New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

worst case scenario you could just export your calendar to a file every once in a while

yeah that's not a terrible idea.

google's also much better about data portability. see: takeout. and then there was that steve jobs email that came out recently written in the exact oppositie spirit of the that kind of thing.

google had a really great program that'd two-way sync between google calendar and outlook. I used to run it on my work machine, since I didn't want to explicitly link my phone or home computer to my work calendar.

google killed it. program gone, support gone. people are really pissed, and I think a version of it is available if you pay for google apps for business.

I guess when I say "outlook" I mean "other outlook calendars" like my work exchange server.

sure but calendar, gmail, and contacts (as a necessary part of gmail) are more like core services. they're not knol or wave

or reader or

hah. buzz

you are right though that apple tends to kill less shit, at least on the services side. there was ping and, fuck, whatever their old school dropbox thing was. idrive? wikipedia tells me it was called idisk.

apple doesn't kill shit as much as birth stillborn projects

like passbook and the iphone 5c

no, those are relative successes!

what about:
- that iOS application that would make greeting cards
- Ping
- iWeb
- Front Row

probably a dozen others, but so ephemeral that they made an appearance on the web/OS X/iOS and disappeared less than six months later

i think some of that got folded into iphoto or iphoto had similar functionality. yeah, i never really used the last two.

they do that on purpose though when shit fails

well, yeah!

ping was a piece of shit though. it ran in itunes, for one, and the whole thing was around music you had to purchase. there's a reason why spotify's social stuff is way better

for one, you can actually fucking share music

I loved Front Row! It was one of those "whoooa this is a MAC?" programs when I first switched

Anyone have the external DVD burner?

Sherlock

omg sherlock

you can search.... everything!

it was pretty awesome for movies, at least in NYC

Wish there were lust objects in the sub- $2000 area

I'm moving from an iMac at home and at work to one MBP that will travel between the two.

Two questions:
1) is a Thunderbolt dock the way to go for docking/peripherals - in both places I'll have a trackball, keyboard, speakers, external HD, Dymo label printer and either a scanner or barcode scanner.

2) For anyone who uses Adobe Lightroom - have you run into any issues with having a library where the files are stored on a HD that will be left in one place and another library for a HD left at another (ie I have to have my personal library on a HD at home, then I'll keep any work related photos on another at the office)?

There might be a key you can press while starting up Lightroom that lets you choose the library? That's how it works for Aperture

is a Thunderbolt dock the way to go for docking/peripherals - in both places I'll have a trackball, keyboard, speakers, external HD, Dymo label printer and either a scanner or barcode scanner.

Are you planning on using an external monitor at some point? I know that Apple's thunderbolt monitor has a couple extra t-bolt and USB ports on the back - might save you going with a dock. That Belkin dock looks cool, but admittedly I'm old fashioned in my belief to not mix interfaces: keep USB's on USBs, etc.

Anyone have the external DVD burner?

*raises hand* I broke down and bought one when my old MacBook Pro (which I was keeping around because it has a DVD-R) became too unreliable. I still have an unsettling number of DVD-Rs that I need to archive and dehoard.

Thunderbolt has so much bandwidth, a few usbs aren't going to trouble it. (USB3 possibly excepted)

Lightroom is supposed to be handle a single library with files stored on different external volumes. It shows you previews of pix that aren't currently available, and even allows you to make some modifications to them. I've only tried it a bit, but it seems pretty good.

anyone think aperture will get updated sometime this decade?

No.

Lightroom for iPad is also pretty great. The only thing Aperture has going for it now is Photo Streams and iCloud Photos integration, and that's not much (though they are also pretty good, tbf)

how much do you guys think the iwatch will be? i have no idea. somewhere between $150 and $300 probably? i bet you it's bluetooth 4.0 & has no wireless (3g/4g) capability

there's zero chance this thing isn't happening. if you doubt it at this point, you're wrong. i'd put some money on that if i had any.

the other big question is whether or not it's gonna be a dev platform, and i think out of the gate, at least, it'll be locked down like the ipod. since it's running ios, they could open it up later, but i don't think that's in the cards for the first generation.

and yes i'll probably be buying one of them, even though i currently don't wear any accessories beyond my glasses and i don't give a shit about watches.

I'm really curious to see what will differentiate it from the smartwatches that have already beaten it to market

it's comprehensiveness in the health area, i think

i've seen it described as "sensor-laden"

like, think about that and look at what mark gurman's learned about healthbook. that app is gonna be able to organize info about a bunch of aspects of your health. what if the iwatch was able to monitor not only sleep but blood glucose levels and a bunch of other things

let me find that tim cook clip from last year's allthingsd conference

from the man himself: http://bit.ly/1hF0nuV

well, and walt mossberg

anyone think aperture will get updated sometime this decade?

The only Internet April Fools joke I fell for this year was also the cruelest: http://theapertureblog.com/2014/04/01/apple-finally-releases-aperture-x/

i dont think theyll be an iwatch, or at least i dont think it will be a watch, or like an iphone on your wrist, there may be something that goes around your wrist, if they make something thats like a watch and a phone thats when you know theyve lost it, all in all tho i dont think people really want to wear these wearables, like sure they cld do lots of cool things but are they cool things people actually want to do

there may be something that goes around your wrist

this is 100% happening. no question. see mark gurman's reporting: http://9to5mac.com/author/markgurman/

http://9to5mac.com/2014/02/07/from-fashion-to-fitness-the-experts-behind-apples-wearable-future/

if they make something thats like a watch and a phone

i doubt it will be a phone. i think it'll be a peripheral to an iphone. think of it like an old school ipod to a mac. apple's not afraid of making non-standalone devices.

the only way they'd make it both was if they thought somehow this was gonna be the thing that disrupted (forgive me) the iphone, and it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. like, it won't.

that being said, of course this could still tank, which would be bad for tim cook even if it perhaps wouldn't effect apple too too much since they'd still be churning out new ipads and iphones