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Analyst Predicts 'iAnywhere' OS X and iOS Combo Platform Despite Apple's Public Dismissal
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The A7 is already slightly more powerful than an intel core2duo according to geekbench 3 benchmarks. It isn't out of the realm of possibility.
I'd rather not get paid for not being that stupid
But really, he is claiming that Apple is going to copy one of Microsoft's biggest mistakes ever? After the world has told Microsoft what a big mistake it was? Does anybody think Tim Cook would copy a mistake that cost Ballmer his job?
Lol the FED is owned by the banks so what an achievement they gave themselves money out truly marvelous.
It's a concept that's won Microsoft universal acclaim with Windows 8.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Windows 8 was a reaction to the hampering of Windows Mobile on cross-compatibility (remembering WM5 on the Dell Axim).
There's a difference between API and GUI and touch screen menus are a minor GUI issue. What Apple has been doing seems the most backward: They are making OSX and OSX iLife/iWork apps look more and more like iOS apps. Instead Apple should share more of the APIs between OSX and iOS to increase compatibility from a programming standpoint. Ultimately Apple should have "Download once, use across devices" so even if you download from the iTunes Store, your Mac could run the app (and vice versa provided hardware requirements met).
fwiw I have worked on programming for Mac and iOS and know that what I am talking about is feasible. The advantage for Mac/iOS users is an expanded library of software. The advantage for Apple is an increased halo effect.
iOS, which runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and the 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TV, shares the Darwin core and many frameworks with OS X.
Conversion is therefore possible. What I understood from the apple comments is that each platform (I.e., workstation, laptop, mobile, etc) has a different essence that must be preserved in terms of the user experience. Microsoft tried to make the experience the same on all platforms and that has not worked out too well.
I see no issues with the code converging further between iOS and OS X. But I would certainly have a problem making the UI the same. Let's not go down the windows rat hole. And I believe Apple knows better.
Conversion is therefore possible. What I understood from the apple comments is that each platform (I.e., workstation, laptop, mobile, etc) has a different essence that must be preserved in terms of the user experience. Microsoft tried to make the experience the same on all platforms and that has not worked out too well.
I see no issues with the code converging further between iOS and OS X. But I would certainly have a problem making the UI the same. Let's not go down the windows rat hole. And I believe Apple knows better.
I'd rather not get paid for not being that stupid
But really, he is claiming that Apple is going to copy one of Microsoft's biggest mistakes ever? After the world has told Microsoft what a big mistake it was? Does anybody think Tim Cook would copy a mistake that cost Ballmer his job?
Microsoft's mistake was twofold:
1. they put an i5 in their pro tablet, making it weigh twice as much as an ipad air
2. they put a low-end ARM processor in their other tablet, making it unable to run any of their x86 programs and instead relying on an immature app store
If they used a slight amount of common sense, they would have realized that Intel sells an Atom processor. This is an x86 processor with the same power requirements, price, and performance as a high-end ARM processor. That is what they need to put in a windows tablet, as it can run all their millions of programs while keeping the weight and power down - minimizing the tradeoffs of both surface options. That is also why devices like the dell venue 8 pro are selling so well, while the surface is an obvious flop.
Well said. I for one don't see a need for this combined platform and I don't see a need for an iPad Pro but I also never saw a need for the iPad when is first came out.(I was part of the is a giant iPhone crowd). I know have an iPad and use it when it I don't want to break out the laptop.
iPad Pro or some combined iAnywhere type? Who knows but I will wait and see.
That being said I will wait to see wha
the more and more people that continue to buy iphone and ipad and don't buy macs is a good time when something like this will be implemented. Which could be soon as things are moving toward a post pc world....
Imagine the main machine is your iPad Air. Can go with you everywhere and acts like an iPad Air does now with iOS, but when you get home you hook it up to your "docking station" and it acts like a macbook air etc.
man that would be awesome.
Who knows it could even be like a macbook air where the screen is an iPad....that'd be very cool too
Imagine the main machine is your iPad Air. Can go with you everywhere and acts like an iPad Air does now with iOS, but when you get home you hook it up to your "docking station" and it acts like a macbook air etc.
man that would be awesome.
Who knows it could even be like a macbook air where the screen is an iPad....that'd be very cool too
I see this as very much possible and why Apple decided to move to 64-bit architecture in the iPhone and iPad now.
