8 Responses for "Apple’s Other Announcements"

1. jon January 15th, 2008 at 2:49 pm 1

   ha, i was just having exactly the same discussion with a co-worker… i want new functionality of my airport extreme w/ disk and macbook! for free! (not $20 like the ipod touch…)

2. Glenn January 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pm 2

   I’d guess NO and YES.

3. Dave Zatz January 15th, 2008 at 4:25 pm 3

   Engadget shot some multi-touch video here.

4. Glenn January 15th, 2008 at 6:40 pm 4

   Q is do you need a new trackpad to use the multi-touch interface… haven’t seen any posts one way or the other yet.

5. David January 16th, 2008 at 12:12 pm 5

   Probably yes and yes.

   For the first, see (about midway down):
   http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2008/01/looking-at-the.html

   von Rospach is a long time Apple employee (now gone) and so when he says something like that, it’s probably reliable.

6. Dave Zatz January 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm 6

   I hope he’s right. I specifically bought my Airport for the USB storage. And so far I’m less than impressed. Sometimes the drive is visible on the network, sometimes it is not. Transfer times seem slow. And of course no Time Machine backup. Yet. I do agree with him that Time Capsule is priced aggressively (for Apple) – if I hadn’t already bought in and if it also allows other sorts of storage, I would prefer the single unit.

7. David January 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm 7

   “And so far I’m less than impressed”

   The implementation seems to be fairly buggy, which may be why it was dropped at the last-minute from Leopard.

8. Glenn January 25th, 2008 at 6:34 pm 8

   Dave,

   Rumor is the update with the Airport backup support you want is coming soon…

   http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/massive-leopard-update-to-pounce-on-friday-206902