With some 24 hours until Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to kick off Macworld Expo, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple’s anticipated announcements.
I’m a mac user and I don’t find these predictions special at all. We need some 3rd party announcements like in software. Apple continues to satisfy home users and teenagers with hardware and software, but Pro-users need it too. I don’t see that happening though, sadly. Adobe has been the bright spot though with the announcement of Premiere Pro coming soon to OS X again, but Apple needs to do more on the Pro front.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/wsj-reports-apple-and-cingular-l…
These rumor mills are becoming a PR circus, stirring up anticipation over claims which usually end up being only 30% true. The products and strategies revealed at the keynotes (by both Apple and MS) really do not warrant the buzz surrounding them. They are only consumer products, not the cure for cancer nor a plan for ending poverty.
Is it me, or is osnews starting to become like digg? Overrun by pointless Apple related crap… When an Apple keynote does go live, feel free to report on it, but why this cheerleading? Who cares about rumors regarding the new iShit?
Just look at the diction within the article:
“With some 24 hours until Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Moscone Center…”
“Apple is poised to rock the consumer electronics world tomorrow”
This is so lame… I would expect digg to engage in this kind of stupidity, but not osnews.
@wintermute
Who cares about rumors regarding the new iShit?
Apple’s known to set new trend in the Computer industry. Apple takes risks (Floppies, USB, Firewire, MacOS X, etc…) You will never see such behaviour from MS nor OSS camps.
Let’s just say that if Jobs announces an “iPhone” tomorrow there will be a lot of people who will be crapping their pants in fear.
And quite frankly, I am very curious as to what are the Leopard’s top secret features.
Let’s just say that if Jobs announces an “iPhone” tomorrow there will be a lot of people who will be crapping their pants in fear.
There will indeed. Many of them will be Apple shareholders. Quite right too!
But why report rumors? Why not wait 24 hours and just report what happened. That is after all what people are interested in. I want to know what apple actually will release, not what some random fanboy hopes they might release.
But why report rumors? Why not wait 24 hours and just report what happened. That is after all what people are interested in. I want to know what apple actually will release, not what some random fanboy hopes they might release.
I know this might sound a little crazy, but, you know, you know that you do not have to read newsitems, right? It might come as a shock to you, but the internet allows you to skip things you are not interested in.
I hope you will survive the shock from reading this comment. I’ll be sure to send you a get-well-soon card.
Apple takess risks
You need to start sharing your stash, especially considering I am dry at the moment.
Apple doesn’t take risks, just look at the interface of OS X. It’s basically same shit as windows just with more eye candy and some differences from windows. It does not represent a radical departure from typical UI design. While I don’t recommend change for the sake of change, they could have at least conducted some usability studies and tried something new (aren’t they supposed to be different from MS?). And I am talking radically different UI that will make current UI design seem like a joke.
Apple takes risks (Floppies, USB, Firewire, MacOS X, etc…)
Floppies? Are you talking about the introduction of floppies in Apple II? How was that a risk? I really don’t get your argument… Same applies to USB/Firewire. OS X was not really a risk, arguably it does not really represent a paradigm shift in OS/UI design. Plus Apple ability to control the hardware that their OS runs on makes such a change a lot less risky.
You will never see such behavior from MS nor OSS camps.
OSS and MS are primarily involved in software, so hardware risks/experiments are kind of limited (for an example of risky innovation think of AMD decision to introduce consumer level 64bit processors, now thats a innovation based risk, not introducing floppies). I don’t know about MS, but you obviously don’t jack shit about OSS culture/software. While current OSS culture has a whole range of drawbacks, not experimenting with every aspect of software imaginable is not one of them. Think of the Suse start menu, Mezzo desktop, plasma, Gobolinux. OSS is all about making conceptual software… That’s the reason the GPL exists, so people can tinker with software to try new approaches, not to be forced to use the so called ‘innovative’ products by MS and Apple.
Your dedication to Apple is fascinating. The kind of words that you use in your post makes it seem as if you are a hopeless fanboy.
@Wintermute
Apple doesn’t take risks, just look at the interface of OS X. It’s basically same
Apple did take a major risk. They canned their MacOS UI to have it replaced with the one from NeXT. Apple could have had major loss of it’s loyal userbase. Apple’s gamble paid off.
Floppies? Are you talking about the introduction of floppies in Apple II?
I was talking about the removal of the disk drive. Firewire didn’t fare so well but USB did become universal. Look at how long it took for manufacturers to ship USB keyb/mouse with their PCs. Apple went that direction on the first day of the iMac. Apple pushed LCDs on every PC line while everybody was messing around with CRTs. Guess who pushed Widescreen first? WIFI? Who pushed for a decent internet music store?
