I edit corporate video, and I'm sincerely hoping that in ten years I'll be working on Apple's new 40in Hi Def Touch Screen Mac Pro ACD. It would be the greatest innovation in editing since the move away from film to digital suite...
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Mac 2018: What'll it be?
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Porn will be in 3D and involve a Wii controller and some sort of physical feedback. Internet geeks will count this pseudo-sexual interaction as "sexual experience", even though, deep down, they know they're still virgins.
TBH, I don't think I'm going to like what the future holds for Apple. Multi-Touch? No thanks, I'll keep my keyboard and mouse.
There still won't be an update for AOL Instant Messenger for mac, Safari will be a bit snappier on this machine, and of course people will still be "disappointed" in Apple keynotes
Also no PPC support
There still won't be an update for AOL Instant Messenger for mac, Safari will be a bit snappier on this machine, and of course people will still be "disappointed" in Apple keynotes
Nevah! PPC will always be around.
Nah, it's on it's way out in a few years, but I can't help wondering if Apple will ever switch processors again. AMD, anyone?
Not really an architecture switch that one though, just a manufacturer nudge. You could easily run OSX on an AMD processor now if you built yourself a Hackintosh (although that would be naughty and nobody should ever think of doing it, right kids?)
I love threads like this, as I am one of those people who love to think about what the future may hold. It is funny that on Star Trek they had multi-touch and a completely voice controlled computer system. TNG of course was supposed to take place from 2364-2370 and here we are talking about the chance for very similar technology by 2018 and certainly (hopefully) by 2028.
I would like to believe that Apple as a company remains on the top of innovation as it has over the last 32 years and will continue to amaze us. If Apple can market a full multi-touch handheld device that is thinner than the current iphone and many many times more powerful within the next ten years I will not be surprised.
Where Steve Jobs stands in the next 10 years as yet to be seen. I hope that he is still in good health and participating in the company, but if not hopefully his chosen chief is a good one with the passion that Steve Jobs has for quality and innovative technology.
I would like to believe that Apple as a company remains on the top of innovation as it has over the last 32 years and will continue to amaze us. If Apple can market a full multi-touch handheld device that is thinner than the current iphone and many many times more powerful within the next ten years I will not be surprised.
Where Steve Jobs stands in the next 10 years as yet to be seen. I hope that he is still in good health and participating in the company, but if not hopefully his chosen chief is a good one with the passion that Steve Jobs has for quality and innovative technology.
I'll bet the transition from the horse and cart to the automibile was real rough on you too.
I think that the whole multi-touch thing is spot-on, to be honest. Apple is certainly heading in that direction now!
But... what about after multi-touch? Brain wave control? Thought-generated iTunes?
I'll bet the transition from the horse and cart to the automibile was real rough on you too.
I think that the whole multi-touch thing is spot-on, to be honest. Apple is certainly heading in that direction now!
But... what about after multi-touch? Brain wave control? Thought-generated iTunes?
The thing is, no one wants to lift their arms up to an iMac screen to use the computer, your shoulders would begin to get tired after a while. I also don't want to be hunched over on a tablet. Keyboards are hard enough for my back to use just for the short time I use them, why would I want to do all my computing in that same position?
I don't see what the fascination with touch screens is. I've played with an iPhone before. Fun to use for about 15 minutes before I realized I was much more comfortable with a phone that has buttons. But that's more then likely just me.
True, I never really thought of it like that.
I wonder if it would be better to have the iMac closer to you?
OMG.. not typing in purple? WTF?
True, I never really thought of it like that.
I wonder if it would be better to have the iMac closer to you?
OMG.. not typing in purple? WTF?
When they come out with a practical hologram display-one you can move around and resize and set at any angle- then I can see Multi-Touch becoming more practical then a mouse and keyboard. Until then, it's just a gimmick, IMHO.
I'm sure they won't be bad, but saying you'll prefer them to desktop applications is just marketing speak, pure and simple.
What's the point? What does it gain you over the current software?
honestly I think "multi-touch screens" will be like drawing tablets, just a rectangle piece of nothing, at first, then it will be like a dual display, mirroring what is on the desktop, so you can use both hands, and even have like two mice, one left handed one right, with the touch keyboard on just a tap of a non-tactile button! ZOMG
ps cassie, I still have a PPC iBook, so I know why you love it, but dear get an intel mac, you know the saying, once you go intel mac, you don't go back..
ps cassie, I still have a PPC iBook, so I know why you love it, but dear get an intel mac, you know the saying, once you go intel mac, you don't go back..
We will be remembering the days back in '08 when computers like the MacBook Air were unnecessarily large and thick, and how phones like the iPhone 3G were dumbed down and had practically no features like the phones of '18. Lets place a bet now, who will be the one to resurrect this thread in 10 years? I'll gladly add it to my iCal, but I have a feeling that iCal will be extinct in 10 years.