Streaming music from my Mac…Simplfy Music. Access to iDisk…. OneDisk.

Get out. Dont come back, kaithxbai

Now thats out fo the way. I’m looking forward to the idisk app, in principle. In practice however, as long as iDisk continues to be slow and rubbish from the desktop, i have no interest. maybe they are delaying the app until such a time that they can make it take less than 5 minutes to upload a 2mb file.

You will never get a time line out of Apple.

New York times covered this today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?

(This is the lead article in the Technology section in the FREE NYT app from the App Store, which is a pretty good news app, if you allow for the fact that the NYT has had some spectacular journalistic integrity FAILs over the last several years).

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2050888&tstart=0

Thanks for all of your great posts!

Thank you TiPB!

They’re still coming, right?

That being said, I already have an app that does this, so I’m in no hurry, except that I expect Apple’s version will look cooler and maybe(?) work a little better.

I could see not wanting that running all the time (battery etc) but how about a “media server” app. When it’s running, you see the phone’s library show up on your network. Then, you can control its playback or stream airtunes to it from another device. Say, another iphone.

This would be great for all those people like me who just got the new phone and have an old one that still makes a perfectly good ipod touch. Just jack it into one of those speaker systems with an ipod/iphone dock and make that its new home. Now you’ve got an instant stereo you can control with your new phone.

I haven’t seen any apps like this. Has anyone else? Now that there’s an api for applications to use the music/video library on the phone, it should be doable.

Thoughts?

First the conspiracy angle has to be established: Apple is holding the iDisk app for some reason. Suggestions? Come on now, we need something really nutty like we did with the push apps. Maybe the threat of implosion if too many people try and access the iDisk servers from their iPhones. Or maybe we suggest that the servers can’t handle the load like we did with push. Yeah, the silly readers bought that line before… let’s try using it again. Think of the pages and pages of comments as these fools tell one another how ‘this sucks’. And think about the other blogs quoting us. Woweee!

Then we have to keep this nonsense going for a week or so. Forget about facts, we need readers. Facts don’t bring readers, hysteria works much better. Credibility? Please. Let’s get serious here.