The one you forgot is the one I think we will see that will change things as we know it. A flash based ibook. Why else would apple be going around buying all the flash memory and securing deals for several years out? Simple, just as they got rid of the floppy, the hard drive is now going to be phased out. Apple did the smart thing and got its contracts in order now because once Apple releases this thing every manufacturer is going to be knocking on Samsung, Micron, Intel's doors for it. Me personally, I can't wait to have my 10 hour battery life ibook that turns on in a snap!
Numbers has been around for a long time. It's called Lotus Improv. This application has been an obsession of Steve since the days of Visicalc on the Apple II. There is even a video of Steve demoing it floating around the net somewhere. (Someone on the torrent, post a copy!) I work for a large commodites trader who had financial analysts with Nextcubes for the sole purpose of running lotus improv. It's a different way to crunch numbers but it's simplicity makes so much sense over Excel you'll wonder why MS never implimented it. I can still remember seeing our MS rep walking around with a discomforting look when these analysts would say why can't excel do this. What did we get....Pivot tables. Do not know how many of you have ever used a pivot table but there is a huge learning curve. It is also known for causing huge errors because of its design. This app could get apple in financial institions because of it's power. Yet at the same time a 10 year old can use the drag and drop to figureout how to spend there allowance!
My question is, how did Steve get the old code out of IBM? Unless Apple hired the old development team?
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The one you forgot is the one I think we will see that will change things as we know it. A flash based ibook. Why else would apple be going around buying all the flash memory and securing deals for several years out? Simple, just as they got rid of the floppy, the hard drive is now going to be phased out. Apple did the smart thing and got its contracts in order now because once Apple releases this thing every manufacturer is going to be knocking on Samsung, Micron, Intel's doors for it.
Me personally, I can't wait to have my 10 hour battery life ibook that turns on in a snap!
And this is NEWS because? Netscape is always 2 revs behind it's open source brother Mozilla/Firefox.
Who cares if it's installed, its downloadable
Numbers has been around for a long time. It's called Lotus Improv. This application has been an obsession of Steve since the days of Visicalc on the Apple II.
There is even a video of Steve demoing it floating around the net somewhere. (Someone on the torrent, post a copy!)
I work for a large commodites trader who had financial analysts with Nextcubes for the sole purpose of running lotus improv. It's a different way to crunch numbers but it's simplicity makes so much sense over Excel you'll wonder why MS never implimented it. I can still remember seeing our MS rep walking around with a discomforting look when these analysts would say why can't excel do this.
What did we get....Pivot tables. Do not know how many of you have ever used a pivot table but there is a huge learning curve. It is also known for causing huge errors because of its design.
This app could get apple in financial institions because of it's power. Yet at the same time a 10 year old can use the drag and drop to figureout how to spend there allowance!
My question is, how did Steve get the old code out of IBM? Unless Apple hired the old development team?