WWDC 2009 Banners: 'One Year Later, Light-Years Ahead'

[puffnstuff]

I see a long keynote about how great the app store is and not a lot else. They'll give us some release dates, but there will be nothing groundbreaking this year (most likely).

You have common sense. Not many people have that around here so I commend you.

 

[Truffy]

Not only

The iPhone will clearly take center stage

But also

a keynote address to be given by Phil Schiller

Could it get any more exciting than this?

 

[Tallest Skil]

I see a long keynote about how great the app store is and not a lot else. They'll give us some release dates, but there will be nothing groundbreaking this year (most likely).

I see 80% App Store, 2% snippet at the end for Snow Leopard release date, everyone there gets a near-Gold-Master copy, etc...

10% how well we've been doing (at the beginning), and either 7% One More Thing and 1% musical guest or just seven more percent App Store.

 

[Demosthenes427]

Don't forget the 5 minutes they'll spend going, "Oh, this is when iPhone 3.0 is coming out. Go download it."

 

[nateco]

Well Apple has a major problem on the horizon and that's Windows 7. I've been using it for about a month now in Bootcamp and it makes OS X look sick (in fact I'm posting this using it now with Firefox). It is fast, reliable, easy to use and works great. If Apple doesn't come out with Snow Leopard soon and if it isn't competitive with OS X in features and appearance, they've lost all the advantage they had over Vista. I also think the iPhone is last year's product, it's about run its gamut IMO. Making a big deal over cut and paste and even an improved camera is rather sad IMO. They need to come out with something big. If no new Mac hardware and if Snow Leopard is a disappointment (the features I've seen so far seem really boring) then Apple is going to be in for a hard time this Christmas with Win 7 selling like hotcakes. Whatever happened to the innovative Apple of a few years ago?

I think you're making things up..or you're a windows user trying to hype win 7.

I tried win7 on my mac...it's still an ugly, convoluted piece of crap.



I'm not sure what all the hype is about..it still sucks.

 

[MH01]

So, Windows 7 "works great" because it's "fast, reliable"... But Snow Leopard, which has speed and reliability as its main focus, is "really boring"?

Did you just compare Windows 7 RC1, which people can download and run, to Snow leopard? I think Windows 7 kinda wins right now based on the pure fact that it exists and people are using it. Until I see SL I will hold my judgement on speed and reliability.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I think you're making things up..or you're a windows user trying to hype win 7.

I tried win7 on my mac...it's still an ugly, convoluted piece of crap.

I'm not sure what all the hype is about..it still sucks.

I'm still using your quote as a siggie!

Although I will respectfully disagree with you there. I've been using Windows 7 on my Macbook and it runs much better than Vista and, in some cases, Leopard.

 

[shayneomack20]

I don't know if somebody else might've suggested it, but the banner could be signifying the reason why Apple needed a new server farm. Maybe they will sell video's via iTunes on the iPhone/iPod touch. I know it takes a lot of bandwidth but it is still a possibility.

 

[autrefois]

Apple, can we please have some news about Snow Leopard at WWDC? As others have pointed out, Apple may actually look *behind* Windows unless they can at least give some indication of how Snow Leopard is doing. If as expected there aren't going to be a lot of new bells and whistles for the average user in Snow Leopard, Apple needs to at least deliver on its promise of big maintenance/under-the-hood improvements over Leopard.

While iPhone is very important, and as an iPhone owner I welcome iPhone news (in moderation), it's true that (traditional) computers still make the world go round. It would be sad to see the trend towards increased Mac market share reversed when Windows 7 comes out just because Apple has been focusing so much of its time on iPhone.

I think the Banner refers to "Copy and paste", I am excited....

Best quote of the thread, and no one commented on it yet!

They are technically wrong if you prescribe to the notion that one cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

I think that's the big announcement for WWDC: breaking the speed-of-light barrier. Steve Jobs was gone for months because he was traveling the furthest reaches of the galaxy at faster-than-speed-of-light speeds.

Because your mass would become infinite, which can't happen.

Sounds like a technical challenge to overcome. Anything can happen in the RDF.

 

[pfml07]

Oh Dear

Windows 7 doesn't look much different from vista. Mac is light years ahead on design and operating system stability....and phones....and mp3 players....sorry Microsoft....

