a few hours ago that Phil Schiller finished with the task to be entrusted: to be the person who made presentations Apple products at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco. If we consider this point of view, things went quite well: there products
new, some with very cool features.
The other view is that Phil Schiller has come to replace Steve Jobs at Kabbalah Centre classes
Apple's last appearance at a Macworld. If you think that somehow it was necessary to emphasize that this was the last authentic keynote, Keynote is clear that this should lead to disappointment.
As I am optimistic by nature, I stay with the first interpretation: Apple, with or without Steve Jobs, it remains interesting, risky choices? Or at least not easy, "but you can not revolutionize the world every time you make a Presentacion. And in this case, I think that has been met decently, but lacked the element of surprise? surely that was left for subsequent events. Recall
Rav Berg teaches Zohar and other Kabbalist sources
that the iMac and Mac mini will like him in February ;-)
Which has been submitted
Let's do a quick review of what has been presented in this Philnote (Steve was the Stevenotes), and it is my first impression, after reviewing in detail for each of them.
iLife? 09: for me, is the automatic recognition of faces and incremental iPhoto, and its connection to Google services for geotagging. There are other improvements, and I appeal especially iMovie, iPhoto, but I believe the most important.
iWork? 09: This seems to me that if a powerful renewal. IWork for my worth and only with Keynote, but Pages is becoming more a hole in my list of tools, and I thank all the improvements ( ¡editing schemes yuju!). Numbers And although I've just used all the news I find interesting sea.
iWork dot com: a little ambivalent. On the one hand, I think a good compromise that is more than one area of cooperation in the exchange of views that a real publisher? Been less?. It's great to show in detail the format in a browser without having to dip into Flash or PDF, and if we want to do something more than suggestions edit any of the formats that are provided? if provided.
MacBook Pro 17: one expected, with a highly desired feature: a duration of one day (you can possibly get an hour when the low brightness level), with less size and less weight. A team of this size usually move between different tables (not fit in any airplane tray ;-)), so, ± HO will use it with battery? And if this all the time on the road,
and last thing (because they never will have one more thing in a Macworld Expo)
iTunes without DRM, with prices varying from ambivalent again (because I have no clear need to use the time to announce Macworld), but agrees. We won freedom in the consumer, but to earn producers putting prices. The price varies on iTunes means that the rate can go album worth about 7?, While the album release in 13 to move to cost? or more, which can threaten an artist with his music to launch a discount price. I suppose that, on average, a winner.
Go to a review of the present, but guided by the information available on Apple's own website (which is certainly even more extensive than that available on any other website to which it has discussed the keynote).
iLife? 09
iPhoto
IPhoto begin with because, as I said before, I think that is the product of the iLife suite. After the change meant moving from reel to events, the version? 09 provides two orthogonal tools to sort the pictures, you might call labeling facial and geotagging.
The labeling facial seen in other applications, or at least indicate that a program in which an image is supposed to face. In a low-cost commercial software if it's new, and implementation is quite ingenious: once found and labeled one side, we offer photographs that may be the same person, and the confirmation or denial obtained additional candidates, so you can label an entire family of fairly quickly and easily.
The geotagging has fewer problems because we are more accustomed to it. IPhoto And fortunately, thanks to Google (and WebKit), uses the best maps for geoetiquetado. I love to indicate where are my Flickr photos, but usually the maps and photographs of the maps
Yahoo! I tend to nerves, to the point that first locate the site on Google Maps, and then try to imagine where it falls on Flickr ;-)
Along with the arbitrary labels, and events, now we have four lines in our iPhoto images to identify with values that are generated by the simplest way possible. And thanks to the integrated Flickr support, ¡no longer depend on their geoetiquetado! And not only is integrated support for Flickr, but for Facebook, both for the photos Stand on Facebook include the fact that we have labeled as access to photographs of our already known labels and posting on Facebook.
There are a few more features that are very good looking, as the themes for slideshows, books or maps, but until we have no direct hand iPhoto anything. But I like the idea of books with maps? Must be found which keeps iPhoto? 09 PDF created the book to ask ;-)
iMovie
About iMovie? 09, I do not have much to say, more than anything because I need to see the videos of the demos, beyond what is shown in the tutorials, but has all the paint had got the best of iMovie? 08, and iMovie? 06, and have a pretty interesting mix.
