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WWDC 2007 Keynote Scheduled: Monday, June 11th 2007
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I'm excited to see if they added any notable features to the iPhone. My current phone is held together by duct tape. No joke.
Saliva glands acting up...
hmmm...almost makes me want to wait for June. Nah, I'll just do what many have said in the plethora of "Should I wait or should I buy" threads/posts. I'll buy my MBP now and then sell it next year after the Penryn updates have been made (hopefully the MBPs will retain their value fairly well as their predecessors have up till now). At least I'll finally have a Mactop!!
jdo
(actually, I'm fishing for responses trying to convince me otherwise
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EDIT: Hey, where's my signature??? It should read...
(The Original) Mac Mini 1.42GHzPowerPC G4
1GB RAM 80Gb HD
ViewSonic PS790 CRT 19"
(soon to be Samsung941BW 19" Widescreen LCD $164.99 @ newegg.com)
hmmm...almost makes me want to wait for June. Nah, I'll just do what many have said in the plethora of "Should I wait or should I buy" threads/posts. I'll buy my MBP now and then sell it next year after the Penryn updates have been made (hopefully the MBPs will retain their value fairly well as their predecessors have up till now). At least I'll finally have a Mactop!!
jdo
(actually, I'm fishing for responses trying to convince me otherwise
)EDIT: Hey, where's my signature??? It should read...
(The Original) Mac Mini 1.42GHzPowerPC G4
1GB RAM 80Gb HD
ViewSonic PS790 CRT 19"
(soon to be Samsung941BW 19" Widescreen LCD $164.99 @ newegg.com)
It wouldn't do you any good. It's not like the beta will be released to the public for you to take advantage of it. If you want Leopard, you'll have to wait until September at the earliest (assuming it really does take until October to deliver).
There will be other people present, along with a number of demos, like nearly any other WWDC keynote, so it won't be a straight run of Steve Jobs talking. The three-hour block is much bigger than the usual schedule (which includes a two-hour block). This probably means lots more demo time, or a particularly large number of announcements (or just a devious ploy to make people excited about the event). I'm inclined to believe it's a combination of the three.
So.. where's the widget?
yeh - i don't really use dashboard that much... please make it worth it.
2 hours is way too much. I agree with the guys who said it's a time slot.
Lets hope it will be a great day for the Mac Family.
Lets hope it will be a great day for the Mac Family.
Remember that San Francisco is also in daylight savings, so it's actually -7 GMT in the summer. Timeanddate.com gives the times for around the world.
Wow
Well, this is pretty HUGE.
If Apple can Add Print SWOP certification to the new Monitor needed to display this stuff and fine tune the gamut for broadcast video pros as well, then this new monitor is going to be the rage. Even if they can't stabilize the color to SWOP certification in the first monitor release it will still be a worthy buy --- can you imagine "images that resemble 175LPI Magazine printing?
I can.
I'll buy this monitor with Leopard even if I have to use it next to a standard Apple 23 or 30 older SWOP monitor for my print color critical work.
This will be a great evolution.
Well, this is pretty HUGE.
If Apple can Add Print SWOP certification to the new Monitor needed to display this stuff and fine tune the gamut for broadcast video pros as well, then this new monitor is going to be the rage. Even if they can't stabilize the color to SWOP certification in the first monitor release it will still be a worthy buy --- can you imagine "images that resemble 175LPI Magazine printing?
I can.
I'll buy this monitor with Leopard even if I have to use it next to a standard Apple 23 or 30 older SWOP monitor for my print color critical work.
This will be a great evolution.
A side note: A while ago I heard some chat here about how the current display's of all Apple products were already capable of delivering a higher ppi than 72, that it was like the Wireless situation (meaning: it was already capable of something better but it needed to be activated with a firmware update). I don't know, maybe I'm wrong or just dreamt this, but c'mon, I bought a 24 Incher in November, it would be a shame to not be able to enjoy a higher pixel per inch rate.
Right now I couldn't care less about hardware upgrades because I'm not in the market for a computer still, I'm waiting to see the so called "secret features" about Leopard that Apple is holding so close and maybe some iLife, touchscreen iPods (yeah right)
Again, where's that widget?
Right now I couldn't care less about hardware upgrades because I'm not in the market for a computer
still, I'm waiting to see the so called "secret features" about Leopard that Apple is holding so close and maybe some iLife, touchscreen iPods (yeah right) Again, where's that widget?
A side note: A while ago I heard some chat here about how the current display's of all Apple products were already capable of delivering a higher ppi than 72, that it was like the Wireless situation (meaning: it was already capable of something better but it needed to be activated with a firmware update). I don't know, maybe I'm wrong or just dreamt this, but c'mon, I bought a 24 Incher in November, it would be a shame to not be able to enjoy a higher pixel per inch rate.
Right now I couldn't care less about hardware upgrades because I'm not in the market for a computer
Again, where's that widget?
