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Apple Accelerometer Patents and a Tablet Mac?

hmmm... that sensor really would be a cool thing for an iPhone. Keep the ClickWheel and shake the phone for dialing a number. Same thing for typing SMS, just shake the unit or whack it doing the morse code. 😀

HOnestly I don't think this technology is ready for an input method. And I think noone wants this for all day use. For some games it may be fun, but that's it. It would be helpful on the big iPods to protect the hard drive when you drop the thing.
 
MrCrowbar said:
hmmm... that sensor really would be a cool thing for an iPhone. Keep the ClickWheel and shake the phone for dialing a number. Same thing for typing SMS, just shake the unit or whack it doing the morse code. 😀

HOnestly I don't think this technology is ready for an input method. And I think noone wants this for all day use. For some games it may be fun, but that's it. It would be helpful on the big iPods to protect the hard drive when you drop the thing.
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On a phone, it wouldn't be used as an input method, rather a way to automatically change the screen orientation if the user turns the phone sideways to, for example, view a widescreen mode. I can see this in a future video iPod too.
 
A tablet soon: I believe it

I think Apple is moving toward gaming and/or tablet device...


Look at thisgreat article
http://www.kernelthread.com/software/ams2hid/ams2hid.html

And look at the QT movies...

I definitely think that the next device Apple has in hands will have the same effect on the market that the Ipod has or has had.

"...Imagine the possibilities..."

My guess: pretty soon cool new device
 
iGary said:
Not. Happening. Ever.
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I'm sorry, was this supposed to have been posted in the Mac switching to Intel discussion?

Or perhaps the iPod for Windows discussion?

Or was it meant for the Apple releasing an office productivity suite discussion?

Or even the iPod Mini being replaced discussion?

Or the no more support for Classic discussion? 😉

I think, if anything, we rumor site readers should accept by now that sentiments like "not happening ever" hold true for a very short time with Apple.
 
I, for one, am pessimistic at best. l think the most likely option is that Apple might aim for the smartphone/pda market, but it is unlikely they will aim for tablets.
Look at it from a consumer standpoint-most people want pocketability and compactness, that's a big part of the appeal of the treo.
If you want wifi, bt, picture portability, etc. get a Palm TX. I am posting from mine right now.
 
illegalprelude said:
I love that option, my Mini Cooper / all Mini Coopers have that. The option is amazing, when i speed up, music gets louder, go slower, music comes down and u can adjust how sensative u want it to be
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My father's Chevy Lumina (about 5 years old, I think) has this as well. Great option. Pity it's not found in all cars.
 
Doctor Q said:
That's my password too. What a coincidence!

Actually, you could do this without making such a spectacle of yourself. Simply handwrite your password by moving the tablet against a pen. And don't do it wrong, because then you won't be able to log in.
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In actual fact scientific studies have determined that everybody sneezes differently. So your password could be entered by holding the laptop/tablet pc at arms length (to increase the displacement) and sneezing. No two people have the same muscle response and the unique user can be identified. Other bodily functions that have unique movements patterns include coughing, jogging, and mast*****ion. Any of which could be used to uniquely identify a user.

Bug

Please note that everything in this post is made up.
 
inkswamp said:
I'm sorry, was this supposed to have been posted in the Mac switching to Intel discussion?

Or perhaps the iPod for Windows discussion?

Or was it meant for the Apple releasing an office productivity suite discussion?

Or even the iPod Mini being replaced discussion?

Or the no more support for Classic discussion? 😉

I think, if anything, we rumor site readers should accept by now that sentiments like "not happening ever" hold true for a very short time with Apple.
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Exactly! This patent is probably a "stick the flag in the ground" patent, rather than "oh oh oh we have a great idea for a product" patent, all the same, is it inconceivable that Apple will one day develop a tablet FF? No.
 
MrCrowbar said:
hmmm... that sensor really would be a cool thing for an iPhone. Keep the ClickWheel and shake the phone for dialing a number. Same thing for typing SMS, just shake the unit or whack it doing the morse code. 😀

HOnestly I don't think this technology is ready for an input method. And I think noone wants this for all day use. For some games it may be fun, but that's it. It would be helpful on the big iPods to protect the hard drive when you drop the thing.
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Hasn't the "shake the phone to dial" thing been done? I'm pretty sure I saw an advert for something like this from motorola or samsung while I was in Korea (could have been Japan) last year.

