iWeb - Dead or Still Kicking?

The general impression from yesterday's Apple event, Back To Mac, was well received by everyone. There was a bit of everything for everyone. That is unless you're an iWeb fan.

I'll make this quick. I am going to have to go 100% to Rapidweaver if this doesn't pan out or Apple doesn't wow us with an update.

How long will I wait? Two there two deadlines. There is 90 days until Apple unveils the Mac App Store. Apple is supposedly selling individual iLife and iWork apps. I am hopeful that we might see iWeb or an app like it by Apple in the store.

The second deadline is the release of iWork '11. I am hoping that given Apple's embrace of mobile and HTML 5, there will be a brand new app that allows users to continue to support MobileMe going forward.

And honestly, without iWeb, I think lots of folks just might not renew their MobileMe subscription.


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Apple Event: Will iOS Apps meet OS X?

My needs are simple as far as what I want from Apple on Wednesday. I don't mind being blown away but I sort want to see Apple move in the direction I think Steve Jobs and friends has been planning for years.

The full integration of iOS and OS X. For a few years since Apple made available the iOS SDK, there is something that has been working very well that no one has given it much notice unless you're an app developer and something that I was exposed to as I give programming a try.

The iPhone simulator. It works great and with the advanced multitouch pad and OS X gaining a lot of iOS features, it only makes sense for Apple to allow iPhone and iPad apps to run on Macs. This is a natural evolution

But it would be a revolutionary concept. And imagine the sales pitch with this one. Get a Mac and you can run iOS apps. Or got a Mac? You can download apps from iTunes and if you get an iOS device, you can take those apps on the go!

Is this going to happen? Frankly, this has just as much chance of happening as the Apple TV running apps, which a pretty much a lock.

I don't know if this will be a feature that Apple will unleash on Wednesday but the sooner the better. It would allow Apple to do battle on the mobile front and provide an additional arsenal in its assault on PC market.


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Earnings and Apple's Mac Event

Perhaps it is a matter of timing that Apple's 4th quarter earnings and its Mac-focused event are so close to each other. Apple will report earnings on Monday while, presumably, Steve Jobs will go to work on Wednesday morning at 10AM PST to wow the world once again with new Macs and a OS X preview.

I don't remember a time when the two events are held so closely together. Maybe I am just being paranoid. My heart tells me that Apple will take care of Wall Street and tell them what they want to hear. But keep in mind that shortage of iOS devices even in the face of overwhelming demands may hamper sales even as Mac sales seemed to have not been affected by iPad cannibalization or the sagging economy.

My fear is that in the short-run, any less than blow-away numbers from Apple will give the uneducated knee-jerk reactionists in the media opportunity to write hit-bait posts on how demand for Apple products are no longer strong. And anti-Apple bloggers will be out in force. You can bet on it.

Or just the opposite will happen. Numbers will show that Apple has outpaced rivals and its stock price will reflect the reality that it is deserves to be the valued and valuable company in the world and that fact will be reinforced Wednesday morning on a fine cloudy day in Cupetino, California when Steve and the usual casts of executives march onto the stage and blow us away with new touch-based Macbooks capable of running iOS apps, 7" iPads, iLife and iWork 2011, and os X Lion.

And maybe "one more thing", T-Mobile and Verizon to carry the iPhone by November.

All wishful thinking I know. But let me have this one. I am enjoying a great Sunday in Los Angeles. Reality doesn't have to returning until Monday morning.


-- Post From My iPad

Current State of Mobile Computing: Tablet or Laptop

Depending on who you talk to you and who you believe, the netbooks, perhaps even lsptops, are taking a sales hit because of the iPad.

Perhaps. Then there are those who are not so sure this is happen on a large scale. Given the potential that Apple may be on the verge of a $20 billion quarter and cuts on orders by dorm laptop and netbook makers, it has industry and mobile observers such as myself very excited.

Is this the beginning of the end of mobile computing as we know it?

More at Greenjava Mobility.

.Mac Homepage Discontinued on Nov 8, New iLife And/Or MobileMe Coming

Apple has made a lot of changes to MobileMe and has given folks ample time to move their contents out of .Mac homepage, which is why .Mac homepage will ease operations on November 8th. So this had led me to consider of iLife is coming soon there after and MobileMe improvements will be featured.

Rumors are abound that this may happen. Amazon has inadvertently posted placeholders for the new iLife product as well as a couple of books talking about a non-existent iLife update. And the currently version of the iLife is showing its age.

I'm a Mobile and iLife user, particularly iWeb to push my personal Greenjava website. I can use a whole host of new features to help me augment it. Looking at the bigger picture, it's about mobile for Apple these days. It's all about iOS.

Time to put up a wishlist on what I like to see and expect.

Clever Pricing For Mobile Gaming

For better or for worse, casual gaming is here to stay and gamers as well as developers have to live it.

Coming to an end are the days when developers can charge $30-40 a game. If you think you've got the game everyone is clamoring for, you can charge $15 for it like Square is doing with Final Fantasy on the iOS platform. The same goes for Android or WP7.

So how will the mobile gaming industry evolve and how will gamers change along with it?

Read more at Greenjava Mobile

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Blogging And Sharing So Much Easier

I've not written for a while now. Part of the reason is because I spend some time working on my Green Java site. It's not only a mobile interest site but other interests that I have.

Politics, green/healthy living, and coffee.

I have been trying to find a way do blog updates to GJ without being tied to my MacBook when I needs to do it. I use both Rapidweaver and iWeb and neither easily let's users remotely update.

I think I've found a way to do it. I'll continue to update Blogger but hopefully k can migrate over the Greenjava to ease my blogflow (yeah, I just made up this word.


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