PXL Transmitter
Registered
I was watching the keynote presentation at Macworld Expo in San Franciso over QuickTime Live Streaming yesterday and followed attentively the introduction of your iLife product line.
I believe the main idea behind this product line is pretty good. I think this is a further step forward to simplify what you might call digital lifestyle.
The basic idea of this concept is nothing more than the fact that users have different applications to maintain and organize so-called "digital libraries" for different types of digital media such as Sound, Movie, Photography.
Every single application is representing a software component which you call iApps.
Okay and nice so far ...
I would like to spin this basic idea a bit further in order to mentally "visualize" my future idea of MacOS X.
Your current or better said future product line is on my opinion a very good idea to organize and maintain my digital files into libraries. I believe these iApps are very useful for a single user.
BUT ...
What happens if I wish to share my well organized digital media files with the people of my daily work? Do you believe your iApps are only applicable for my daily private life?
Don´t you think some of these digital media libraries wouldn´t be useful and even necessary in daily business life? Why shouldn´t I be able to share my digital libraries with other co-workers over my existing network environment (LAN)?
Every of your iApps is storing its original media files somewhere on my computer ... some of these digital media archives are really not very easy to find on my local harddrive. What I dislike most ... is the fact that I have to browse through different types of predefined folder structures in order to reach my original "destiny" folder in order to access my original files.
browsing ...
searching ...
browsing ...
searching ...
browsing ...
Besides, I have to admit that your understanding of "how-to-organize-your-computer" is not really easy to understand. Especially for users who switch from MacOS 9 to MacOS X. All these confusing folders are on my opinion way to much complicated. you cannot tell your users where they have to put their different media files such as sound, video, audio, photos, graphics etc ...
I believe every user out there has his own understanding and own way of thinking how to organize his/her files.
However, now that we have your so-called iApps it could make my life much easier to sort and organize my files into libraries ...
... if I only knew where exactly each single iApp copies all my original files on my harddisk?
I especially like the basic idea of your Address Book. My Address Book allows me to share my contacts via LDAP with other co-workers. Even though I believe the setup for LDAP is way to complicated ... easy said ... cryptic ...
Anyway ...
Why shouldn´t this concept be applicable for all other libraries? I would like to store my libraries and all the appendant original media files somewhere on a "file-server" so that each co-worker on my local network can access every single Library the most easiest way ...
Even simpler ...
I have my finder window which contains nice and fancy icons such as "Computer", "Home", "Favorites", "Applications". (All of these icons are nothing more than favorites or so-called quicklinks on my opinion)
I am thinking of an OS which contains icons for "Address Book", iTunes", "iPhoto", "iMail" in my Finder(!) window (I think you call it file browser) as well.
I click the icon for "Address Book" and the apprppriate application automatically launches.
Okay, no big deal so far ...
BUT
----
My Finder(!) window or better said file-browser turns automatically into an "Address Book" application and I have access to my address book entries with only one click! Easy ...
OR
I click the icon "iTunes" ... my finder window/file-browser window turns into an iTunes application an I can access my sound files with one easy click
OR
I click the "Mail" icon, my finder window/file-browser window transforms into a mail client and I have access to all my emails
OR
I click the "iPhoto" icon, my finder window/file-browser turns magically into the "iPhoto" application and I have access to my entire photo library.
OR
I click on the "iCal" icon and my finder window/file-browser turns into a calender application with only one click. I have access to all my dates, to-dos and contacts.
OR
I click the "Safari" icon and my finder window/file-browser tramsforms magically into a web-browser.
- I don´t have to access the dock
- I don´t have to switch between applications
- My screen is not cluttered with different kinds of iApps
- I have space on my display for other applications of my daily business work
- The window of the Address Book application does not hide and overlap the window of my mail client
- I don´t need to create favorites for all of my applications in order to access and launch them easily ...
And the best thing ...
Every other computer on my local area network has access to the same(!) libraries such as for "iPhoto", "iTunes", "Address Book", "Project-Bookmarks", "Web-Bookmarks" etc.
and last but not least ...
iWork(!)
Some kind of file browser for workgroups which marks every single file which is currently in "working-process" which allows workgroups to work simultaneously on one project ... well ... or something like that ...
I would like to see an OS which allows small business companies to easily setup a working group environment in less than one hour ... without any manual ... without any admin geek
- No endless installation processes
- Every application should be easily installed via drag & drop
- No cryptic preferences entries
- No cryptic server entries
- Easy and userfriendly File-Server setup
- Easy access to public libraries for iPhoto, iTunes etc.
- Easy setup of backup methods and scripts
- Userfriendly and easy accessable storage of preferences for applications, keychains, and libraries
So ...................
If I think again ... what exactly do each of your so-called iApps represent?
(brainwork in progress ... please wait)
Right!
Most of these iApps are nothing more than browsers in a common sense. We have a browser for browsing files, we have a browser for browsing photo libraries, we have a browser for browsing audio libraries, we have a browser for browsing the web, we have a browser in order to browse through contacts, we have an individual browser for browsing meetings, deadlines, To-Dos ...
So many individual browsers for different types of tasks!
Snip ...
