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am i the only one who doesn't care about icloud? it just doesn't interest me at all really.

i'm sure it'll be cool/useful, but as far as tomorrow goes, i'm way more interested in everything about iOS 5 and learning a release date for that and OSX Lion.
 
am i the only one who doesn't care about icloud? it just doesn't interest me at all really.

i'm sure it'll be cool/useful, but as far as tomorrow goes, i'm way more interested in everything about iOS 5 and learning a release date for that and OSX Lion.

I feel the same but will wait for final judgement after the announcement.
 
am i the only one who doesn't care about icloud? it just doesn't interest me at all really.

i'm sure it'll be cool/useful, but as far as tomorrow goes, i'm way more interested in everything about iOS 5 and learning a release date for that and OSX Lion.

Your not alone. I gotta say, steve jobs makes it sound like the future of computing in the youtube video (link is in the posted story) but right now i really dont have a use for it. I work with large gigabyte files so cloud computing isnt gonna happen for me anytime soon. and im not sure i wanna keep my files in two different locations (ei. personal=cloud and work=local). and i really dont trust my internet service provider with that future. if they could, they'd eventually charge me $100/month just to have access to my data. No thank you.
 
What do you think are the odds of Apple revealing some major UI changes to OSX Lion? From what I've seen with the developer previews there have only been a few minor changes but nothing huge.

I do like Snow Leopard but its looking a little dated and I was hoping Lion would bring on a major change.
 
What do you think are the odds of Apple revealing some major UI changes to OSX Lion? From what I've seen with the developer previews there have only been a few minor changes but nothing huge.

I do like Snow Leopard but its looking a little dated and I was hoping Lion would bring on a major change.
Don't expect any major UI changes until Mac OS 11.
 
What do you think are the odds of Apple revealing some major UI changes to OSX Lion? From what I've seen with the developer previews there have only been a few minor changes but nothing huge.

I do like Snow Leopard but its looking a little dated and I was hoping Lion would bring on a major change.

I think the deve preview is everything we'll see in Lion. Yes, the changes look minor, but the more you use it, the more bigger they seem to be.
 
so some place (maybe this site) pointed to a possible june 14 release for OS X Lion. Either way, that should be coming soon.

However, what is the earliest date we can expect to get iOS 5?
 
why close them?? All it is... is simply a shortcut to recent applications, no reason to close them, unless if a certain app is having a problem,

The task manager bar should really distinguish what's open or not. The behavior of how the OS automatically closes apps is erratic, to say the least. Sometimes I can have up to six or seven apps open at once with no problems, while other times it will close my programs, apparently because I ran out of memory. Also, back on 4.1, FaceTime would ALWAYS BE RUNNING, even though I tried to disable it in Settings, and that's not something I could tell before installing MultiCleaner, a jailbreak utility that removes all closed apps from the task bar.
 
I agree with your reasoning - couple it with the nature of the banner, that is iCloud being roughly equivalent with iOS and OS X, I think it's bigger than MobileMe revamped.

If Add to the banner people like John Gruber being told

Don't think of of iCloud as the new MobileMe; think of iCloud as the new iTunes

Then that makes me think they are talking more about the Media sales platform that iTunes has become of late more than the media player it started life as.
 
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What do you think are the odds of Apple revealing some major UI changes to OSX Lion? From what I've seen with the developer previews there have only been a few minor changes but nothing huge.

I do like Snow Leopard but its looking a little dated and I was hoping Lion would bring on a major change.
I won't consider Mac OS anything more than half-assed until it has a built-in equivalent to Quicksilver. Seriously, clicking on hierarchical folders in the 21st century?
 
MMS is one of the most stupid things there is. Use email on the phone.

Widgets was innovated to OSX 10.4 and later copied to windows/google. No one I know uses widgets on computers. Why is this so important on phones? Can't apps do the same as widgets?

Google has had an easy ride so far. They bought Android. Copied ideas from Apple including cloning the Iphone on Android prototypes. Android 3.x is Googles first own version of Android. So far they have not been able to make a stable release of 3.x.

The interesting thing is that being best does not matter.

In 1980ish: Steve confronted Bill about Microsoft copied Windows from mac prototypes.
Bill: "You are to late"
Steve: "We are better then you. We have better stuff"
Bill: "You don't get it Steve. That does not matter!"
(from the book Fire in the valley)

The point being. Android does not have to be as good as Ios. Since majority of people who use Android never used or will use Ios, they don't care.
Same with PC. People believe that your computer should crash a couple of times per week, and that virus and malware has to exist. They don't understand that it is a Windows problem.

No *nix has had problem with viruses (it is technically impossible to make viruses on *nix since you need be given Root password by the individual user), and malware/scareware has been very limited. Until now: Google Android has had over 350000 infected phones. It took Google to make *nix insecure.

Users with Android have loads of problems that are unheard of in Ios. All the widgets and in elegant multitasking results in 3hour battery time. Solution: Download power management app, disable widgets and multitasking programs.
There are loads of malware in the Google app store. Solution: install firewall on you phone.

Tech geeks think its normal to have to install apps to make your phone work. I call it an un elegant solution.

Android is actually closer to Blackberry OS then it is to iOS. Android is based on a home screen and a pull out App menue with all of the apps and setting listed on it. Yes the first Version of android looked really looked close to the Blackberry and later you will see that it later looks more like iOS. In looks only and that is because in the development cycles they went from a non Touch screen design to the touch screen layout. A low powered device with touch screen is more optimized with a grid layout for easier interactions. That is the closest android is to iOS and from their Android has its pull down Notification menu and widgets and scrolling wallpapers.
 
Apple has no trouble admitting when they failed. Remember the AppleTV 2.0 introduction? I expect when steve introduces iCloud, he will first talk about why MobileMe sucks, and then how iCloud is fixing it.

I hope not. That's rubbing salt in an open wound. Paying customers don't like to hear how a service they have been paying for sucks. Then on top of it, how they are going to fix it and STILL charge you for being a guinea pig. Lol.
 
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