Steve Jobs to present iCloud, iOS 5, Lion at Apple's June 6 WWDC keynote - Page 2

Not everybody wants to present, of course. In general, though, I agree.

To be clear, Jobs was never gone. In 2008 he did take a 6 month leave, but this year he was simply working from home more often.



I think they will stay as me.com and the old mac.com. It's shorter and sweeter.



It's a developer conference so mentioning the desktop OS, mobile OS and the service that will tie them together isn't a shocker. The only shock, as the article stated, is they announced the name of their revamped cloud service outside of normal channels. But they only announced the name, no real secrets. I wouldn't expect any HW at the event and I am half expecting Jobs to announce his successor.

Whew! It's great that Apple has executives with experience to ignore kibitzers with none!

Now, that's not too shabby. Finally, the $99/year (that I've been paying for nought all these years) might just be worth it....

Don't want to get too excited until I see how it's implemented, though. Hopefully, they've fired the MobileMe (and whatever the heck it was called before that -- DotMac?) team, and got some new thinking in there.

Nothing to do with Apple! http://xcerion.com/

Why are you on this site, then?

Lion. iOS 5. Cloud services.

That's everything. If you're "bored" by them, you really have no reason to be here.

I completely agree, who wants new stuff anyway?

That's true.

Recalled incorrectly, here's the pricing:

Packages

For me the only thing I'm really interested in are the "broken" parts that interfere with my daily work. Notifications work well enough for the amount of notifications I get, they are only "broken" for me in that they are really poorly implemented within applications. eBay for instance uses notifications, but so badly that it's almost not worth using their apps.

The major "broken" part of iOS for me is and always has been the file system (or lack of one). I understand the "we don't want a traditional file system," goal and the "we can't make it easy because that would be insecure," goal that Apple is working with, but there still needs to be some kind of rudimentary file system. Specifically, there has to be a rational, reasonable, easy way to manage documents in iOS and so far there just isn't.

iOS will never replace traditional computing without really good document management. I understand that the average user is not "into" managing documents, and that most people don't even know where most of their stuff is on their computer, but it is a computer after all. How can you write with it or draw with it if you can't efficiently manage the products of your work?

I'm thinking that the cloud could easily be part of a good solution to this problem, so I'm expecting this solution to be revealed on June 6th. The fact that *nobody*, no blogs, no dev sites or anything is talking about this however gives me pause and makes me think that they probably aren't ready to tackle this problem yet. But there is hope.

Very good. Still nothing to do with Apple though!

You do know that this isn't Apple right?

Right.


And you think you know that, don't you?


WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? You can't possibly think that Apple is just going to pull the script for the MobileMe launch out of storage and just give that again? No, seriously, you're joking about this. I refuse to believe that a human being can believe what you say you believe.

I just went there trying to find out about the iCloud and it brought me to cloudme.com.

It's what comes up when you type iCloud.com into your bar.

I don't know about that...

http://www.icloud.com

redirects to

http://www.cloudme.com/en


However, I will say that I signed up and I am not too happy with the few things I've tried:

-- Flash required in browser for uploads to web site
-- Java required in browser for uploads from mobile
-- Agnostic look to the "windows" Java-esque -- neither fish no fowl.

There is an iPhone size iOS app in the app store that works OK -- but an iPad app is needed.

It does have a file system, though, and this could be the missing link for iOS devices.

Well, thank the Deity, that they, and we, can all benefit from your wisdom and support.

They will do what they did with dotmac to mobileme. They will allow both addresses to dump into the same mail box.

that is, if they actually have an icloud.com at all. it might just stay me.com

as for the whole "weird move". The rumors have gotten so big that it is going to happen that it makes sense for them to confirm yes there is something, now come back and find out what. It actually builds the excitement tossing that carrot out there.



And that nearly killed the company. Doing the whole thing put out there the impression to the general public that Steve Jobs = Apple. Steve goes and the company goes with him. And about 2-3 years ago that resulted in the stock crashing do like $50 a share because of the whole Steve is dying talk.

So the company started having other folks on the stage to show that there are other minds involved. And very good ones (they should be Steve hand picked them). In fact I heard from a source that even at his worst Steve could still do the whole thing by himself but it was his idea and insistence that the others take the stage even if they didn't want to. Just for that show to the public. Now things like the Jonny moment are as much a moment in the keynote as Steve is (it's the accent, chicks dig that accent lol)

1. It was .Mac. If you're going to insult something by lying about it, at least get its name right.
2. People loved it.
3. People don't like MobileMe because of its shaky performance and (originally) the features of .Mac it removed.

And has it ever occurred to you that Apple might just be changing MobileMe into something to which more people can relate? You're pretty darn full of yourself to think you can say that "no one wants" cloud services.

lol I picked this up as sarcasm immediately. I guess some things need to be spelled out for some people

You have posted multiple times in this thread saying the same thing, i.e., how bored you are. Please add something to the discussion, or get lost. (I know what I'd prefer you do....)

