MWSF Official Thread

[Arden]

No, iSight would suck if it were wireless over Bluetooth. It needs a 600 Mhz G3 with Firewire or better to generate the kind of image quality that it does. If it connected with Bluetooth, the picture would be the size of our avatars.

You should get that Firewire hub that's shaped like Godzilla. That thing is cool, and you can make people laugh when they see it.

[malexgreen]

Originally Posted by chevy

My suggestions....

Quicktime Movie Store - you can either rent or buy movies in DVD quality or at various levels of quality for those with low bandwidth. This would boost purchases of high end Macs and broadband connections. This would be something available only to those who upgrade to Quicktime Pro, so this would spur more upgraders to Quicktime Pro. With the same owner rights as the ITMS, including being able to burn your movies to DVD-R discs (more Superdrive sales).

Built in GPRS/EDGE cellular data modem in Power Macs Another technology accelerator: This would accelerate the upgrade cell phone networks to EDGE and be a nice feature for mobile business users. However you can do this now with a bluetooth phone and a Mac with either bluetooth built-in or with the USB bluetooth add-on.

Enterprise XServe - An XServe with Power3 or Power4 chips (4 and 8 way). Also a XServe blade server using low power G5's, if they are not already capable of fitting within a blade form factor.

Applie iOffice with integrated Inkwell - To beat MS Office this would have to seamlessly integrate with iLife and Quicktime and be fully interoperable with MS Office (including full MS Exchanger Server). Also will have to enable using Inkwell for tablet applications. Also they should push Inkwell to Adobe, Macormedia, and other CAD, graphics, and art oriented ISV's as an alternative to Windows XP Tablet PC Ink technology.

[bobw]

Free pass for MacWorld;

http://eshop.macsales.com/Macworld/

[fryke]

QT Movie Store - Not in 2004, I'd say...
GPRS/EDGE in PowerMacs - You might mean PowerBOOKS, rather, as I don't need mobile internet in a stationary desktop machine. For PowerBooks: I don't think so.
Xserve Power3/Power4 - Don't see that, either. Let's have a G5 or two in there, first. And get some market share...
iOffice/Inkwell etc. - I see a wordprocessor. I see Apple moving forward slowly there. Promoting Inkwell to Adobe, Macromedia etc.? I don't see that - and it already works. You can enter text in TextEdit via Inkwell, btw.

[malexgreen]

Originally Posted by fryke

QT Movie Store - Not in 2004, I'd say...

I think this would be a nice high end feature for people with cable modems and big harddrives, or at least for those with the money to purchase such things. I think it's doable now.

Originally Posted by fryke

GPRS/EDGE in PowerMacs - You might mean PowerBOOKS, rather, as I don't need mobile internet in a stationary desktop machine. For PowerBooks: I don't think so.

What if you lived in "Po-dunk", Montana or the Sudan or some other underdeveloped region of the world where a cable or phone line is not as prelevant as a cell phone hook up? That's where that technology would be helpful. If not GPRS/EDGE then WiMax.

Originally Posted by fryke

Xserve Power3/Power4 - Don't see that, either. Let's have a G5 or two in there, first. And get some market share...

If not an enterprise server, then they should come out with blade servers with the G5, heck IBM has.

Originally Posted by fryke

iOffice/Inkwell etc. - I see a wordprocessor. I see Apple moving forward slowly there. Promoting Inkwell to Adobe, Macromedia etc.? I don't see that - and it already works. You can enter text in TextEdit via Inkwell, btw.

Being able to import your Inkwell data as a TIFF image is not the same technology as the Tablet PC Ink technology. I think Apple should make Inkwell the Tablet PC killer technology that it could be, esp if it integrates well with multimedia production applications, which at this point Tablet PC Ink does not. I see this as a easy thing to do for Apple given their ISV relationships with Adobe, Macromedia and other graphics/multimedia and CAD software companies. If they further integrate Inkwell with Keynote this year, that would be nice.

[symphonix]

QT movie store may be doable now, but that doesn't mean its marketable now. The cost of supporting it at this stage would far outweigh any revenue to be made. However, that said, Apple has often tried to be the first with a new technology even when they know its not profitable, simply so they can have the market.

XServe: A G5 X-Serve sounds like a reasonable next step. I doubt we'll see blades, though, because Apple's philosophy is strongly against making products that require special, expert handling. The X-Serve is a set and forget machine that any halfway competent network administrator could set up, even without server hardware experience. I think they'll keep it that way.

As for iOffice, this seems like a realistic possibility. Of course, we'll have to wait for the "just one more thing" eh?

[iMan]

Arden, my brother got one it's cool but I need some thing more functional on my over crowded desk. As for wireless iSight, that is true bluetooth is to slow but it would work over airport extreme.

Are we going to meet-up at the expo?

Viktor

[iMan]

oh, thanks bobw for the free pass link..

Viktor