Couldn´t we make this a little easier folks?
graphically and sincerely yours,
PXL Transmitter
I believe the main idea behind this product line is pretty good. I think this is a further step forward to simplify what you might call digital lifestyle.
The basic idea of this concept is nothing more than the fact that users have different applications to maintain and organize so-called "digital libraries" for different types of digital media such as Sound, Movie, Photography.
Every single application is representing a software component which you call iApps.
Okay and nice so far ...
I would like to spin this basic idea a bit further in order to mentally "visualize" my future idea of MacOS X.
Your current or better said future product line is on my opinion a very good idea to organize and maintain my digital files into libraries. I believe these iApps are very useful for a single user.
BUT ...
What happens if I wish to share my well organized digital media files with the people of my daily work? Do you believe your iApps are only applicable for my daily private life?
Don´t you think some of these digital media libraries wouldn´t be useful and even necessary in daily business life? Why shouldn´t I be able to share my digital libraries with other co-workers over my existing network environment (LAN)?
Every of your iApps is storing its original media files somewhere on my computer ... some of these digital media archives are really not very easy to find on my local harddrive. What I dislike most ... is the fact that I have to browse through different types of predefined folder structures in order to reach my original "destiny" folder in order to access my original files.
browsing ...
searching ...
browsing ...
searching ...
browsing ...
Besides, I have to admit that your understanding of "how-to-organize-your-computer" is not really easy to understand. Especially for users who switch from MacOS 9 to MacOS X. All these confusing folders are on my opinion way to much complicated. you cannot tell your users where they have to put their different media files such as sound, video, audio, photos, graphics etc ...
I believe every user out there has his own understanding and own way of thinking how to organize his/her files.
However, now that we have your so-called iApps it could make my life much easier to sort and organize my files into libraries ...
... if I only knew where exactly each single iApp copies all my original files on my harddisk?
I especially like the basic idea of your Address Book. My Address Book allows me to share my contacts via LDAP with other co-workers. Even though I believe the setup for LDAP is way to complicated ... easy said ... cryptic ...
Anyway ...
Why shouldn´t this concept be applicable for all other libraries? I would like to store my libraries and all the appendant original media files somewhere on a "file-server" so that each co-worker on my local network can access every single Library the most easiest way ...
Even simpler ...
I have my finder window which contains nice and fancy icons such as "Computer", "Home", "Favorites", "Applications". (All of these icons are nothing more than favorites or so-called quicklinks on my opinion)
I am thinking of an OS which contains icons for "Address Book", iTunes", "iPhoto", "iMail" in my Finder(!) window (I think you call it file browser) as well.
I click the icon for "Address Book" and the apprppriate application automatically launches.
Okay, no big deal so far ...
BUT
----
My Finder(!) window or better said file-browser turns automatically into an "Address Book" application and I have access to my address book entries with only one click! Easy ...
OR
I click the icon "iTunes" ... my finder window/file-browser window turns into an iTunes application an I can access my sound files with one easy click
OR
I click the "Mail" icon, my finder window/file-browser window transforms into a mail client and I have access to all my emails
OR
I click the "iPhoto" icon, my finder window/file-browser turns magically into the "iPhoto" application and I have access to my entire photo library.
OR
I click on the "iCal" icon and my finder window/file-browser turns into a calender application with only one click. I have access to all my dates, to-dos and contacts.
OR
I click the "Safari" icon and my finder window/file-browser tramsforms magically into a web-browser.
- I don´t have to access the dock
- I don´t have to switch between applications
- My screen is not cluttered with different kinds of iApps
- I have space on my display for other applications of my daily business work
- The window of the Address Book application does not hide and overlap the window of my mail client
- I don´t need to create favorites for all of my applications in order to access and launch them easily ...
And the best thing ...
Every other computer on my local area network has access to the same(!) libraries such as for "iPhoto", "iTunes", "Address Book", "Project-Bookmarks", "Web-Bookmarks" etc.
and last but not least ...
iWork(!)
Some kind of file browser for workgroups which marks every single file which is currently in "working-process" which allows workgroups to work simultaneously on one project ... well ... or something like that ...
I would like to see an OS which allows small business companies to easily setup a working group environment in less than one hour ... without any manual ... without any admin geek
- No endless installation processes
- Every application should be easily installed via drag & drop
- No cryptic preferences entries
- No cryptic server entries
- Easy and userfriendly File-Server setup
- Easy access to public libraries for iPhoto, iTunes etc.
- Easy setup of backup methods and scripts
- Userfriendly and easy accessable storage of preferences for applications, keychains, and libraries
So ...................
If I think again ... what exactly do each of your so-called iApps represent?
(brainwork in progress ... please wait)
Right!
Most of these iApps are nothing more than browsers in a common sense. We have a browser for browsing files, we have a browser for browsing photo libraries, we have a browser for browsing audio libraries, we have a browser for browsing the web, we have a browser in order to browse through contacts, we have an individual browser for browsing meetings, deadlines, To-Dos ...
So many individual browsers for different types of tasks!
Snip ...
Couldn´t we make this a little easier folks?
graphically and sincerely yours,
PXL Transmitter