Discuss!
Will the new iPhone be announced? Will Snow Leopard be finalized? So far, I see on gdgt Live that the new 15″ MacBook Pro finally adds an SD card slot, and otherwise looks a lot like the MacBook Pro 17″ and MacBook Air.
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June 8th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
$1200 for the new 13″ MacBook Pro. That would be nice, but not impulse buy range.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Wow. Snow Leopard only $29 to upgrade!!! That’s truly awesome. Not that I have any machines to upgrade, but could encourage me to buy a new Mac Pro sooner.
Epic.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
From Ryan Block: “TomTom car-kit accessory: windshield mount (in portrait or laptop), dock + power, louspeaker, GPS enhancer, handsfree calling, and audio output. Looks nice!”
Nice, but misses the point. An in-dash receiver that does all that, that would be huge!
June 8th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
A quote from some Apple guy: “Whatís really exciting is that when you connect sensors to an iPhone, you turn the whole world into a laboratory.”
That seems nice & all, but how is having the sensor connected to an iPhone different from having the sensor connected to any other piece of hardware? The whole world already is a laboratory! Sadly, I think that quote will be picked up everywhere, and Apple will soon be credited with the entire concept of sensors.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3GS available June 17. Old model for $99, new 16GB and 32GB models are $199 & $299.
Apple is going to sell a ton of these. Nothing revolutionary this year, just substantial incremental improvements.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
An SD card slot’s pretty important, except that they took out the Express card slot for it. It was always an option to put in an SD card adapter in your Express Card slot.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
OK, just got out of my crappy 1-3pm meeting (at 3:30), so I’m catching up.
First off, I heard about the TomTom thing, and was hoping my soccer teammate was onstage at WWDC — but no, it wasn’t him. Turn by turn would be cool, I guess, but I already have a GPS. Which I’ve been hating lately, but that’s another story.
My quick thoughts: $99 iPhone 3G is gonna be hot, they’ll sell out current stock in no time, since the newer one doesn’t have *that* much over it. Does this mean they’ll be manufacturing the 3G for a while, or is this just to clear inventory?
Can AT&T support the higher-speed phone yet? Haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere. If so, I may ditch the whole netbook idea and just get a new phone.
The 13″ MacBook Pro looks great — if my lease were up at work, I’d be trying to get one of those instead of my 15″, with one hesitation — I’m not clear on the battery — is it user-replaceable or not? That would be a dealbreaker for me if not. I like to be able to head out without a power cord, and don’t mind carrying another battery.
Can’t believe Snow Leopard is gonna be $29. I’ll buy it without thinking about it. Reading through the “features,” it’s easy to see why it’s cheap — it’ll probably be nice solid functional upgrades, but there’s nothing that would convince anyone to spend a lot on that set of “features.”
Looking forward to getting new phone OS next week.
Oh, and the sensor thing — I think that’s really huge. Not because of the sensor thing, but because Apple has finally given accessory developers a way to connect with the hardware. Hopefully they’ll do something interesting with it. I hope to god one of the things they do is allow you to dump photos off a digital camera via a card reader accessory. I can’t understand why Apple hasn’t already done that for the iPhone.
Not sure what to think of taking out the very versatile ExpressCard slot (that almost nobody used, except as an SD card reader, as Jake said) and replaced it with a dedicated SD card reader. Seems like tradeoff — one that I guess I wouldn’t notice, though. The only other thing people used ExpressCard for was for 3G modem cards, which you could replace with a USB version, right? (Or tether your iPhone if you want to pay the AT&T tax).
June 8th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Yeah, I realized soon after posting that they pulled the Express Card to make room for the SD Card reader.
Not sure if the $99 price point makes it a Pre killer. Very aggressive pricing, and really demonstrates how much Palm missed out on by releasing in June instead of March. I think it’s likely to take share from everybody. We’ll see what happens when Palm starts building enough.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Yeah, I think Palm is gonna take one on the chin for their release timing. I guess we’ll never know, but I’m thinking that if they knew it was going to take 5 months to get them manufactured, they wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) have announced it at CES. Do you think they planned it this way?
If I were Palm/Sprint, I’d be playing up the fact that there’s still no announcement of MMS for AT&T (Apple did the right thing by rolling it out and putting the ball in AT&T’s court), point out that there’s still no physical keyboard (for those that it matters to) and hammer on the price differences for the plans. Even if you believe the Pre is a better device, it’s gonna be hard to convince non-tech folks that they should shirk the known, popular brand for the (in their view) untested, more expensive one that costs 2x as much.
And about the physical keyboard — I think Gruber’s right, that it really only matters to people who have had a physical keyboard — that is, it only matters in practice. I think that people who have never typed on a smartphone keyboard at all would do fine on a virtual keyboard. But I don’t think most of them would want to try. I know my Dad wasn’t too keen on the idea of a virtual keyboard when he bought his G1. I’m sure it would have suited him fine, but I think he just feels more comfortable with the physical keyboard. (P.S. — he loves his G1!).
June 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
No f’in way!!!!! Via gdgt:
Wish I were still using Zipcar, this is awesome!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Also cool that the new iPhone’s camera has auto-macro mode. I tried to take photos of business cards the other day, knowing I’d lose them, and it’s next to impossible with the current camera. It’ll be great to be able to take photos of text — I imagine Evernote would be much more useful, too (if I were still using it).
June 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
The “tap object to focus” is a clever little innovation that will probably be repeated on a variety of phones & cameras. Looks like the camera is better, but really, are the pics with a 3MP camera going to look any better than those with a 2MP camera when you have a sensor that small and a lens so tiny?
June 8th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
As to announcing it in January… they had to. They were in the midst of an investor revolt, and at least one die-hard was ready to ditch Palm since it looked like they’d never get back in the game. They basically gave loyalists 6 months to let their contracts expire & so on. I think they would have liked to release in April, but manufacturing problems surely prevented that even if all else was ready. Even 2 weeks sooner would have been real handy.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Ashton Kuscher’s Nikon S230 has that tap to focus feature already (my little brother also has that camera, actually).