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Rumor: iLife '10 coming with new application

by Dave Caolo Jul 26th 2010 at 2:00PM

If rumors are to be believed, Apple's iLife suite will receive a major upgrade in a month's time and feature a brand new application.

Apple-centric site Mac 4 Ever claims (Google translation to English here) that the newest incarnation of the collection will be released on August 7th. Rumored features include 64-bit compatibility and a "nouvelle application (mystère !)." Also among Mac 4 Ever's list of features are improved Faces and Places in iPhoto, a totally revamped iWeb and most interestingly the absence of iDVD. Perhaps the new application will replace it, or maybe it will be a download.

Or maybe these are baseless rumors and who knows what will happen.

Last week, we noticed an "iLife '10 for Dummies" book on Amazon France, which has since been pulled. Keep an eye out for the next few weeks and we'll see what happens.

[Via Macworld UK]

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Eric

iBooks.

I only say this because your books are in iTunes. And when you open them in iTunes it opens up Reader.

Why not open them in iBooks?

that, or the newer iTunes will support that.

hmmmmmmmmm

July 27 2010 at 2:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
demonic_pascal

New application?

Id love it if it was some sort of easy to use iPhone application development tool. I'm no programmer. If they can find some way to make coding iPhone apps as easy as they made website creation, Id be on cloud nine...

July 27 2010 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ron

I don't see an iBooks included as a new app in iLife bur integrated feature into iTunes.

Apple probably won't create an easy to useiphone app builder - they want less apps not more business card apps on the app store. But I recommend again www.appomator.com for anyone that wants an easy, drag and drop way to create iPhone apps.

July 28 2010 at 4:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allan

I feel people may be overlooking the obvious. Aug. 7th is a Saturday! Also there were rumors long ago indicating apple would be adding the ability to create iTunes Extras, this makes sense as Apple has pushed for streaming media over optical media.

Also people who think there will be a "publishing" application added to iLife would be mistaken, if something like this were to be added it would be an added feature to Pages, and or added to iWork.

July 26 2010 at 10:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian.gillespie

The mystery app? How about a publishing app! Although I suspect it will be a Facetime App.

July 26 2010 at 9:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sodajerk

New iLife app? How about a replacement for Front Row - something worthy of a true media center PC.

July 26 2010 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Heymbit

I use Pages for writing short stories and screenplays, and I can honestly say it's not the best experience possible (way better than with Word though).

If Apple introduces a writing app, in iLife, that has 1 click "send to iBookstore" life for writers would be so much better. Especially if you could save in epub (Pages and Word don't currently do this) and have easy insertion of images (yes, this is all possible in Sigil, but isn't that easy to write a book with Sigil, and Apple would want their own anyways if they were interested in this market).

Imagine for writers, a 70-30 split on all novels/novellas/poetry or short story collections. This would be big (not to mention help sell iPads, iPhones, and iPods).

July 26 2010 at 8:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

I second the iApp idea. It would make sense because so many people want to make generic apps for their business/blog/church/public school nowadays that it's becoming a widespread consumer demand, not just a developer's arena.

July 26 2010 at 6:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ron

There is already Xcode for programmers and Appomator for non programmers to create iPhone apps. www.appomator.com

I think Apple need a painting program - and the rumored touch pad device from a few weeks ago would work great with an iPaint.

July 27 2010 at 3:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luke James

i'm guessing a consumer-friendly image editor. Like a low-fi Pixelmator.

July 26 2010 at 5:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John T

It's pretty obvious to me that the new application is going to be the desktop component to FaceTime:

http://johnthrasher.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/new-application-in-ilife-11-will-be-facetime/

July 26 2010 at 5:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pheh

Wake me up when it includes an iPhone/iPad developer tool ala Hypercard.

July 26 2010 at 4:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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