As for what we expect to see at the event, rumors so far point to a software and services-focused occasion. Apple is expected to unveil both its original content video service as well as its new magazines and news subscription service.
All of which assumes, of course, that Apple winds up with shows people will pay for. “The installed base helps, but you also have to have the content and the business model that consumers want,” Rayburn says. He cites the example of YouTube TV, which has gained relatively little traction despite the backing of a massive platform. “Content is king. Always has been.”
So yes, Apple will have WWDC this summer, and an iPhone event in the fall, as it always does. You can expect them to go a lot like they always do. But March 25 will matter much more for Apple’s future, precisely because it will have the one thing those haven’t in years: something totally new.
Microsoft isn't the first company to treat the Web this way, and it won't be the last. There was a time when the market was more evenly split, and no single browser vendor could exercise monopoly control over the way the Web was developed. This environment brought standardization to the foreground; standardization was the only way to make the variety tractable for developers. But as we slide back into a near-monopoly situation, this kind of thing is probably only going to become more common. Skype for Web is simply a high-profile demonstration of everything people worried about when Microsoft announced its switch.
Capitalizing on the National Association for Music Education's "Celebrate Music in Our Schools Month," Apple on Tuesday launched a special promo campaign for its Everyone Can Create guides for teachers and students.
For Mac users, CorelDRAW includes a complete design toolkit for things like vector graphic design, illustration, and more. The Corel Photo-Paint app gives you advanced photo editing tools, while Corel Font Manager lets you organize font libraries and AfterShot 3 HDR gives you RAW processing.
People aren’t driven by the same things, and many of us have a particularly hard time being honest with ourselves or others when our priorities are more materialistic or ego-driven. But for the purpose of this 837-step plan, you have to put aside the little voice that’s criticizing or second-guessing what you want. (Later, after you’ve quit your job, you can go do the meditation retreat that will make you less of an egomaniac or materialist. That’s like a 2,000-step plan, and it’s not what we’re here to solve right now.)
Once you can clearly identify what matters to you, it’s a lot easier to solve your problem. At the end of the day, it’s not that different from writing a business plan at work. I need x and so I will do y to get there.