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Apple Hiring New Telesales Staff to Support 'Very Big New Product'?
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But I think it will be the IMotion, which finally will let you control the emotional connection between people on the web via a smart, multitouch input device. Facebook will be out, iMotion me (monthly subscription required) will be a magical new www3.
Just like using a "clicker" to change the channels on said TV. I bet a large portion of the visitors to this site don't even know how that term originated. (Except now they will Google it and learn something new.
)Just like "dialing" a telephone doesn't exactly represent the process any longer.
I think Apple will be coming out with the "iBall".
"The iBall is a wireless, spherical device, designed in California to add a new dimension to everyday social networking. iBall incorporates a proprietary design feature which significantly cuts down on weight. All components of the iBall have been streamlined so that they are incorporated only in the thin external shell, leaving the center of the device magically filled with only air. This also helps to minimize the environmental impact and imparts an visceo-elastic quality to the device. If iBall is dropped, it reverses it's trajectory upon hitting a solid object and can return to your hand. iBall can survive 40 foot falls with no damage.
iBall also incorporates our newest technology, called "Play-Time". When two or more iBall users meet, spontaneous gaming may ensue. Two games are included with your iBall purchase, including "Catch" and "Soccer". Further game apps are being developed and will be released through the App Store."
"The iBall is a wireless, spherical device, designed in California to add a new dimension to everyday social networking. iBall incorporates a proprietary design feature which significantly cuts down on weight. All components of the iBall have been streamlined so that they are incorporated only in the thin external shell, leaving the center of the device magically filled with only air. This also helps to minimize the environmental impact and imparts an visceo-elastic quality to the device. If iBall is dropped, it reverses it's trajectory upon hitting a solid object and can return to your hand. iBall can survive 40 foot falls with no damage.
iBall also incorporates our newest technology, called "Play-Time". When two or more iBall users meet, spontaneous gaming may ensue. Two games are included with your iBall purchase, including "Catch" and "Soccer". Further game apps are being developed and will be released through the App Store."
Do you think it would take weeks of extra training to learn everything associated with a smaller screen?
Reinventing the Wheel?
Apple recently has not really introduced anything 'revolutionary' as in 'totally new product category'.
The iPhone 1 perhaps was the last thing I would count. And even that was 'just another smart phone'. Not really a new product category.
Sure the iPad is great, but tablets aren't new.
Perhaps the iPhone 4's Retina Display is closest to 'revolutionary' in recent products. But that's just one feature.
So my guess would be that at best it's just another 'refined' but already existing product.
Not something totally new.
And either way it will be a consumer product. Think Christmas.
Some ideas:
- Fused MacBook Air with iPad:
Convertible from iPad running iOS to MacBook running OS X in a package not much larger than the current iPad. Thin and light with a real keyboard and a touch screen. Combined with a new OS X Touch version.
- Whole new family of iPads:
7", 10" and maybe 13" or 15". Thin, light and with super high resolution displays.
Add to that the iPod touch at the very low end.
- Retina MacBook Touch
New portable Mac with fully re-designed Mac OS X supporting a 11-13" touch screen.
If we're lucky it comes with a Retina Display doubling up pixels so software doesn't need to be updated, but provides super-crisp text.
Apple recently has not really introduced anything 'revolutionary' as in 'totally new product category'.
The iPhone 1 perhaps was the last thing I would count. And even that was 'just another smart phone'. Not really a new product category.
Sure the iPad is great, but tablets aren't new.
Perhaps the iPhone 4's Retina Display is closest to 'revolutionary' in recent products. But that's just one feature.
So my guess would be that at best it's just another 'refined' but already existing product.
Not something totally new.
And either way it will be a consumer product. Think Christmas.
Some ideas:
- Fused MacBook Air with iPad:
Convertible from iPad running iOS to MacBook running OS X in a package not much larger than the current iPad. Thin and light with a real keyboard and a touch screen. Combined with a new OS X Touch version.
- Whole new family of iPads:
7", 10" and maybe 13" or 15". Thin, light and with super high resolution displays.
Add to that the iPod touch at the very low end.
- Retina MacBook Touch
New portable Mac with fully re-designed Mac OS X supporting a 11-13" touch screen.
If we're lucky it comes with a Retina Display doubling up pixels so software doesn't need to be updated, but provides super-crisp text.
The iBigO. Turn it on and you are on.
Handy switch for males or females. Center position for those who don't know.
Requires new code after every use, purchasable through App store. Only $9.99.
If the app fails, a recording of Jobs saying "No problem, you are holding it wrong" plays.
Handy switch for males or females. Center position for those who don't know.
Requires new code after every use, purchasable through App store. Only $9.99.
If the app fails, a recording of Jobs saying "No problem, you are holding it wrong" plays.
Looks like the Very Big New Product turned out quite small, innit?
And it probably has intrigued me the most of the new products shown earlier today. $99 is the perfect price point, and the addition of NetFlix support will help drive sales.
And it probably has intrigued me the most of the new products shown earlier today. $99 is the perfect price point, and the addition of NetFlix support will help drive sales.
Maybe it will be a replacement for Aperture 3 it could be called the i-Don'tGiveATossAboutMyProfessionalCustomersAnymore app
I don't think we're done yet. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be on the rumour radar, at this stage.
We have 'phone support' ads in Australia that sound similar, and they have a 'commence work' date of 30 Sept, so I'm thinking some time in October maybe.
Can't see television being a 'big new product'. tv is a hobby until all the content providers start taking it seriously and supply a decent catalogue. There's not much more Apple can do hardware-wise about that. Anything else to do with television falls into that category, in my mind.
We have 'phone support' ads in Australia that sound similar, and they have a 'commence work' date of 30 Sept, so I'm thinking some time in October maybe.
Can't see television being a 'big new product'. tv is a hobby until all the content providers start taking it seriously and supply a decent catalogue. There's not much more Apple can do hardware-wise about that. Anything else to do with television falls into that category, in my mind.
