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Leia's Left Bun · Jan 5, 2006, 11:11 AM

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/...05114200.shtml

Dakar · Jan 5, 2006, 11:15 AM

A WYSIWYG web program?

TETENAL · Jan 5, 2006, 11:15 AM

Maybe it's a consumer web browser.

m a d r a · Jan 5, 2006, 11:19 AM

i can hear the lawyers sharpening their pencils already! - iweb is already a pretty big and long-established UK based online share dealing company.

Ratm · Jan 5, 2006, 11:20 AM

who gives a damn....wait and see.

Nicko · Jan 5, 2006, 11:21 AM

Hmmmm iWeb... iWeb

I'm starting to see something materialize..... one moment let me just click that apple icon...

Uh... its so clear now.

Its a new Apple branded internet enabled Toaster.

Hmmm... there is more. Will come in.... White

...

and...

and.....

Black.

PinStripes... are possible (for the limited edition)

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 5, 2006, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

A WYSIWYG web program?

That is what I thought at first but I think iPhoto and .Mac is enough for most people.

m a d r a · Jan 5, 2006, 11:29 AM

maybe safari's getting a name change to fit in with the rest of its siblings?

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 5, 2006, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by m a d r a

maybe safari's getting a name change to fit in with the rest of its siblings?

i Hope not, iWeb is a retarded name. Safari is already quite popular so I don't want them to mess up the brand 3 years later.

Dakar · Jan 5, 2006, 11:31 AM

I think if Sfari was gonna be iWeb, it would've happened from the start.

m a d r a · Jan 5, 2006, 12:01 PM

the whole i-app thing is getting a bit lame anyway. as well as apple themselves, there are about a zillion apps out there from a similar number of developers, which have just copied "the apple way" and prefixed some boring word with an "i".

c'mon folks! - let's have some imagination!

<incredibly off-topic>
on the subject of naming technology, has anyone noticed how different parts of the world tend to adopt different approaches:

in europe we like to think we're terribly cultured, so we'll name our fancy new bells'n'whistles satellite system "galilleo" or "copernicus" - just to let those young whippersnappers in the rest of the world realise we've been doing this inventing stuff for a l-o-o-n-g time!

in the US you love your acronyms - especially if you can make them spell out a real world, no matter how much linguistic contortion this involves. so you'd invent [for example] some amazing deep ocean trench exploring machine and call it "DIVER" - standing for "deeply immersible vehicle exploratory reconnaissance"

the chinese on the other hand, after many years of determinedly revolutionary sounding names ["long march" rockets etc] seem of late, to be naming things in a more genteel nature-inspired way these days. anyone like to buy a hand-held 10 megaton "pink lily" shoulder launched atomic bazooka or a "panda" brand submachine gun?
</incredibly off-topic>

euphras · Jan 5, 2006, 12:16 PM

Then they also have to change GarageBand into iGarage

Ratm · Jan 5, 2006, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by Nicko

Hmmmm iWeb... iWeb

I'm starting to see something materialize..... one moment let me just click that apple icon...

Uh... its so clear now.

Its a new Apple branded internet enabled Toaster.

Hmmm... there is more. Will come in.... White

...

and...

and.....

Black.

PinStripes... are possible (for the limited edition)

hehe

I'll pay double for the limited edition.

zerostar · Jan 5, 2006, 12:43 PM

My guess is a blogging/web design tool tied in to .mac.

or a Content delivery application tied to .mac

rickey939 · Jan 5, 2006, 01:00 PM

My vote is for a new blogging tool...which I won't use.

demibob · Jan 5, 2006, 01:03 PM

or a name new name for .mac

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 5, 2006, 01:35 PM

Some more info:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1440

philm · Jan 5, 2006, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by m a d r a

<incredibly off-topic>
on the subject of naming technology, has anyone noticed how different parts of the world tend to adopt different approaches:

in europe we like to think we're terribly cultured, so we'll name our fancy new bells'n'whistles satellite system "galilleo" or "copernicus" - just to let those young whippersnappers in the rest of the world realise we've been doing this inventing stuff for a l-o-o-n-g time!

