Talkingapple's List: 60

• • round up the rumours.
    first event without Jobs
• The calendar is peeling away to show an iPad screen in the background, confirming that the event will indeed be about the iPad.
• Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities that overseas supply chain sources expect Apple partner Foxconn to build between 4.5 million and 5 million iPad 2 units in the first quarter of 2011
• That would be followed by another 3 million to 4 million units in April.
• nalyst has also said that the iPad 2 will feature an upgraded display that will be feature improved anti-reflection capabilities,
• hinner and lighter with more RAM, a faster CPU, and improved graphics processing capabilities.
• s expected to build 3G models with both GSM and CDMA cellular radios

5 more annotations...

• Both T-Mobile and Orange have dropped their iPad pricing, suggesting that the iPad 2 will be with us in a matter of weeks.
• Orange is now selling the iPad for £99 on its 24-month contracts and T-Mobile is offering the same to existing customers.
• Previously, Orange was offering the iPad WiFi + 3G at £199.99 upfront on a £25 per month contract to existing customers and at £229.99 for new customers on a £27 per month contract
• T-Mobile, meanwhile, is only offering the discount to existing customers on a 24-month £25 tariff.

2 more annotations...

• Based on the PCI Express and DisplayPort architectures, Thunderbolt allows for high-speed connection of peripherals such as hard drives, RAID arrays, video-capture solutions, and network interfaces, and it can transmit high-definition video using the DisplayPort protocol. Each Thunderbolt port also provides up to 10 Watts of power to connected peripherals.

  • Not enough power for big displays
• Thunderbolt channel can provide up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of data throughput—and each Thunderbolt port includes two channels. Thunderbolt is also bi-directional, meaning it can transmit and receive data at the same time.

  • Macs will never have USB 3

  • Can be increased at least to 100Gb
• Thunderbolt backward-compatible with USB and FireWire
• You can connect up to six devices to each Thunderbolt port by daisy-chaining them—connecting the first to the Thunderbolt port, connecting the second to the first, and so on
• computer-to-computer Thunderbolt connection

  • Try to do that with usb
• • intel says Apple has a year headstart

  • What is the future of thunderbolt on macs? Don't expect them on iOS decices
  • 1 more sticky notes...

  • • Remember when I said OSs will come on USB, well, this will be so much faster, fast enough to boot the system faster then from hard drive 

4 more annotations...

• Speedmark 6.5 tests administered by Macworld found that the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.3GHz Core i5 dual-core processor earned a score of 140, versus its predecessor's score of 106. That means the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is 35 percent faster than the model released last April.
• The 13-inch 2.7GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro was 13 percent faster than last year's offering with a score of 155. It sports a 2.7GHz Core i7 processor, but again relies on Intel's discrete graphics.
• The 15-inch MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz quad-core Core i7 MacBook Pro came in 33 percent faster than last year's 15-inch model with a 2.4GHz Core i5 dual-core system. And the 15-inch 2.2GHz Core i7 quad-core came in 38 percent faster than last year's model.
• • 10% more performance from i5 to i7 on 13inch.
    20% more performance from 2.0 i7 to 2.2 i7 on 15inch
• The new 17-inch MacBook Pro has similar specifications to the high-end 15-inch model, and was 53 percent faster than last year's 17-inch mode

3 more annotations...

• • Must be a pretty good offer next week. Still q bit strange. 

• • normaly when a company sells a product on their website, it has to be at a higher price than in places like amazon and such. otherwise nobody would go to amazon. 
    But apple is doing the opposite - not allowing cheaper prices on app store. From a user prespective you know you get the best deal, but its bad for publisher.
    
    Also, Apple is the only company that gives the user the ability to opt in or out of private info being passed on.
• growing concern that the terms don't allow for "software as a service" (SaaS) apps as well. These are apps such as DropBox and SalesForce that provide specific services to users for recurring subscription fee.
• Readability announced that their app had been rejected due to the new subscription terms.
• John Gruber, however, interprets this rejection differently, and believes that Readability is simply a publisher model, and thus subject to Apple's new terms
• We created subscriptions for publishing apps, not SaaS apps.
   
   Sent from my iPhone

3 more annotations...

• Until then Amazon had been taking up to 70% and no one questioned it or cared. Yet when Apple announced they'd soon begin taking 30%—their standard cut—of another category of item sold in the App Store everyone flipped out.
• it's hard to believe those claiming outrage aren't primarily motivated by the fact that this is Apple

  • these guys will run a possible negative Apple story, even if it envolves death. (mention what family member told me)

• interesting post over at GigaOM
• The data collected by Book Marketing and its parent companies indicates that there are more e-books read in the UK on the iPad and the iPhone each than read on the Kindle.
• US, where Kindle is solidly beating out the iPad and iPhone, even combined

1 more annotation...

• Launchpad
• The Mac App Store
• Launchpad
• Full-screen apps
• Mission Control
• Versions records the evolution of a document as you create it. Mac OS X Lion automatically creates a version of the document each time you open it and every hour while you’re working on it.
• Resume lets you restart your Mac — after a software update, for example — and return to what you were doing. With all your apps back in the exact places you left them. In fact, whenever you quit and relaunch an app, Resume opens it precisely the way you left it.

  •  Apple has reportedly told developers that quitting is no longer necessary.

