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Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole?
SlappingOysters (1344355) writes "Grab It is reporting that Apple will stream its 2014 WWDC keynote live at 10am PST on June 2. The site speculates that a recent update to showcase title and previous keynote star Real Racing 3 could confirm a rumoured microconsole announcement. The App Store has seen a dramatic rise in the quality and frequency of AAA spin-off titles over the last year, giving Apple a good platform to make a move into this emerging space."
The site speculates that a recent update to showcase title and previous keynote star Real Racing 3 could confirm a rumoured microconsole announcement.
Could confirm? Seriously... if it's still questionable then it is still unconfirmed.
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Apple is known for limiting the number of different products. IMHO Apple is unlikely to ship a "microconsole" and continue to ship the Apple TV.
Much more likely: the "4th generation" Apple TV, which will not only do everything an Apple TV does, but will also play games if you buy a controller.
According to Wikipedia, the current Apple TV uses a single-core ARM chip. For gaming, Apple should put in a more powerful chip, which may imply a price hike. Perhaps Apple will continue to sell the current generation as a less-expensive model, for those who don't care about games.
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I am curious why Apple is having their WWDC convention in the early summer (before the Google I/O event even), when normally they are in the fall.
If they announce a console, they should merge AppleTV and it, so one product does all the set top love in a residence. Maybe even add a Blu-Ray drive, so one only needs it and the TV.
Other things that might be useful as Apple announcements:
1: A security standard for devices, and more than just SSL or "just trust us". Apple upping the bar in the security arena would mean good PR. Perhaps an app to device standard that helps secure communication via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Perhaps some way to share public keys so an IoT device only will speak to authorized devices, and no other, no CA, no third party.
2: A return back to schools with deep discounts and an active presence. Apple made themselves a foundation by having low priced machines in the educational setting. These days, a Mac discount is 10% last time I checked. It may not profit the next quarter... but it will have a lot more people who will buy them later on.
3: A rackable desktop/server. The only reason MS is existing is because of their presence in the enterprise. If Apple can get into this market, even a bit, it is a stable income base.
I normally don't like looking at Apple Rumor sites at all, or reading about them.
But a story like this seems REALLY pointless. What on earth is the point of publishing the story days before we know for sure what will happen? Just so people can swagger in with last minute "guesses" that hardly count because of last minute leaks?
Much better to discuss the meaning or use of what actually is to come, rather than some possibility which will be potentially dissipated in mere days.
In other words, let the cat at least settle down in the box before you open it.
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you can play it on iPad and iPhone. If you feel strongly about it you can mirror your iPad screen to the apple TV. If you feel super strongly you can buy a bluetooth gamepad controller. https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
That game is on the Google Play store as well, so the anon GP could just as well get any Android device. However, tons of reviews say this game is utter shit: even though it is paid, it still takes a ton of microtransactions to get any good. Of course, you could run the original on an emulator... oh wait, Apple does not allow emulators on their store. Google does.
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why would you need a blu ray player when you could just rent or buy from iTunes?
1. I can get a a movie DVD from Target for $5 and play it as many times as I want. Great for learning a foreign language - play it with the Spanish track on.
2. I do not want to do business with iTunes. I actually read the ToS and the associated documents. No thanks. I'll pass.
of Apple's cultural bankruptcy. Jobs died and they haven't come up with ANYTHING of importance. He's been gone for almost 3 years. He wasn't that active the last year or so, so technically he's been out of the picture for almost 5. Apple needs to do something big and smart. I don't see that happening with Cook at the helm. They could do something small and smart, like PUT COVER FLOW BACK INTO ITUNES. But I don't think that will happen. I think they'r just going to minimax themselves into triviality.
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It's an Apple "story", of course there will be nothing but rumors in it.
Of course, you could run the original on an emulator... oh wait, Apple does not allow emulators on their store. Google does.
Yes, yes they do, and in fact I have both the emulator and the oregon trail dsk images from the Asimov collection on my Nexus 4 right now.
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The rumour is confirmed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Looks awsome! The new Apple Bandai Pippin console features a 66 MHz processor and a 14.4 kb/s modem...
I don't give a FLYING FUCK about some "microconsole", whatever the fuck that actually is. It sounds like total hipster bullshit to me.
My 2009 Mac Mini is getting really LONG IN THE TOOTH. It wasn't exactly modern hardware to begin with, and now it's getting pretty damn old and slow.
But what is a fucker like me supposed to do? Apple hasn't updated its Mac Mini line in a long time. The fuck if I'm going to spend over £800 on a Mac Mini from the 2012 line. Mightly lord above us, we are half-way to 2015!
I just want a goddamn Mac that I can use with my goddamn monitor and my goddamn keyboard and my goddamn mouse. I don't want to buy a fucking laptop. I'm not a hipster shitbag who codes websites in the cafe, for crying out loud! And I don't want to buy a pole smoking iMac, since I've already got a goddamn monitor. And lord be my witness, I will not spend £2,500 on a Mac Pro that looks like a rubbish bin!