 

[anti-microsoft]

Macs are doing OK at the moment and are just about perfect as they are. That's why the attention is on the iPhone. It still has some issues that need to be fixed and some basic functions that need to be added. So at the moment that's what we're going to get for a while...

If they o release a Mac App Store I doubt they'll do it through iTunes. Now that I think about it... Apple should change the iTunes name to something different. Because now it isn't only for tunes, it's for music, music videos, movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Apps, iPod Games, Educational content...
The Mac App Store will be online and part of the Apple Online Store if they release one...

Ams.

 

[nateco]

I'm still using your quote as a siggie!

Although I will respectfully disagree with you there. I've been using Windows 7 on my Macbook and it runs much better than Vista and, in some cases, Leopard.

haha..I post once a year and you have me sig'ed.

Windows 7 is getting more mac-ish...the task bar is getting closer to the dock and windows explorer is turning into finder.

I liked win7 until I actually tried to do anything...soon as you get into control panel, you know it's still windows.

 

[SwiftLives]

If there are any Mac updates, they'll be simple speed bumps and publicized via press release in the weeks following WWDC. Even if the MacBook Air gets built in 3G connectivity, I don't expect a media event for it.

As much as I want to be wrong, I'm not getting my hopes up for any new hardware outside of the new iPhone at the keynote.

 

[Voidness]

GOD everybody LOVES saying that as soon as they get through science in junior high!!

Yet many people still don't know that. Also, it appears that you didn't finish reading my post:

So, if one year later Apple is light years ahead, does that mean Apple discovered faster-than-light travel? That would be awesome.

Yes, I know the sentence on the poster means "We've come a long way since last year". I just found the pun funny and joked about it. Why did you have to take my post so literally?

(and yes, I finished junior high light years ago , I'm starting grad school next summer)

 

[gibbz]

Because your mass would become infinite, which can't happen.

Sounds like a technical challenge to overcome. Anything can happen in the RDF.

Holy crap, what was I thinking. I apologize everyone.

Apple is located at "1 Infinite Loop"

Thus they have no problem with their mass becoming infinity, thus they CAN travel faster than the speed of light, thus they could have traveled light years in one Julian year.

 

[cbw87]

Because your mass would become infinite, which can't happen.

Ahh, I learned something!

Now onto WWDC, do you think there is any chance OS 3.0 gets released during the conference? Or will they again tie it to a hardware release? I tend to think that all signs are pointing to a release before the updated iPhone.

I think you're dead right. This has the advantages of testing e.g. push in advance on a huge scale, ironing out any bugs etc, to prevent meltdown and bad press when they launch the new hardware. iTunes 8.2 and conclusion of push testing points to this, plus the lack of new 3.0 betas.

Also gives them something to hit Palm with and then a double-whammy when the hardware comes out, and it has the slightly less tangible benefit of gently disassociating OS updates and iPhone hardware releases, which may be necessary should Apple wish to release off-step (from the yearly cycle) updates in future.

PS: I'm sure the marketing guys are happy: right or wrong, their poster certainly got people talking!

 

[Master Chief]

Seriously, neither Snow Leopard nor iPhone (OS 3.0) is 'Light-Years Ahead' so it has to be something else.

A new update to the iTunes store? Nah, that just wouldn't qualify for their use of 'Light-Years Ahead'.

Oh, maybe it is just the "light" part of it, as in... OLED displays?

Whatever it might be, good or bad, I prolly need it anyway.

p.s. iTunes 8.2.1 is baking in the sun already. Just wait and see

 

[puffnstuff]

Macs are doing OK at the moment

Apple doesn't have variety like they had in the good ol' days.

Before you could get a range of notebook sizes from 12"-17".

 

[FoxyKaye]

If we don't get a Snow Leopard demo I'm gonna rage

Ayup. A demo, release date, and hopefully a product not still in "public Beta" when it finally goes on sale.

Mac AppStore, maybe?

I thought that might be fun as well - either apps built explicitly for OS X, or maybe the ability to run iPhone apps in Snow Leopard. Seems a bit of a stretch, but there's a bunch of iPhone apps that could easily cross over to the desktop/laptop without much effort.

