Snow Leopard upgrade- a perfect opportunity for a media server
Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by zevmo in Apple, Technology, iLife, iPhone
Gizmodo has an interesting post about, The Real Cost of Upgrading to Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Os pricing. Currently, I use my G5 1.83 as the main home server that syncs my iTunes & iPhoto libraries (about 700GB each). All other devices link back to it. The two other machines are SL compatible, and of course the G5 is not. I wonder what the impact will be on this situation.
I really can’t justify spending a few thousand dollars on a new Mac Pro just to sync my iPhones/iPods and consolidate my iPhoto library. However, if they were to release an networked drobo-type appliance, or upgrade the capabilities of the Time Capsule/Extreme Router, that would be something I would buy.
Apple would be required to re-think the way they segment a families media sharing. This is something that they are not publicly showing any interest in.It should be segmented at the iTunes level. Set a master account, or role, and then give access to the shared library. Hell, you can make it mandatory to tie in to MobileMe accounts for authorization, if you really want.
The point is, families purchase and share content, and Apple has to accommodate that. They can’t just go and make the whole industry, and our digital lives, change dramatically, and just leave us hanging when it comes to how we practically use media on a day-to-day basis. Just like they finally allowed over-the-air/wi-fi podcast downloads, on a show-by-show basis, it was not what everyone wanted. We wanted wireless sync, total wireless sync. But Apple has something coming down the pike (mark my words), so they release a product that is some but not all of what we need. Clearly, something needs to change. Snow Leopard is a perfect opportunity to introduce said products. Make this more than just a Windows 7 bashing, make it a trouncing.
