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Awesome Apple Updates...

Posted June 23, 2003 8:40 PM.

The big news from Cupertino via the WWDC:

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Hey man,
I'm there right now and just posted some thoughts to my weblog:

http://www.scifihifi.com/weblog/wwdc2003/Keynote.html

I'm going to try to post some pics of the iSight later as well :-)...

Posted by: Buzz Andersen at June 23, 2003 9:27 PM

I'm already wondering what iSight's going to do to all of us. I only know so many of the other webloggers from posting... when we get this, I imagine some of us are going to be tempted to come out into the light. It might be bad for posting for a while, if this is really going to be as easy as it looks. Tom, I think I remember you were one of the people, like me, with a 24-7 webcam on the site a few years back... then we all kind of took them down, at least in my case when more than the 4 people I intended it for seemed to be coming to the site. So I'm sure you were playing with a lot of the video chat software like I was, too. They were hilariously bad over our 28.8 modems, and we all just gave up. Funny how it takes Apple to make this all new and fun again when all the broadband players could have easily been pushing this hard the last two years.

Posted by: Tim at June 24, 2003 12:56 AM

Oooh. New Mac stuff! My only complaint? More fucking chrome... And I bet there won't be any easy way of disabling it.

Posted by: Tom Morris at June 24, 2003 1:57 AM

My only complaint(s)...iChatAV only works (i.e. audio and video) if your buddies are other iChat users...oh yes and Broadband would be nice...roll on the rural revolution... ~;)

Posted by: s3d at June 24, 2003 11:21 AM

Most disappointing is the fact that video conferencing using iChat will not work on G3 machines:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93206

Not sure sure if this will be rectified in the final release.

Posted by: Matt at June 24, 2003 11:40 AM

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