Although Apple's fan base has made it clear they want a media center device with recording capabilities, they don't want to give them what they want. Why? because it will hurt their iTunes video download business? Sound like any major conglomerate you know?
I believe Apple will overcome this by developing a better movie/video, distribution/download, system/service. The service will hopefully be good enough to silence most of it's critics. Apple would need to convince us that subscribing to their service is a better value proposition than doing all the "heavy lifting" of recording our own content.
As Apple continues to grow and venture into new territories there will be more "conflicts of interest" in the future.
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor, dual link DVI support, 128MB of GDDR3 on 1.83GHz configuration. 256MB GDDR3 on 2.0GHz configuration
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
The x1600 in the MacBook Pro has dual link DVI support.
These are growing pains that any company in Apple's shoes would be having. Apple is doing the right thing and opening 2 more stores in Manhattan. One will be almost the same size as the current SoHo store and the other will be an even bigger flagship store.
I read a recent analyst estimate that Apple will probably grow it's retail chain to around 400 stores in a few years. Hopefully that will help meet the demand.
I run a computer lab full of Macs and you would be amazed how far out of the way PC users will go to use IE. Every Mac has Safari(in the dock), Firefox, Opera and IE. Many PC users still think Internet Explorer IS the internet.
If Internet Explorer isn't on the desktop then the computer must not be working properly.
"Apple really topped out in the early 1990's, and has been on a long, (admittedly slow) downhill slide since then. They've managed to produce a couple of temporary upward bumps since then, but never anything very significant. Ultimately, it's just a bit of noise in a long, slow slide into oblivion. Recently, Apple's doing a bit better financially, but that's due to sales of iPods (and associated music, accessories, etc.) not Macs."
In 2001 Apple sold about 3 million Macs which generated about 4.5 billion in revenue. In 2005 Apple sold over 5 million Macs which generated over 6 billion in revenue.
Each branch is going to end up having it's own "Cyberspace" division duplicating the efforts of other branches and wasting taxpayer dollars. I just hope we don't have a cyber-civil war with the branches trying to out hack each other.
While we are at it, why not redefine the mission of the US Coast Guard to "Border Guard". Give them the resources they need to defend all our Borders.
The content is currently sized for the iPod video but that is not Apple's real goal. The iPod is primarily a music player and probably always will be. Apples iPod videos are a test balloon to see how interested consumers are and wake up the MPAA.
Eventually Apple wants to take over your living room and sell/rent you HD video. But first they have to create the infrastructure.
First, Apple will starts selling a Home Theater Mac capable of playing HD. Then they will launch a NetFlix like service to rent HiDef Movies. Instead of shipping you a DVD, the Mac will download a HiDef movie a la BitTorrent. Apple will be renting HD while NetFlix and BlockBuster wait for BluRay.
People can get music on their iPods for free. Why would anybody buy from iTMS? Once Apple has millions of these in living rooms, there will be a much larger potential audience for paid video content. Not a lot of people are buying iTunes TV shows because not a lot of people have a Digital Home Theater.
Actually, three dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible. Tanniyn -usually translated serpent or dragon Behemoth - description similar to a Brontosaurus (Job 40) Levyathan - large sea serpent (Job 41)
"Hopefully this will push QuckTime to be the standard format for internet video..."
The original poster never mentioned anything about QuickTime Player. QuickTime is a format and can be played full screen by hundreds of free apps including iTunes.
The 2 types of video supported by the iPod are MPEG4 and H264 neither of which are proprietary. If this means less proprietary Real video and WMV on the web, it is definitely a Good Thing(TM).
This is really disappointing for those looking to use a PowerMac in our home theater setup. The one major feature that Front Row lacks is the ability to record content. To do this you need a separate piece of hardware. The PowerMac is the only Mac that can accept internal capture cards. But without Front Row your back at square one.
My guess is Steve will sell it as a separate product or roll it into iLife '06. But what I really hope Steve has up his sleeve is a home theater Mac. Guess we'll find out in January.
A friend of mine who worked at a radio station that played a very diverse range of music told me how they select music.
She said that research had shown that listeners would rate the same song higher if it followed other song of a similar genre. If they play songs of different genres randomly the listener does not enjoy the music as much.
So their tendency is to play "blocks" of music. For example.... 4 Classic Rock songs 3 Blues Songs 3 Folk songs 4 Female Rockers 3 Grunge etc.
This is common knowledge in the radio world. I wonder if Apple has incorporated this type of logic into it's iTunes algorithms?
The radio station in question is WXPN and can be found under iTunes > Radio > Public > WXPN
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I'm sure your luck is bound to change.
Although Apple's fan base has made it clear they want a media center device with recording capabilities, they don't want to give them what they want.
Why? because it will hurt their iTunes video download business? Sound like any major conglomerate you know?
I believe Apple will overcome this by developing a better movie/video, distribution/download, system/service. The service will hopefully be good enough to silence most of it's critics.
Apple would need to convince us that subscribing to their service is a better value proposition than doing all the "heavy lifting" of recording our own content.
As Apple continues to grow and venture into new territories there will be more "conflicts of interest" in the future.
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor, dual link DVI support, 128MB of GDDR3 on 1.83GHz configuration. 256MB GDDR3 on 2.0GHz configuration
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
The x1600 in the MacBook Pro has dual link DVI support.