GarageBand
I must say that GarageBand is the typical application that wants to erase a hard drive when you have a small (well, GarageBand, and iDVD). But if you can afford the space on your hard disk, usually a pretty good source of entertainment. And it is very popular among astronomers observation during the sessions, especially if the weather is bad ;-)
I am very casual user of GarageBand, but has the look that I am going to play with GarageBand even more when I buy a new computer. The lessons are a great idea, and try to use them to learn to play guitar. And it is amazing that they have thought about creating a new line of revenue: in charge for expanding the tools and sound loops available (Jam Packs), Apple now also may charge for making Sting, Sarah McLaughlan, Norah Jones, and others, to give lessons! ? legara to be a sign of status that Apple will offer to give a lesson in GarageBand?
Apple would have been amazing if you have a general purpose periferico inalambrico that could be used to Teremin, guitar, keyboard? instead of a Wii Fit board, a multi-keyboard instrument? but I suppose that we can create an application for iPod touch and do something like Keynote Remote ;-)
iWork? 09
Keynote
I have to say to me, is the Keynote. As I paid for TextMate, simply because it is a text editor that I find it wonderful, Keynote is a program that is worth the price of iWork? Above accompanying Pages (as I said, maybe for my Numbers is residual, more than anything because for large data sets using specific file formats or databases, and for small things, or graphics, does not usually meet my needs ).
If you think about it, Keynote has become, in each iteration, a sort of little brother and Director of Motion: You can make much impact with graphic presentations, but it is also exported finished creation can Flash respecting vast majority of the animations! Keynote? 09 presents several new features in this section, although for me the jump taken by Keynote? 08 was higher than the current one, if the Magic Move animations are exported to Flash correctly, Keynote? 09 is one of those mandatory updates.
Update: Arrgh! You've eliminated the option of exporting Keynote'09 to Flash! I suppose that many of the new effects could not happen, but there were also problems in Keynote'08 effects and enough to avoid them? So I stay with Keynote'08 for certain tasks?
Other additions, and iWork for all, is the existence of the sets of color-coordinated so that even the most lacking in aesthetic sense to have a guide, and cause death by Keynote, at least not be too horrible to see ;-)
One thing that I liked: Keynote Remote which is to pay, even a ridiculous price. If the sale of free valdria more than one euro as a means to move to Keynote? 09. And the same argument, conversely, serve to break to convince someone to buy the iPod touch ;-)
Incidentally, I have a unique ;-) I have not seen written anywhere, not even Apple's website, but the tutorial on creating forms can be seen in Keynote that new dynamic alignment guides, which also include guide spacing and size to make it easy to create shared features with dimensions and equally. It is one of the reasons why I use OmniGraffle, but for certain types of diagrams will no longer have to open it.
Pages
As I said before: Pages that I love more every day? and that I am using a PowerPC G4 in less than 1 GHz Then you can make adjustments on the spacing of the text in a dynamic manner, and if you make a different choice paragraphs discontinuous sliding just a driver, having to re-Word 2004 and its settings without pain is a preview. ? ue as is done in a discontinuous selection Pages? Using the Command key (the apple), and dragging on different words in different paragraphs. Too bad that you can not edit an equally dynamic style, or love and the serious total.
But if I missed that unless the schedules of Word. Well, actually has all the features of the layout of Word, but in a much more intuitive, and keeping better control of the page? ¡and numbering! And together with the schemes, the possibility of sections in the document, the style Notebook.
I am sure that by iWork? 09 even better work with documents in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2008, so with this update? Goodbye, Microsoft Word? almost always! Oh, one thing done under Word 2008, and are? Intelligent design, "Smart Art, or as they call ;-)
But as the non-use Word 2008 on my computer, nothing happens ;-)
The other additions not call me much attention, although the full-screen mode can be useful at times.
Numbers
Nothing to say, except that the inclusion of error bars and scatter diagrams finally make it usable in any time to any specific plot.
