Boris makes some suggestions. I totally agree that the problem is a big one, and although there is some activity in the area (Boris points to some of this), it doesn’t seem like that much of what is being done is very innovative. Hopefully Tiger will address some of this stuff, with its reinvigorated search and updated Apple Mail. In theory it should be possible to implement a tagging system in Tiger that will leverage both Mail and the new search services.
Wow!
Just announced in Paris: the iMac G5. The whole computer’s inside the screen. Not sure if it’s for me, but a lot of people will love this.
Macworld:
Where Does Apple Go Next? by Jason Snell. Everyone seems to be missing the obvious as they contemplate streaming audio from an iPod directly to Airport Express – the iPod interface doesn’t have to only control its own hard drive. A WiFi enabled iPod could just as easily have a “choose source” preference to allow you to use it as your remote.
But really where Apple goes next is it allows you to use Airport Express to send your photos from iPhoto to your TV. In this world, the stereo and the TV aren’t separate anyhow, so to make the connection would likely be trivial.
New from Apple:
AirPort Express. Very cool.
Why Puretracks will fail
In Canada we can’t yet use the iTunes Music Store, which is bad enough, the only legal download site is called Puretracks. Trouble is, when I go to the site I get the following message:
Thank you for visiting Puretracks.com
Currently our website supports Internet Explorer 5.0 and above on the
Windows operating system (Win 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003),
and is available to Canadian residents only.
We value our Mac audience, however the Windows Media player for the Mac
platform is not currently compatible with Microsoft protected audio content.
Puretracks is currently working to make our service available to Mac users.
There are several problems with this. First of all, saying you value an audience while locking them out is NOT valuing that audience. More importantly, though, I think the companies trying to make a go of online music that tie that effort to a proprietary platform are making a big mistake and can’t, in the long term, succeed with such a strategy. The encoding method used by Apple, on the other hand, is available to anyone who wishes to use it, with no approval or license required from Apple. Tying DRM to the encoding itself is a serious conceptual mistake that a lot of people are making, and no matter how many companies signed up to play in the Microsoft sandbox I don’t think they can do well.
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