Remember also that Apple has legions of copycats. If apple was getting ready to release anything they wouldn't advance it and let some crappy beta version competetor release it first to steal the thunder. Apple will use intentional misinformation to throw off the industrial spies.
Sony is just japanese for apple rip-off clie is just cliche'
apple's hardware and software have always made me wish for the next version. You can see where they are headed and can't wait to get there.
Maybe the "$99 iPod" rumours were right, and the plan is to release a $99 3GHz G5 based iPod with PDA functionality at WWDC. This will ensure the rumours are true and that Apple and IBM keeps their promises.
Be interesting if they do. Depending on the colour, I might buy one.
Maybe the "$99 iPod" rumours were right, and the plan is to release a $99 3GHz G5 based iPod with PDA functionality at WWDC. This will ensure the rumours are true and that Apple and IBM keeps their promises.
Be interesting if they do. Depending on the colour, I might buy one.
;-)
Give me a break. Some of the biach-ing, and complaints are justified, and valid.
It has been said before, Apple will not ship a PDA, Apple will not ship a video iPod, what I do believe Apple is working on is an iLife portable. With video-out, music, color screen, home-on features, maybe other features also.
What else would be cool to incorportate into such a device?
Apple will release a tablet, eventually, and it won't be like anything out there today.
I'm waiting on a digital moleskin-A5 sized device.
Sony has some interesting new technology that solves a lot of problems. Their digital paper solution -- a tiny electromechanical grid -- solves nearly all the viewing problems associated with LCD technology. Because it only needs to be refreshed when something on screen changes, it uses little power. It has great readability and contrast because it doesn't get better than black on white.
Yes yes, sony's device is an eBook, and eBooks basically suck, but perhaps not for much longer.
Throw in a capacious 20-60Gb 1.8" HDD, and suddenly you can hold a considerable text library on your device. Role in palm-level computing power and some intelligent database software, and searches become interesting too. Perhaps throw a clear digitizer over the screen, and you have an eBook you can write upon aswell.
Check email. Why not? anything that's more like paper will be easier to read than a standard screen.
Project Gutenburg alone would keep my digital moleskin hopping for years: I don't even need copyright material! A reference library in your pocket! And a calendar/notepad/mail reader too.
Many times I asked myself what would be Apple's next iLife device. I'm not talking about an evolution of the iPod, we've discussed those, but a completely new device.
At some point I was sure it would be a HD based digital camcorder with FireWire that also does pictures. No more tapes, yet perfect DV quality videos. Perhaps even a Foveon X3 chip.
Well, it didn't happen.
My current favorite is a PDF/Photo Viewer. Kind of ties in with what Matsu said.
iTunes keeps an archive of your music. iPhoto an archive of your pictures. How about a new iLife application, let's call it 'iDoc' that keeps an archive of your documents? Anything that no longer needs editing. Old Word or Excel files, PDFs you downloaded, even eBooks in PDF format (with DRM). All those would be archived in iDoc. With easy powerful searching and viewing. Since OS X is PDF based, basically anything that can be printed (most anything) can be archived in iDoc's native PDF format. And what would accompany iDoc better than a new A5 sized PDF viewer?
It would have a color screen and show PDFs and photos from iPhoto, plus iCal calendars and addresses. Probably not movies, at least not in its first version.
And since PDFs allow for annotations, perhaps one could even annotate these PDFs.
Would that perhaps be the rumored 'Apple Tablet'? An iDoc/iPhoto viewer?
And to top it off it could also have WiFi built-in. This would allow it to be used as a mobile web browser with any WiFi hotspot.
And get this: with WiFi built-in it would be ever so easy to upload new PDFs wirelessly. How cool would it be to go into shops or visit expos and be picking up brochures and other leaflets wirelessly - to read on the go and/or sync with iDoc later. No more lugging around of heaps of paperwork.
And get this: with WiFi built-in it would be ever so easy to upload new PDFs wirelessly. How cool would it be to go into shops or visit expos and be picking up brochures and other leaflets wirelessly - to read on the go and/or sync with iDoc later. No more lugging around of heaps of paperwork.