 

[FF_productions]

Ugh, If I have to sit through an entire iPhone keynote one more freaken' time..

 

[polaris20]

Well Apple has a major problem on the horizon and that's Windows 7. I've been using it for about a month now in Bootcamp and it makes OS X look sick (in fact I'm posting this using it now with Firefox). It is fast, reliable, easy to use and works great. If Apple doesn't come out with Snow Leopard soon and if it isn't competitive with OS X in features and appearance, they've lost all the advantage they had over Vista. I also think the iPhone is last year's product, it's about run its gamut IMO. Making a big deal over cut and paste and even an improved camera is rather sad IMO. They need to come out with something big. If no new Mac hardware and if Snow Leopard is a disappointment (the features I've seen so far seem really boring) then Apple is going to be in for a hard time this Christmas with Win 7 selling like hotcakes. Whatever happened to the innovative Apple of a few years ago?

I've been running Windows 7 since February, and it's a great OS. However it is not faster than Leopard, and it's not more stable. It's pretty much the same. It comes down to which workflow you like better.

I don't think Apple is in trouble, any more than it has been when 2000 came out, XP came out, etc.

Everytime there's a new Windows OS, everyone says Apple is in trouble. Everytime there's a new Apple OS, they say Windows is in trouble.

Status quo is somehow maintained.

 

[applecultvictim]

But the banner doesn't make any sense. A year is a unit of time, a light year is a unit of distance. So, if one year later Apple is light years ahead, does that mean Apple discovered faster-than-light travel? That would be awesome.

Faster than light travel? Who knows they might have discovered it!

To me this is a great slogan, not for the too literally minded though, but still great!

 

[smiddlehurst]

I love my iPhone but...

I want Apple to talk about Apple computers. Unfortunately the iPhone is paying the bills so we are stuck with this sh*t now. Every event seems to include a bunch of iPhone BS that doesn't amount to anything.

I've spent the last two months reading about Windows 7 they've blitzed the media with coverage of it. Apple seems to have pushed Snow Leopard to the back burner, kinda like Leopard was pushed back for the original iPhone.

Hope you'll forgive me pulling this up as an example but I am so sick of complaints about this.

The simple fact of the matter is this: an OS revision no longer sells computers to any but the geeky. Apple have made the inroads they have in the PC space by a combination of good looking hardware, word of mouth and Microsoft dropping the ball. Most users won't really care about 10.6 unless it looks and feels radically different which it likely won't. Users may or may not upgrade but, again, outside of that core geek demographic, most will do so simply to have the latest shiny software regardless of the feature list. This will be the start of the hype but it's also NOT a core feature of Apple's marketing. Those that need to know will have been following the dev builds anyway. The only reason Windows 7 is getting pushed so hard is because of the PR disaster that was Vista.

The iPhone, by contrast, is probably the fastest growing platform in the world at the moment and one with a LOT of developer attention. It's the hot consumer item that's redefined mobile phones in a lot of ways. Of COURSE they're gonna focus on it, especially given the changes coming up in version 3 of the OS.

Sorry folks, but geek desires need to be balanced against practical considerations and I'm amazed how often that doesn't happen in the Apple world.

 

[WhySoSerious]

maybe the "light years ahead" is hinting at the TABLET. considering how apple criticized past and current netbooks...and how they would never make something so clunky. maybe, just maybe, the banner is hinting that they have progressed SO FAR in just 1 year with a new tablet device that is light years beyond all the other netbooks out now. then they also put images of all these confetti apps on the banner to symbolize the app store being used with the new tablet.

that's my guess. call vegas and put $50 on a tablet announcement.

so let it be written, so let it be done.

 

[applecultvictim]

maybe the "light years ahead" is hinting at the TABLET. considering how apple criticized past and current netbooks...and how they would never make something so clunky. maybe, just maybe, the banner is hinting that they have progressed SO FAR in just 1 year with a new tablet device that is light years beyond all the other netbooks out now. then they also put images of all these confetti apps on the banner to symbolize the app store being used with the new tablet.

that's my guess. call vegas and put $50 on a tablet announcement.

so let it be written, so let it be done.

You heard it first from dallas, tx! That would be really sweet buddy! And it would blow everyone out of the water.