2. Build it into a great animation studio
3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse)
4. Personal profit of $3.5 BILLION!
The wireless checkout devices are just glorified PDAs from Symbol Technologies.
If Apple made a PDA and paired it with a bluetooth barcode scanner they would probably have a much more elegant solution.
If this is the motivation Apple needs to release a PDA, then i'm all for it.
These are growing pains that any company in Apple's shoes would be having. Apple is doing the right thing and opening 2 more stores in Manhattan. One will be almost the same size as the current SoHo store and the other will be an even bigger flagship store.
I read a recent analyst estimate that Apple will probably grow it's retail chain to around 400 stores in a few years. Hopefully that will help meet the demand.
I run a computer lab full of Macs and you would be amazed how far out of the way PC users will go to use IE.
Every Mac has Safari(in the dock), Firefox, Opera and IE.
Many PC users still think Internet Explorer IS the internet.
If Internet Explorer isn't on the desktop then the computer must not be working properly.
"Apple really topped out in the early 1990's, and has been on a long, (admittedly slow) downhill slide since then. They've managed to produce a couple of temporary upward bumps since then, but never anything very significant. Ultimately, it's just a bit of noise in a long, slow slide into oblivion. Recently, Apple's doing a bit better financially, but that's due to sales of iPods (and associated music, accessories, etc.) not Macs."
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In 2001 Apple sold about 3 million Macs which generated about 4.5 billion in revenue.
In 2005 Apple sold over 5 million Macs which generated over 6 billion in revenue.
http://homepage.mac.com/jomy/.Pictures/APPL/Q4-05
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Cyber Guard
Each branch is going to end up having it's own "Cyberspace" division duplicating the efforts of other branches and wasting taxpayer dollars.
I just hope we don't have a cyber-civil war with the branches trying to out hack each other.
While we are at it, why not redefine the mission of the US Coast Guard to "Border Guard". Give them the resources they need to defend all our Borders.
The content is currently sized for the iPod video but that is not Apple's real goal.
The iPod is primarily a music player and probably always will be.
Apples iPod videos are a test balloon to see how interested consumers are and wake up the MPAA.
Eventually Apple wants to take over your living room and sell/rent you HD video.
But first they have to create the infrastructure.
First, Apple will starts selling a Home Theater Mac capable of playing HD.
Then they will launch a NetFlix like service to rent HiDef Movies.
Instead of shipping you a DVD, the Mac will download a HiDef movie a la BitTorrent.
Apple will be renting HD while NetFlix and BlockBuster wait for BluRay.
People can get music on their iPods for free. Why would anybody buy from iTMS?
Once Apple has millions of these in living rooms, there will be a much larger potential audience for paid video content.
Not a lot of people are buying iTunes TV shows because not a lot of people have a Digital Home Theater.
How hard would it be to have a dedicated hardware MPEG-4 encoding?
QuickTime Pro already supports capture and encoding to MPEG4 and H264.
I think the original poster meant a tattoo on your lap would be a better deterrent than on your chest. Better luck next time.
As long as someone can capture it on video and put up a torrent, I think its worth the risk.
http://www.geocities.com/sea_saur/images.html
Actually, three dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible.
Tanniyn -usually translated serpent or dragon
Behemoth - description similar to a Brontosaurus (Job 40)
Levyathan - large sea serpent (Job 41)
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 will also give "GigaFLOP" a new meaning.
birds make a great fuel source.
Why not kill two birds with one stone?
The original poster never mentioned anything about QuickTime Player. QuickTime is a format and can be played full screen by hundreds of free apps including iTunes.
The 2 types of video supported by the iPod are MPEG4 and H264 neither of which are proprietary. If this means less proprietary Real video and WMV on the web, it is definitely a Good Thing(TM).
This is really disappointing for those looking to use a PowerMac in our home theater setup. The one major feature that Front Row lacks is the ability to record content. To do this you need a separate piece of hardware. The PowerMac is the only Mac that can accept internal capture cards. But without Front Row your back at square one.
My guess is Steve will sell it as a separate product or roll it into iLife '06. But what I really hope Steve has up his sleeve is a home theater Mac. Guess we'll find out in January.
I pray the downward spiral Palm/PalmSource is in will continue to bring us closer to the day Steve decides its time to get back in the game.
Steve did confirm that they have developed a PDA but decided not to release it because the "market wasn't right".
There are three products categories I wish Apple would enter
PDA
Tablet
eBook
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Actually the article only looked at how star ratings effect randomness. It did not consider randomness of genres at all.
A friend of mine who worked at a radio station that played a very diverse range of music told me how they select music.
She said that research had shown that listeners would rate the same song higher if it followed other song of a similar genre. If they play songs of different genres randomly the listener does not enjoy the music as much.
So their tendency is to play "blocks" of music.
For example....
4 Classic Rock songs
3 Blues Songs
3 Folk songs
4 Female Rockers
3 Grunge
etc.
This is common knowledge in the radio world. I wonder if Apple has incorporated this type of logic into it's iTunes algorithms?
The radio station in question is WXPN and can be found under iTunes > Radio > Public > WXPN
I'm glad to see Apple including cross-platform support for their products. Now how about that iSight camera Steve?