Apple News Over The Holiday Overview: What You Missed
Unless you go cold turkey on the internet during your Christmas Holiday, then you know all about the building rumors about the Apple tablet, and possible upcoming event. We thought since we took a quick break from posting during the Holiday that we would give you a simple rundown of what you missed.
- Apple is planning an event for late January, possibly the 26th to showcase some new products
- Silicone Alley Insider has reported that some developers are being asked to showcase large screen versions of apps.
- Jobs is supposedly very happy with the upcoming tablet and an upcoming surprise
- A new patent from Apple shows what is called “Keystroke tactility arrangement on a smooth touch surface”. Possibly a way t interact on a tablet.
- iSlate.com was purchased by Apple in 2007. Possibly the name of the new tablet? We certainly hope not.
There you have it in condensed form. Now we wait to see what is next in this fog of rumors.
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PS3 Slim Announced and Priced
The PS3 Slim was announced today and not really much of a surprise. Sony did the same with the PS1 and PS2 and so inevitably PS3 was next. The new console consumes 34% less power, is 36% lighter and 33% smaller. The price will be a reasonable (finally) $299 and it will launch in September. The current consoles will be dropped in price as well, but no reduced price was given.
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Google Announces Its Very Own Operating System
Over a year ago and long before Google launched the Chrome Browser there were many who suspected that the search giant would launch an operating system. Today, Google has announced that it is indeed working on an OS x86 and ARM processors. The OS should be out the second half of next year and will be focused on the web which comes as no surprise. Microsoft may not be nervous about Mac, but you can bet this shakes them up a little. See the full release below:
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.
We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.
We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We’re excited for what’s to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.
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iPod Touch To Get Camera In September
We knew a new iPod lineup or refresh was coming this september as usual. What we did not really know is that the lineup looks to include an iPod Touch that has a camera built in. This comes as no surprise as we always thought that Apple would add a camera to their iPod Touch line.
Techcrunch reported:
"One of our sources in Asia say that Apple has placed an order for a massive number of camera modules of the type that they include in the iPhone. These are inexpensive cameras, in the $10 range. And the size of the order, our source says, means they can only be used for one thing – the iPods."
The picture above comes from The AppleLounge who found this case at Deal Extreme.
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2TB Time Capsule Coming Soon?
For some time yesterday, ClubMac had an image of a 2TB Time Capsule Box posted within its product detail section. The image is no longer on the site which usually is a hint of confirmation. It is no surprise Apple would release larger iterations of the Time Capsule, which combine a wireless router with a hard drive for backup or storage. We suspect they put this up by accident as it was showing under the 500GB Time Capsule details and most of these images are from the manufacturer and could have simply used the same file name for the image. Other than this, there is no more information, but we can assume the release would be just around the corner.
[ClubMac]
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