  • Mac OS X may terminate an application behind the scenes when it goes unused or has no open windows
    
    I alwatys said that the way iOS does multitasking should come to the mac and not 5the other way around. 
• Just like Mail on iPad, Mail 5 in Mac OS X Lion features a new layout that takes advantage of the widescreen display on your Mac.
• o includes a powerful new way to search
• Mail 5 also introduces Conversations, a natural new way to read and manage email that automatically groups messages from the same conversation

  • more gmail like
• AirDrop in Mac OS X Lion, you can send files to anyone around you —  wirelessly.
• click the AirDrop icon in the Finder sidebar, and your Mac automatically discovers other people nearby who are using AirDrop. You’ll even see contact photos for those who are already in your Address Book.
• simply drag it to someone’s name.
• When you’re done with AirDrop, close the Finder and your Mac is no longer visible to others.
• directly to the person’s Downloads folder.
• XTS-AES 128 data encryption at the disk level.
• ileVault also encrypts for your external drives, and provides the ability to wipe all the data from your Mac instantaneously.
• Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion.

  • that is huge
• • Acoording to thus the "trucks" are going nowhere.

  • New popover screens on spotlight - great for dictionary or differentiating between similar named files
  • 12 more sticky notes...

  • • Safari much quicker with webkit2

    • New slick transactions on everything

    • PowerPC (Rosetta) emulation is no longer offered. That means if you have any PowerPC applications they won't be able to run in Mac OS X Lion.

    •  The details are scarce at this point, but we have found references to a Find my Mac service deep down in the 10.7 file system.

    • "About This Mac" menus had a complete revamp

    • n Lion, Migration Assistant offers to connect to a PC over the network as well, enabling new Mac users to pull their data from an existing Windows-based computer. (we dont know at this point if extra software is needed on the pc side)

    • TRIM support on SSD drives (it's debatable if it really does much)

    • autocorrect user interface from iOS has been brought to the Mac with Lion.

    • Apple has also enhanced parental controls for the Mac, allowing users to restrict access to certain websites, programs, or even to use the machine at certain times of day.

    • scrollbarr disapears, but can be put back in settings

    • Finder itself sports a new view called "All My Files," similar to coverflow, but now you can see various rows, depending on file type

    •  Mac OS X 10.7 Lion's Finder will break down items in a folder by file type

17 more annotations...

• The proposed solution would be a "Safe Deposit Box" built into Mac OS X, allowing users to simply drag and drop a file onto the deposit box icon. Doing so would securely store and save the file. Users could also allow access to files for a short period of time, minimizing the risk of an unauthorized user gaining access.
• automatically generate a copy of the file and save it to the cloud, preventing the risk of file loss.

• Mac OS X's "resolution independence" features.
• Apple has reportedly built in support for what it calls "HiDPI display modes".
• allow developers to supply 2x-enlarged images to support double-high resolution displays. Like the iPhone 4's Retina Display, this means that user interface elements will remain the same size, but everything will be twice the resolution and therefore twice as detailed

  • this was kind of possible in past, but resolutions we're all over the place

1 more annotation...

• Apple is inviting security experts to examine its developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• "I wanted to let you know that I've requested that you be invited to the prerelease seed of Mac OS X Lion, and you should receive an invitation soon," Apple wrote to several security researchers
• As you have reported Mac OS X security issues in the past, I thought that you might be interested in taking a look at this. It contains several improvements in the area of security countermeasures,"

1 more annotation...

• Buyers of Apple's new MacBook Pro lineup will get the newly out-of-beta FaceTime for Mac free with a new machine, while existing Mac users can buy the video chat software on the Mac App Store for 99 cents
• new application also supports high-definition 720p video
• he application also features a list of recent calls.
• Window and playback controls fade away in FaceTime for Mac,
• . Making HD video calls requires a built-in FaceTime HD camera and a 1-Mbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.
• The Sarbannes-Oxley Act requires that companies charge for significant features added to already-purchased products.

4 more annotations...

• • Mobile me is out of date as a service. Most of the things it offers are easily gotten free. 
    but apple is the only company that could cover everything from music, to mail, desktop syncing, video, photos taken on phone and added from other mac, etc
• Apple is reportedly informing third-party resellers that boxed versions of MobileMe are now discontinued.
• Apple may offer MobileMe as a free service with cloud-based digital lockers for music, photos and videos.
• Apple has removed the paid version of MobileMe from its online store, offering the service as a free 60-day trial

2 more annotations...

• • let's just hope this is not another reason to charge more. At least make it an extra tear 
• Apple would like to increase the quality of purchased songs on iTunes, according to CNN.
• most portable devices do not support the high-fidelity audio format. Iovine said Apple would have to make future iPhones and iPods that would be able to play the higher quality audio files.

1 more annotation...

• Apple recently showed off the next version of Final Cut Pro to a select group of power users, and one person who saw the forthcoming update has called it "a jaw-dropper."
• producer, director and editor Larry Jordan.
• he said that it would be a "great year" for users of the Final Cut Pro software suite, suggesting that Apple could release it in the near future.
• calm some who were concerned last year after AppleInsider first reported that Apple was, at the time, scaling Final Cut Studio to fit the "prosumer" market rather than high-end professionals.

2 more annotations...

• nalyst Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities
• potential release during the second half of 2011, with a screen size between that of the current iPad and the iPhone.
• "not sure" whether it would be "a 'Super iPhone' or a 'iPad mini.'"
• may be interested in delivering an oversized iPod touch
• With a 5 inch screen, a "big iPod touch" at its existing resolution would offer a 230ppi screen density; stretched across a 7 inch screen the same resolution would deliver 164ppi, still higher than the existing iPad's pixel density of 132ppi.

3 more annotations...