Next BIG thing - prediction

[weespeed]

Not if it runs IOS.

Yeah I understand that, but going by lots of comments around here; Samsung, MS, etc.. all copied Apple, even though none of them run OSX or iOS..

Just saying a touchscreen all in one like the iMAc has been done.

My guess is the next big thing from Apple will be consumer related. I'm gonna say an Apple LED TV that has iOS built in.. like some have predicted.

 

[jouster]

Yeah I understand that, but going by lots of comments around here; Samsung, MS, etc.. all copied Apple, even though none of them run OSX or iOS..

Just saying a touchscreen all in one like the iMAc has been done.

My guess is the next big thing from Apple will be consumer related. I'm gonna say an Apple LED TV that has iOS built in.. like some have predicted.

Smartphones and MP3 players had been done too. My point is that Apple's expertise lies in taking ideas that already exist and making them work. Those computers in the links were nothing more than Windows boxes with touch screens that worked by replacing the mouse click with a tap. Multitouch has not been applied on this sort of scale yet, except in Surface - which is hardly a consumer product.

 

[weespeed]

Smartphones and MP3 players had been done too. My point is that Apple's expertise lies in taking ideas that already exist and making them work. Those computers in the links were nothing more than Windows boxes with touch screens that worked by replacing the mouse click with a tap. Multitouch has not been applied on this sort of scale yet, except in Surface - which is hardly a consumer product.

I agree with you, except the part about the os. If a touchscreen iMac is introduced it will be running Lion, and that's not any different from those boxes running Win7. And those boxes are multi-touch. Windows 7 supports it. It's not as fine tuned as iOS but it's multi-touch.

If anything when win8 is released, those boxes will be ahead of an iMac with Lion with touch screen, because those are already for sale. Only thing left is to install Win8.. Now that is a big IF on MS part on releasing it asap.

Like I said I see Apple's next big thing is something already out. That's what they are good at. Look at existing products and make them better and tie them into their eco-system.
The only thing I can think of is Apple LCD/LED Tv's or maybe a game console. But the game console is an Apple TV update away from running games from the AppStore.

So It's gonna be a tv with built in Apple TV and access to the AppStore. And to game on it they already have the controllers, the iPhone and iPad.
That's my bet.

 

[racer1441]

Nope, that is what it is, but no battery required.

I'd be interested if it had a battery.

What's the point of being tied to a desk?

 

[jouster]

I agree with you, except the part about the os. If a touchscreen iMac is introduced it will be running Lion...

That's where we disagree. I think Apple realizes that just glomming a touchscreen onto a desktop OS makes no sense. In fact, it's why all those Windows tablet edition boxes failed nearly a decade ago. Apple's response - the iPad and IOS - are the reasons they have succeeded in the space.

I'm not talking about a touchscreen iMac and I don't think the OP was either. I'm thinking of a device that can lie on the table, or at a very shallow angle, and be used like a drawing board: sketching, writing, annotating and a whole slew of apps (some types of game would be terrific!) we haven't considered yet, controlled by an advanced iteration - likely using both hands - of multitouch.

Then, once you're done with it like that, the screen can flip up in some fashion for use as content provider.

 

[GameAmour.com]

It's already been done.
HP, Sony, and Dell all have touchscreen all in one computers...

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-one-2305-amd/pd

http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/st...h:p&k_id=7b22a079-41be-17e9-abb3-00005fa2c901

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...exp/hhoslp/psg/lateralnav_TouchSmart_desktops

If Apple comes out with one, it'll be considered a copy of one of these.

Wrong, they will say that Apple has revolutionized the touchscreen computing and was first doing it!

 

[bier-meister]

Being able to take the screen off your macbook and use it as an ipad would be nice. When it's connected to your laptop, it only acts as a monitor and uses lion. Disconnect and you boot into ios.