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WWDC 2004 Winners and Losers?
- Thread starter irmongoose
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Here's a few:
Loser: Konfabulator (And Arlo Rose) I think we all know why.
Winner: RSS
Winner: Anyone who makes or uses an image or video editing app. CoreImage and CoreVideo look AMAZING.
Winner: People without OCD. Spotlight will save us all lots of time.
Loser: Konfabulator (And Arlo Rose) I think we all know why.
Winner: RSS
Winner: Anyone who makes or uses an image or video editing app. CoreImage and CoreVideo look AMAZING.
Winner: People without OCD. Spotlight will save us all lots of time.
Might I suggest one?
"Winner: Steve Jobs, for delivering a WWDC keynote actually focused on new features for developers."
I'm not a developer myself, but Steve got my attention with the mention of the Dashboard SDK.
"Winner: Steve Jobs, for delivering a WWDC keynote actually focused on new features for developers."
I'm not a developer myself, but Steve got my attention with the mention of the Dashboard SDK.
Loser: iMac
Allright, so maybe it was kinda obvious.... But those rumors had me convinced a while ago .
JOD8FY
Allright, so maybe it was kinda obvious...
. But those rumors had me convinced a while ago .JOD8FY
i say a big thumbs down to non-.Mac subscribers. i can't believe he emphasized tiger's integration with .Mac so much when .Mac is a paid, subscription service. the price of tiger should reflect the included features available for all users. it's one thing to include features not used by everyone (like xcode, for me, since i don't code) but it's quite another to include "features" that cannot be used without paying more money!
good for you if you have .Mac. i don't. and i think it's quite sleazy even though it probably makes business sense for apple.
good for you if you have .Mac. i don't. and i think it's quite sleazy even though it probably makes business sense for apple.
Gmail and Yahoo and .Mac
With the recent focus of massive storage on Gmail by Google, and the upgraded Yahoo, all for free, the .Mac benefit its looking pretty pathetic.
Perhaps Apple will head down this road with more space to sync those home dorectories. I know that a paltry 100 meg iDisk will barely cover 1 or 2 PDF journals I have much less my directory. But offering a few gigs, integrated with Tiger and a seamless desktop between Macs with a braoadband connection sounds very nice. Storage is cheap. It would be a fairly insiginicant cost to upgrade all the current paying subscribers to a minimum of 1 gig, or even 2 for Apple. I am sure it could be dynamic and not even reserve the space until its needed for real use.
.Mac is a service Apple will hopefully keep around a while. Sadly, I remember the eWorld issue when they suddenly packed up and transferred everyone to AOL. But in my case, I got .Mac so I would have a stable email in a changing market. But with gigs of storage for free all around, Apple will need to revamp .Mac to stay alive.
With the recent focus of massive storage on Gmail by Google, and the upgraded Yahoo, all for free, the .Mac benefit its looking pretty pathetic.
Perhaps Apple will head down this road with more space to sync those home dorectories. I know that a paltry 100 meg iDisk will barely cover 1 or 2 PDF journals I have much less my directory. But offering a few gigs, integrated with Tiger and a seamless desktop between Macs with a braoadband connection sounds very nice. Storage is cheap. It would be a fairly insiginicant cost to upgrade all the current paying subscribers to a minimum of 1 gig, or even 2 for Apple. I am sure it could be dynamic and not even reserve the space until its needed for real use.
.Mac is a service Apple will hopefully keep around a while. Sadly, I remember the eWorld issue when they suddenly packed up and transferred everyone to AOL. But in my case, I got .Mac so I would have a stable email in a changing market. But with gigs of storage for free all around, Apple will need to revamp .Mac to stay alive.
Coolvirus007 said:
Yeah I bet. Just like Sherlock/Watson, there is no lawsuit there, and there never will be. You can't license everything in the computer world. I believe I read that apple was the first to use widgets a long time ago also.
seamuskrat said:
Agree 100% about idisk. This seems to be biggest disappointment but the largest in protential. If Apple could increase this to a couple a gigs that would be worth it for me. I know all that Gmail is free but it won't have the seamless integration with OSX especially with Tiger.
But come on Apple! Were paying $100 for this, give us some massive storage!
Also there is just something about that @mac.com email address.