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rickwebb: Two iTunes comments for the day: 1) I just noticed that while our visualizer Magnetosphere is still in iTunes, they have added three new ones in OS 10.8. Weird.  2) In case you didn’t know, in Magnetosphere (er, “iTunes Visualizer”), you can hit command-? to get a list of commands to control it. In addition to those commands, hitting + or - increases the number of nodes, and hitting a and s increases the number of particles. I just noticed those weren’t in the list of commands. All these years and people probably haven’t known about that functionality.  (Still immensely proud of Robert and Andrew for building this thing. So psyched it’s still there in iTunes, 5 years later. And me in my meager product manager role? Scariest legal negotiation of my life, too. Most proud of the fact that we negotiated with Steve et al to publicly acknowledge the acquisition. Not an easy thing in those days.) 3) New tip I just learned - in iTunes 11, you can easily download all of the old music you’ve bought through the years in ITMS. The other day I downloaded it all onto my MacBook, then made a playlist of hits. So many great old $0.99 purchases of one-it wonders I had completely forgotten about. Been listening to the playlist for days and it is still awesome.  High-res

rickwebb:

Two iTunes comments for the day:

1) I just noticed that while our visualizer Magnetosphere is still in iTunes, they have added three new ones in OS 10.8. Weird. 

2) In case you didn’t know, in Magnetosphere (er, “iTunes Visualizer”), you can hit command-? to get a list of commands to control it. In addition to those commands, hitting + or - increases the number of nodes, and hitting a and s increases the number of particles. I just noticed those weren’t in the list of commands. All these years and people probably haven’t known about that functionality. 

(Still immensely proud of Robert and Andrew for building this thing. So psyched it’s still there in iTunes, 5 years later. And me in my meager product manager role? Scariest legal negotiation of my life, too. Most proud of the fact that we negotiated with Steve et al to publicly acknowledge the acquisition. Not an easy thing in those days.)

3) New tip I just learned - in iTunes 11, you can easily download all of the old music you’ve bought through the years in ITMS. The other day I downloaded it all onto my MacBook, then made a playlist of hits. So many great old $0.99 purchases of one-it wonders I had completely forgotten about. Been listening to the playlist for days and it is still awesome. 

Does Forstall leaving and Ive taking over HI mean a later than usual release of iOS 7? If not, then what about OS X next year since Federighi is now in charge of both?

Asked by Anonymous

It’s an interesting question. I think it’s safe to assume that iOS 7 was already well into development when the Forstall news was announced. Maybe Federighi tweaks some things as a result of taking over, or maybe that waits until iOS 8. I’m still betting we hear something around WWDC 2013.

OS X is unclear. Last year, Apple legitimately surprised with Mountain Lion. Do they do it again this year with 10.9? Are they working on OS XI?

3 Million, 4 Days

Apple:

Apple today announced that downloads of OS X Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history.

For some context, Apple announced that OS X Lion sold one million copies in one day — which might imply it was selling a little faster than Mountain Lion. But by October, about two months later, Lion had moved six million copies. Mountain Lion is selling faster — seemingly much faster.

Why hasn't Safari introduced the consolidated search and address bar? Is it a patent thing, or do you think Apple believes the UX is better with its current approach.

Asked by quipol

On the Mac, I think it’s coming very, very soon (check the dev builds right now). On iOS, I’m not sure. Perhaps Apple feels like since both boxes are one touch away, it makes sense to separate them. But the new Chrome for iOS has it, so maybe it will change their mind. 

maniacalrage: I keep my OS X dock on the left side of the screen so this won’t really mean much to me long-term, but the new dock design in Mountain Lion is much nicer. I played around with it for a bit on my MacBook Air, and one nice change is even though it still reflects things on the screen like a jackass, the effect is far subtler. Agreed. It is much nicer — though I too am a left-edge dock kind of guy. High-res

maniacalrage:

I keep my OS X dock on the left side of the screen so this won’t really mean much to me long-term, but the new dock design in Mountain Lion is much nicer. I played around with it for a bit on my MacBook Air, and one nice change is even though it still reflects things on the screen like a jackass, the effect is far subtler.

Agreed. It is much nicer — though I too am a left-edge dock kind of guy.