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WWDC Kicks Off on Monday: Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud
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Apple is 4th with 4.1% of the total share of mobile phones. If it is smart phones then I think its samsung then apple.
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There's no way MobileMe will be rebranded as iCloud. Then our @me.com email addresses won't make much sense anymore, think about it.
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I'll be there - in spirit. Bring on 1pm!
I'll be there - in spirit. Bring on 1pm!
Some of us have still got our @mac.com addresses after .Mac changed to MobileMe.
Yup, still got mine.
I know this is probably stated somewhere else, but what times should I tune into @macrumourslive tomorrow?
So, 1 PM for me! Thanks bra. If my 3GS gets left in the dust I'm going to be so upset. I hate the form factor of the 4, I might go for whatever fullscreen BB Touch comes out.
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.
Every time that Apple doesn't post a live stream, a bunch of us who like watching the video that gets posted later like to not know anything about what is and isn't said during the presentation and watch it once it's posted as if it were live so we get surprised during the keynote in stead of by a third party tweet or something. A few people keep checking if it's posted on apple's site or iTunes that don't care and tell us, and Voidness in the past has written a script so that it notifies us automatically when it's up, without us going to the page and seeing like "ipad 2 announced, watch the video" or in this case "iphone 4s, keynote here" or something. Those of us who stay in the thread talk about anything not related to apple that day, tomorrow, usually previous posts or music/film/general thoughts etc. MR usually hosts one every event on page 2 but I haven't seen it yet in the "mac blog" new section ..."
Exactly the association I made. The iCloud button is essentially a squared iSync button with new decals.
I doubt very much that this a coincidence or laziness on the part of Apple. Syncing is the whole reason for iCloud. So if it's replacing iSync, is it also possible that we might see it replacing some of the iTunes syncing bloat?
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Are you sure about that part?
icloud.com is just too long a word. Also, kinda impractical to buy me.com domain name for millions of dollars only to have it phased out a couple of years later.
Are you sure about that part?
icloud.com is just too long a word. Also, kinda impractical to buy me.com domain name for millions of dollars only to have it phased out a couple of years later.
I dont think Me will be phased out. Its too....new. Granted its got a very bad reputation for being slow, unreliable and buggy...but Apple will want to keep it there otherwise it'll be almost admitting that they failed.
I think iCloud will have only a minor part in the MobileMe arena, and become its own additional product.
Thinking about it, I'd like the One More Thing...to be an updated MBA. Give it HD Facetime, backlit keyboard, sandbridge, better battery and a 3G micro sim bay and dump it into the Macbook space (with similar pricing). The MBA is a an iCloud device in essence due to it's small storage; it should have 3G connectivity...
Are you sure about that part?
icloud.com is just too long a word. Also, kinda impractical to buy me.com domain name for millions of dollars only to have it phased out a couple of years later.
No, I'm not sure. me.com is nice and short. It's quite possible they could put everything under the "iCloud" umbrella, but keep the calendar/webmail stuff as "MobileMe." We'll see tomorrow.
If the MBA were to warrant a mention, it would need a major new feature--it couldn't be just a speed bump like the new MBP. 3G sounds plausible--there's built-in 3G support in Lion now. It would fit in nicely with the iCloud. $599 MBA with 2-year 3G contract would definitely warrant a "one more thing." I wouldn't hold my breath, though.
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.
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I reckon the mini will be silently refreshed this week, like last year.
Perhaps the MBA will be too or they will wait till october like last year, and when intel have the newer lower power sandy bridge chips for ultra portables.
Safari 6 perchance.....no itunes till September, unless they have magically and secretly re-written it and are going to blow us away with it at WWDC, with immediate availabilty.
Perhaps the MBA will be too or they will wait till october like last year, and when intel have the newer lower power sandy bridge chips for ultra portables.
Safari 6 perchance.....no itunes till September, unless they have magically and secretly re-written it and are going to blow us away with it at WWDC, with immediate availabilty.