Universal bringing BD-Live integration to the iPhone, irony to starving children
By Nilay Patel 
posted July 20th 2009 12:44PM
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Since when did they make an iPhone that big?
that's the rumored mac tablet ;)
Carbs are better how? Seems like the ZR-1's making pretty good power with FI.. (heh, both types of FI)
Return of Troll...whoo!
Universal is insane if they think anyone is actually going to buy Fast and Furious.
The hand is too small...
So you're going to be driving a muscle car with an old ass points style ignition? Also your victory will be short lived when you can't refuel your car because the gas station pumps don't work either.
@ return & kal
but even those older cars still would have had a battery and electric spark plugs, right? those wouldn't work.
Return of Jackson...whoo! has a hand cranked diesel car.
Anyway, he'll crash when faced with a simple turn.
That iPhone is on steroids!!
or those hands are really tiny
They should start calling it the omniPhone. People are integrating it with EVERYTHINGGGGGG.
I did throw up in my mouth a little when my partner's uncle, a complete luddite, uttered "theres an app for that" at a family dinner the other night.
le sigh.
Yeah, the truth is pretty repulsive.
Of course, the whole "There's an app for that" has been the mantra of Windows users everywhere for years when compared to the Mac's library of software, so it's not like you're not familiar with it.
No its more of a "my own dog's gone commercial!" sort of thing.
I Love the title, seriously, you should have an ox-fam or the like donation link just to round it out, now that I feel all guilty
Could apple reject this app still claiming bagful of hurt justification?
yes but if they include a fart feature, then it's gold and apple must include it in their quest to say that they have a lot of "apps"
Guys, you have it wrong. It's the hand model that's huge! It's like those Subway commercials where the people hold what appears to be a behemoth sandwich. In reality, the sandwich is quite tiny.
Department of Redundancy Department
Yeah, something redundant about that post!
Did they get approval from Jobs? I don't think he wants Apple being associated with Blu-Ray.
Apple is part of the Blu-ray Disc Association, they're already associated.
@ Eric
Do you work in the Department of Redundancy Department?
So their part of the association, but have they contributed in any way, they certainly don't integrate it into their products at least.
I still don't understand why apps need to be "approved by Jobs/Apple" before they can be run.
The iPhone is the nanny state of computing. Their practices of monopoly and fascist-like control makes Microsoft blush.
Elranzer - You need to find a dictionary and look up the word "monopoly". I'm sure you'll be shocked at what you find, since the actual definition of the word is obviously something very different than what you think it is.
If Apple forced developers to only develop a particular application on the iPhone (say, for example, if a developer wanted to take an app they have already written for the iPhone and write a version for WM, Android, etc), then that could be considered a monopoly. As it is now, you can just use the term "Tight Ass" for their approval process and denial of you installing an app outside of the App Store.
Still, that hasnt stopped them from amassing 10,000+ apps genuine apps (I go by the 1/5 ratio for Apple apps. 4/5 apps on the app store are duplicate apps/already available feature of another app/brain sizzler's which only exist to make you a stupider human being/flashlights/fart apps/boob shaking apps (you only need one)).
Guys, you have it all wrong. It's the hand model that's huge! It's like
those Subway commercials where the people hold what appears to be a
behemoth sandwich. In reality, the sandwich is quite tiny.
No. . . if the hands were huge, the phone would look small. These are quite clearly the hands of a tiny mutant child.
does anyone actually waste their time on vaporware content like that?
Vaporware is a term used to describe a product, usually software, that has been announced by a developer during or before its development and, therefore, may never actually be released (Duke Nukem Forever)
I think the word you are looking for is CRAPWARE.
Correct CRAPWARE.
Really?
That iPhone looks enormous, or the hands are small. Almost looks like rumored Apple Tablet.
Or they are marketing this to 3 year olds...
I'm not sure irony is the right word...I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of iPhone owners do not own macs. The numbers just do not add up.
Of course there are a lot of people that have iPhones that don't own Macs.
However Apple has sold millions of Macs over the last four years (according to their financial reports). So I don't know what figures you are thinking of?
There are probably at least 10 million Mac owners in the US alone, and Apple has sold >21 million iPhones as of Q2 2009.
I always thought it was a bad idea for Apple to blow off Blu Ray considering the movie industry has taken a liking toward their computers for pretty much everything they do there.
Why? Supporting Blu-ray wins Apple nothing, and potentially eats away at their iTunes movie service. It is in Apple's best interest to make Blu-ray fail. Why they're part of the Blu-ray Association, I have no idea...perhaps hedging their bets?
Except when Blu-Ray gains more ground (which is definetly gaining it) and folks want a Blu-Ray player they can get the Blu-Rayless Macbook, or pick up a Windows laptop with Blu-Ray. So it doesn't help Apple at all. And Blu-Ray is potentially a feature that could sway a buyer. And so could the decision between a HDMI equipped laptop and a Displaylink laptop, especially as all HDTV's have HDMI and not Displaylink.
and as suggested having a Blu-Ray burner in would be great for film editors, It would save me having to break up a ton of my footage into 10 minute chunks when I want to back em up to disc.
I believe Apple is already losing buyers due to not supporting Blu-Ray in OSX. It will get worse as more and more people are convinced to buy newer titles on BR instead of DVD. I do appreciate Apple's position that BR licensing is a nightmare (that, btw, is the bag of hurt that Jobsy was referring to) but it is unlikely to change anytime soon, hence, there is no point in waiting; Apple ought to deal with the bag of hurt now and get it over with. One hopes that tjhey won't leave it until 2010.
Apple thinks it's best if folks kept backing up their data to eight track cassette tapes. Blu-ray drives and their 50GB of space apparently hurts Apples feelings. They're like, "what the you what what!!?? and it only costs a couple dollars per disc???!! Hell no. You hurt Apple's feelies!!!"
"big bag style"
You do realize the reason the hands look so big is...... computer graphics? Those aren't real hands and whoever did the art apparently can't get proportioning down.
mmm...Grand Torino.
So is Universal going to start offering iPhone-only content on it's discs? And charging more for it? That's pretty ingenious from a financial standpoint, people (read suckers) will pay for the extra features.
iPhone content cannot be included in the disc, it needs to be downloaded from the App Store. Cydia FTW.
I think you guys have a duty to call the movie by its real name: 4 Fast 4 Furious.
I still can't believe they passed up the stupportunity to call it 2 Fast + 2 Furious = 4 Eva.
Wow, this is very cool. I'd much rather see stupid extra content like this than, say, discs being $5 cheaper and players being $100 cheaper across the board.
We've had extra features on DVD's for over a decade now, and guess what: most people don't use them. At best, people watch a few behind-the-scenes featurettes. Stupid gimmicks like this are gimmicky. Kill them with fire.
The "bag or hurt" refers to the protected video path that has to be implemented to in the OS's video layer so the bitstream cannot be easily copied. See: windows vista.
So it's a little too complicated for Apple? Got it.