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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX You have the wrong idea about what Apple is doing. This beta release of 10.8 when 10.7 came out just 6 months is more like early Mac OS X release schedule than the later ones (even predating the iPhone). Exp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella I think John Gruber's explanation makes sense. If they do too many keynotes they stop being special. They just did a mini keynote for iBooks Author, a completely new product. They are about to do…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Well, yeah. Now we know what WWDC will be about this year. The problem with that is the iOS release cycle, which has unfortunately come to dominate WWDC in recent years. If we're lucky Mac OS X will ge…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX In the past they had two event for demoing Mac OS X. They had the Preview event that covered the top 10 or 12 features... and then several seasons later they had another demo right before launch that covered…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX For it to use Thunderbolt I think the other end will need to have a Thunderbolt controller so an Ethernet dongle simply can't happen like it can with USB. As for TDM, that is such an old solution that r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX So you're alright with a USB Ethernet dongle that is 1000BASE-T, which will be possible once USB3.0 is added? Sure. Although, given recent events, it seems like they would want to do this with Thunderbolt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram The USB dongle works perfectly well. It's not Gigabit, that's the problem. The Cinema Display is there for someone who wants an external monitor (and can justify the cost) and at least the port on tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil For RESTORES. Its ONLY purpose is for restores. And the user can do that. You have access to it for that purpose and that purpose alone. I don't get what's confusing about that. I know. I LOVED…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil It's not supposed to be 'used', so it's not useless. It serves the purpose for which it was designed. My issue with it is that (likely due to studio pressure) it was designed with Apple in mind and not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Just give me an A6 Apple TV, Apple. You don't even need to change the terrible interface, just let me play stuff from hard drives connected directly to my AirPort Extreme without a computer ON and iTunes O…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 huh - to me the greatest feature of Lion is when I restart my Mac, everything comes back to exactly how I had it. Theres no penalty to shut down. And since transporting your laptop shutdown instead of sleeping…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Momus I just want to be able to set whether my windows reopen on startup once and have my preference saved. Also: would like to be able to turn off automatic termination for Preview and TextEdit. And I can't use …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Such as?? Ever since I upgraded to Lion, this has been horribly broken (or at least inconsistent, a problem I NEVER had under 10.6). They need to differentiate between the 'Always Open in..." and "Brows…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil They've not come up with a method of conversion for their own apps either, so I wouldn't be too worried. This could be how they get started. iWork is seriously in need of an update at this point, do the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sennen Same here. For eMags as well. The choice between Adobe's pricing structure and the hotchpotch of free tools isn't great. It's called "Hype". What I'd REALLY like to see a some point is Apple take the work …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I didn't think Apple allowed paid updates. Hmm. Well, if that's the case, it's pretty simple; you're right. They still haven't said a word about how they want developers to convert direct customers into…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor Lots of weird quotes in that Fortune article: "Apple is not trying to kill the incumbents," MacInnis told us. "They've learned their lesson from upending the music industry." Um...yeah... they learned that u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gwmac I guess you missed the news about Sprint rolling out their LTE network. Sprint actually has far more towers than AT&T or Verizon. The problem is that it was divided between IDEN use for Netxtel and those for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Where did I say anything about that? And that's not the argument. They have LTE now. Sprint doesn't. I don't think AT&T had sufficient 3G coverage to justify being able to sell the iPhone 3G when i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Them selling a phone called "iPhone LTE" that runs on their network when it isn't an LTE network sounds something like a problem. For them and false advertising lawsuits, at least. What makes you thi…