened to the Lesson Store in GarageBand? Not much progress there.
I wish Apple would add a modern day MacPaint for iLife and also a MacPaint Pro as a Photoshop replacement. That would make me a happy camper., Actually several iLife apps could really do well to have a Pro counterpart such as Pages Pro and iWeb Pro.
Indeed. With Adobe's disdain/neglect for the Mac platform over recent years, it's time for someone to try to step in and fill the void. Perhaps that someone is Apple?
It's going to be a pair of virtual glasses with aluminum frames. They'll have lasers on the front that sense your hand positions. You'll make multi-touch gestures in the air and manipulate augmented reality desktops.
Agreed. That was one of the most fun computing experiences I've had in a long time. More applications need to create that engrossing, all encompassing full screen experience where the OS just fades away and the computer is transformed. Brought back feelings of Apple II software.
They really need to change Garageband's wood edges. They drive me crazy. That is all I care about in iLife. I don't use iWork enough to say anything.
But Leopard is 64 bit.
It is to some extent a disadvantage to use both 64 and 32 bit applications at the same time. So it is good to have _all_ 32 bit or _all_ 64 bit applications. The difference between Leopard and Snow Leopard is Apple saying "you should have all 64 bit applications". That means applications that don't have any particular advantage from 64 bit on their own will still work better because everything else is 64 bit.
That's what I want: an iPad . . . ;^)
This solves the newspaper industry's problem of declining readers. Put all
their content on the web, then access it via this flexible "pad". You can take
it anywhere, and it displays full pages. And I just applied for the "iPad"
trademark/copyright . . . ;^)
I also vaguely remember something in an ad I saw on TV a while back: a
device about the size of an iPhone/Touch that generated a 3-D holographic
image above the device. Scroll through the image a la multitouch, and very
portable.
OK, back to reality . . . ;^)
This solves the newspaper industry's problem of declining readers. Put all
their content on the web, then access it via this flexible "pad". You can take
it anywhere, and it displays full pages. And I just applied for the "iPad"
trademark/copyright . . . ;^)
I also vaguely remember something in an ad I saw on TV a while back: a
device about the size of an iPhone/Touch that generated a 3-D holographic
image above the device. Scroll through the image a la multitouch, and very
portable.
OK, back to reality . . . ;^)
All this talk of the tablet now being delayed to late 2010, but it's all based on one rumor, no?
After months and months of rumors pinning it specifically to Q1 2010.
No only that but the reasons for the delay sound ridiculous; delaying 6+ months for OLED, despite an OLED screen 9"/10" still pushing the cost of a tablet above $1000.
Anyone???
After months and months of rumors pinning it specifically to Q1 2010.
No only that but the reasons for the delay sound ridiculous; delaying 6+ months for OLED, despite an OLED screen 9"/10" still pushing the cost of a tablet above $1000.
Anyone???
We currently have 4 Macs after our 4 Mac Clones. We have a 17" 1.67 GHz PPC PowerBook that we will use for the next several years even if I finally decide to purchase a 17" Intel MacBook Pro. We have a wind tunnel PPC G4 PowerMac running dual 1.25 GHz processors for back up. My wife's Mac is a PPC G5 dual 2.5 GHZ with 8 GB of ram & dual 750 GB hard drives. In order to run Windows better with my business I purchased a 1st gen dual 3 GHz Intel Mac Pro back in Aug 2006. That means that currently we have one Intel Mac so only 1 machine that can run 10.6. I have 10.6 on a spare drive for testing. To date it seems slower than 10.5.8 & with different problems being discussed I have not switched use to 10.6. Having a tax prep business for most of our income it is too late to switch my regular OS. That means it will be next May before I really will give 10.6 another thought or probably use.
I've purchased all of the versions of iLife & iWork. The only program that we really use is Pages. That use is by my wife to make special event cards. She uses the Power Mac G5. That means if there is no PPC support we will not be updating to the new versions. The only reason that I purchased 10.6 was because of the promises that Apple made before it came out & the $29 price tag. But since I have a 1st gen Intel Mac Pro the only advantage I have over my wife's G5 is running windows faster & the ability to run 10.6 but not use most of its promised updates & upgrades.
I'd rather run the same OS on all of my Macs. That means OS 10.5.8 with iLife09 &iWork09 for the few times we use one of them. I guess that I should have said iLife & iWork for the few times a year that we need one of the programs.
Considering the price might as well only support SL
I know for a businesses upgrade it is more than just about the price of the software, but considering the price of iLife and iWork will be well above the price of a L to SL upgrade, it seems fair to drop support for L.
From the sounds of it the main selling point of the new iLife and iWork will be taking advantage of SL features, so seems a bit pointless to have the next version working on L anyway.
I know for a businesses upgrade it is more than just about the price of the software, but considering the price of iLife and iWork will be well above the price of a L to SL upgrade, it seems fair to drop support for L.
From the sounds of it the main selling point of the new iLife and iWork will be taking advantage of SL features, so seems a bit pointless to have the next version working on L anyway.
Numbers - What is it rally good for?
I'd like to see Numbers get at least as good as the work spreadsheet program in all of the free or low cost Mac office programs. No one has ever come close to Excel so having Apple make Numbers even 10% as useful as Excel is only wishful thinking. Numbers hasn't even made it up to the level of Apple's previous spreadsheet program.