OSS and MS are primarily involved in software, so hardware risks/experiments are kind of limited (for an example of risky innovation think of AMD decision to introduce consumer level 64bit processors, now thats a innovation based risk, not introducing floppies). I don’t know about MS,…
AMD’s decision to introduce consumer level 64-bit processors isn’t an innovation other than the usual marketing mumbo jumbo. It was a risk.
There is nothing in the OSS community to rave about other than them being “free.” The risks they take are reverse-engineering software and working on something that might be a success. But then so do most closed source devs. Mezzo desktop works like an enhanced DeskMate from the Tandy era. I have tried it already.
Your dedication to Apple is fascinating. The kind of words that you use in your post makes it seem as if you are a hopeless fanboy.
Nope. While I have tremendous respect for Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. But I am not interested in using MacOS X at all. I hate the Finder and the Dock. I don’t buy medialess songs. I am a gamer. Apple doesn’t even have a PC in my range. But I am interested in seeing where the industry is going next and Apple is where to look at not Microsoft nor the OSS folks.
Who cares about rumors regarding the new iShit?
Clearly you don’t. Fortunately this site caters to more people than just yourself.
Edited 2007-01-09 05:10
I don’t know, as far as I remember this place is called osnews.com. Personally I would rather read a status update about Haiku, or an article on some interesting new UI or some new approach to designing an OS. I mean, I don’t mind reviews of Apple’s products and article about their OS, but I don’t see how random speculation about a bunch of Apple products is relevant for this site…
I don’t know, personally I would prefer if this place stayed objective and actually had some focus on OS/technology. But judging from Thom’s bias, I should probably crap like this to be posted.
I know bashing computer companies is the cool thing to do in the tech world, but seriously what’s the big deal about posting some speculation? It happens EVERY year during the week before Macworld and WWDC. It’s something that most Mac fans seem to enjoy. What’s a little harmless fun?
Edited 2007-01-09 07:37
I know bashing computer companies is the cool thing to do in the tech world, but seriously what’s the big deal about posting some speculation? It happens EVERY year during the week before Macworld and WWDC. It’s something that most Mac fans seem to enjoy. What’s a little harmless fun?
It offends him because he is insecure. Clearly a mac-owner beat him up and stole his girlfriend once.
I believe the chance some major change to the Mac Pro is announced is higher than 65%.
Also there is a high chance (I believe) that we can expect other major hardware upgrades, especially a core 2 duo Mini.
Also there is a high chance (I believe) that we can expect other major hardware upgrades, especially a core 2 duo Mini.
I actually find this part of Macs quite sad. “Yay Steve says I can get a new proc!” Well I already have a new proc Steve, and I didn’t have to drop yet another 2 grand on yet another system.
Maybe, but my comment was meant for people who are waiting to buy a new Mac, not for people who bought one yesterday.
I’m pretty excited. My guess:
New iMac design- 20, 24, 42 inch(wireless keyboard/mouse standard)
Airport extreme replacement- iTV
update the cpu in some macs
a few extra Leopard features demoed.
and one more thing…
Whoa. Excitement. I like it.
When was the last time we were this excited over something from Microsoft, Sun or any of the other players?
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Sun makes it hard to get excited about things by just whipping crap out of the blue, like the GPLing of java, etc
I only have one speculation left, and that is that Apple will license OS X for non-Apple HW in some way.
Crazy? Well, there’s that third party tablet that will be present at the show, the fact that Vista is right around the corner, and it’s already rather easy to get OS X running on Intel HW.
I also think that Apple needs something to compete against Microsoft’s WPF/E (name will change on release hopefully) and Adobe’s Apollo. These aren’t just media formats, the define the entire user experience, and I’m sure Apple wants a stake in that.
Its an interesting speculation. Once they are obliged to sell x86 versions of the OS at retail, the stakes get considerably higher. At that point, at least in Europe you’d be legally entitled to buy your copy, and subject to copyright laws, install it on whatever you feel like installing it on. Its hard to see any computer company having a policy of (i) only ship full systems with hardware (ii) otherwise only ship upgrades in the retail market.
So some form of opening could be plausible. I think they’ll bottle it, personally. But its an interesting speculation.
The new Apple’s phone just roxe.
So funny to see the best of Microsoft technologies (zune) againts it, it just sucks!
Apple rulez …
…Their percentages of possibility didn’t pan out except for the iPhone.
They’ve been a little off this year. No, maybe not off, maybe they have just been firing broadside is more like it.