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... your DS is a rinky dink little game player. With a stylus and tiny low res screens.

How does that compete with an iPad?

LOL. Exactly. You made my point. A better more powerful device added a feature that some rinky dink little game player has been doing. Look, I like these features. I do. I think they make the experience better. My original point was that I was disappointed with this conference. I wanted streaming of movies and music. I wanted a better Apple TV experience. I wanted to find out what is happening to my current MobileMe subscription. This felt like a couple of regular press conferences wrapped into one.
 
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WestonHarvey1 said:
Yup. People are wowed by flashy.
Back end stuff is rarely flashy yet is what brings the flash later on.

The ability to write apps for the Mac, iOS, PC - all with seamless cloud storage integration - with just a few API calls. That's amazing. No setting up a bunch of servers on Amazon S3 or Google. I can't wait to dig into this.

No locally saved data in apps to get lost on a backup restore. No making your customers sign up for your apps again and again with multiple passwords.

This is really, really wild, folks. Things are going to change in a big way.

Like I said. Landmark WWDC. No question. Apple just keeps rolling along with the innovations.
 
I am wondering if Apple got the music industry ok with this with the, "Well here's a way to actually get some money from the many people who did illegally download music that you'd never get trying to find and prosecute them all (plus less legal fees too)".
Amusing to say the least.

in theory but I also have tons of songs not in iTunes or even ones you can buy state side.
Same situation so nothing really changes.
 
I'm glad they caught up with other platforms, i was hoping for more innovation/genius but i'll take the good ol transplant/transcribe method regardless. Will use the free side of iCloud but i don't see any justification in paying the $25.

I also think this will be the year i skip an iPhone revision...and maybe even an OS X version too.

But they have not. No Widgets, no separate version of OS for tablets etc.
 
What happens if you pay for the iTunes match, upgrade your songs, download the songs to your device, then stop paying. Do you still get to keep the songs you downloaded?

The keynote slide said 256 DRM Free. You'd also still have the originals in your itunes library that were not matched
 
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Hopefully never.

All modern smartphone platforms today seem to have borrowed one thing or another from the competition.

This. They all copy each other and are equally vulnerable in one way or another. No one is gonna sue.
 
exactly. for everyone else, "sometime" in the fall.

You can get it today if you want, it's an open Beta for the US only.

Available in beta now in the U.S. only and requires iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM model), iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation), iPad, or iPad 2, or a Mac or PC with iTunes 10.3. Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer in the iTunes Store. Download iTunes 10.3 free.
 
The ability to write apps for the Mac, iOS, PC - all with seamless cloud storage integration - with just a few API calls. That's amazing. No setting up a bunch of servers on Amazon S3 or Google. I can't wait to dig into this.

No locally saved data in apps to get lost on a backup restore. No making your customers sign up for your apps again and again with multiple passwords.

This is really, really wild, folks. Things are going to change in a big way.

I wonder about that. If my wife and I both are sharing an app that is storing data in the cloud, whose changes takes precedence?
 
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Like I said. Landmark WWDC. No question. Apple just keeps rolling along with the innovations.

And this is why AAPL is down $4 right now.
 
LOL. Exactly. You made my point. A better more powerful device added a feature that some rinky dink little game player has been doing. Look, I like these features. I do. I think they make the experience better. My original point was that I was disappointed with this conference. I wanted streaming of movies and music. I wanted a better Apple TV experience. I wanted to find out what is happening to my current MobileMe subscription. This felt like a couple of regular press conferences wrapped into one.

But the feature isn't very relevant on a DS. It has extremely narrow scope. In the space of personal computing, this feature has huge consequences.
 
I think most everybody would agree with you... if Apple did not sue just about everybody for "copying" their GUI and features. There is a thing called hypocrisy.

meh. they all copy each other. and frankly I have better things to do with my time than worry about what company is more hypocritical than the next.
 
Itunes Match - $24.99/year to store music you've already have paid for.
Spotify - $120-$180/year to be able to stream 13 million songs and to store 3,300 of them locally for offline listening.

One is the future, the other is clinging to the past.
 
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lilo777 said:
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Like I said. Landmark WWDC. No question. Apple just keeps rolling along with the innovations.

And this is why AAPL is down $4 right now.

It's always down after WWDC.
 
I wonder which out of all the new features is most likely to be the catalyst for a lawsuit, i'd guess the Android notification lockscreen.

Not so much the lockscreen itself (that's one area I'd like to see Android improve on) but the swipe down notification bar is a blatant copy from Android. They didn't even try to hide the fact they ripped it.
 
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06/07/11, the day Steve Jobs arrogance destroyed Apple.

Remember the date people.

What a colossal fail.
 
I wonder about that. If my wife and I both are sharing an app that is storing data in the cloud, whose changes takes precedence?

It's going to be based on your iTunes login from what I gather. Unless they've included some kind of multiuser capabilities I'd imagine it's going to stick with the one device, one user concept.

We'll have to see.
 
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Wireless syncing in iOS 5 was enough to make me happy.

Some cool other features as well.

A good solid keynote I thought.
 
But they have not. No Widgets, no separate version of OS for tablets etc.

Those were never gonna happen. One OS for all devices is the way it should be which is why Google/MS are all going this way. It's just easier to manage. Widgets is just not in iOS's DNA.
 
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