in the US you love your acronyms - especially if you can make them spell out a real world, no matter how much linguistic contortion this involves. so you'd invent [for example] some amazing deep ocean trench exploring machine and call it "DIVER" - standing for "deeply immersible vehicle exploratory reconnaissance"

the chinese on the other hand, after many years of determinedly revolutionary sounding names ["long march" rockets etc] seem of late, to be naming things in a more genteel nature-inspired way these days. anyone like to buy a hand-held 10 megaton "pink lily" shoulder launched atomic bazooka or a "panda" brand submachine gun?
</incredibly off-topic>

Ha! This is dead-on. Good stuff.

m a d r a · Jan 5, 2006, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by zerostar

My guess is a blogging/web design tool tied in to .mac.

or a Content delivery application tied to .mac

i reckon this could be pretty close to the truth. seeing as all the "i" apps tend to be squarely aimed at the user friendly, rather than professional end of the consumer market, i'd say iweb will be a an app which is tied into '.mac' and integrates online browsing, simple webpage creation, blogging, photo sharing and [if they can sort out the copyright angle] music sharing - all within a friendly unified apple interface.

demibob · Jan 5, 2006, 02:27 PM

sounds good

JoshuaZ · Jan 5, 2006, 04:35 PM

Maybe its a new Apple app that lets you make your own porn sites.

No, wait. That would be iPorn, and flickr already has the soft core area covered.

TheoCryst · Jan 5, 2006, 04:51 PM

I'l agree that it might be a WYSIWYG HTML editor. After all, Apple is all about the publish-from-your-desktop angle, so why wouldn't they have something that lets you create your own web pages without any HTML background knowledge?

And of course, I'm betting it's somehow tied to .mac.

Mike Pither · Jan 5, 2006, 04:57 PM

if this is for real why does the allegedly genuine Apple web page say "with iTunes 4.9, Apple is now taking ........" We are up to version 6 now

ironknee · Jan 5, 2006, 04:58 PM

jist hope it creates clean code

TETENAL · Jan 5, 2006, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by Mike Pither

if this is for real why does the allegedly genuine Apple web page say "with iTunes 4.9, Apple is now taking ........" We are up to version 6 now

This is what the Apple page does say. Convince yourself:

http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/podcasts/

Mike Pither · Jan 5, 2006, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

This is what the Apple page does say. Convince yourself:

http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/podcasts/

I guess this means that someone has modified the non updated apple page. Apple would presumably update/correct the whole page if announcing something new. Still we will find out soon enough if it was a hoax or not

Millennium · Jan 5, 2006, 05:13 PM

Between Pages and the WYSIWYG editor in Safari, they're already most of the way there. It would be interesting to see them take the last few steps.

Fred_Cokebottle · Jan 5, 2006, 05:39 PM

Probably a wearable ipod built into a spiderman costume?

d4nth3m4n · Jan 5, 2006, 05:53 PM

dreamweaver for simpler (i) folk?

whooptie freakin do. it'll be 1997 with all the geocities bs all over again.

TETENAL · Jan 5, 2006, 06:11 PM

I think if they'd really do a simple web editor, the Watson-developer will be seriously pissed.

http://www.karelia.com/

ironknee · Jan 5, 2006, 06:15 PM

^^ again

moonmonkey · Jan 5, 2006, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I think if they'd really do a simple web editor, the Watson-developer will be seriously pissed.

http://www.karelia.com/

Those poor guys.

awaspaas · Jan 5, 2006, 11:33 PM

It would be worth it just to hear him cry to the internet again.

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 5, 2006, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by awaspaas

It would be worth it just to hear him cry to the internet again.

Ya cuz he invented the internet also.

Salty · Jan 6, 2006, 02:13 AM

Ouch that'd hurt.

