It's a music player. Maybe Cover Flow gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, and maybe you like to "touch", but there are plenty of other fine music players.
Please stop dismissing the iPhone/iTouch as just a phone or a music player when you know full well it's a whole new platform, and that even in it's infancy is far more usable and with much more potential (not to mention market penetration) than any other class of device out there. It's not a music player, it's not a phone, it's a handheld OS X computer that happens to play music. Perhaps by Apple naming it an iPod, or a iPhone is the trojan horse that makes people want to buy it, as opposed to the shelves of unsold Nokia 8*0 "Internet Tablet PC" - which I'm assured by half the people in this discussion is better than Apple's offerings in every possible way.
iTunes has destroyed my music collection, not once but several times. The iTunes user interface also has serious problems, as the many third party attempts at fixing it show.
Well that's interesting because I've been using the same iTunes library through multiple computers and OS/iTunes upgrades for over 5 years now and i've never had a single problem. Hey look, i can post worthless anecdotes too! Also please, point me to these all these high-profile projects dedicated to fixing the gaping flaws in the iTunes UI....*crickets*
Also note even the current DRM on the 128kbps tracks can be lossly stripped with QTFairUse6. The high resolution cover art and everything remains intact.
There are currently 32 native iPhone apps on that page including 8 games, an AIM client, 2 IRC clients (not including BitchX), a fully functional VT100 terminal, RSS, eBook readers and much more with the development constantly growing. These are all open source and written in UIKit/Cocoa, with other apps happening that aren't listed there.
Just because the application development isn't officially Apple sanctioned doesn't mean it isn't happening.
This is true - is talking about using Telstra's Next G technology which isn't particularly fast nor affordable. From the bigpond.com site for wireless:
$54.95/month 256/128kbps, 200MB allowance $84.95/month 256/128kbps for 1GB
or if you want 1.5/384 it costs
$114.95/month for 1GB $184.95/month for 3GB
These aren't reasonable broadband prices for anybody but the very wealthy especially when you include that excess usage is charged at 30c per MB over, and usage is charged as upload AND download.
Also add that they require a 3 year contract to even get it in the first place, and if you cancel because P2P probably doesn't work for shit over a wireless connection or because they block ports or because it's expensive and slow and shit in general you're up for a $299 modem cost + remaining contract.
It's best to not use Telstra where at all possible (as i sit here posting this on dialup because Telstra stuffed up my ADSL churn)
Also of note in the first image, It looks like Apple did briefly toy with the idea of having the menu bar on the window (like how Windows does it), but then scrapped that for the single menu bar at the top of the screen as we have now.
This isnt as much of an issue as you think because there isn't really anybody still using 10.1 or 10.2 on the internet or at all.
These early versions of OS X were barely usable for a lot of things, and very unrefined. Also most apps made now won't even run on them because of various differences. People who are savvy enough to have chosen a mac in the first place are usually very in touch with the OS and usually can't wait to upgrade (either legitimately or not).
For anyone wanting to try this out, it's unnecessary to fiddle with the ttys file. You simply log into the system as ">console" without the quotes into the username, and no password. This will exit Aqua and dump you back to a text based console, allowing you to log in and startx.
I second the request for 1680x1050. (1920x1200 would just be too much on 15.4".) The faster video cards would probably cause heat issues; all the laptops available with them are thicker and heavier.
I have a feeling we'll be seeing 1680x1050 and probably higher the moment resolution independance is ready in Leopard and shipping on new machines.
Weren't there some (probably unsubstantiated) rumors floating around about iTV having direct access to Google Video? If so, Steve must be rubbing his hands together in glee about this.:)
The amount of slamming of 128kbps AAC encoding on here is amazing. I'd personally like to see some double blind tests of AAC vs CDDA as I don't believe most of you people know what you're talking about. When I hear things like "less of a soundstage, less twinkle in the high end, instruments not as well defined" and all the rest of the audiophile rubbish, it makes me cringe. None of this sounds like a compression artifact at all. Even with this being a very technical board, I think the placebo effect is bigger than a lot of you realise - especially when it comes to sound.
A 300kbps upload rate is plenty for a decent video stream. My friend on 1500/256 DSL using iChat/iSight produces an amazing image, that looks great, and with a decent framerate (at least 15fps I'd have to say) to boot. It's all about the codec you use, most programs in the league of MSN etc are still using h261 or h263 grade compression.
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Sorry to be so pedantic but I'm pretty sure it was A/UX 3.0 on a Quadra 700 (which is still UNIX, nevertheless)
Please stop dismissing the iPhone/iTouch as just a phone or a music player when you know full well it's a whole new platform, and that even in it's infancy is far more usable and with much more potential (not to mention market penetration) than any other class of device out there. It's not a music player, it's not a phone, it's a handheld OS X computer that happens to play music. Perhaps by Apple naming it an iPod, or a iPhone is the trojan horse that makes people want to buy it, as opposed to the shelves of unsold Nokia 8*0 "Internet Tablet PC" - which I'm assured by half the people in this discussion is better than Apple's offerings in every possible way.
iTunes has destroyed my music collection, not once but several times. The iTunes user interface also has serious problems, as the many third party attempts at fixing it show.
