iWannabes Episode 008 - January 14th 2006




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Summary: On this Episode (008) the iWannabes share their thoughts regarding Steve Jobs' keynote from this year's MacWorld Expo. Will Apple's "One more thing" make us cheer or boo, stay iTuned to find out! Feedback is welcome, so drop us a line at iwannabes@gmail.com Show Notes: -------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The new studio The new mics New headphones coming soon The i thing iWork '06 Pages 2 Is it worth it? Drag and Drop Policy in Mac producs (DO NOT OVERLAP TO IWEB) Microsoft Office compromise for the future of macs Keynote 3 High Definition Themes New Transitions Superiority to Microsoft Office Power Point iLife '06 Trully a digital life with seamless sharing within bundled products iPhoto Photocasting Garageband Podcasting iWeb Integrating everything into the web - the mac way Drag, drop, blog Pricing and other comments Intel unleashed into the Mac Roll Intel Mac Ad soundclip here General Comments on the switch (and conclusion of ongoing bet) Feeling the heat for programmers to switch to Universal Binaries Ahead of schedule duedates What's inside Steve's mind? Faster is better (Intel Core Duo Performance) http://www.apple.com/imac/intelcoreduo.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/intelcoreduo.html http://www.apple.com/hardware/ Rossetta Technology http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/01/20060113233039.shtml iMac Was this the right machine to do this transition? It may be bad for consumers, but it's great for stocks http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70002-0.html?tw=rss.technology MacBook Pro New name comments FrontRow, iSight features http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/frontrow.html Other details http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/01/20060113163208.shtml Quickies Microsoft Halting Windows Media Player for Mac http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/01/20060113040653.shtml http://news.com.com/Music+stops+for+Mac+Windows+Media+Player/2100-1047_3-6026715.html?part=rss&tag=6026715&subj=news iPod Radio Add-On (iPod nano and iPod video) http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/7200505/wo/6G3uHQkRaH6s3m1QwomPwtYSIGY/1.SLID?mco=3A8E4A5E&nplm=MA070G%2FA Mobile Me Trademark Rumors http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/01/20060111150523.shtml http://www.macosxrumors.com/articles/2006/01/11/apple-trademarks-mobile-me/ Closing Arguments Drop us a line at iwannabes@gmail.com