That would be cool. go into stores and get the info and then later be able to read at lesure.
WiFi pickup of brochures could even have an option to allow certain 'publishers' to distribute PDFs to you automatically, by just passing a WiFi enabled 'leaflet dispenser'.
So for example whenever you enter an Apple Store, merely by entering and leaving the store you'd find the latest set of PDFs of Apple products on your Viewer. Convenient. Browse them, keep them, delete them - whatever you fancy. In the end it saves tons of trees. Literally.
And at some point you could even purchase newspapers or magazines that way. Imagine having a subscription of newspaper x or magazine y. Just walk up to the nearest WiFi enabled newsstand and <poof> within seconds the subscription is verified and you will find your newspaper or magazine delivered to your Viewer. Wirelessly, effortlessly.
And like a music store built into iTunes, why not a newspaper/magazine store built into 'iDoc'?
We've all seen eBook readers. More or less they are all crap and failed. But if done right, the possibilities are endless! Like with the iPod.
Gotta ask, how big do you envision this iDoc? Because I am already hating the idea of it, if you are picturing it large enough to display pamphlets and not have to squint to read it... may as well just get an iBook.
...So I know that Mac Sales Associates are not in the loop of what is going on over at Apple (no pun intended) but I was at work and one came in to get a bite to eat. I asked him when they should be getting the new G5's in and he said that the new dual 1.8s were in but the other two models were not expected until late next month then he asked me if I was a big computer user....I said of course....
He then went into his over excited spiel about how the G5's have this and that and when I said it was to bad that they (Apple) could not come out with dual 3.0, he said "yeah they were suppose to be out now but they couldn't get there just yet." he then went onto say this....
"And pretty soon Apple will be coming out with a PDA that will blow away anything that Palm has to offer" I stopped him and asked "which company did you say again?" thinking maybe he did not really say Apple and then he went onto say "Apple will. It will have the same hard drive as the iPod Mini so a 4GB drive and will have a full color screen..." he sounded pretty damn confident in himself and I was pretty shocked to even hear him "speculating" on unreleased products, let alone sounding as if it were a for sure thing
Congratulations on not having to get him drunk first!
It has been said before, Apple will not ship a PDA, Apple will not ship a video iPod, what I do believe Apple is working on is an iLife portable. With video-out, music, color screen, home-on features, maybe other features also.
What else would be cool to incorportate into such a device?
GPS, only for some.
Phone, only for some.
AddressBook, yes.
Ink well, can't see it.
Voice notepad, yes.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I said. (minus the GPS...didn't think of that).
Gotta ask, how big do you envision this iDoc? Because I am already hating the idea of it, if you are picturing it large enough to display pamphlets and not have to squint to read it... may as well just get an iBook.
'iDoc' is not the name of the device, but the name of the accompanying software, like iTunes.
I envision the device to be A5 in size and as thin as possible. Ideally something like 210mm x 150mm x 10mm (for the metric challenged audience: 8" x 6" x 0.4"). Much smaller than an iBook, about 1/4 the volume. Pretty much the size of a DVD box. Thinner even if Apple can manage the 4+GB HD, battery and electronics to fit. Perhaps with an OLED screen they could make it 5mm thin (0.2").
Considering the size of an iPod and that includes a 40GB HD, battery and electronics, the size of a DVD box should be doable.
If the resolution is high enough people will be able to read pages in portrait orientation, especially for eBooks that would roughly be the size of a pocketbook anyway.
To get bigger print just rotate the device to landscape and you've got the full width and can view a half page at a time, scrolling neatly up and down.
Comments
Originally posted by Chaser
See here, it's on Apple Insider!
Yes it is, but it's wrong.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Yes it is, but it's wrong.
Sony is just japanese for apple rip-off clie is just cliche'
apple's hardware and software have always made me wish for the next version. You can see where they are headed and can't wait to get there.
Go apple Go!!
Be interesting if they do. Depending on the colour, I might buy one.
