Now that the final salvo, which appears in modern business as a payoff, has been “fired”, sources from deep within the bright, sunny, eternally temperate DeAnza blvd. location have informed us that the next MacPro update will bring some changes to the beloved aluminum-clad desktop behemoth. Read the rest of this entry »
Byte of the Apple The iPhone SDK Will Be Late – BusinessWeek
Hmm. I am not quite sure what to make of this. I have heard no word one way or the other about the SDK. I can speculate , perhaps, that Apple may he holding back on the SDK to allow those who are rumored to have early access to polish their apps. (I am looking at you Adobe)
Otherwise, it could be that the logistics of setting up the iTMS for distribution of, presumably lots of shareware/freeware. Oh yeah, there was that little incident of a certain little key being released on the net, could that have caused Apple to rethink the way they handle the signing of their/third party applications?
E*TRADE FINANCIAL – Quotes & Research
Apple Inc. and News Corporation’s 20th Century Fox have forged a landmark deal that will enable consumers to rent the studio’s recent releases via Internet downloads at Apple’s popular iTunes digital media store, according to reports.
The plan amounts to a new video-on-demand service in that it offers users the ability to download the films for a limited period, the Financial Times reported, citing a person with knowledge of the situations.
The FT report said the tie-up is a showpiece announcement due to be released at Apple’s (AAPL) MacWorld convention on Jan. 14 in San Francisco.
Could it be true? We have certainly seen many hints of rental strings in current versions of iTunes. So I am gonna say this is likely. I have always been a fan of that TIVO/Amazon deal and I think something like this for AppleTV would be excellent. Sort of like Netflix, which I adore, but to the next level, relative instant delivery.
8 Predictions for Macworld 2008
1. iTunes Update
2. AppleTV Update
3. The Strongest Holiday Season Ever
4. Updated Macbooks
5. No iTablet
6. iPhone and iPod Touch Software Updates
7. iPhone SDK
8. One More thing…Mac Nano
In brief there they are. I think most are right on. iTunes update is a no brainer. We already see rental strings in current iTunes software versions. Strong sales has been on for Apple for several quarters, no signs of slowing down there. Macbook updates. I think this will happen, as this is a consumer oriented show…that said. iPhone SDK? MacPro Updates (not mentioned, but often spoken about). Those sound more like WWDC updates to me. Though I think the original PowerBook was shown off at MWSF…so it certainly isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility.
I think it might make sense for the Nano and the AppleTV to merge. The AppleTV hasn’t been selling gangbusters and neither have the competitors. A Mac for the living room, with AppleTV functionality, but with more power might be the way to go. That said, Jobs is notoriously against TV-as-monitor. He sees them, and correctly so, as two different exercises. One is brain on (computer) one is brain-off (television).
Only time will tell.
More rumblings from our sources at Apple that some new iteration of Apple displays will include HDMI support. This my jive with the reduction in price on the cinema display recently. It is brillant! Here is why.
People have been ranting over the net…HDMI is evil…HDMI is content protection. Sure, maybe…whatever, that isn’t the point.
PC Pro: News: Microsoft emails reveal Tiger envy
‘Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail.app to my Exchange server and then downloaded all of my mail into the local file store,’ wrote Microsoft’s Lenn Pryor, former Director of Platform Evangelism. ‘I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and … my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f***ing amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.’
Of course, publicly, Vista is a 100% OS X *not* inspired product. It is only too bad that MS couldn’t/wouldn’t do the things they needed to do to make “Cairo” a reality. Their size, and their inability to shake off legacy requirements/obligations, may doom them.
Jim Allchin co-president of the company’s Platform Products and Services Group was just as impressed.
‘I don’t believe we will have search this fast,’ he wrote.
….and you won’t. If you are stuck updating your five year old OS (XP) to look and act, and hopefully function like a 2+ year old OS, you are always going to be behind the curve.
Macworld: News: Hackers can’t wait for iPhone
“If it’s really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities, [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale,” the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e-mail. He declined to provide his real name.
In typical Apple fashion, the tech pundits are pronouncing the iPod dead for its lack of features that no one wants, or cares about. Here is one take, by the in>famous John C. Dvorak:
the iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these… And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.
They were wrong before, especially him, about the iPod, about the iMac, and pretty much about Apple in general. So that is boring. The interesting part of this is the hacking aspect.
There are many, many more questions that will go unanswered for months to come, unless more information is gleaned from the FCC website. In the meantime, I guess we will have to wait it out, and of course speculate some more.
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