Hello folks and apologies for the late edition of this weeks Triple T. Last week I blogged about our new AppleTV so lets return back to the normal format this week.
iWork ’11 to be released in Mac App Store?
As Apple mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the App Store for Mac will be launching early next year with a full rollout with OS X 10.7 Lion. Now there are reports that Apple’s iWork application will be sold through the store. This makes a lot of sense, for one thing unlike iLife, the file size is not as huge. In addition, it will give the options to only buy what you want for example you may just want Pages instead of the whole package, which according to Steve Jobs presentation showed each one priced at $20. I love iWork, but I don’t use Keynote as of yet, so having the option to just buy Pages and Numbers would be beneficial to me.
iOS 4.2 coming Friday possibly
According to various sources besides Apple themselves, iOS 4.2 should rollout Friday around 1pm ET/10am PT. There is much speculation as to if AirPrint will be withheld from the update due to technical issues. According to Steve Jobs though, this appears to not be the case. It would be nice to have this feature, but it is not the primary reason I’m excited about 4.2, I’m excited about AirPlay, multitasking, and folders for my iPad. I just have too many screens on my iPad right now and folders will help to organize that. I have an AppleTV now so AirPlay is going to be awesome! But more about 4.2 next week once it is out.
Most homes have HD television, fewer watch in HD
Interesting study here, although 56% of US homes have an HD television, only 20% if programming is being broadcast in true HD. There are many issues for this, if you subscribe to a satellite or cable service, you will need an HD capable box from them to watch HD programming and that is if the actual channel is in HD. Example, where I live the local channels are broadcast in HD but DirecTV is not carrying the HD feed of those channels yet even though Dish and Comcast do. Not sure why DIrecTV is dragging their feet on this but in a year, it won’t be my worry when I switch to Dish (I would say Comcast, but their internet service is spotty so not sure I trust them on the TV side.) Of course there are many channels besides locals that don’t even broadcast in HD yet which adds to that 80% figure. Have I mentioned how much I love our AppleTV?
Amazon Kindle to offer higher percentage of revenue to periodicals and newspapers
Amazon announced this week it will increase the percentage of revenue it gives to magazine and newspaper publishers to 70% from 30% or basically turning the tables on themselves. I think this will be key in getting more magazine and newspaper publishers to stick their toe into the digital pool and offer their content. I buy all my books in digital form now and so I expect the same in periodicals. Call this my effort in reducing my carbon footprint, even though I don’t believe in that environmental junk.
Conan’s Pale Whale
Finally, I was happy this week as Conan launched his new show on TBS. I truly believe NBC screwed him over and he should have had more time with the Tonight Show. But that is a rant for another day, an artist created an image of the famous (or infamous) Twitter Fail Whale for Conan but this one is known as Pale Whale and as you can see Coco is riding him. Welcome back to late night Coco!
Well, that is going to do it for this weeks Tuesday Tech Talk, I’ll have some app reviews next week. Have a great week!
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