New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Jony Ive has inspired the iOS design team to replace many of the linen and leather textures found in iOS, such as in the iPad Calendar app, with flat white and black coloring. For instance, Apple’s Notification Center drop-down panel currently has a dark linen background. In iOS 7, according to people familiar with the software, this design becomes a dark grey/black color with white text.
― markers, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/IqWCrvW.png

http://allthingsd.com/20130529/apples-tim-cook-the-full-d11-interview-video/

cook seems to have massive things planned for television

Tim Cook on Wearables: “I Think The Wrist is Interesting”

oh god. bye bye apple

I've been checking out apple tv a bit. is it any good? I use the netflix and youtube apps on my blu ray player quite a lot, but they are pretty terrible, especially youtube. Is apple tv an improvement? I'd mostly use it for those 2, plus streaming spotify, and maybe buying/renting some cable shows from itunes. worthwhile?

I like my Roku 3 better than my parents' Apple TV, it has a wide selection of channels to install - I have HBO Go, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu (until I dropped H+), UFC.tv, MLBTV, PBS, etc. plus there are options for on-demand movies. I also use my desktop as a Plex server and run 720p and 1080p movies to my TV via the Roku Plex client.

If you can buy/rent shows from Amazon rather than iTunes, I'd choose the Roku.

also: go 3 rather than the 2 XS or other models - the processor upgrade has made using it a much smoother experience

apple tv is pretty sweet imo, use it for netflix, hulu plus, itunes rentals, youtube, etc and it works great

Ever use the roku spotify app?

xpost

I haven't. I'll give it a try tonight.

we have google tv, a wii, and a ps3 which we can and have used to watch netflix, youtube etc but our lil apple tv box is by far my favorite

A new, cheaper iPod Touch quietly launched today, replacing the holdover 4th-gen model with a 5th-gen 16mb version without the 5MP rear camera (or wrist strap). Silver only. $229 / £199.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch_16gb

I bet alot of ppl will order this and not realize until too late it doesn't have a rear camera (which I use frequently - that alone easily makes the 32gb model worth the extra cost IMO)

Was nosying about the UK store there looking at that and realised you still can't buy a Mac Pro in Europe. WTH, Apple

My high capacity self is doomed. The 320 GB model I long for will never happen ;_;

xp... had something to do with EU regulations iirc

Yep, thy may be announcing a major update soon, and the old one's didn't conform to new EU regulations.

Who needs a retina display if the graphics are going to look like Windows 3.1 - or even Windows Phone 8.

I think the exact opposite, lower resolution screens benefit from things like gradients, and photo-realism to hide the block ones of the pixels. When you have HiDPI/retina displays you don't need to do this because the crispness of shapes in less opulent rendering looks extremely nice. I think my Windows phone has a higher pixel density than and apple product, and did look absolutely superb until I shattered the screen.

*any* apple product.

Here’s a recent piece on the Mac Pro:

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/08/rumor-suggests-replacement-for-mac-pro-due-in-april-or-may/

Buying one at the moment even if you could get one would be strongly discouraged!

wwdc is in two weeks.

at least wait until then.

Yeah, even if they were on sale you'd obviously want to wait, but it's a bit o_O all the same that they haven't had them available here for months now.

lol when people expect (a) a whole new ios (b) new ios hardware, and all they get is a lick of paint and a load of genuinely useful apis

http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/apple-iwatch-00.JPG

http://mimg.ugo.com/200806/21564/guillermo-del-toro-top-11-cronos.jpg

http://static.rogerebert.com/redactor_assets/pictures/far-flung-correspondents/we-know-what-youll-be-doing/minority-report-spider-bots.jpg

what

is

that

Illustration from a recent DARPA-tech presentation on smartwatches that can seek out their owners should they become separated.

okey dokey

it's one of those spider sentries from Minority Report.

First iWatch mock-up photo looks vaguely disturbing. Cyber-Wristhugger.

this isn't in reponse to anyone's posts itt, but it has to make an appearance now

http://gigaompaidcontent.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/a2ohovjcyaatv2p.jpg

hahahaoh god

Dave Grohl's neck/beard area looking distressingly George Lucas-esque there. I'd never noticed Tim Cook's resemblance to paul O'Grady before, either:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Paul_O

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wwdc/id640199958

this bodes well for ios 7

"Podcasts" vibes

which is good because the redesign is nice

You know, if they could get iCloud working right it could be really great. I just:

Started a slide deck in Keynote on my desktop Mac, typed the title of the first slide, then left it open (hadn't titled it or saved it or anything)
Started another new deck in Keynote on my MacBook, typed the title of the first slide (the same one as on the desktop Mac). Saved my changes to iCloud, gave it a name etc.
Did a lot more work on the deck.
Came back to desktop Mac, saw that the virtually empty deck I'd started had been renamed to match the one from the MacBook, and all the content was already there.

It was a bit like magic.

appaz there's the icloud that manages stuff like this, and a completely different icloud that's a load of public apis that basically don't work

oh wait, i think the first icloud is just music/app distribution nm

Include the versioning control over iCloud docs that OS X already has and I'm with Stet on this. I'd even settle for this over fixing the CoreData iCloud issues.

thank christ for dropbox eh

lol

WWDC sessions times are up. Way more TBCs than the last couple of years, especially in Presido. Bodes well for keynote, I think.

Bugger all for Xcode too. Fingers crossed.

this'll be the first official apple event of the year

in june

lol

last year we had . . . *goes to check*

gawd, so much of my life in the first half of the 90s was structured around Apple events.