APPLE, I BEG OF YOU, RELEASE AN UPDATED MAC MINI DURING WWDC! PLEASE!
I don't want to get a Windows PC. I really don't. BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE! I will be forced to flee the obsolence of the Apple realm if there is not a modern Mac Mini released sometime in the nearest of futures.
iPhone or iPod touch may be the controller...
I sure as hell didn't need them to go to Apple.com to see the banner at the bottom of the home page, which leads to this page which clearly tells us about the live streaming tomorrow.
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Last year Apple opened up a framework for made-for-iphone bluetooth gamepads. they specified two layouts, the xbox 360 layout and the SNES layout. it's kind of silly to use these with an iPhone
I don't see how the layouts are so silly. There are iPhone cases with buttons, and holding it horizontally makes the combination of phone and case look like an original GBA, PSP, or the bottom half of a Nintendo DS. The DS and PSP copy the Super NES's layout closely, and the GBA is the same thing minus two buttons. Other gamepads come as something to clamp onto the phone with the buttons at the bottom, which looks more like a GBA SP or NVIDIA SHIELD.
there are millions of iOS developers who would love to break into the home console market.
Then why doesn't a small business that's been successful on Apple's App Store sign up as a PlayStation game developer? Sony Computer Entertainment has lately been courting indies in a way that would have been nigh unthinkable last generation.
Can you fit that all on a Nexus? What with the no SD slot and all...
Until you end up living in a place whose best available home ISP promises (and delivers) 6 to 8 Mbps bursts but cuts you off after 10 GB per month. This lets you blow through your cap in three hours.
Apple's iTunes division could work around studio bureaucracy the same way Netflix did: vertical integration. Invest in a TV studio to produce original programming. Or what am I missing?
You'd be surprised at how small these Apple II games are. Each disk side is no bigger than 140 KiB, meaning you can probably fit well over a thousand disk images in 100 MB of zipfiles. They're small like NES games.
I think the article screwed up here.
From the article:
"Party Play allows four friends to connect via BlueTooth controllers to an iPad, enabling local splitscreen multiplayer. Take your iPad out to your flatscreen TV with a HDMI adaptor and bingo, the Apple microconsole has arrived."
So the iPad is the microconsole, and you can ALREADY DO THIS.
The iPad can mirror anything to a TV using HDMI, and the iPad can already do MFi controllers, so there is NOTHING NEW HERE.
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Apple itself as a company does not like leaks. To the extent they are hiring the Chinese military to clamp down on them...
The leaks/rumors industry is not Apple at all, but a whole range of third parties seeking to discern anything they can about Apple before an announcement.
The reason is of course money... for whatever reason a lot of people seem drawn to these rumor sites, and that creates a lot of advertising revenue.
I was just hoping Slashdot was above doing the same thing...
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Why are you people so selfish, expecting Apple to produce what you want? Maybe they will, but let's face facts, they are in it for the business and the future. What Apple has stored behind closed doirs is the real tomorrow, not your toys!
Is "emerging space" a synonym for "didn't go anywhere?" As it stands, there is the Ouya, which is dying, a bunch of android consoles dying on the vine, and a Playstation Vita TV, which hasn't caught on enough in Japan to bother shipping elsewhere. As it stands, the only microconsole-like object that is doing OK is Chromecast, and that has nothing to do with games.
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What is the point of a 3DS when Apple's iPhone and iPad have been eating their lunch. An Apple TV console will be the final nail in the coffin for the Wii U as well.
It is soon time for Nintendo to finally just give up. Either start making iOS games or sell themselves to a more successful company like Sony or Microsoft. I'm sure Apple would love to have Mario as their mascot.
It's all about what kind of person you want to be.
We will get apologies from the people that reported on bullshit unfounded rumors that turn out to have no relation to anything Apple was actually going to release.
No, I've never been right before. Why do you ask?
Apple could stage a hostile takeover of the largest media company in the world
If that happens, national competition regulators could probably stage a hostile takeover of Apple.
If they announce a console, they should merge AppleTV and it, so one product does all the set top love in a residence. Maybe even add a Blu-Ray drive, so one only needs it and the TV.
Screw that. I want an iPad, the size of a coffee table book, with an iOS 5 or 6 style GUI.
Of course, there is that snowball's chance in hell, but I seriously expect that Ive will continue to destroy the Mac and iOS GUI.
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Literally the only thing I care about from this WWDC is the role Andre Young will be playing as an Apple employee. As long as he's drawing an Apple paycheck, they won't get another penny from me for anything. As far as I'm concerned, the guy is a misogynist and a homophobe. His presence is an insult to every female, gay and lesbian employee there.
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Ah, what is actually the difference between a microconsole and a smarthphone? Ah, yeah, the name... so that Apple fanboys buy two devices that do exactly the same and spent double as much money. Well thought! And by next year the Giga-iphone: A giant 4K screen that you can also use to watch TV!!! AWESOME
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The 4% adoption rate is an Android issue because users can't apparently choose to upgrade, if the suppliers are preventing that, and/or updating isn't as easy on Android as iOS. Not to mention all of the junk Android devices that can barely function.