My money is on Apple developing the worlds most expensive etcha-sketch.
 
How many of you that shoot down the Tablet PC actually use one - every day? I do - and it does indeed suck - cuz it is running Tablet XP - and its not on an apple piece of hardware. I for one love the idea of the tablet, but as I use one everyday - I really want one that works.

I don't doubt that Apple and OS X could do it waaay better than the P.O.S I have right now. Tablets aren't bad becasue the idea is bad its just that in their current form they are bad (windows). Do you realize that in their current form Tablet PCs are really not designed for graphic work? I know that sounds stupid, but its true. My Arch firm bought 5 of them - well becase you'd think that a screen that you can write on would be perfect for people that draw? Well they don't quite work that way. The current crop of Tablet PCs are so focused on battery life (so it can be portable) they had to use centrino processors and sacrifice performance....They are not graphic-intensive friendly and usually the screens are terrible! For the most part the Tablet PCs were designed for people to walk around an fill out forms and make check-lists (Drs, lab workers, people taking inventory, etc) and some limited free-hand writing.

For design professionals a wacom type separate tablet is way better and way more practical (much more accurate). I apple could do it right that would be great.
 
Having a touch screen (I'll ignore the other tablet aspects for a moment) in a laptop, especially in the 17" PowerBook/MacBook Pro, would appeal to a lot of design specialists. Whoever has really gotten attached to a Wacom tablet certainly misses it on their laptop. Thinking just about convertible tablets, where the regular laptop features are not lost, Apple has some room to innovate.

An ultraportable slate design would be pushing it a bit (and would really be disappointing if it didn't have an optical drive). While I can understand wanting a really small computer, it could not be that hard to put a keybord in there and make it a full featured laptop.

I have no doubt that within a few years Apple will finally get around to pushing its Inkwell technology with full force. For now Apple is rightly focusing on spreading the iSight throughout its product lines.

If Apple rolls out some sort of hybrid iSight/touchscreen using its newly patented Integrated Sensing Display, then I can see this being a big product announcement best saved for MacWorld 2007 when we get the next major MacBook revisions. We've all been waiting for a form factor/case design update, and this might be it. I trust Apple to make a big splash when it jumps into the Tablet market. Imagine if the entire MacBook/MacBook Pro protable lineup became tablets overnight!!!😀 😀 😀
 
Bad Beaver said:
ACK. Apple would take in even more of the education market too.
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Yeah...well at least somewhat. I hear back at my old high school, the students are required to pick up tablet PCs so that forces them to use Windows. I think if Apple came out with a tablet PC, they'd swith the students to running OS X. They were a big Mac school before (students all picked up iBooks -- part of the school fee, like buying the textbooks) till the tablet issue.
 
Hmmm....if Apple does make a tablet PC, I guess we'll finally make good use of that Inkwell technology in OS X....
 
It's quite obvious that Apple will be installing air bags in their hardware, hence the accelerometer. You fall asleep in front of your machine, it will detect your sudden and irregular movement and WHAM. This should cut down in AppleCare calls from MacRumor zeolots who fall asleep and spill their cappachino on their keyboards while reading every post in rumor threads that promise to deliver the mythical Apple tablet.

Very controlled benchmark tests will then show that Apple has created the fastest and best looking airbag deployment system available. Apple legal will shortly thereafter post changes to the user licenses of affected hardware stating that they will not take responsibility for head/neck injuries caused by the speed of their processors.
 
Detlev said:
It's quite obvious that Apple will be installing air bags in their hardware...
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😛 😀
 
perhaps een eBook device? or next gen iPod?

Most of you are speculating on a tablet pc or something; but perhaps it's an eBook device? Or even the next-generation iPod? Move it to the right to shift to go to the next song, image or video. Draw a circular motion in the air to raise or lower to volume, etc 😉
 
p0intblank said:
As for this so called "rumor," I am calling bogus. Steve knows there isn't any real market for tablet PCs yet, so why bother now? Maybe in a few years.
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Why would apple wait for the market to exist.

It is for Apple to create a market.... not enter it once it has already been created.
 
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