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What is ix.Mac.MarketingName?

iPhone nano

Crosbie said:
Nano. Like, obviously.
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Seems like everyone forgot about the somewhat recent rumors about a smaller iphone. (Ok, just kidding.)

Maybe apple wants the rumor mill to get up to speed as they want to introduce anything but nobody got a hint or has a clue yet. Total disclosure is bad, but no rumors is even worse.


regards
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I just have Macs, in various sizes. All run on Darwin.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

Could be the iTampon for all i care! I just want my iPhone 5 in June not September damn it!
 
My apps all seem to be showing it (search Anthony Wardley on iTunes to see). They are finance and Australian Tax apps, some universal, some iPhone only so there doesn't seem to be a pattern (maybe all iOS 3.0 +???).

Weird...
 
ix.Mac.MarketingName or iPad2 or Air or Mac Pro?

Guys, which one should I get?

I've been trying to score an iPad2 and now here comes the new ix.Mac.MarketingName, which sounds awesome! So between this and iPad2, ATV2, Air, MBP, iPhone, Mac Pro, Nano and iMac, what should I get?

Mostly I would use this for web surfing and light photo editing, but it also needs to dry laundry and serve as daily transportation for my 8 mile commute. But, I'm worried the new ix.Mac.MarketingName requires Z-rated tires, which are quite expensive. I'm also curious whether, with the right apps, the ix.Mac.MarketingName can serve as a prophylactic or if it's better to have a dedicated device for that.

So, whaddya think? What other ix.Mac.MarketingName rumors have you heard? :apple:
 
Guys, I didn't want to start a new thread, but...

Should I buy the ix.Mac.MarketingName now? I've heard the ix.Mac.MarketingName 2 is going to be much more betterer. Should I buy now or wait? I was waiting for the price to come down, but it hasn't changed in the entire 5 minutes I've known about this product...

Sent by ix.Man.NotVerySerious
 
econgeek said:
It is nothing.

I mean that literally.

There is no fourth product line.

This is simply a bug where the store is trying to look up a product name by key and the product doesn't exist.

Someone set the product list size one greater than it should be, causing the list to include an extra item. But since there is no device category, looking up the MarketingName for that device category fails.
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But the question remains - why is "Mac" in the variable name? On an App Store that doesn't support any Macs.

It could be nothing, a naming convention carried over, but it is odd.
 
It appears only on apps which are in your library......

Perhaps there will be some type of targeted advertising to go along with the rumored free MobileMe? Devices will now be tied to that possibly?

Originally .Mac was MobileMe's domain.
 
NightFox said:
Second, if there was a new device or iOS>OSX functionality on the way, updating the App store to show compatibility would have been one of the very last stages before (or even after) launch. As we've had NO indication or rumours of either of these things being forthcoming, I really can't imagine a major launch by Apple within the next few days.
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I'm going to speculate here. Lion is the eighth release of OS X. Perhaps the ninth release will support touchscreens and iOS apps.

I envision something like the Macbook Air with a touchscreen and reversible hinge (like the early 2000s Windows tablets, but a much cleaner design) that could run OS X and iOS apps. The Air is already not much bigger than an iPad.

Now, if Apple is internally working on something like this, and wanted to test existing apps from the store, then the alpha OS would need to be supported in the store. Of course, Apple probably intended to hide the string that IDs the compatibility, but sometimes mistakes happen.

Or, of course, the whole thing could be an accident/bug and it means nothing at all.
 
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retroneo said:
You don't need Rosetta, iOS is Intel 64 native. You get a copy with Xcode called the Simulator.
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Uh, no. iOS is certainly not x86 native. When you compile for the simulator, XCode compiles it against an x86 SDK. But when you compile to publish, its only compiled in ARM code.

So yeah, you can run the CODE on the simulator, but you can't run the published apps on it.
 
whooleytoo said:
Guys, I didn't want to start a new thread, but...

Should I buy the ix.Mac.MarketingName now? I've heard the ix.Mac.MarketingName 2 is going to be much more betterer. Should I buy now or wait? I was waiting for the price to come down, but it hasn't changed in the entire 5 minutes I've known about this product...

Sent by ix.Man.NotVerySerious
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If it has retina and Thunderbolt, I'm getting first gen. You can always sell it on Craigslist the day before Gen 2 comes out for twice what you paid for it.
 
Do we know how connected the Mac App Store and the iOS App Store are? Maybe they are toying with adding requirements to the Mac App Store and they accidentally also changed the iOS one too? All we have as far as requirements in the Mac App Store at the moment is OS version and they're all pretty much the same since there are only a couple OS revisions that can even run the Mac App Store. This is mostly problematic with games due to the fact that some computers can run 10.6.6 but not the more intensive 3D games.
 
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I'm an iOS dev, and this showed up on my pages. I have no idea what it means, or what this device is, I have not made an update to support a new device, and I doubt other devs have either.

Devs usually never get pre-release access to a new device.
 
Someone at iPhone Dev Forums said that iOS Simulator in Lion will gain ability to download/run apps.

That pretty much means that another "groundbreaking" feature in Lion is ability to run iOS apps (besides iOS Simulator).
 
i = iOS
x = OS X
Mac = Mac
Marketing Name = something they haven't thought of yet (or that violates someone else's trademark)

So it's obviously the hybrid iOS/OS X Mac!
 
The iX part, obviously stands for iDevice, as in what it is saying is name.operating system.the marketing name. A bit like in maths, x is a variable. Likely it is either the apple TV or the Mac app store.
My $0.2
 
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