Well that's interesting because I've been using the same iTunes library through multiple computers and OS/iTunes upgrades for over 5 years now and i've never had a single problem. Hey look, i can post worthless anecdotes too! Also please, point me to these all these high-profile projects dedicated to fixing the gaping flaws in the iTunes UI....*crickets*
I don't understand, can you please use a car analogy?
That's interesting, considering the developer preview of Safari 4 runs on Tiger.
http://images.appleinsider.com/leopard-9A283-anti-phish.jpg
after inhaling hydrogen sulfide for 30 minutes, trust me, you'll wish you were dead.
Also note even the current DRM on the 128kbps tracks can be lossly stripped with QTFairUse6. The high resolution cover art and everything remains intact.
I'm sure XKCD will have something to say about this. We welcome our Mwahahah flying, feathered velociraptor overlords! ..first post!
http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/GUI_App lications
There are currently 32 native iPhone apps on that page including 8 games, an AIM client, 2 IRC clients (not including BitchX), a fully functional VT100 terminal, RSS, eBook readers and much more with the development constantly growing. These are all open source and written in UIKit/Cocoa, with other apps happening that aren't listed there.
Just because the application development isn't officially Apple sanctioned doesn't mean it isn't happening.
This is true - is talking about using Telstra's Next G technology which isn't particularly fast nor affordable. From the bigpond.com site for wireless:
$54.95/month 256/128kbps, 200MB allowance
$84.95/month 256/128kbps for 1GB
or if you want 1.5/384 it costs
$114.95/month for 1GB
$184.95/month for 3GB
These aren't reasonable broadband prices for anybody but the very wealthy especially when you include that excess usage is charged at 30c per MB over, and usage is charged as upload AND download.
Also add that they require a 3 year contract to even get it in the first place, and if you cancel because P2P probably doesn't work for shit over a wireless connection or because they block ports or because it's expensive and slow and shit in general you're up for a $299 modem cost + remaining contract.
It's best to not use Telstra where at all possible (as i sit here posting this on dialup because Telstra stuffed up my ADSL churn)
Oh I noticed, and I LIKED IT.
;)
xoxoxoxo Steve, love u long time
rabid apple fan.
Also of note in the first image, It looks like Apple did briefly toy with the idea of having the menu bar on the window (like how Windows does it), but then scrapped that for the single menu bar at the top of the screen as we have now.
Didn't DVD jon crack it a little while ago? I'm sure i remember seeing an article on it here.
Realtime streaming isn't really an option with bittorrent though, unfortunately.
Don't worry, it's probably been seeding since 1908.
These early versions of OS X were barely usable for a lot of things, and very unrefined. Also most apps made now won't even run on them because of various differences. People who are savvy enough to have chosen a mac in the first place are usually very in touch with the OS and usually can't wait to upgrade (either legitimately or not).
For anyone wanting to try this out, it's unnecessary to fiddle with the ttys file. You simply log into the system as ">console" without the quotes into the username, and no password. This will exit Aqua and dump you back to a text based console, allowing you to log in and startx.
BOOM!
I have a feeling we'll be seeing 1680x1050 and probably higher the moment resolution independance is ready in Leopard and shipping on new machines.
Windows 95's USB support was a laughable joke at best, you were lucky if you could even get something as basic as a mouse to work.
Weren't there some (probably unsubstantiated) rumors floating around about iTV having direct access to Google Video? If so, Steve must be rubbing his hands together in glee about this. :)
The amount of slamming of 128kbps AAC encoding on here is amazing. I'd personally like to see some double blind tests of AAC vs CDDA as I don't believe most of you people know what you're talking about. When I hear things like "less of a soundstage, less twinkle in the high end, instruments not as well defined" and all the rest of the audiophile rubbish, it makes me cringe. None of this sounds like a compression artifact at all. Even with this being a very technical board, I think the placebo effect is bigger than a lot of you realise - especially when it comes to sound.
Going by your example, and assuming Finding Nemo goes for 90 minutes, it would have taken 486,000 days to render it from start to finish.
People probably would make a fuss if it were true, but thankfully it's not. StartupSound.prefpane.
A 300kbps upload rate is plenty for a decent video stream. My friend on 1500/256 DSL using iChat/iSight produces an amazing image, that looks great, and with a decent framerate (at least 15fps I'd have to say) to boot. It's all about the codec you use, most programs in the league of MSN etc are still using h261 or h263 grade compression.