They probably announced what they are going to do, to remove any uncertainly about what they are not going to do - which is annouce a new iPhone.

Which was, as we know, the main theme of the last 2 WWDCs. However that is not really what they WWDC is for.

there's something called presentation skills to keep in mind

Hey, AI. Why did you put that CloudMe graphic up without explaining that it is a third party app and not a part of MobileMe or Apple's forthcoming iCloud? Please update.

I prefer something that you never have to spell out. "Me' is so short, it catches people by surprise on the phone and I always have to qualify it.

The only feature I know anyone being pissed about losing was the groups. And I wouldn't be shocked if they came back.

Along with perhaps better support for iweb. HTML5, keyword searches, blog pages that work more like blogger/wordpress, perhaps even some kind of message board support. Widgets for adding your ping comments, your itunes reviews, auto links to the stuff you are talking about (pushes sales). perhaps making ibooks downloadable on the computer. Mobile friendly formats that come up with someone is on an ipad, xoom or just smaller screen computer.

Then top it off with a revamp of iweb that is more flexible in the templates, inline HTML not the iframes, HTML5 supporting 'advance mode'. and a companion iOS app for creating blog entries

They could wrap it all into a facebook like thing where folks could use their apple id to sign up to read your stuff but if they want to play (beyond comments )they have to pay something (could be leveled pricing) and in exchange there's no ads. Or there might be a low storage with ads that's free and you can pay a little to turn off the ads, more for no ads and more storage, perhaps even more for no ads, even more storage and the groups stuff and so on

Might not happen all at once cause that could kill even two servers but a little at a time over the rest of the year.

You present a valid position. But it is based on the assumption that Steve is on the way out. What if he is not? What if his health has been steadily improving and he will come back off of his 6-month leave to lead the company as before for the next ten or twenty years? Or until he is ready to retire for the same reasons the rest of us do--tired of it, ready to do something else, etc. His continued presence, appearances, activities, etc. support this argument.

[QUOTE=Tallest Skil;1872415]Apple NEVER tells anyone about ANYTHING before official launch. I don't buy this. EDIT: HOLY CRAP, IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THEIR PR PAGE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH APPLE?!

It's been made official my friend on Apple's own site!!!
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/05/31wwdc.html

I don't want to get my hopes up (because I never get my hopes up, because Apple never gives a reason for anyone to get their hopes up), but this break away from NEVER EVER telling ANYONE about ANYTHING before its official announcement could mean that iCloud is something worth pre-announcing.

Either that or it will be such a pointless, minute change that Apple is stopping people from getting their hopes up.

I buy the latter.

I think it's the original iCloud domain holder. Sold domain to apple and for now redirecting to couldme (new domain). Good for them for transition and also apple is obviously not going to let us peak at their work in progress. So I don't think this is any way related to the new iCloud service.

Are you sure?

The iCloud site owned by Apple redirects to the CloudMe site...

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I understand what you are saying, but I think you are overstating things to a large degree.

Most of the recent Keynotes were in fact pretty much what you argue he should be doing, which is handing off most of the presentation to underlings and other execs. As for him "not being there at all," it only makes sense if he is leaving the company soon or transitioning (which is probably most of your argument), but we don't actually know that he is. He could be CEO for ten or 20 years or more for all we know.

Personally, I used to watch them all many times over, but I haven't been lately because there is less Steve than there used to be. I find the magic disappears for me when Phil Schiller gets out there or Scott Forestall etc. They just do the same schtick that Steve does, but seeing them do it makes it obvious it's a schtick, whereas with Steve one can pretend he really believes what he is saying and stuff.

Now that Apple has officially announced iCloud they may take over the domain prior to WWDC.


When this story first broke a month or two ago iCloud redirected to CloudMe. Meaning, Xcerion sold their iCloud site to Apple and rebranded their service as CloudMe.

If that WWDC2011 graphic is anything to go by, it looks like there might be new styles of app icons.

The announcement says "Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company's annual World Wide Developer Conference."

So I think it's reasonable to expect that Steve will act as moderator, at most-- and it may well be that his health keeps him from doing much more than introducing and wrapping up. Although this is being touted as his "return", there's no chance he'll conduct this like keynotes of old, where he was onstage for most of the time.

My feeling leans towards there being a couple of new functions to Lion and iOS that will be pretty nice, iCloud will be nice... and then there is one more thing, which is the product that will sell the operating systems and the cloud service.

If they are doing both Lion and iOS at the same event, there must be some kind of link between them that is catchy; run iOS apps on your Mac like a widget? The Mac could count as one of the five authorized devices.

I certainly be buying some popcorn this year, and coffee to keep me awake through the night (wish at least once Apple would start one of these things at a decent hour JST).

Weird though because all Apple has done is to confirm the agenda that was already being speculated.

If they nail the iCloud this will be HUGE, but that's a big "IF".

No more syncing to computer please.

I agree about iOS5. As of now there is very little information on what the features will be, and nothing on what it will look like!