;-)
Originally posted by TednDi
ipod
individual personal/peripheral organisational device
not a pda personal digital assistant
palm is done for....
STEVE if you are reading make the phone UNLOCKED!! works with any system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
keep the faith!!
an apple a day....
HEY man, stop SHOUTING at Steve OK ???
He ain't deaf ya know !
Duh !
Originally posted by The Angel of the Abyss
HEY man, stop SHOUTING at Steve OK ???
He ain't deaf ya know !
Duh !
I know he ain't def but my voice is so small!!
Originally posted by peharri
Maybe the "$99 iPod" rumours were right, and the plan is to release a $99 3GHz G5 based iPod with PDA functionality at WWDC. This will ensure the rumours are true and that Apple and IBM keeps their promises.
Be interesting if they do. Depending on the colour, I might buy one.
;-)
Give me a break. Some of the biach-ing, and complaints are justified, and valid.
What else would be cool to incorportate into such a device?
GPS, only for some.
Phone, only for some.
AddressBook, yes.
Ink well, can't see it.
Voice notepad, yes.
wouldn't be too big or too expensive
then gps could give you directions via voice and little screen
on ipod now,
we have calender
and address book
so, add...
larger landscape screen with controls on the front and screen on the back?
voice control perhaps. Integrate it with a voice recognition software in Tiger and the voice notes feature becomes very useful.
bluetooth/wifi integration- yes
roaming playlists using isync
direct downloadable itms support?
log on to linked machines when entering room
throw a little biometric thingy with encryption on it and a 4gig harddrive and it is ilife mobile.
I'm waiting on a digital moleskin-A5 sized device.
Sony has some interesting new technology that solves a lot of problems. Their digital paper solution -- a tiny electromechanical grid -- solves nearly all the viewing problems associated with LCD technology. Because it only needs to be refreshed when something on screen changes, it uses little power. It has great readability and contrast because it doesn't get better than black on white.
Yes yes, sony's device is an eBook, and eBooks basically suck, but perhaps not for much longer.
Throw in a capacious 20-60Gb 1.8" HDD, and suddenly you can hold a considerable text library on your device. Role in palm-level computing power and some intelligent database software, and searches become interesting too. Perhaps throw a clear digitizer over the screen, and you have an eBook you can write upon aswell.
Check email. Why not? anything that's more like paper will be easier to read than a standard screen.
Project Gutenburg alone would keep my digital moleskin hopping for years: I don't even need copyright material! A reference library in your pocket! And a calendar/notepad/mail reader too.
At some point I was sure it would be a HD based digital camcorder with FireWire that also does pictures. No more tapes, yet perfect DV quality videos. Perhaps even a Foveon X3 chip.
Well, it didn't happen.
My current favorite is a PDF/Photo Viewer. Kind of ties in with what Matsu said.
iTunes keeps an archive of your music. iPhoto an archive of your pictures. How about a new iLife application, let's call it 'iDoc' that keeps an archive of your documents? Anything that no longer needs editing. Old Word or Excel files, PDFs you downloaded, even eBooks in PDF format (with DRM). All those would be archived in iDoc. With easy powerful searching and viewing. Since OS X is PDF based, basically anything that can be printed (most anything) can be archived in iDoc's native PDF format. And what would accompany iDoc better than a new A5 sized PDF viewer?
It would have a color screen and show PDFs and photos from iPhoto, plus iCal calendars and addresses. Probably not movies, at least not in its first version.
And since PDFs allow for annotations, perhaps one could even annotate these PDFs.
Would that perhaps be the rumored 'Apple Tablet'? An iDoc/iPhoto viewer?
And to top it off it could also have WiFi built-in. This would allow it to be used as a mobile web browser with any WiFi hotspot.
And get this: with WiFi built-in it would be ever so easy to upload new PDFs wirelessly. How cool would it be to go into shops or visit expos and be picking up brochures and other leaflets wirelessly - to read on the go and/or sync with iDoc later. No more lugging around of heaps of paperwork.
