Overall, I was impressed with Apple’s iCloud plans, and I will use the new cloud services. However, I will also back up all my data on physical media as I don’t want all my tunes, photos, and documents depending on Apple servers (sorry, Steve).
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By Greg Mills
Recent developer builds of Mac OS X Lion are showing a “Find my Mac” sort of Lo-Jack protection feature for locating lost or stolen Macs.
This works much as the iPhone and iPad security system. While no Macs yet have a GPS chip on them, using Internet routing information, available WiFi sources and other traceable data, it may soon be possible to track a lost Mac’s physical location.
Read MoreDuring the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, when I saw that things like versioning was a part of a set of application programming interfaces and technology that third-parties could incorporate into their own software — and that other Apple services would be working cross-platform — FaceTime kept popping up in my mind.
Wasn’t it supposed to be a technology that Apple was sharing with the world and that would allow other devices and software to participate in the FaceTime world? Whatever happened to that? Makes me kind of dubious when I hear about the new stuff.
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Apple has been granted several patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office, including one for a touch screen video file editing on iOS devices and, apparently, touch screen Macs (should any ever be released).
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By Greg Mills
Prognosticators of all things Apple are reviewing their previous posts to count off the things they got right and the things they got wrong. The realization came to me as I read a post on the event written by a CNN tech writer stating that the big event wasn’t any big deal. When there are so many Apple hardware products that are ready to upgrade, why didn’t any hardware at all get announced? Clearly new Wi-Fi servers are in the works, for example.
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