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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.
another round of stuff I either can't afford or am not willing to pay for, but at least we can all take about how innovative Apple is in design some more. I love ya' Apple, but this whole move where you basically abandonded the mid-range can't really be good for business.
Make up your mind: populism or perfection?
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
From people who bought G5 systems for their advertised 64-bit workstation features, if an update to 64-bit Tiger isn't provided for free by Apple, I would not be at all surprised to see a class action suit against Apple.
Apple can toot their horn however they like -- they're a different company offering a different product. Shit, one of the features in Tiger is "improved SMB" support...can you tell me which OS had that first? As for the multitasking dig...cooperative and preemptive multitasking are two separate and valid ways of performing the same task. In an ideal world, where you could rely on the foreground app always being well written and knowing to execute background tasks during halt cycles, cooperative multitasking worked quite well. Unfortunately, the world is not ideal.
I think during the 1990s, most of Apples' choices were merely "do the opposite of the mainstream." So we got RISC instead of CISC, SCSI instead of IDE, PCI instead of AGP, a single mouse button paradigm, ADP instead of serial, etc. Everybody else did preemptive, so apple went cooperative. All about thinking different(ly) I guess.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
How about they just make the iPod not blow chunks? I mean, get real, the only thing it has going for it is that it's "cute", and iTunes.
I shelled out (on a whim) $400 of hard earned money on the one I got, and I was extremely dissapointed.
It had:
* Crappy battery life (not even as much as the claimed 8 hours -- more like 5) On top of that, the piece of crap never really shuts off, so even while "off" it's still eating battery life.
* Not very good sound (I've heard better from iRiver, et al.) -- horrible standard ear plugs.
* VERY crappy interface (the latest model has touch sensitive buttons, which makes it a total pain to use while riding a bike, hiking, or any other time your finger might be a bit shaky. Buttons would be a much better.)
* Only supports ACC and MP3 (no Ogg, WAV, etc.)
* Craptacular materials for the faceplate that get seriously scratched by soft plastics.
* Very Pricey - Other companies (such a iRiver) are putting out cheaper players that have tons more features (optical in/out, onboard mic, etc.) and storage (40GB for $50 less than a 20GB iPod).
I dumped mine after only a week.
So, why not ask for a non craptacular iPod to develop for before you ask for the SDK?
MilesTeg
apparently you don't understand what supply and demand mean ... BECAUSE the demand is high, manufacturers can charge whatever they want.
Of course i understand that. $4000? Thats greed not capitalism. Not really supply and demand. The demand is high as far as i'm concerned. There isnt a person on this forum that wouldnt stand there fist full of dollars to buy one if the price were right.
Will the number sold at $4000 out number the sales if they had sold them at $800 ??
If capitalism is about getting rich while exploiting overseas slaves to manufacture your $4000 picture tube...
Leave me out of it. Frankly i think its best that we stop ripping each other off, and start selling things at fair prices.
Capitalism is fine... But when its used to profit at the expense of all else...
shame on us.
Just because you want one doesn't mean they ill change.
There's a new concept... "just because the consumers want one... dont sell it to all of them"
I want one yes. Do i need one? NO. Would i buy one if it were $800. You bet your fucking ass.
How many here really need a $4000 monitor. Major Corperations wont evey pay that much for a single fucking monitor. Give me a break.
Lets see I can get that 21inch sony for $750 for my 30 employees... or i can buy them all nice 30inch monitors because apples making them.
hmmm easy choice i think.
NO ONE NEEDS A $4000 monitor. 30inch or not. If apple wants to CHANGE the industry.. they should attempt to do so by being affordable enough to buy the dam thing.
Once people buy the dam thing... at an affordable price... They will have outclassed the competition and then inspire new competition.
They're affraid to compete perhaps... or just greedy.