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Snow Leopard QuickTime X Interface and Other Changes
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That is not a good argument. If you thrown in the feature for everybody, Apple owes MPEG-LA for every copy of the OS sold. They don't want to fund MPEG-LA like that. That sounds too much like Microsoft. I would say only 20-30% of the people that buy the OS buy the pro version of quicktime.
I realize that this is sarcasm, but you should have thought about what you were posting before you sarcalized it.
Referencing, of course, the fact that 10.6 isn't even out yet.
ITs already like this. Reading this thread is entertaining because people are mixing two different things together.
QuickTime is a system component and has no UI. It is what plays the videos, handles recording, etc... It has all the features you see in QuickTime Player Pro. But no UI for them. It is a development API. Everyone asking for more codecs, or better playback, or what not - this is what does it. This is what does the editing (though again no UI).
QuickTime X is a playback only completely optimized version of QuickTime and new in Snow Leopard. It has no editing features whatsoever. Just playback. Again - this has no UI.
The two above system components are called "QuickTime" and are what QuickLook, QT Player, and any app that plays movies on the Mac use. Those apps are the interfaces.
QuickTime Player (Leopard and before) This is the user interface that everybody knows and loves/hates. It uses QuickTime to do its job. When you buy "Pro", this is what you are buying because QuickTime already supports all that "Pro" provides without paying a dime. This app uses QT to do all its work, but its the interface.
QuickTime Player (Snow Leopard) This now uses QuickTime X. As such its a player only. Again, it is the user interface app that uses QuickTime X to do its job.
The reason that SL is using the new minimalist interface for "QT Player" is because now QT Player is just the interface for QuickTime X which is a pure video player - no editing in it at all. For editing, you have to use the old QuickTime.
Keep dreaming. There is zero market for the device you describe. Nobody wants an iPod that you can't put in your pocket.
Notice the word "beta". They're not done yet.
I would have imagined you would have also thought it was fake, given the Mac mini threads.
How do you explain this, then ?
(Quoting 'Appleinsider': "the new player is also said to offer overlay controls for trimming, editing, and viewing scenes of a video like in iMovie")
I just noticed som things in Snow Leopard:
When you create a selection pane on the desktop, when you release the mouse button the pane fades away. It just disappears immediately on Leopard. The blue "selection" look on selected icons also fades when deselecting.
Another GREAT thing is that you can finally right click and "remove" certain computers from your network sidebar in the finder. I can now remove all the duplicate "PCs" that are actually iMacs with SMB turned on. This is one of the best things since Exposé. I just wish it worked. You hit "Remove from Sidebar" and nothing happens, hopefully they fix it in the release.
Photobooth is back to being like Tiger, where it can be not-the-active-window and it still shows the camera video. In Leopard when you click away from Photobooth, it goes black and the camera turns off. It's pretty annoying.
Quicktime doesn't show the video playing anymore when minimized in the Dock like it used to in Tiger. I don't know why that is, but it's still like that in Snow Leopard. I wish it would continue to play the video in the Dock. It's not useful, it's just neato.
Preview has a new "Annotate" feature, allowing you to draw arrows, lines, and text to images. It's kind of like Skitch, only lamer and less powerful.
The "Put back" feature is nowhere to be found.
Photobooth records video now. I don't know if this is new. EDIT: It's not. Guess I just never noticed when going from Tiger to Leopard.
Front Row remains the same, it isn't like AppleTV take 2.
When you create a selection pane on the desktop, when you release the mouse button the pane fades away. It just disappears immediately on Leopard. The blue "selection" look on selected icons also fades when deselecting.
Another GREAT thing is that you can finally right click and "remove" certain computers from your network sidebar in the finder. I can now remove all the duplicate "PCs" that are actually iMacs with SMB turned on. This is one of the best things since Exposé. I just wish it worked. You hit "Remove from Sidebar" and nothing happens, hopefully they fix it in the release.
Photobooth is back to being like Tiger, where it can be not-the-active-window and it still shows the camera video. In Leopard when you click away from Photobooth, it goes black and the camera turns off. It's pretty annoying.
Quicktime doesn't show the video playing anymore when minimized in the Dock like it used to in Tiger. I don't know why that is, but it's still like that in Snow Leopard. I wish it would continue to play the video in the Dock. It's not useful, it's just neato.
Preview has a new "Annotate" feature, allowing you to draw arrows, lines, and text to images. It's kind of like Skitch, only lamer and less powerful.
The "Put back" feature is nowhere to be found.
Photobooth records video now. I don't know if this is new. EDIT: It's not. Guess I just never noticed when going from Tiger to Leopard.
Front Row remains the same, it isn't like AppleTV take 2.
What's your point? Apple shouldn't support the latest technologies because the rest of the world hasn't yet replaced all their equipment yet? Blu-Ray is becoming standard on the PC and SLI is *AVAILABLE*. Apple has neither and trying to make excuses for their lack of vision and choices is getting old. Why not simply call a spade a spade and have a community push to get them to support those things instead of making excuses for them?
BTW, your 1% (if accurate) is 1% of the PC community. That's like saying 15% of the Mac community and for Blu-Ray 100% in sheer numbers.
Well - I am a happy camper now with FCS2. These aren't the cheapest apps and I didn't intend to buy FCS3. Thats why I hope everything will work fine.
It is so weird to me though. Steve himself and Apple talked all about how inconsistent the interfaces were and that Leopard would "fix" that and unify them all yet there are still sooo many inconsistencies and a lot of them are new that have gone against what Leopard did since they talked about making everything so unified.
Can you make up your mind Apple and just completely implement what you wanna go for?!?!?!?!?!
I'd normally make a crack about ordinal numbers here, but Steve Jobs doesn't give a crap if 8 and 9 come before 10.
It is so weird to me though. Steve himself and Apple talked all about how inconsistent the interfaces were and that Leopard would "fix" that and unify them all yet there are still sooo many inconsistencies and a lot of them are new that have gone against what Leopard did since they talked about making everything so unified.
Can you make up your mind Apple and just completely implement what you wanna go for?!?!?!?!?!
Apple literally wrote the book on Human Computer Interaction. I know this because I had to read it when I was getting my degrees in human factors psychology.
Unfortunately, when it came time for OS X they threw the book on the ground, burned it, and put it out with poop.
oh, apple
(Agreeing with MacFly123, above) the new black title bar looks cool enough, if all 10.6 windows are black. On a related note, Why is Safari 4's title bar font different than the rest of OSX? I really, really hope someone remembers to unify everything before Snow Leopard launches. Tiger's 15 different themes annoyed me.
EDIT: is it reasonable to think that maybe Apple would be deliberately trying different window styles in preparation for an aqua makeover? I thought Snow Leopard was supposed to focus on under-the-hood stuff, so probably not.
(Agreeing with MacFly123, above) the new black title bar looks cool enough, if all 10.6 windows are black. On a related note, Why is Safari 4's title bar font different than the rest of OSX? I really, really hope someone remembers to unify everything before Snow Leopard launches. Tiger's 15 different themes annoyed me.
EDIT: is it reasonable to think that maybe Apple would be deliberately trying different window styles in preparation for an aqua makeover? I thought Snow Leopard was supposed to focus on under-the-hood stuff, so probably not.