Perhaps worth noting the possibility of creating formats that depend on the values of the cells easily. You can also create, for example, an image Posterize grayscale from the values of that image. See href =? Http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/ # conditional-numbers? target =? _blank> condional tutorial format.
iWork dot com
I do not have much to add to what is already stated in the introduction: If this well-executed (and the latest version of MobileMe is much stronger than the original release), I think an interesting product? But the interest depends on the price. And another thing: ³ dotcom era iWork a small supplement of MobileMe, or a product with a comparable price? If this is the first thing, surely it will sign, but if it is the latter, which did not count me ;-)
And so we come to ...
MacBook Pro 17?
It is natural to update the MacBook Pro line of 15? at 17 ", with a few exceptions in the Model 17? will continue to offer a matte screen option (the Schiller said that the high-end customers do not like the screen brightness), and the battery is
Fully integrated with the insurance of a lithium polymer technology for greater durability.
The question is, £ uanto time pass until the range of 15? Replaceable battery not included? ? uanto time for Apple to license the MagSafe connector to dock there batteries (or as I Sinclair Interface ;-)) that fit under the cover of the team, allowing greater autonomy to those in extreme need, and greater autonomy mean the vast majority?
Of course, it is hoped that the forthcoming review of the smaller MacBook and MacBook Pro 15? include greater longevity of batteries, although the removable format.
And we got not one thing, but the last thing you ever submit an Apple Macworld (until who knows when ;-)),
iTunes DRM least, price range
I'm updating a couple of albums that have managed to upgrade to iTunes Plus: 52 songs? by nearly 9? on the adjustment, that is, 52 songs for the price of 9. Just do not seem fair, but at liberty but who earns? Extra quality and that is achieved with the scans as Apple, compared with the original quality of the AAC at 128Kbps, or a digitizing with iTunes to 256Kbps? I have done? bite?.
In return, I saw that many albums for 6.90?, Three euros less than the previous limit of 9.90?, Yet I have not found any of 12.90? Hope they are rare in the type of I like music. :-)
Reflections on the company
Finally, I wanted to pick up, maybe in a disorderly, several ideas that I have been going on the way to work in Apple:
Apple is not going to speed that nobody tells you: do not put up for sale tablet PCs based on the iPod touch, no one NETBOOK the sale, it is not to compete with Google Docs (rather complements), no updates Mac mini. And in contrast, does what others do or do not dare to do: change formats and products when they are still profitable (iPod mini, iPod nano, even the MacBook), and even left a fair in his honor.Desde switching to Intel, and only in the Mac line, we have seen (in no particular order): magnetic connectors security, Unibody chassis, microprocessors and chips as Intel (for MacBook Air) and nVidia (for MacBooks in general) batteries in laptops (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 17?) trackpads multitactiles, ultradelgados formats? And that without iPhone, iPod touch, AppleTV? or products software.Posiblemente more innovation that other companies (except in the NETBOOK phenomenon where many miss the presence of less Apple? and I was not so clear that I will enter, it is easier to look into the market mini laptop, a MacBook Air just a little more chiquitin and only slightly less powerful, the netbooks are too many compromises for my taste .. and also, in a way, those who use Linux are working with Apple ;-)).
Apple gets increasingly more important in their marketing, aspects of manufacturing, so they want to sell industrial innovation are doing. I guess that will continue to invest in manufacturing in ID throughout this crisis, but without going crazy, so I can put on more of it than good.
I am sure that Steve has not touched any of the slides showed Phil? and there is no way to visually distinguish their presentations. DNA is a good run by the company.
I am even more certain that the next of the WWDC keynote neither will Steve Jobs and the nomination to fall between Bertrand Serlet and Scott Forstall, with perhaps as Schiller introducer.
In the end, Apple has bowed to the record? in exchange for free catalog remove all protections incompatible. Good for Apple (including an end to his trial in Norway), good for consumers (the possibility of using all the songs on all the computers you want to own, any manufacturer), and good for the record companies, which have a tool more pressure on their artists. Maybe in the latter case is not good for consumers?
There was no mention of Snow Leopard confirmed in a sense that there is no secret characters, and Snow Leopard will have everything that is posted on Apple's website, and not one more thing. So if we see some very interesting demos, especially Grand Central, where tap. And Apple is still free to present the resolution independence
The bigger Apple laptop was, in principle, the best place to create the first portable Mac OS X with four cores? and the best candidate to take advantage of Grand Central. I guess we will have to wait for the iMac for more than two cores out of the Mac Pro
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