Lots of arguments for and against convergence devices. Pics are very sharp. Product has definate visual appeal. Combine it with an intuitive UI and I think it would succeed.
IMO Apple needs to leverage their advantages with the iPod to get into new markets. What else can they do with the iPod? Make it smaller or cram in more memory? Would that really entice buyers. The iPod as it currently exists looks like a fad product to me. Sort of like the PDAs a few years back.
These kinds of mockups are interesting, because they suggest that what Jonathan Ives does is much harder than it looks.
The mockups (not just these but a lot of similar ideas over the years) always look "nice" in a designer-y sort of way, kind of Bang and Olufsen, but they never really look "Apple". Short of just grafting together bits of existing products (like a lot of the tablet mockups I've seen), nobody seems to be able to nail that Apple vibe.
For instance, on the second iPhone linked to, the keys on the slide out keypad are perfectly nice and functional, but you just know that Apple would never put little rectangular buttons in oval wells like that. You just look at it and go "not Apple".
When Apple does come out with something new, it's always simpler and somehow more "all of a piece" than anything anybody imagined.
If an iPhone is released one day all I can say is...IT HAD BETTER BE A FLIP PHONE, NO CANDYBAR BULL $#%*...at least not to start. If there's only 1 phone make it a flip, then you have my dollars.
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Originally posted by Aftershock
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29703
Looks fake but it would be cool!
Lots of arguments for and against convergence devices. Pics are very sharp. Product has definate visual appeal. Combine it with an intuitive UI and I think it would succeed.
IMO Apple needs to leverage their advantages with the iPod to get into new markets. What else can they do with the iPod? Make it smaller or cram in more memory? Would that really entice buyers. The iPod as it currently exists looks like a fad product to me. Sort of like the PDAs a few years back.
And here's for the newbies: Aplele.com
I've always wanted to merge my damned phone and iPod, but most of the mockups I've seen are clunky. The clamshell would work well I think.
Originally posted by Aftershock
Please disregard my post above. Found the origin of the pics:
I've always wanted to merge my damned phone and iPod, but most of the mockups I've seen are clunky. The clamshell would work well I think.
Wow, you're the very first guy here whose passion for a device motivated him to post something from Apele.
Not.
V/R,
Aries 1B: The Official 'Last To Know' of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Hinge section looks like it would flop around all the time...
here is my iPod collection
Some protos
Its funny that at this point I think we'd want the keypad more for text messaging than entering phone numbers.
i like that one more (is that a lazy link?)
The mockups (not just these but a lot of similar ideas over the years) always look "nice" in a designer-y sort of way, kind of Bang and Olufsen, but they never really look "Apple". Short of just grafting together bits of existing products (like a lot of the tablet mockups I've seen), nobody seems to be able to nail that Apple vibe.
For instance, on the second iPhone linked to, the keys on the slide out keypad are perfectly nice and functional, but you just know that Apple would never put little rectangular buttons in oval wells like that. You just look at it and go "not Apple".
When Apple does come out with something new, it's always simpler and somehow more "all of a piece" than anything anybody imagined.
I guess that's why Ives gets the big bucks.
If an iPhone is released one day all I can say is...IT HAD BETTER BE A FLIP PHONE, NO CANDYBAR BULL $#%*...at least not to start. If there's only 1 phone make it a flip, then you have my dollars.