Resolution independence won't require a new monitor, it will just work better on a high res monitor, so you can't see the individual pixels.
And if you are trying to say that Apple's monitors are actually higher resolution than they advertise them, I say no way. Screens look the best running at their native resolution, and anything else just looks blurry. Running a screen at a lower res than it actually is would be a big no-no.
Apple Statement
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We cant wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
I wouldn't let the iPhone release deter your purchase of a phone if your current one is in bad condition. Apple engineers good products, but the first versions of new stuff usually has a lot of glitches that gets fixed in the next rev, and Apple will do very little to help you fix your current version. Warrantee and Apple care cover manufacturing problems. On Rev-1 products a lot of the problems are Engineering problems. I got a new phone about a month ago knowing the iPhone will be out soon. But I think Ill be much Happier if I got a new iPhone in 2 years (if the iPhone makes it)
I'll guess they'll wait for Leopard, but it's possible. By nature it exposes many 10.5 API's which will likely remain on non-disclosure until Leopard ships. The other question is whether the new XCode/ObjC features will require Leopard to run any compiled apps or if they'll release a 10.4.10 to do so. My guess is they will release a 10.4.10 (or something similar), not with all the APIs but at least a few, plus support for the new language setup.
I don't see why. Santa Rosa notebooks are meant to start shipping in late June. Apple was one of the first to have Core Duo laptops, so I am fulling expecting them to announce new MacBook Pros then (although they probably won't ship for a few weeks after the event).
I'll be really pissed if that stupid phone takes up 75% of the time devoted to the keynote.
Looking forward to hearing about Leopard and the rest of the software suite. Also hopefully they release new Macs and iPods.
Looking forward to hearing about Leopard and the rest of the software suite. Also hopefully they release new Macs and iPods.
My guess is that they will open a developer's platform for it, and they probably will spend a lot of time talking about it.
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I love how all the bloggers and other cell related people complain that the iPhone won't have third party apps, but do you think Symbian, Windows Mobile, Danger OS, BlackBerry OS, or Palm OS had any third pary apps on Day One??? They also don't understand that Apple is a much more mysterious company than HTC for example, and that Apple may say one thing, but really will do the opposite later just to fool people.
Sorry, that didn't really have anything to do with anything, but It's been on my mind for a while.
I can't speak for others, but Palm had third-party developers seriously in mind from day one. I bought a Palm Pilot 5000 shrink-wrapped with Codewarrior for Palm at a MacWorld essentially at the product's intro. Cost was equal or even a little less than the Palm Pilot alone. They recognized the need for third-party development and did quite a bit to help it along. And a little bonus - development was on Macs only for the first year or two.
If Steve spends more than a minute on the iPhone without announcing true development capability (not just widgets) he might seriously be boo'd. I'm not joking. That'll be a room full of developers. They want to write code.
Or something completely different
...One more thing:
Apple is announcing today that it has completed its purchase of Dell. In this deal, we have agreed to:
Oh and look under your seats, there's a check for $4.78 from the sale -- which should be enough for a coke and a hot dog at the concession stand outside.
...One more thing:
Apple is announcing today that it has completed its purchase of Dell. In this deal, we have agreed to:
- Retain Michael Dell who will now work in our Support department supporting remaining Quadra 610 users who have the PC Compatibility Card.
- Do the responsible thing and sell all of its assets.
Oh and look under your seats, there's a check for $4.78 from the sale -- which should be enough for a coke and a hot dog at the concession stand outside.
Some thoughts.
Of course all attendees will get a copy of the feature complete buggy as hell beta. Apple may offer it for sale to the general public as a beta at that point like that did with 10.0
New monitors with higher resolution.
iPhones of course with perhaps the missing app. I doubt they will have a dev kit for it though.
4 cores in macbook pros. 4 cores standard in all the Mac Pros.
iLife leopard. New iCal, iMovie, frontrow, iTunes adds in the ability to rip DVD's to quicktime files or optionally extract video segments as h264.
iWork. Adds in spreadsheet and database application. Database app is a lightweight db like access. Also has ability to link into mySQL backend for shared data.
This is just my guesses. The longer keynote is understandable. We were cheated last year.
Of course all attendees will get a copy of the feature complete buggy as hell beta. Apple may offer it for sale to the general public as a beta at that point like that did with 10.0
New monitors with higher resolution.
iPhones of course with perhaps the missing app. I doubt they will have a dev kit for it though.
4 cores in macbook pros. 4 cores standard in all the Mac Pros.
iLife leopard. New iCal, iMovie, frontrow, iTunes adds in the ability to rip DVD's to quicktime files or optionally extract video segments as h264.
iWork. Adds in spreadsheet and database application. Database app is a lightweight db like access. Also has ability to link into mySQL backend for shared data.
This is just my guesses. The longer keynote is understandable. We were cheated last year.