I agree, and if it comes, it means an AppleTV SDK, or some kind of app pushing via iPhone OS 4.
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I agree, and if it comes, it means an AppleTV SDK, or some kind of app pushing via iPhone OS 4.
Of course... and OSX 11 and all the cyber stuff NickK1066 mentioned...
We're currently on OS X 6 (10.6) - they wouldn't just jump all the way from six to eleven, and I'm pretty sure they would just release 10.7.
Maybe you can't count or read roman numerals, but 'X' is for 10, so OS X 11 doesn't make sense unless you're way in the future and are waiting for OS 1011.
Weak?
It might be in The States.
In Denmark, the store is freakin' empty. Not a single movie is available for rent or purchase. Not one. It's like that in a lot of non-US countries. Turn on your Apple TV (or fire up iTunes) and enjoy the empty store. It's been like that for years. It's beyond weak.
The iTunes library is actually pretty good now, but I still concur. I personally think more content should be HD, if not most of it.
We know we'll be seeing an updated iPhone. I'm also going to assume we'll see an update to Apple TV, and perhaps a streaming service for iTunes. There wouldn't be a better time for this, now with the announcement of Google TV.
Only if they take that out of the "hobby" status. We can count on a new iPhone as tradition goes.
I wish they would take their own product seriously, I mean my housemates PS3 is a much better media extender than the Apple TV is, and thats not even its real function. Unless they reinvent it as an ad supported free On-Demand TV service + DVR, its just going to fall further into obscurity. At the moment, if I wanted a Mac under my TV, I, like most other people would just pop a mini under there.
That or just sell TVs with the software / hardware built in.
Obviously Multitouch doesn't belong on a TV device - although with iPhone/ iPad remote control that's not out of the question either. The trouble is iPhone OS remote control can only be an optional feature.
I could certainly see an AppleTV SDK and app store model - re-imagining it as a games console. I think it's entirely possible they've been working on this but wanting to get streaming movie deals in place to coincide first.
Only if they take that out of the "hobby" status. We can count on a new iPhone as tradition goes.
The key to a non-hacker's TV box is, it must get network TV, and substitute for the regular cable box. It has to bring the broadcast stream. It has to bring in Internet streaming video, seamlessly. To present Twit.tv and its equivalents on the same level as HBO. It has to be a tivo. And somehow the producers of content, the movie industry, the tv networks and the cable channels all have to agree to a license. And it will have to operate, without complaints from the cable industry, which is providing the fastest broadband, but cable pays for itself by presenting all those bloated tiers of garbage, price-engineered to get you over $100 at minimum and closer to $200. Oh, and no jumble of wires and three or four remotes.
In other words, it's not a big engineering problem. It's a political and economic problem.
Maybe Jobs can put together kind of a replay tv contract from the nets. Like hulu, only better, for $10 a month. Subscribe to x number of series. Get it next morning. I watched Mad Men that way last year.
I totally agree with you, as i am also from Denmark. And iTunes is very weak in Europe compared to US.
Hope to see something great coming and ofcores the new iphone 4g asap, just sold my iphone 3gs 16 gb for 3300 kr = 556$. Cant wait for the new one....
From my experience in the UK, engineering company's charge roughly £50 per hour per head. So that's £2,000 per week per engineer (based on a 40hr week), or £2,000,000 for 1000 engineers for one week. Not too far off your estimate - then again things might look a bit different in the US.
You'd think, with thousands of engineers all in one place, somebody could figure out how to stream the keynote...
I want a Radeon HD5870 for my iPhone. I would prefer to have it overclocked and nitrogen cooled.
I do not think they will announce 10.7 That would conflict with their 11.0 announcement.
Didn't you know....that is what the new data center in NC is for...
Its sole purpose is to stream Apple keynotes..
Hickman
150k for an engineer is pretty high high high on the scale. I've been an engineer for the past 5 years and started off at 65k. Average engineer here makes around 85k, if you have Microsoft certs it gets as high as 125k.
$150K is on the high side. I would say that the average Apple engineer makes between 100-120K. Given the cost of living differences from where I am, I would "guess" that the avg starting salary at Apple is 70-75K.
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ola, i'm in south africa, we are subjected to purchase mac/apple products from 1 monopolising importer...... our local itunes store has NO music available to purchase? what gives? DAMN!
the next iphone (4?) could be my first iphone ever........ but some of us are locked in on contract with VODACOM a bit like the us at&t.........
EISH!
Maybe you missed the 'iJest' = I Jest = I Joke. Besides we've already had x11 eons ago
Seriously the 'X' has a few years left in it.
Perhaps they'll announce the new name of the OS release.. problem is that with Snow Leopard the branding really concentrated on the cat.. so in the public eye, snow leopard = mac OS X more than any other release.
In my view Apple really made a wrong decision by limiting themselves to 720 only content - I know it fits the majority of resolutions but come on.. anyone with their mac plugged into their TV is very likely to have 1080p.
I agree that with the increase in size of Apple's data centre commitments it's likely that they'll announce something to push the cloud aspect and get more people to move to iPhoneOS based iPads.. then sell the users on cloud services.
Personally I'd love a 'one desktop' cloud solution for macs.. simply log into a mac/iPad with MobileMe and your desktop is there ready as you left it. The apps are cloud-side.. so when you need processing power, the cloud scales up the resources to your application. You don't log off as such as your desktop just 'freezes' or runs in the background whilst you're not connected..
Would work for businesses too as a hosted service solution and seems a way of making the mac platform more 'iPhoneOS' in terms of apps for making money out of it by a monthly charge...
Still a bit off. Start off around $35 an hour for an Apple Engineer depending on department of course.
Lots of different possibilities this year, but I think it will end up being quite simple.
-iPhone 4.0 highlights
-Possible preview of iPad 4.0 (unless no different)
-iPhone 4th gen "iPhone HD" hardware and software features overview.
--pricing, availability
-Possible new US carrier announcements. AT&T available immediately, Verizon and/or Sprint available in late summer/ Fall
-Short preview and summary of OS 10.7, release scheduled for summer 2011.
-iPhone 4.0 highlights
-Possible preview of iPad 4.0 (unless no different)
-iPhone 4th gen "iPhone HD" hardware and software features overview.
--pricing, availability
-Possible new US carrier announcements. AT&T available immediately, Verizon and/or Sprint available in late summer/ Fall
-Short preview and summary of OS 10.7, release scheduled for summer 2011.
Yeah, I've got a feeling that they finally let the whole iPhone leak get out and stopped trying to cover it, because by now it's completely expected what you're going to get out of the iPhone... So there must be something bigger! More than just an iPhone 4G release!
Mac Pro update won't come until late Summer or early Fall. Book it.
And this is based on? If that's the case one hopes (but never expects) that Apple will hint that something is on the horizon.
Maybe Apple will announce that MobileMe is going to be free.
