Jan
09
No iWork 07?!!
Posted by | Posted in Opinions & Thoughts | Posted on 01-09-2007
Call us stunned. 30 minutes on the AppleTV, and an hour and a half on a very cool phone, and it was over. No mention of either iLife or iWork updates. For us, this is a total letdown. No new features for who knows how much longer. The only thing that might make us feel better is the thought that maybe, just maybe, Apple is waiting to release them with Leopard, and that they’ll have all the 10.5 goodness that we’ve seen demoed so far (such as Core Animation). Let’s hope so.
well, for one thing, and I hope everyone will agree, this could possibly be the absolute coolest remote for presenting using keynote. I wonder if there will be a driver-thingie to allow you to walk around, see the notes or the next slide/transition on your apple phone, and control it using a slider/pause/etc…
yes, it’s not the next keynote, but it could be the very next best thing.
I remember talking with someone about core animation in the next version of Keynote and their thought was it wouldn’t make it because Leopard would be released after iWork 07. It seemed right on at the time but Brian’s idea of iWork 07 being released with Leopard to take advantage of new tech seems right (and good). I also hope that it is just part of the bundled apps so when I ugrade to Leopard I get iWork 07. However, I doubt that will happen.
I saw someone write that if OS X is on that phone maybe you will be able to put the presentation on the phone and send it to a wireless projector.
That would be cool, walk in and whip your iPhone out.
poor keynote in software I think…. and now…… wait 10.5 ????
Yes, but didn’t the keynote do some new Keynote stuff, to whet our appetites?
I haven’t seen the video stream yet, but from the static photos I have seen, it looks like there was some clever use of images being given an angled ‘perspective’ effect, complete with a reflection.
It looked a bit like the ‘Reflection’ transition frozen mid-stream: with an image up-front and centre, then slid partially sideways and angled in perspective like an open gate, allowing space on the remaining half of the slide to write text.
I could certainly use that a lot!
Watching this Keynote Presentation I note that Jobs has a wire coming off the iPhone and he says he will be showing stuff off the projector.
There is also a live picture in picture used in a couple spots.
Does this mean you will be able to overlay other data sources? Maybe an ichat feed from the other side of the world, or live video of say, a close up of your hands demoing something?
There ARE other developers that are making the decision to include features that are not backwards compatible with 10.4. Maybe they’re taking their lead from Apple.
There would be a good deal of hubbub over this, but, being a leading edge kinda guy myself, I plan to have 10.5 as soon as it’s available and I’d rather have an iWork and iLife that can utilize it NOW rather than wait for ’08.
OSX IS on the phone, but you cannot just toss any app you want onto it. (read it somewhere else) So, there would have to be a “Keynote Player” written for the iPhone and I really don’t know if it’s got the 3D chops for it (don’t know if it outputs video to a TV either…though I’d imagine it could work through the dock connector.
If you look back at Steve Jobs demo of IChat in his Leopard demo at WWDC it appears Keynote will include some functions that will need Leopard for example he demonstrated using iChat to present a Keynote presentation.
I’d also speculate that Leopold will have a an ‘iPhone’ in software competing against Skype. This will include most of the phone functions in the real iPhone such as visual voice mail and the simple UI functions to merge calls.
Another benefit of a software iPhone would be to provide Mac users with an ‘iPhone experiance’
From some careful observation of the keynote, here’s what I was able to discern:
- the standard new build effects (mostly attached to text, darn it)
- particle effects which may require Leopard
- TWEENING! (or, more likely, build-on-a-path). Re-watch the AppleTV part where he is showing objects fly out of hadrware to the AppleTV and arranging in a grid pattern. The easiest way to to this would be to set up an end state where everything is in a nice grid pattern, and have them stacked elsewhere and then come out one-by-one, playing card style. In my book, this is a major deal, as it will almost negate needing to use Flash for basic animations.
- I can’t tell, but I am almost sure that you can apply multiple builds to the same object. (in other words, have something dissolve in AND move in simultaneously). right now, you have to do one effect, export as a movie with transparency, then import it and apply the second effect. then again, maybe that’s what steve’s been having his assistants doing this.
- Live image feed… whatever was going on with the images being sent to the masked iPhone image. it wasn’t a true video feed, but it was close.
- Picture-in-Picture (and the iChat presentation style with slanty side-screen effect)
if it could just fake a rollover effect on hyperlinked objects, i could replace half of my basic flash work with keynote.
I’ll be posting my take on the Keynote Address soon. Basically, the geek in me couldn’t stop myself and I watched the whole thing, taking notes on what I saw visually.