And get this: with WiFi built-in it would be ever so easy to upload new PDFs wirelessly. How cool would it be to go into shops or visit expos and be picking up brochures and other leaflets wirelessly - to read on the go and/or sync with iDoc later. No more lugging around of heaps of paperwork.
That would be cool. go into stores and get the info and then later be able to read at lesure.
WiFi pickup of brochures could even have an option to allow certain 'publishers' to distribute PDFs to you automatically, by just passing a WiFi enabled 'leaflet dispenser'.
So for example whenever you enter an Apple Store, merely by entering and leaving the store you'd find the latest set of PDFs of Apple products on your Viewer. Convenient. Browse them, keep them, delete them - whatever you fancy. In the end it saves tons of trees. Literally.
And at some point you could even purchase newspapers or magazines that way. Imagine having a subscription of newspaper x or magazine y. Just walk up to the nearest WiFi enabled newsstand and <poof> within seconds the subscription is verified and you will find your newspaper or magazine delivered to your Viewer. Wirelessly, effortlessly.
And like a music store built into iTunes, why not a newspaper/magazine store built into 'iDoc'?
We've all seen eBook readers. More or less they are all crap and failed. But if done right, the possibilities are endless! Like with the iPod.
Originally posted by Jared
...So I know that Mac Sales Associates are not in the loop of what is going on over at Apple (no pun intended) but I was at work and one came in to get a bite to eat. I asked him when they should be getting the new G5's in and he said that the new dual 1.8s were in but the other two models were not expected until late next month then he asked me if I was a big computer user....I said of course....
He then went into his over excited spiel about how the G5's have this and that and when I said it was to bad that they (Apple) could not come out with dual 3.0, he said "yeah they were suppose to be out now but they couldn't get there just yet." he then went onto say this....
"And pretty soon Apple will be coming out with a PDA that will blow away anything that Palm has to offer" I stopped him and asked "which company did you say again?" thinking maybe he did not really say Apple and then he went onto say "Apple will. It will have the same hard drive as the iPod Mini so a 4GB drive and will have a full color screen..." he sounded pretty damn confident in himself and I was pretty shocked to even hear him "speculating" on unreleased products, let alone sounding as if it were a for sure thing
Congratulations on not having to get him drunk first!
Originally posted by oldmacfan
It has been said before, Apple will not ship a PDA, Apple will not ship a video iPod, what I do believe Apple is working on is an iLife portable. With video-out, music, color screen, home-on features, maybe other features also.
What else would be cool to incorportate into such a device?
GPS, only for some.
Phone, only for some.
AddressBook, yes.
Ink well, can't see it.
Voice notepad, yes.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I said. (minus the GPS...didn't think of that).
Originally posted by hobBIT
My current favorite is a PDF/Photo Viewer. Kind of ties in with what Matsu said.
LOL...that should give a new meaning to Portable Document Format.
Originally posted by les t
Gotta ask, how big do you envision this iDoc? Because I am already hating the idea of it, if you are picturing it large enough to display pamphlets and not have to squint to read it... may as well just get an iBook.
'iDoc' is not the name of the device, but the name of the accompanying software, like iTunes.
I envision the device to be A5 in size and as thin as possible. Ideally something like 210mm x 150mm x 10mm (for the metric challenged audience: 8" x 6" x 0.4"). Much smaller than an iBook, about 1/4 the volume. Pretty much the size of a DVD box. Thinner even if Apple can manage the 4+GB HD, battery and electronics to fit. Perhaps with an OLED screen they could make it 5mm thin (0.2").
Considering the size of an iPod and that includes a 40GB HD, battery and electronics, the size of a DVD box should be doable.
If the resolution is high enough people will be able to read pages in portrait orientation, especially for eBooks that would roughly be the size of a pocketbook anyway.
To get bigger print just rotate the device to landscape and you've got the full width and can view a half page at a time, scrolling neatly up and down.
Should be perfect.
Originally posted by TWinbrook46636
Congratulations on not having to get him drunk first!
*LOL* Right on the spot!