I have been most surprised and delighted to find a couple of previews on the Web of what I think is Apple’s continued software development in the same vein as GarageBand!
As you know, GarageBand is a big hit with Apple, for it makes making music as easy as photo and art manipulation is in Adobe Photoshop. It is extremely easy to use and very popular now, and is sure to become a classic.
Apple is certainly on a roll with all the new software apps that go with iLife, aren’t they?
The newest software, which I found out about through several reputable rumor sources, say this:
“Have you ever wanted to write with the subtle, dry, almost impenetrable wit of Vladimir Nabokov? The structured, exquisite prose of Saul Bellow? The demanding, righteous sentences of Philip Roth? Do you only dream of composing melodic, mellifluous paragraphs like Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon?”
“Well, today your dreams become reality. Apple is proud to announce an add-on package to our popular iLife ’04 suite of applications — including the easiest to use music playback and purchasing software available, iTunes, and the new, exciting GarageBand music composition software. Today we bring you ATTICAUTHOR.”
“No more struggling for the right word, the perfect turn of phrase, the most expedient and direct yet elegant metaphor. AtticAuthor takes care of all that for you. With over 1,000 ApplePhrases, and an additional 2,000 available in the optional PenPack, AtticAuthor will have you immediately writing short stories, plays and even novels. Never has creative writing been so easy. And AtticAuthor takes care of the details for you. Like this passage from Updike and that one from Dickens? No problem. AtticAuthor smoothly transitions from one style to the other, across locales, time periods and even languages. Your half-baked detective plots no longer need suffer from semi-literate cacophonies of atrocious slice-and-dice prose: AtticAuthor puts John Cheever’s pen right in your hand; you’ll be churning out apocalyptic military spy novels with overt right-wing Christian undertones one after the other, each book in the voices of master storytellers of today and the past several centuries.”
Next I found yet another new proposed software app from Apple, that is said to soon to be released, called “KITCHENMAIDEN.” There is little information on this, except to say that it will be a software app that comes with a new Apple hardware product exclusively for the home.
Just by the name of the app, I conclude that this is a brand new direction for Apple, bringing a home applicance into our lives, which will probably do things like wash the dishes, clean the floors, and cook the meals. Imagine if you had a generous selection of little applet strings that you could link together on the interface panel of your “KITCHENMAIDEN,” and it would go forth and do everything that you programmed it to do.
Sure, these are most likely just rumors, I know. But what if they are true? It seems there is no end in sight for what Apple Computer is doing in software innovation!
=)
Roger (am I gullible?) Born
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