The people who don't believe this is coming don't see the paradigm shift.
Microsoft, to its credit, saw the shift. It's just that Microsoft, being Microsoft, screwed up the execution. Microsoft in true Microsoft form decided to tell its customers what they needed and forced it on them instead of giving them a path to follow like Apple does.
You see, most people on this forum see a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop and television. But to an innovator, these are all just screens of a different size. Apples goal should be that the customer decides what screen fits his or her intended use best and the software then scales to the particular screen size.
Want to switch screen sizes, no problem. With all your data stored in the cloud, you just switch to the next screen and there is everything for you scaled to the new screen size.
Once this happens, when all four screens are running the same operating system, the next step will be to do away with the screen entirely. That's where a product like Google Glass comes in. You won't need a screen because the device will project the image directly onto your retina.
In fact, the device will even have the ability to hold an image in place. So you can have a room full of people and each of them can look toward a certain point in the room and see the same image. If they look in another direction, the image moves out of their field of vision.
The people who don't believe this is coming don't see the paradigm shift.
Microsoft, to its credit, saw the shift. It's just that Microsoft, being Microsoft, screwed up the execution. Microsoft in true Microsoft form decided to tell its customers what they needed and forced it on them instead of giving them a path to follow like Apple does.
You see, most people on this forum see a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop and television. But to an innovator, these are all just screens of a different size. Apples goal should be that the customer decides what screen fits his or her intended use best and the software then scales to the particular screen size.
Want to switch screen sizes, no problem. With all your data stored in the cloud, you just switch to the next screen and there is everything for you scaled to the new screen size.
Once this happens, when all four screens are running the same operating system, the next step will be to do away with the screen entirely. That's where a product like Google Glass comes in. You won't need a screen because the device will project the image directly onto your retina.
In fact, the device will even have the ability to hold an image in place. So you can have a room full of people and each of them can look toward a certain point in the room and see the same image. If they look in another direction, the image moves out of their field of vision.
People are mixing ideas here. Try looking at what Cringely is predicting on this subject. Bring some iphone of the future near the right kind of large display and the iphone can drive it. Like airplay but better.
One way to do this (assuming bandwidth, power supply, and performance exists to do it), would be to have both the cocoa and cocoa touch frameworks deployed on the device. When the iphone display is used it looks like iOS, when the big screen display is used it looks like os x.
How to deal with bandwidth to the display? How about the display has a GPU and window server running on it? The iphone sends it commands, not pixels. Like how Display Postscript used to work.
One way to do this (assuming bandwidth, power supply, and performance exists to do it), would be to have both the cocoa and cocoa touch frameworks deployed on the device. When the iphone display is used it looks like iOS, when the big screen display is used it looks like os x.
How to deal with bandwidth to the display? How about the display has a GPU and window server running on it? The iphone sends it commands, not pixels. Like how Display Postscript used to work.
They copied this nonsense from 9to5mac or AI. MR does not need this kind of "news", IMHO. "You" do this only, if you want to be a copy of 9to5mac or AI.
The government ran us to the brink by enacting the cheap money printing policies that fed was telling us were so great for the economy, encouraging reckless risk taking, and creating the moral hazard of bailouts in the first place. Without government intervention, these things never would have happened we would have been much better off then, and we would be much better off now. It's not their fault for adapting to the system the political machine put into place. If you guarantee that a bank won't fail then you take away their fear of risk and recklessness risk taking is the direct result of that. Blame government. Wall Street is a symptom, not a cause.
hahaha thats probably the least elegant solution I have ever seen to a problem. Not to mention iCloud and the iTunes store makes most of the point moot.
what does "running as a full blow computer" mean exactly anyways?
These analyst guys are worse than a rumors board!
what does "running as a full blow computer" mean exactly anyways?
These analyst guys are worse than a rumors board!
Glad I'm not the only one that views this as the logical future of computing. I may with disagree appleken on the specifics but sooner or later, as technology advances, our "laptop" will stay in our pocket. Sure, we'll need a screen of some sort (TV, iPad esque portable, etc. - whatever is handy/available) and then some form of input (mouse, keyboard, touch screen - any and all), but if computing is truly to be "mobile" (and I believe it will be) we WILL do away with separate OSes and the phone will become your "Personal Computer."
P.S. I laugh at the idea that this is 12-18 mo. away.