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Apple Announces iLife '11, FaceTime Mac, Lion, Mac App Store, MacBook Air
Apple once again streamed their latest keynote where they unveiled iLife '11 (more fullscreen and Facebook in iPhoto, Audio editing and automatic trailers in iMovie, Rhythm correction and lessons in Garage Band). FaceTime for the Mac will connect video chat to phones with a Beta starting today. Next we get a preview of OS X Lion which will have an App Store and new UI bits shipping this summer. The Mac App Store will launch on Snow Leopard in 90 days. The New MacBook Air is under 3lbs, 13.3" screen, Core 2 Duo, solid state only storage. There's also an 11.6" version starting at $999 with 64gb of storage shipping today.
Oh, the MacBook Air is different from a netbook: it costs 2-5x as much as a netbook (depending on which one you get). For that, you get a machine that's really too small to do serious work on, has uselessly high screen resolution, yet it has a high-powered processor and graphics card that you don't need on such a machine. It's a work of art alright, and about as utilitarian. It's the MacBook Air all over again. If people see you with one, they'll just think "another Apple snob with too much money".
Err, except that your example is exceedingly hyperbolic.
Apple is shipping systems that are locked down now. There is no reason to believe they won't try and push that up the stack if they feel users will accept it.
But people will keep defending Apple until it's too late, and they start asking $500+ for developer licenses.
> No, that would require a consistent viewpoint
The key word here is "REPOSITORIES". Note how this is a PLURAL.
This allows not only for multiple official sources of software
but plenty of unofficial ones as well. Infact, one of the key
features of the Ubuntu community is how any random power user
can have their own speciality repository to address some corner
case.
Then there are individual developers and companies that can have
their own repositories that tie into the same packager.
An individual or company could also easily have their own internal
repositories and custom packages.
Apple's App Stores are just a weak copy of Linux package managers.
Apple is very much like Microsoft in this respect.
A fanboy whining how they are the same just goes to show how technically
clueless and superficial the average Apple fanboy is.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I'm betting you'll be saying that right up until the point that your app gets rejected for some arbitrary reason and you whole business plan goes down the toilet.
"Yeah, but it won't happen to me."
that's exactly what the Polish Jews said...
Ah, another myth: Apple durability and long term support. Looks like Apple's hired astroturfers are out in full force again.