The Odds at Macworld

Moby Cock writes "Jason O'Grady has posted the odds on what is to be announced at the Macworld Expo beginning next week. Coming in at 100:1 is OS X 10.5 and even money on a new and sexy Intel Mac Minis and iBooks. Gentlemen, start your credit cards."

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check with the lawyers

[User 956]

You can always tell which rumors are true by the rapid-fire Apple lawsuits to the websites responsible.

Price increases for iTunes

[hsmith]

I have no problem paying $.99 for a song, but i will pay no more. This happens and I will be looking other places for my music for my iPod. They have to pay none of the traditional distribution costs of CD's, so they shouldn't even be the price they are now. you want to be greedy, i'll look elsewhere.

Re:Price increases for iTunes

[jocknerd]

Well considering that it wouldn't be Apple's choice to raise the prices, I would think it might be pretty hard to find lower prices from legitimate online stores.

Personally, I don't care if the prices go to a tiered structure. I don't buy the "hits" so the songs I'd purchase would probably come out cheaper than $.99.

Who cares about the pro users?

[SteeldrivingJon]

O'Grady writes :"Hopefully it'll be the PowerBook nano I've been dreaming of. Unfortunately, it's not likely as the pro software (Final Cut, Creative Suite, etc.) isn't universal binary yet. Rosetta emulation isn't fun folks. Odds: 50-1."

So, basically, he's saying that because a certain segment of the userbase will be waiting a little while, EVERYONE should wait?

If Apple doesn't ship Intel Powerbooks now, these users are going to be waiting, because they certainly aren't going to buy G4 powerbooks unless they absolutely have to. If Apple does ship Intel Powerbooks now, these users are going to be waiting for their apps to be shipped as Universal binaries.

So, given that these customers are ogoing to be waiting either way, why shouldn't Apple get hardware on the market to serve the customers who *can* buy now? Customers for whom XCode is their main app, not Photoshop or Final Cut.

Re:Who cares about the pro users?

[cosmo7]

Historically,

Apple switches to 32-bit clean 68K: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop
Apple switches to System 7.0: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop
Apple starts using 68040: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop
Apple switches to PowerPC: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop
Apple starts using SMP: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop
Apple switches to OS X: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop

So except for these events you're correct. If you want a laggard, try Quark.

Re:Jobs is the Anti Buddha

[paiute]

The Buddha would tell us that anyone who goes on about Buddhaism for more than two sentences is to be ignored because they do not get it.

That sound you hear?

[TCQuad]

I don't buy the "hits" so the songs I'd purchase would probably come out cheaper than $.99.

That sound you hear in the background is thousands of executives worldwide laughing at your naiveté.

Re:Nah....

[theAtomicFireball]

Sad thing is, all Mac software assumes one button so those extra buttons will be doing pretty much nothing the next few... decades or so...

*Buzz* Thanks for playing.

OS X has supported multiple buttons and scroll wheels natively since its very first release, as the OS's event architecture was originally designed to accommodate Next's three-button mouse. Apple continued to develop the multi-button support under OS X despite shipping a single-button mouse. Most OS X applications (Cocoa, Carbon, and even Java) have always automatically taken advantage of the OS-level support for scroll wheels and right-clicking for basic tasks (e.g. copy, cut, paste) without doing anything, plus OS X developers routinely add additional contextual menus and other types of support for modern mice. I don't know a single OS X developer who routinely uses a single button mouse, and I've met a good number of them. On top of that, I believe that the Mighty Mouse's buttons are fully customizable in the System Preferences (not sure on that - I still use an old Logitech mouse on my Mac)

OS X applications never require a multi-button mouse, but they almost universally support them.

Re:Noooooooo!

[NardofDoom]

Hell. Microsoft's own software doesn't import everything correctly.