If the new version of iWork & iLife does not run on a PPC Mac those programs are at their end of life with me.
I'd like to see Numbers get at least as good as the work spreadsheet program in all of the free or low cost Mac office programs. No one has ever come close to Excel so having Apple make Numbers even 10% as useful as Excel is only wishful thinking. Numbers hasn't even made it up to the level of Apple's previous spreadsheet program.
If the new version of iWork & iLife does not run on a PPC Mac those programs are at their end of life with me.
Easy mistake to make, as Apple refers to both the new iMac i7 and the Mac Pro as using the "Nehalem" processor.
New Tablet Design
The new tablet will actually be a sphere. It'll be crystalline in nature. From a distance it'll appear to be filled with smoke, but when you place your hands on it and peer intently into it, it'll reveal images from the smoke and have the ability, among other things, to tap into remote webcams and show what people are doing at that given moment and also will have predictive algorithms to show future events.
The new tablet will actually be a sphere. It'll be crystalline in nature. From a distance it'll appear to be filled with smoke, but when you place your hands on it and peer intently into it, it'll reveal images from the smoke and have the ability, among other things, to tap into remote webcams and show what people are doing at that given moment and also will have predictive algorithms to show future events.
Still waiting for iPhoto to include the ability to re-order individual pictures (drag & drop) within a group instead of the convoluted numbering scheme that iLife 08 uses. Sigh, maybe in 2010.
huh? Please explain what you mean. I must be misunderstanding you because you can reorder your photos in a folder any way you want.
No, there will not be and OLED screen. They delay ( IMHO ) is caused by a failure to get a signed deal from the publishing industry before launch. They don't want to launch without content. The news article about Time magazine and everone banding together seems to point to this. They are trying to avoid getting dominated like the music industry did by Apple. Little do they know that Apple is their best chance for survival right now. Everyone comes crawling back.
This time, however they are caught in a stand-off. Apple believes that no one will bother to subscribe to the publisher's conten unless a compelling the device exists, and Apple doesn't want to put out the device without the content.
My stock ownership of Apple prays that Time blinks first.
Who would have thought that Apple computers are for (less than) five years...
My first Apple portable was an Intel-based C2D MacBook, purchased in the autumn of 2006. But in the summer of 2006, I was thinking about a G4 (or G5?) desktop. Yep, PPC. Fortunately, I waited for the Intel processors. But 2006 was not long ago... I could have made a very expensive purchase that might have been proved to be a nightmare. Although, those old Macs were built properly, at least. Back then, Apple had more control over manufacturing and it wasn't demanding premium price for mid-range PCs with flashy enclosures.
Some people feel very disappointed and rightly so. Some PPCs were purchased in less than three and a half years ago and now they are officially classed as dinosaurs. No Windows on Boot Camp, no Snow Leopard, no iLife and iWork. This is iRage!
My first Apple portable was an Intel-based C2D MacBook, purchased in the autumn of 2006. But in the summer of 2006, I was thinking about a G4 (or G5?) desktop. Yep, PPC. Fortunately, I waited for the Intel processors. But 2006 was not long ago... I could have made a very expensive purchase that might have been proved to be a nightmare. Although, those old Macs were built properly, at least. Back then, Apple had more control over manufacturing and it wasn't demanding premium price for mid-range PCs with flashy enclosures.
Some people feel very disappointed and rightly so. Some PPCs were purchased in less than three and a half years ago and now they are officially classed as dinosaurs. No Windows on Boot Camp, no Snow Leopard, no iLife and iWork. This is iRage!
As a software developer I see a good reason. One example. Say I need to rotate an image. 10.6 gives me a great way to do this that makes use of multiple CPU cores and/or the GPU but if I use that feature my software will not work under Leopard. So I'm forced to either not use the new SN feature, thereby making all the people with brand new Macs upset or I have to write my software twice.
I can write it twice but that means over all I can only add half as many new things because each must be written twice.
So I have to choose between complaints like "I just bought a quad core machine and way can't your software use more than one core?" and "Why can't your new software run on my old computer?". It's a balancing act between these two.
iLife X, iWork X
On the iApps front, I think it's likely they'll introduce iLife X and iWork X, similar to the rumor of Aperture X.
Sure would be nice to get a Final Cut Express X which makes use of more than 2 processor cores and more than 2GB of RAM. Maybe even make use of that h.264 acceleration in Snow Leopard.
On the iApps front, I think it's likely they'll introduce iLife X and iWork X, similar to the rumor of Aperture X.
Sure would be nice to get a Final Cut Express X which makes use of more than 2 processor cores and more than 2GB of RAM. Maybe even make use of that h.264 acceleration in Snow Leopard.
Me I'd like this in the next iPhoto with a better design but the effect to find image is neat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JM81rBkaJM
but I don't see any claim of the next version of iLife and iWork on the website of Mac4ever. I can read french
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JM81rBkaJM
but I don't see any claim of the next version of iLife and iWork on the website of Mac4ever. I can read french
Yep if it's only going to support intel cpu's then they can keep the box set for those on supported machines who haven't upgraded to SL get the price down that way. Pretty sure there are lots waiting for the next iLife & iWork update before running SL to themselves or out the the extended family.
Hoping the release is Jan not mid year.
