That just means quad core. The "next level" might only be a small step up!
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That just means quad core. The "next level" might only be a small step up!
I'm very pleased to hear this. Waiting for a new MBP for a couple of weeks now and this comment makes waiting just a bit easier. In summer I am in the market for a new cellphone as well - so bring it on Steve.
Everyone else who has a high end smartphone out there -- Google/Android, Palm, etc -- has a phone which, at best, competes with what Apple had last year with the 3GS. iPhone OS should be a couple months away, and new iPhone hardware is expected around June. The point is, no one is looking ahead of Apple, they just try to copy what they do as soon as possible, by which point Apple is already well into the next iteration, or working on something entirely new like the iPad (yes, I know there are other table-form devices, but none of them work anything remotely like an iPad). So, I'm not too worried, I think Apple knows they need to keep moving, and they do.
actually I was wondering if they are focusing on iPad more than the upcoming iPhone... Hope they have something that attract me just like when the iPhone 3G announced
Well this is interesting. I find it strange that Jobs is making public comments like these, especially about Google considering he just demoed Google Maps on the iPad a couple of days ago as well as YouTube videos. I also stumbled across Apple's new YouTube channel(http://www.youtube.com/apple) which makes this even stranger.
As for Adobe, well I REALLY can't wait until Flash bites the dust. Whenever I play a flash 360p video on YouTube my MacBook Pro's fans kick in and the machine's processor gets boiling hot. Thankfully they've integrated HTML5(http://www.youtube.com/html5) and now I can actually watch videos without the machine burning my legs off. Of course that's still bitter sweet because it doesn't work on YouTube partner videos or watching videos in the channel player but hey, at least it's something.
As for Adobe, well I REALLY can't wait until Flash bites the dust. Whenever I play a flash 360p video on YouTube my MacBook Pro's fans kick in and the machine's processor gets boiling hot. Thankfully they've integrated HTML5(http://www.youtube.com/html5) and now I can actually watch videos without the machine burning my legs off. Of course that's still bitter sweet because it doesn't work on YouTube partner videos or watching videos in the channel player but hey, at least it's something.
uh.....my nokia e71 has had copy paste since day one. it allows multitasking. plays divx. flash works fine via skyfire. etc.
youre comments are untrue.
I'm always taking on the Apple-bashers, so let me switch around and do some Apple-bashing of my own.
Where I disagree strongly with the direction they're going is this ridiculous idea of streaming video replacing optical media. It's ludicrous for SDTV, and insane for HDTV! What they sell as "HD" on the iTunes store is grievously compressed 720p—compressed even more than atrocious cable "HD." The idea that people would pay money for this when lossless 1080p is available on Blu-Ray is beyond my comprehension.
Apple is responsible for destroying the quality audio market—we have a generation now who are not only willing to listen to 128 kbs icepick-in-the-ear noise but pay for it! The CD market is declining fast while people encourage this insanity with their wallets.
As far as video is concerned, I've waited all my life for something like Blu-Ray to come along, and now it's going to die on the vine because of the same race-to-the-bottom quality dynamic that happened to music. Besides, it will not be years, it will be decades—many, many decades—before a majority of people have download speeds that could handle Standard-def video in real time, never mind HD. This means that compressed crap is going to be considered the norm and there will be no more market for quality video.
Apple is not solely responsible for this disaster, but they're leading the charge, along with the techno-elite gearheads like several in this thread who want to banish optical drives from their computers in favor of streaming media. You are a very small fraction of 1% of the population, but you think everybody in the world has the same internet service as you do. They don't, and they never will.
Where I disagree strongly with the direction they're going is this ridiculous idea of streaming video replacing optical media. It's ludicrous for SDTV, and insane for HDTV! What they sell as "HD" on the iTunes store is grievously compressed 720p—compressed even more than atrocious cable "HD." The idea that people would pay money for this when lossless 1080p is available on Blu-Ray is beyond my comprehension.
Apple is responsible for destroying the quality audio market—we have a generation now who are not only willing to listen to 128 kbs icepick-in-the-ear noise but pay for it! The CD market is declining fast while people encourage this insanity with their wallets.
As far as video is concerned, I've waited all my life for something like Blu-Ray to come along, and now it's going to die on the vine because of the same race-to-the-bottom quality dynamic that happened to music. Besides, it will not be years, it will be decades—many, many decades—before a majority of people have download speeds that could handle Standard-def video in real time, never mind HD. This means that compressed crap is going to be considered the norm and there will be no more market for quality video.
Apple is not solely responsible for this disaster, but they're leading the charge, along with the techno-elite gearheads like several in this thread who want to banish optical drives from their computers in favor of streaming media. You are a very small fraction of 1% of the population, but you think everybody in the world has the same internet service as you do. They don't, and they never will.
if "a+" iphone update is to "magical" ipad
...then i will be disappointingly kicking and complaining as i goto the apple store, and buy it anyway....but dissapointed mind you
damn nerds letting ad men control verbage and muddy a technical field.
...then i will be disappointingly kicking and complaining as i goto the apple store, and buy it anyway....but dissapointed mind you
damn nerds letting ad men control verbage and muddy a technical field.
I don't understand this at all. Why would you spend a bunch of money on a stack of blue ray disks when you can get a 500 or more GB external HD to back up data. Plus, erase it when it's full?
Forgive me, I just don't understand why anyone would even think using discs to back up data is somehow a good idea. Thats so... 2001 ish. >.>
New Macs for 2010 (more likely 2011/2012 imo): iMac/Macbook with capacitive touch screen, with A4+iPad/iPhone OS built-in for instant on usage, on top of OS X. Want to check email quickly, just use the "iPad" instant-on. Want to edit picture/videos, simply boot up OS X. Yup, you heard it here first! 
I can bet neither were at the meeting.
To confirm to people who are there, SJ made a reference to Annie Hall
I'm sure you are referring to Steve's ego. But the more appropriate answer here is that those goofballs cant see past half of Steve's vision...so look what happened?
Will they ever do it again? I don't think so. Steve may be an ass to work with but he can really drive people to their limits and get the most out of them.
Flash has crashed every browser I've used.
Google, Firefox, Safari, IE, all of them. I doubt Firefox would help, seriously.
He's right about the fact that HTML5 is the future and that it should replace flash. However, what has he done to make this happen faster? Is Safari 100% HTML5 compatible? No because there's no 100% HTML5, yet.
Until the HD-DVD - BD fight it was adult content that decided these battles. In adult content flash rules. I don't think it'll be the deal breaker this time, though.
Yeah his vision is great, but his ego is out of control
He needs to piss off some intern and get a good punch in the face.
LOL. Good point. When this many apple-junkies got disappointed over the magic iPad, I wonder how many will go an hero over the A+ iPhone upgrade.