Spence reports, “To support claims that a new iLife may be with us sooner than later, last week TUAW reported ‘iLife ’10 for Dummies’ was spotted on the French Amazon site, although the book, due for publication on 23 September, has since been removed.”
Full article here.
Mac4Ever.com is reporting (via Google Translation):
– Life ’11 would be sold for US$79
– The release date should be 08/07/2010
– All applications will be 64-bit
– Improvements in iPhoto faces & places
– Improving the integration of social networks
– IWeb will be totally renewed
– New application (mystery!)
– Disappearance of iDVD that will be downloaded (like iMovie HD)
– MobileMe gallery in beta (with faces & places)
Full article here.
[Attribution: MacRumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
These suites have cost me almost as much as CS but it gets used allot more.
ps When ever I read that a product is about to bow I always think its leaving or bowing out, is it just me.
OK … so, where will my imagination take me next? I’ve done the movie thing and the podcast thing and have finally picked up a digital camera to do the iPhoto thing, what’s this “New Application” all about? iTrade so I can manipulate the market ahead of the guys “playing” AAPL? No, that would be an iWork app.
Well … wait and see. FWIW: iLife ’11 makes a LOT more sense than a late iLife’10 – unless they expect a significant update within 9 months, or so.
iHealth app? Fitness, sensors, etc.
Snapper, I’ve bought each and every Family Pack of both iWork and iLife as they have come along. So, my computer, my wife’s, my daughter’s, my son’s … these have each always featured legal copies of the latest copies of half a dozen really useful apps. Vs a single copy of a single version of the CS suite? It sounds like a bargain to me.
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a new mystery application… but the curiouser thing is the deletion of iDVD. This would fit with Apple’s long held disdain for disk based media. DVDs are the only media that Apple still supports since they killed off the floppy disk over 10 years ago and have ignored the Blu-Ray format… is this heralding the impending removal of DVD player/recorders from upcoming Macs? It would be in keeping with the trend started with the MacBook Air and iPad and would encourage the adoption of streaming rentals and online purchasing of movies. Retail channel rumors already suggest that iMacs and the entire Mac Pro line are about to be refreshed. Will we see them without DVD drives?
The killer app for me is Garageband, so that’s what I’m most interested in.I’m wondering if the new app is some kind of Adobe competitor.
It needs an integrated database component. It could also add a specialized graphic component ala the old Appleworks. Or perhaps the earlier rumors and long-requested inclusion of an iPet component usable by keyboard savy household pets. It is supposed to allow for self-matched breeding selections, virtual exercising, and remote treat dispensing. Perhaps that will finally be added.
The ‘mystery’ app will soon be followed by Microsoft’s ‘clueless’ app…
A new iLife app? How about turning the clock back and get back to doing iMovie right?
I did not mean to say that iPet would be restricted to just keyboard savy pets. There are certainly many pets who are particularly adept at mouse handling. I’m sure Apple would include that option.
But you already knew that, didn’t you.
I don’t care if it’s iLife or iWork as long as apple will provide an ePub publisher v
Good one Tower Tone! How true…
I’m guessing that it’s a tool for creating simple animations for HTML 5 …in effect a Flash Killer.
Adobe tried this years ago (before they bought Macromedia) with a product called LiveMotion but it was awkward and not a well formed tool.
It’s a sensible direction since it would create slide shows, incorporate AJAX and work within the iWeb, iPhoto, and Pages universe. Apple really already DOES some animation with Keynote so this would be logical.
I’m guessing, the mystery app is some kind of iEntertainment. It goes along with the TV, and their streaming video etc.
It’s a Wild Assed Guess… but still…
…export directly from Pages to iWeb AND the ability to***** post directly from Pages to iBOOK******* Come on APPLE….make it happen…the ability to export directly from Pages to iBook would be GREAT!!!
If the speculation is correct as it applies to iDVD being dropped then we have another attempt by lord Jobs to control our lives by insisting that ‘nobody needs DVDs’.
More amazing arrogance. I do lots of iMovie movies. I distribute them on DVD because many of my audience has no clue how to view an iMovie with their computer connected to their TV. But they do know how to insert a DVD and hit the play button.
Many like me are hoping instead that the new iLife would provide a solution to the issue of lost quality from iMovie to DVD. That would be addressing customer needs – you know, because Steve loves his ‘users’ – BIG LIE!
I hate, absolutely hate, the belief held by lord Jobs that he can control everything. Hate it!
I will find a way to do what I want to do – it’s my decision, not his.
How about a way to add support for BluRay disks?? All my home movies in HD have no physical way to be given to family members easily.
My channeled guides have told me: the mystery app is..[drum roll]…iOuiji Board.
Anyone else suspect that we might also see updated iOS iWork apps about the same time that also work on the new iP4?
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One reason for iMovie to be dropped fianal cut express!
Final sorry for typo.
And, please don’t tell me that people can view iMovie movies on their computers and gadgets such as iPad and iPhone.
Much of my audience don’t have those gadgets and they DO NOT want to view them on their computers (if they have one). They want to watch them on TV. On TV.
That means they need DVD. Lord Jobs is dead wrong. People WANT and NEED DVDs today and well into the future. Maybe forever.
The lack of Apple support for DVD leaves a giant hole in their product line up and a cavern as big as the universe in their promise to care about their customers.
When he says he loves his ‘users’ lord Jobs is lying. Simple as that my friends, simple as that.
I am hoping the mystery app is for creating your own ebook. Apple sells apps for the creation of movies, photos, and music. It is time for them to turn their attention to the book publishing world.
At a time when there were reports of Steve Jobs responding to emails, I sent him one asking if Apple was going to produce an epub creation app. There was no response whatsoever. Of course that is not proof of anything in particular but I did think it odd there wasn’t even an acknowledgment of my message.
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I want to see some sort of blogging and a more private type of social networking that can be used with MobileMe idevices for personal domains.
I will never use facebook or anything like it so this would be a nice solution for me.
Example you can integrate googles blogger and MobileMe gallery into your personal domain using iWeb. I would like apple to provide the software for that and integrate it into ios.
I call BS. I don’t think this is a news tip as much as a prediction, or just wishful thinking.
And everything in the supposed story is just a straight-line projection of what Apple has already done. For example:
– iLife has cost $79 for years now.
– Once 2010 is well underway, it makes sense to name the next iteration iLife ’11 to lengthen its shelf life.
– It makes sense that iLife ’11 would come out soon, b/c it’s been 18 months since the last refresh, which is on the long side for that product. (And, I think I recall that iLife ’08 was introduced in the late summer of ’06.)
– And it is a common prediction that Apple will retire iDVD because Apple thinks that people will prefer to share their videos over the cloud. Steve has said as much.
– “improved faces and places” is just a obvious tweak that would be expected in the next version of iPhoto, as is the case with the vaguely worded “improved integration” with social web, and the 64 bit.
The two big items lack any of the detail they would need to appear credible.
– “totally redone” iWeb. This would be a welcome change, but what does it mean?
– “Mystery app.” This too is so vague as to mean nothing.
This just seems to me to be a very thin rumor, part guesswork and part wishful thinking.
It’s quite possible that Apple would release a new iLife this summer–I would buy it immediately. And I’d love to see them surprise us with some new app. But this story doesn’t give me any reason to believe any of that.