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What Kool Aid is everyone drinking? Yeah, a portable, lightweight, glossy screen 10-12" OS X machine. A huh.
I"ll settle for a lightweight 13" MB pro though.
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Pot of gold, winning mega numbers, fairy dust.....
What Kool Aid is everyone drinking? Yeah, a portable, lightweight, glossy screen 10-12" OS X machine. A huh.
I"ll settle for a lightweight 13" MB pro though.
It's 3G, so it's subsidized by a contract obviously. And their competition right now are the fully capable Windows XP Home, 8" lcd, 60gig HD, real keyboard, bluetooth, wifi, etc. sub $300 netbooks by ACER and others. They look sleek (taking some direction from Apple/Sony) and they're small and light. So nice that when dealing with a product like this, I don't even care what OS it's running. I'm going to surf, check email, and maybe write a quick document. If that's the same market for the Apple product, and they want to charge $600-$1000, forget it. This isn't the iPhone market anymore. The iPhone is still the best product experience, and it's only slightly more expensive. Well, consider the Apple netbook to be slightly more expensive, and a better experience. That would place it in the $500 range, which, like the phone, when subsidized puts it in the $99 range. The phones unsubsidized are $600+. The $99 sounds like something Apple is trying to do to jump into a market they didn't think was viable. They're doing something different with the 3G and the subsidized. Once again they'll be ahead of the game. First real notebook under $100 (sorta). And of course they'll get more of the contract money and enter a new market, which means their stock will grow by leaps and bounds. Buy AAPL people. Buy AAPL.
1) The US is physically much larger than most of those other countries.
2) Other countries usually have a telecom monopoly. In the US, landline broadband is split between cable and phone companies. Wireless broadband is split between at least four major carriers.
Yep, these were great...you just fail to remember how many appliances and PCs were released right after the iMac and the iBook in the market, in the same color schemes...
Just because a herd of sheep follow along behind and copy a design philosophy doesn't necessarily mean the design is justified as good/best/great etc. It just shows humans are stupid enough to buy tacky stuff
Yes Apple gave people color with their computer selection (+1), no they did not necessarily make amazing designs, they created a fad (+/-) that apparently has for the most part faded quite quickly (+1k). About the only real color selections that remain in the Apple line up is with the smaller iPods.
3) US telecom companies love taking standards and then modifying them just slightly so you can't use your equipment with any other network slowing the uptake of new technology and thus giving themselves the bad reputation they generally deserve.
or
4) US telecom companies like to ignore the standards that exist almost everywhere else in the world (GSM) and then 15 years late to the party they like to claim they are reinventing the world when the rest of the world looks as them and yawns, then falls to the floor laughing hysterically.
When 3rd Generation iPhone hit USA market?
I don't believe this is going to be true
I don't believe this is going to be true
I think you and most of the people whom have been following Apple and their thoughts on keyboards.
To date, Apple has changed the mobile industry as of now there are 100's of phones that are not including keyboards and then there are some companies that are but are using full touch screens suffice enough for finger touches vs. a stylus.
That being said I highly doubt that we will see a model of the iphone of sorts in that area.
I often wonder why the U.S. didn't "give up" many decades ago when the railroads, highways, and other infrastructure of the country were first being built... across this "big" country.
Apparently folks back then were doers, not dreamers.
Found this while surfing about:
http://vimeo.com/3523726
Also found an article on Apple's patent just getting passed/approved into the patents game:
Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition -- all without ever having to break from their usual routine.
Published for the first time this week, a patent filing for the process reveals that Apple wants to provide a more secure method for preventing unauthorized access to a whole device -- or private information on that device -- than current techniques like passcodes; however, it also wants to avoid taking up the owner's time with a separate scan or consuming extra space with a distinct reader.
The solution, the company suggests, would be to automatically use a sensor either hidden within the device or else repurposed from its usual role. Devices could recognize a fingerprint or finger vein pattern simply by waiting for the user to touch the display, which would hide the sensors on or behind the screen. A forward-facing camera could alternately look for retinal patterns or even recognize the facial features of owners when they're in the right position for use.
Link to article:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ng_stealth_biometric_security_for_iphone.html
http://vimeo.com/3523726
Also found an article on Apple's patent just getting passed/approved into the patents game:
Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition -- all without ever having to break from their usual routine.
Published for the first time this week, a patent filing for the process reveals that Apple wants to provide a more secure method for preventing unauthorized access to a whole device -- or private information on that device -- than current techniques like passcodes; however, it also wants to avoid taking up the owner's time with a separate scan or consuming extra space with a distinct reader.
The solution, the company suggests, would be to automatically use a sensor either hidden within the device or else repurposed from its usual role. Devices could recognize a fingerprint or finger vein pattern simply by waiting for the user to touch the display, which would hide the sensors on or behind the screen. A forward-facing camera could alternately look for retinal patterns or even recognize the facial features of owners when they're in the right position for use.
Link to article:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ng_stealth_biometric_security_for_iphone.html
Netbook called mac book mini???
This picture has emerged from 9to5 mac. The person that posted it on their forum says the ad came in a magazine.
What is striking is that the screen size is 10.4" (the same size that was rumored for the supposed "netbook" not sure but this thing looks like the mac book air with just a few differences in size
here is a picture:
This picture has emerged from 9to5 mac. The person that posted it on their forum says the ad came in a magazine.
What is striking is that the screen size is 10.4" (the same size that was rumored for the supposed "netbook" not sure but this thing looks like the mac book air with just a few differences in size
here is a picture:
Unlike the current Air, the trackpad does not have a button. (Well, that's not unexpected for any new Apple notebook. The next MBA probably won't have the button, either.)