During this years MacWorld keynote speech, Steve Jobs made the following comment:
"over the course of the next several months we're going to roll out some awesome stuff for the mac"
You can find it in the podcast version at 4:35
Am I the only one that noticed it? Where is the speculation on the rumor sites that would normally accompany a comment like this?
Here is my list of what we might get:
- In the no-brainer category:
- OS X Leopard
- iWork 2007
- iLife 2007
- In the 'we can hope and pray' category:
Is there something I've missed? Leave a comment and let the speculation begin.
Early yesterday morning (about 6am in Sydney) Apple unveiled their revolutionary iPhone. While most of the technology media is be focused on iPhone, I’m far more excited by the Multi-Touch technology it uses and the other types of products we can expect it to appear in. If you aren’t excited about Multi-Touch yet, you should be.
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Over at Mac World they quote analyst Charles Wolf: "I had a talk with Phil Schiller at the opening of the 5th Avenue Apple Store, and I asked him the question, "Will Apple include a virtualization solution in [the next version of Mac OS X] Leopard?" He said, "Asolutely not, the R&D would be prohibitive and we're not going to do it. Our solution is dual boot."
Called it back in April
It's not a good day when your iBook starts making noises you know it shouldn't. Referred to as "the click of death," it is generally regarded as a precursor to a fatal hard-drive crash with the only solution being a new hard drive. Fortunately there is a much easier and cheaper solution provided by the repair disk function of Disk Utility that comes with OS X.
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With Apple's release of Boot Camp, Apple's customers can now run those needed Windows applications on their beloved Apple hardware. While this is a great feature, switching back and forth between OS X and Windows is going to be painful, especially if you need to do it frequently.
An ideal solution for this type of customer, would be something like Rosetta or the Classic environment for Windows applications; basically an Apple version of Wine (or more specifically Darwine) — let's call it 'Rosetta for Windows'.
With Rosetta for Windows, customers could take any Windows application and just run it on their machine, like any native application; It (like Rosetta) would be "The most amazing software you'll never see." The problem is (in all probability) we will literally never see it.
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