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Why Did Apple Register ApplePico.com?
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Mini-er Mac Mini?
I was just thinking the other day as I swapped the HD in my brand new Mini for an SSD </brag> they could make a much smaller mini.
Imagine if they took a macbook air and removed the batteries and the screen. They could get it down to about the size of the Apple TV. It could just have a Thunderbolt port (I would rather have HDMI, but Apple probably wouldn't do that), a few USB ports, audio and maybe a small external power supply.
For $500, that would be a nice little machine.
I was just thinking the other day as I swapped the HD in my brand new Mini for an SSD </brag> they could make a much smaller mini.
Imagine if they took a macbook air and removed the batteries and the screen. They could get it down to about the size of the Apple TV. It could just have a Thunderbolt port (I would rather have HDMI, but Apple probably wouldn't do that), a few USB ports, audio and maybe a small external power supply.
For $500, that would be a nice little machine.
Pretty Simple
There is a Pico PK301 projector as well as a Pico PKA31 projector, currently for sale in various stores. I know the Pico PKA31 that Apple sells is sort of an "Apple" intended product as unlike its counterpart (PK301) it comes with Apple's connection kit. This could have just been a move to help sort confusion for customers looking into purchasing a Pico device for their Apple products. Just a thought....
The PKA31 Projector:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H2588ZM/A
There is a Pico PK301 projector as well as a Pico PKA31 projector, currently for sale in various stores. I know the Pico PKA31 that Apple sells is sort of an "Apple" intended product as unlike its counterpart (PK301) it comes with Apple's connection kit. This could have just been a move to help sort confusion for customers looking into purchasing a Pico device for their Apple products. Just a thought....
The PKA31 Projector:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H2588ZM/A
Thats my thought too. Apple Pi is kind of an obvious pun, yet some other company using it would leave room to be confused with Apple. So Apple may have bought it preventively. Maybe they bought several Apple Pi related domains, and ApplePiCo was just one?
Of course, buying one random domain name costs them less then the electricity cost for them to view rumor sites and laugh at us grasping at trivial straws!
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Surely that's in the works, but Apple hasn't done external power supply since what? '01?
EDIT: 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds5LnXF4E0Q
Surely that's in the works, but Apple hasn't done external power supply since what? '01?
EDIT: 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds5LnXF4E0Q
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Below the Mini....
Smaller, A5 based Net-Top?
$299...
(AppleTV - iPod Touch without the screen...
Pico - iPad without the screen...)
Smaller, A5 based Net-Top?
$299...
(AppleTV - iPod Touch without the screen...
Pico - iPad without the screen...)
With an audio device named "Pico" available for purchase for a number of years now, I will guess Apple is not going to use this name for an iPod product.
http://www.headamp.com/pico/index.htm
http://www.headamp.com/pico/index.htm
Oh man! Their game console is finally here!
And through buying Sega, no less!
I'm pretty sure Leapfrog has multiple patents relating to oversized, multicolored stylus-based input so this is going to get ugly really quick.
Argh ... aprilfools beat me to the punchline ...
Because they are now poised to take over the salsa industry.
Because they are now poised to take over the salsa industry.
people keep saying "ipod pico" as in "ipod nano" etc., but wasn't pico the os powering the classic ipods?
In my opinion this could be best thing Apple could do. This would help attract people who don't need a smart phone but would want one that earlier to used.
Android seams to collect a lot of this type, because of price..
or geoport.com, ikids.com (are they planning on selling us children? lol), digital hub.com, ripmixburn.com, publishingsurvey.com, ischool.com. Apple has lots of domains registered to them
let's see with the shuffle at 1.5", .15" .015, .0015 inches...
That would put us into embeddable/injectable? instead of earbuds... a neural plant on the cochlear nerve? and/or the optic nerve (talk about retina!!;-) and one in the vocal chords?
The Other (7th of 9) Geoff ;-)
i hate when companies buy up all the good domain names and not even using them
Maybe nothing, but the guy from the Doors said he saw one..
But I do remember around the time the iTunes store launched a member of the Doors (Densmore, I think) blogging about dissing Apple when it requested the use of a Doors song in a commercial.
As part of that blog I thought he said he got to see some projectors Apple was developing (of course maybe he just thought they were Apple projectors). Can't find the link right away, but it's out there. Wouldn't surprise me if Apple had something brewing in its labs but never produced it or Jobs insisted on years of improvements before it would meet his idea of of great product (like iPad).
But I do remember around the time the iTunes store launched a member of the Doors (Densmore, I think) blogging about dissing Apple when it requested the use of a Doors song in a commercial.
As part of that blog I thought he said he got to see some projectors Apple was developing (of course maybe he just thought they were Apple projectors). Can't find the link right away, but it's out there. Wouldn't surprise me if Apple had something brewing in its labs but never produced it or Jobs insisted on years of improvements before it would meet his idea of of great product (like iPad).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico
Take your pick.
Pico (Boku no Pico), a character in the Japanese video series Boku no Pico
That settles it. Apple is going into japanese video games.
I'm not even sure you're going to get this... but
YOOOOOOOOOOOO!