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WWDC 2013 Rumor Roundup: iOS 7, OS X 10.9, iRadio, and New Macs

matty.p said:
If Apple can somehow make a competitive Pandora (less/no ads plus better skipping) it could be a huge hit with a big segment of the population. If they in the future can couple that with a subscription service it would be unbeatable.
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Probably not less ads. (unless Apple can dramatically increase the ad effectiveness) Someone has to pay somehow exchange either money or time spent listening to ads.

Reportedly the problem has been with Apple wanting to allow more control over bypassing stuff publishers want stuffed into play lists ( has to do with control breadth of listening. )

I suspect Apple isn't going to be as interested in subscription as much as folks actually buying more. Subscribers who just want to play the same top 40 songs over and over again to be removed from ads/subscription path into ownership over time.

If it is just freeloaders who want to freeload on music , blow off the ads, and not buy much of anything (Music or otherwise) then they'll shut it down eventually.
 
Why do the MR editors not see that the 'claimed alpha leak' is a load of crap? Look at the icons. They are wonky, nothing event remotely aligns with the display for goodness sake.

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gto55 said:
will they update the apple TV ?
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Doubt it. They have nothing significant to add to it right now.
 
I've listed my Macbook and Macbook pro for trade through apples trade in program and got a combined $400.00....a little disappointed about that but I will def be picking up a new MBP if announced to replace those two...
 
you and me both!

abz1981 said:
I really wish they introduce the Iwatch. I want one now :)
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baby, this gurl wants apple to become a jewelry brand too and come out with a sweet aluminum, white coated necklace with fiber optics, displaying time and date projected onto my husbands leather jacket... etc..

apple is so good at creating a big stir and huge excitement over tiny updates haven't you noticed? so amazing. they are gurus of mutli-national business for sure.

respect!
 
deconstruct60 said:
Never going to happen because it isn't safe. Windows complains also, just not as loudly. The file systems all keep a cached metadata and possibly file data. An explicit "unmount" process is necessary to make sure everything is flushed to where it is suppose to be on the disk and a sanity check to make sure aren't walking away with an open file.

It is a bad practice. There is very little long term upside in encouraging people to do that.
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That may be true (and I always eject properly) but OS X designers and engineers should do a working lunch about this to solve this slightly usability problem. As it is pertains to this feature, the perception is that Mac is a nag and Windows is easy.

I wish that Mac OS staff spent time on background features like this. The sort of thing that adds up to "it just works."

My suggestions:
• have a safe eject mode - long press on eject or power key will temporarily prepare all external media for ejecting, when an icon indicates it's safe you yank out any cables and drives.
•*time machine menu needs to have a disconnect/eject menu item, disconnect/eject after backup. Time machine needs to have a preference setting to allow a one time backup and then disconnect/eject (this is my general usage of my backups - I want to backup and then disconnect ASAP)
• thumbdrives or usb ports with eject hardkeys or capacitive button so they sense or can be signaled that they are about to be disconnected (I don't hold out hope for this)
 
10.9 Sabertooth ... Because the Mac is extinct.
 

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Nightarchaon said:
But will OS X.9 finally let me do something windows has been able to do now for ages, unplug a USB drive without freaking out about me "ejecting" it safely first !!
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MacOSX is a version of Unix, and uses the same principles as Unix/Linux.

Before disconnecting devices, you must unmount them first. This is similar to "Safely Remove" in Windows in that the device won't unmount until data is finished being written to the device, or until other programs are finished using it. This applies to all types of storage devices, including flash drives, flash cards, external hard drives, ipods and other media players, and even remote storage like Samba or NFS shares.

The Mac is reminding you that if you remove things without unmounting them, someday you might lose data.
 
runeapple said:
I think it's cool that MMXIII as well of roman numerals is also a list of everything to be announced.

M - Macbook Air
M - Macbook Pro
X - OSX
I - iOS iPhone/iPod
I - iOS iPad
I - iOS Apple TV

Now that is overlooking it to an extreme - in all seriousness I can't find any real hints from the banners :(
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M: MacBook Air
M: MacBook Pro
X: OS X
I: iOS
I: iRadio
I: iBooks?
 
drblank said:
Maybe Apple is waiting to integrate Thunderbolt 2 when Intel releases it later this year?
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If they don't announce 'something for the Pros' at WWDC, especially after discontinuing it in Europe, then I think most people will assume that the Pro is dead and vote with their feet.

Its tough luck for the people who actually need the Pro features, but they are a diminishing pool as laptops and SFFs get more powerful and serious number-crunching gradually moves to the cloud and/or specialised GPU-based systems - Apple doesn't need them. (It doesn't help that Adobe is trying its best to turn Creative Suite into something that only makes financial sense for corporates).
 
Back in April, Daring Fireball's John Gruber reported that with iOS 7 having been running behind schedule, Apple had been pulling engineers from OS X 10.9 in order to assist with the iOS work
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This is ridiculous. The same thing happened with Leopard in 2007 as the OS X engineers were pulled to work on iOS development for the iPhone launch. Apple needs to hire more engineers, there is no reason a multi-billion dollar company with enormous cash reserves cannot bring in more engineers. With growth comes demand. The "Jobsonian" policy of having a small, tight knit, interchangeable engineering group falls short with Apple's demands. It shouldn't be difficult in training new hires, I'm sure they can afford to use a few engineers to assist in training a lot more needed.
 
spiderman0616 said:
I don't love the idea of not owning my music either, which is why I haven't ponied up for any of these services yet. But I have a feeling Apple will be the company that finally causes me to take the leap. You can't argue with their selection!
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The point of this service would not be to abandon the model of downloading and owning MP3's in favor of the radio model. The radio model is to discover music and stimulate buying behaviour. In addition, intermediate ads will ensure revenue from "radio only" consumers.

I have bought a lot of music after I heard it first on spottily. I would love to ditch Spotify in favor of a completely integrated iTunes solution where I can discover music and choose to own it.
 
bumblebritches5 said:
Except that my Macbook uses over 3GB after a reboot, while my windows media server uses just 1...

Hell, Kernel task uses 1.66GB on it's own.
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I don't think you understand how memory allocation works in modern computing. Process can allocate far more memory than they are actively using. Also, OS X uses real RAM instead of disk swapping for performance. Moving application memory on and off the hard disk is very time intensive.

As far iOS versus Android, I can tell you that iOS uses memory very sparingly. iOS is built on Objective-C which is nearly as bare metal as you can get without going to an assembly language. Java needs to maintain it's own VM which uses more RAM and does so less efficiently through the use of garbage collection. If iOS runs out of memory, its most likely due to a poorly coded app that is not managing memory.
 
rmwebs said:
Why do the MR editors not see that the 'claimed alpha leak' is a load of crap? Look at the icons. They are wonky, nothing event remotely aligns with the display for goodness sake.
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A prior rumor noted that devices running iOS 7 beta were required to have privacy screen overlays. Gonna look like crap from some angles then, and a polarized camera filter might just make it look even more screwy.

This is a case where the fact that the image is so bad amounts to evidence it's real: nobody faking such a photo would think of making it look so awful in such a strange way. Typically such bizarreness (taken as proof of malice by conspiracy theorists) is really quite reasonable/natural when you understand what is actually happening; just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's a fake.
 
It's about time Apple has a compete makeover of iOS. I would love to see a version of iOS that takes advantage of the larger screen/res of the iPad. How about a cover flow for multitasking or expanded use of the notification center pulldown? Like having quick toggles thrown in for example. I would kill to see some widgets as well, the extra home screen space the iPad has gets real boring with just icons lined up.
 
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