Seriously though.. I always said they should have some sort of iHTML editor. It's kind of late if Apple is going to take that market. That said if they did decide to do that sort of thing they really should partner with someone like dare I say it MySpace or something like that, instead of just .Mac actually make a Mac cool for a teenager to own, or even partner with several online services so that it is really useful.

CharlesS · Jan 6, 2006, 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I think if they'd really do a simple web editor, the Watson-developer will be seriously pissed.

http://www.karelia.com/

Um, Apple had a web page designer in either DP4 or the Public Beta (can't remember exactly which at the moment). It doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to predict that they could bring that back at some point.

Frankly, I was surprised when 10.2 didn't have it.

nbnz · Jan 6, 2006, 03:53 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I think if they'd really do a simple web editor, the Watson-developer will be seriously pissed.

http://www.karelia.com/

The screenshot of Sandvox looks similar to RapidWeaver - http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/index.php - that I just bought.
I hope this iWeb (if it is a web editor) isn't limited to use with .Mac

Eug Wanker · Jan 6, 2006, 05:28 AM

Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun

That is what I thought at first but I think iPhoto and .Mac is enough for most people.

Nah, not at all. I find the iPhoto and .Mac combination alone really only useful for one thing, which is to make web galleries. That's far too basic, even for a non-designer like me.

This is what I wrote in my iWeb thread in the Applications forum:

"I fit into the iWeb market.

.Mac and iPhoto, etc. are horribly limiting in terms of web page creation, but I don't want to have to run Dreamweaver either. iWeb will be a winner if it's anything like what RapidWeaver seems to be.

I just hope it's not as slow as Pages was when it came out."

ShotgunEd · Jan 6, 2006, 06:04 AM

Yeah, it'll be Web 2.0 for the (dot) mac.

Share your thoughts (blog), your photos (aka flickr rip off), your garageband creations (aka myspace rip off) and all that jazz.

Jawbone54 · Jan 6, 2006, 02:56 PM

You fools.

It's a sleekly designed Apple hammock.

kiskynet · Jan 6, 2006, 03:42 PM

The 'i' was for i-nternet back in the days of the iMac. That makes this thing internetWeb

Judge_Fire · Jan 6, 2006, 04:10 PM

Maybe it's a better web. Web 2.0 came out just a few weeks ago, so it's more or less time for web 3.0 aka iWeb.

.mac members only etc.

J

Fred_Cokebottle · Jan 6, 2006, 08:10 PM

Ah! I got it!!! how clever!!! its a new type of fishnet underwear!

TETENAL · Jan 10, 2006, 08:36 PM

The author of Watson and Sandvox is not pleased by the release of iWeb:

http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/

demograph68 · Jan 10, 2006, 08:52 PM

RapidWeaver kicks both their asses. Though if you are dumb enough to pay more for an .Mac account, then iWeb should be a nice addition to iLife. (I just wish that Frontrow came with it, but the hacked version should work fine for now.)

MindFad · Jan 10, 2006, 09:25 PM

From the looks of the iWeb icon, it appears to be Matas's first icon work there at Apple (aside from Widget work maybe?). Good for him.

The Steve iWeb demo was pretty impressive. Looks pretty neat and intuitive.

lavar78 · Jan 10, 2006, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by demograph68

RapidWeaver kicks both their asses. Though if you are dumb enough to pay more for an .Mac account, then iWeb should be a nice addition to iLife. (I just wish that Frontrow came with it, but the hacked version should work fine for now.)

I pay for .Mac and I'm not dumb. I've been thinking about buying RapidWeaver, but I think I'll try out iWeb first.

turtle777 · Jan 10, 2006, 11:17 PM

This .Mac fixation really suxx.

-t

The Godfather · Jan 10, 2006, 11:40 PM

I am just happy that Apple didn't make a MS Frontpage clone.
iWeb stands for InterWeb right?

The Godfather · Jan 10, 2006, 11:41 PM

I am just happy that Apple didn't make a MS Frontpage clone.
iWeb stands for InterWeb right?