I ’ve heard from reliable seed that Apple will offer a significantupdate to iMovieat next week ’s Macworld . It will largely focus on cyberspace picture in the Cloud for the YouTube generation .
I ’ve pick up that iMovie will for the most part ( if not altogether ) be a Web lotion and Apple would proffer its users to “ upload your movies to us and edit out them there . ”
There are currently afew online applicationsthat let you do television editing presently . Google ’s Youtube is also adding underlying redaction feature .
I am not sealed if this means that iMovie is now entirely a Web covering or if Apple is offering a “ Cloud ” element to its iMovie applications programme .
iMovie in the Cloud would also offer users the ability to easily view their movie on iPod Touches or iPhones . If the app is solely Web ground , it means that potential customers include the “ other 90 % ” of users who use Windows .
Apple received a fate of damaging reviews of its last update to iMovie ; many the great unwashed suppose it was astep backward . As part of the installation process , Apple even go on theold version of iMovie as a modulation mechanism . I ca n’t think of another time when Apple did this for an software .
Appleis largely believed ( by me at least ) to be go its iWork applications to the Cloudas well . This would connect in nicely with the new iMovie ’s Web Applications . Imagine edit out a movie in iMovie online then import it into a Keynote presentation online . This would be a great lineament .
While the YouTube genesis has largely comprehend Web apps , more “ seasoned ” users have largely been critical of the formatting , decrying the inability to use them while in a plane , or anywhere else that there is not net . Apple ’s MobileMe rollout ( blackout ? ) debacle has also caused some jitters in the Apple community to the Cloud platform .
Steve Jobs egress a companionship - panoptic email after the failed release in which he said :
The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services . And teach we will . The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious , and we will beseech on to make it a service we are all lofty of by the end of this class .
Thankfully a lot of new technology havesprouted upthat will facilitate offline access as well . Apple’sSproutcoreis in its infancy but seems to indicate that it will allow to move its heart and soul applications into the Cloud .
Also , Safari 4 will provide you to save World Wide Web pages as applications(like the iPhone platform does now ) . This might also help the transition from traditional apps to Web Applications – at least in the minds of traditional users .
I , for one , use Google Gears conscientiously to keep my Google Docs for offline editing . I think this is the future and apparently , so does Apple .
