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Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC
DonaldGelman writes "Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600. The display requires a new Nvidia card with 2 parallel DVI connections. The display is going to retail for $3299 in August, and the Nvidia card for around $599." Jobs also announced new 20- and 23-inch displays, for $1299 and $1999 in July. All three feature a new aluminum enclosure, and DVI. Also from WWDC...
Jobs also previewed Tiger, with Spotlight (fast iTunes-like searching in all apps, and systemwide), Dashboard (Konfabulator-like widgets combined with Exposé for fast showing/hiding), Automator (visual AppleScript, combining prewritten actions into scripts), H.264 code for QuickTime (high definition scalable video from MPEG), iChat AV conferencing (up to 10 for audio, four for video), RSS reading in Safari, Core Image and Core Video (realtime filters at the core OS level), and system-wide Sync Services. All of this is extensible (except for iChat conferencing), with SDKs available for developers.
There's a lot here, and a more detailed description is forthcoming. Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005.
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Dear Apple:
I cannot believe that you would go so far as to replace the programs that users most popularly use with your own competing ones. LaunchBar and Konfabulator are now replaced by Spotlight and Dashboard.
You are killing innovation on the Mac. You are not helping innovation by encouraging developers to make cool and awesome applications; what you're doing is completely the opposite. You stifle innovation by granting your own programmers increased access to Mac OS X APIs (SystemUIServer elements anyone?), barely managing to avoid patent/copyright infringement by creating duplicates of everything you see that you think is awesome (reminds me of a Redmond based company) and crushing the very developers that make people switch to the Mac because of the cool things that shareware developers do. What's next?
You've already tried to kill Watson with Sherlock 3, you're destroying the reseller community by giving your Apple Stores increased favor, and I guarantee you're going to hear from Objective Development and Arlo Rose / Perry Clarke (Konfabulator inventors, cause I figure you don't know them) in the next few weeks.
Tread carefully.
Is it just me or do none of these sound like major innovations? Wow, they are adding a search feature! RSS feeds, don't forget about RSS feeds. And to all you guys talking about how Microsoft is going to start copying apple, who the hell would want to copy these "features" anyway. This is the garbage no one uses in a bloated OS.
What???
Don't they know we want the HDTV 16:9 (1.777...:1) ratio?
I'll pass, thanks but no thanks!
Now show me 2048x1152 pixels and maybe a 23inch diagonal...I think that would be about optimum for my needs.
How long do I have to wait???
Tiger will be a paid update. Just like the last three... whatever happened to "every other update free?"
And I want a pet unicorn.
Get over it. Apple is not going to do what you want them to do, because it would cost them their company.
Of course, I'm not going to get my pet unicorn, so we're both going to be disappointed.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
NEWSFLASH!!! It's a F'ing computer, a commodity good that Apple users regularly over pay for. It's just a motherboard, video card, RAM, drives, etc... Apple engineers don't have access to the "really good" parts while all other PCs are made or bailing twine and plywood. Apple motherboards and memory come from the same fabs as Dell and HP, same with every other part. You want to pay too much for a shiney case, crippled mouse and yearly OS upgrades be my guest, none for me thanks.
IBM has some professional LCD touch screen monitor for 5M pixel a few years ago already, which need 4 video card to power(2 maxtor dual head). that was for graphic design. :D
what do I use 2560x1600 resolution for? graphic design only? I'd rather get 2 DELL 21 LCD for $700 each and the combined resolution is much better than this apple and more practical.
apple hasnot been ahead in tech for many years.
What, are you trying to troll every single topic imaginable?
OS X exploits, charging for yearly releases, BSD Unix, Tiger, emulation and lawyers, Longhorn, and what else?
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