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Patent: Apple Details Multi-Touch Mac User Interface
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It's 1" thick. I highly doubt Apple will release a similar product that thick. Apple's all about thin, thin, thin. Less thickness = Less performance = Less suitability of Mac OS X.
A thin device about 2x~4x the display area (7"~10") would have a similar internal area and would be at the lower limit of Mac OS X.
You may be on to something there...!
Does anyone have a picture of this?
Ooh... do you mean one last great hurrah (releasing a lot of great updated products all at once)? Here in Apple Country, dems fightin' words. Steve Jobs is like the Star Trek franchise-- he's unkillable!
I hope Steve's getting better and wish him the best.
...if you had hand of like Galum (sp)
Who drew the rendering? Someone who worked on "Lord of the Rings"?! Now I'm afraid to touch something like that if my hands manifest into creature features.
Who drew the rendering?
Someone who worked on "Lord of the Rings"?! Now I'm afraid to touch something like that if my hands manifest into creature features. 
This may be true, but it needs to offer something that the iPhone doesn't. In other words it needs to be a small computer, not an oversized phone - which suggests something closer to Mac OS X. I am keen that this is should be a creative device rather than a passive device.
Performance should at least be up to that of the computers from several years back, which could run Mac OS X, although not necessarily with all the new features of Leopard.
I'm inclined to believe that the product pictured in the patent is the possible outcome, as opposed to the technology in the patent being infused into Apple's current product line up.
The transition of ditching the physical keyboard on any current product (iphone aside) is too harsh and risky, even for a company as bold as Apple.
Apple will likely want to test the market of consumers effectively using and demanding a full OS with a touch screen before transitioning this into desktop and laptop products and discontinue selling keyboards.
So we probably are going to see a tablet way before we ever see an iMac, Macbook revamp.
That also means this product is going to be in a category of its own. Which means a unique naming scheme as well.
But what do I know, they might just release it as a huge freaking iPhone via AT&T and call it iPhone XL.
The transition of ditching the physical keyboard on any current product (iphone aside) is too harsh and risky, even for a company as bold as Apple.
Apple will likely want to test the market of consumers effectively using and demanding a full OS with a touch screen before transitioning this into desktop and laptop products and discontinue selling keyboards.
So we probably are going to see a tablet way before we ever see an iMac, Macbook revamp.
That also means this product is going to be in a category of its own. Which means a unique naming scheme as well.
But what do I know, they might just release it as a huge freaking iPhone via AT&T and call it iPhone XL.
You are thinking what I'm thinking...except that we have different implementations of it.
The larger display of this mini-tablet would better facilitate editing modes for iPod (iTunes), calendar, etc. Basic editing modes could be on the same "window" as the display (easy and simple) and more complex editing modes (if they exist) on a separate window.
Also, I have time and again emphasized that this device should/would have mobile versions of iLife and iWork, where the bigger display definitely helps. These versions would have much less overhead than regular Mac OS X versions, which helps with the lower specs on the device.
Also, the larger display of the device allows for more complex applications.
I think they're real. It's highly unlikely that those have been photoshopped this perfeclty from so many angles. The colors match. I say those are real.
Who said they were "hands"?
We are here and hiding until the time is right.
Gort, Klatu barada nictu. Live long and prosper. Don't forget to turn off the antimatter generator before you leave the cube...black holes leave such a mess on the other side.
I want one! But only if it looks exactly as shown in the diagram, 'cos my hands totally look like that
We are here and hiding until the time is right.
Gort, Klatu barada nictu. Live long and prosper. Don't forget to turn off the antimatter generator before you leave the cube...black holes leave such a mess on the other side.
Keyboard Issue
With a small touch screen there is always the issue of key size.
I always thought that the Virtual Laser Keyboard was an interesting concept but still needed some work. If it were incorporated into a tablet then I think we may have something.
You could prop it up like a screen and project the "keyboard" on any surface. No additional hardware.
Please excuse the roughness of this mockup.
With a small touch screen there is always the issue of key size.
I always thought that the Virtual Laser Keyboard was an interesting concept but still needed some work. If it were incorporated into a tablet then I think we may have something.
You could prop it up like a screen and project the "keyboard" on any surface. No additional hardware.
Please excuse the roughness of this mockup.
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I love how the hands are getting so much talk.
I didn't know Steve went by the alias " Ray McKigney" during his downtime from Apple. Glad he kept... uh, "busy".
('Seinfeld', "The Puffy Shirt"; season: 5 episode: 66; 09/23/93)
I didn't know Steve went by the alias " Ray McKigney" during his downtime from Apple.
Glad he kept... uh, "busy". ('Seinfeld', "The Puffy Shirt"; season: 5 episode: 66; 09/23/93)
In what way do you believe it will do so?
I'm honestly interested, and not trying to start a debate.
I'll make a point for him.
It's the second significant, step in commercially applying a full touch screen environment to a major consumer OS. The first step was the iPhone . Remember Job's words at introduction for the 1st gen iPhone were "OSX in your pocket"
The 3rd step will be the dismemberment of the keyboard from the iMac in 2010 .
Macrumors went down during my post, here is what I meant to say......
Uh huh, uh huh - looks pretty similar to me.... Could this be the device? Add in the slide in imac dock?
Too Separate patents coming together - and yet I found photoshops of both on the web? And one that perfectly combinds the two? Either we have great imaginations and two many people thinking alike - or this could be a leak of what will really happen???
Uh huh, uh huh - looks pretty similar to me.... Could this be the device? Add in the slide in imac dock?
Too Separate patents coming together - and yet I found photoshops of both on the web? And one that perfectly combinds the two? Either we have great imaginations and two many people thinking alike - or this could be a leak of what will really happen???
I think they're real. It's highly unlikely that those have been photoshopped this perfeclty from so many angles. The colors match. I say those are real.
When you find out about CAD modeling your mind is going to be blown.
No.
When you find out about sarcasm, ditto.
Year 2050 technology.
Already here dude
- http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/
Besides the have to keep up with Microsoft
But no seriously, Apple started Multi-touch and we seen where MS displayed a multi-touch system earlier this year (remember that?). If Apple does not release this now, well - then people will say MS did it and Apple copied it, and Apple is losing its innovation. Apple needs to do this right now...