Maybe it's for an iPod Touch that can do both FaceTime and still photos, but with only one camera module?
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What is Apple Planning on Making with this 3x3cm Touch Screen?
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Maybe it has to do something with this?
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/0...r-touch-sensitive-bezel-for-portable-devices/
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/0...r-touch-sensitive-bezel-for-portable-devices/
Blakeco123
macrumors regular
what if they make it smaller and put a touch screen home button on there idevices. maybe one the user could customize with a color?😕
WilliamLondon
macrumors 68000
LOL That's actually ignorant. And before you get all worked up, ignorant means uninformed.
*Dumb* means "lacking the power of speech" so it'd be pretty effing hard for that comment to be the "dumbest" thing you've ever *heard*.
Try a little less offense next time please!
Repo
macrumors 6502a
Whatever it's going to be implemented as (if it's even MEANT to be implemented) I'm pretty sure Apple will not apply the screen into anything that is bigger than the screen itself. Going by Apple's past and present use of "non-tacky" design, they are not going to produce a screen with rounded edges if they were not going to take artful advantage of them.
If you notice, all screens that share this design have covered the entire surface plane where they were used. They are not going to tack this onto the back of an iPhone or MBP because it would look... TACKED on.
Therefore, the remote, the watch and the shuffle seem to be the most viable products that have been hypothesized here. But even then, you have battery power to worry about. It'd be a pain in the ass to have to remember to plug in my watch every night (as well as everything else!) The remote however may go under the knife and get rechargeable batteries instead and possibly even use the iPods connector to recharge, and update the TVguide within the remote.
If you notice, all screens that share this design have covered the entire surface plane where they were used. They are not going to tack this onto the back of an iPhone or MBP because it would look... TACKED on.
Therefore, the remote, the watch and the shuffle seem to be the most viable products that have been hypothesized here. But even then, you have battery power to worry about. It'd be a pain in the ass to have to remember to plug in my watch every night (as well as everything else!) The remote however may go under the knife and get rechargeable batteries instead and possibly even use the iPods connector to recharge, and update the TVguide within the remote.
Yep... I get the feeling LOTS of people posting here don't understand this is reported to be 3CM x 3CM which is frankly too small to be truly useful... That is until Apple shows off a new product using it.. 😀
Nagooya
macrumors 6502
Patrick J
macrumors 65816
Is it actually useable?
Quote from The Onion - "I'll buy almost anything if it's shiny and made by Apple"
Patrick J
macrumors 65816
Stately
macrumors 6502a
You know what's funny? You might actually be right. I remember I had a watch by the company fossil, years ago. It attempted to do a lot of what the iphone now does but very very poorly and no color. It had the creamed spinach feel lol. If Apple did this, fugettaboutit . . I'd be the first on line. 😀
madmax_2069
macrumors 6502a
Stately
macrumors 6502a
afireintonto
macrumors 6502a
of it was like this, you could just flick the screen(which would show the current album's artwork) in any direction to go to the next song. that would be an awesome ipod shuffle.
There is a market for the 7" Tablet device, so I believe is going after that market as well. It's too big for an iPod. Or maybe you can use it as a digital clock like Flavor Flav.
powers74
macrumors 68000
Now that I'm seeing some of these shuffle concepts, yeah maybe. I still suspect it's for some internal experimental stuff that we're unlikely to see for some time. I've been way off before tho.
mac*jedi*g
macrumors regular
Video implant. Fits outside the back of your head allowing passersbyers to see what you are thinking. The name, of course:
iMindyourownbussiness
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iMindyourownbussiness
😛😛😛😛😎
It can be a watch but not a regular one. May be some kind of athletic pedometer/stopwatch or something to work in conjunction with that stuff from nike. The kind of display you see on a treadmill (heartbeats, miles walked, walking time, etc.)...