What a Mac Specialist told me today...

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
...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.



Lately everyone I have talked to over at the local Apple Store sounds pretty excited these days, like they are in the know - which is not the usual vibe I get from them. So, food for thought on this one and these next few weeks should be pretty interesting....
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  • Reply 1 of 104
    sparhawksparhawk Posts: 134member
    am sure that i would buy one or two for that matter, but it's still speculating of course. Sooner or later we should here some specs i suppose
  • Reply 2 of 104
    Steve-O has already said NO!
  • Reply 3 of 104
    macsrgood4umacsrgood4u Posts: 3,007member
    Ho hum.
  • Reply 4 of 104
    Quote:

    Originally posted by T'hain Esh Kelch

    Steve-O has already said NO!



    a diversion?



    or not...
  • Reply 5 of 104
    ~ufo~~ufo~ Posts: 245member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Stylesheet

    a diversion?



    or not...




    yes of course



    it's an evil scheme developed to lead us to believe Apple are not really gonna produce all the things we might think of as neat....
  • Reply 6 of 104
    macflymacfly Posts: 256member
    steve said no...about a pda in the past. he recently was quoted as saying he was proud of the pda that they DIDNT release....not that there was none designed or possibly yet released. for all we know, the timing might not have been right to get into the market. now that sony has pulled its clie models from the U.S market there is only palm which just doesnt have that much, IMO, to offer in terms of usefulness overall with a mac. a new pda with a nice hard drive which would likely have wireless and could be used as a controller and so forth might be a possibility.
  • Reply 7 of 104
    hobbithobbit Posts: 532member
    Maybe it's not really a 'PDA' but more like a sub-notebook with pen input. Tying into those 'Apple tablet' and 'Apple gadget for around $650' rumors.

    Perhaps something running OS X on a battery friendly embedded G3 variant.

    iWalk anyone?
  • Reply 8 of 104
    idunnoidunno Posts: 645member
    Using Australian prices here, but an iBook is $1695, and the 40gig iPod is $799, so should we assume the PDA would fit in between? If so, I would rather just the iBook. It would be much cheaper and easier to just carry around a little pencil and notepad.



    Les.
  • Reply 9 of 104
    banchobancho Posts: 1,517member
    PDA's seem in decline (in the US at least). Phones with greater range of function seem the way to go. Sony already packed their bags and went home with the clie line. As much as I would love to see an Apple PDA I would rather they didn't release one just because "a few of us would think it's really cool" (a few of us relatively speaking).
  • Reply 10 of 104
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ~ufo~

    yes of course



    it's an evil scheme developed to lead us to believe Apple are not really gonna produce all the things we might think of as neat....




    As i suspected....
  • Reply 11 of 104
    hobbithobbit Posts: 532member
    Many think that Sony's exit of the International PDA market has a lot to do with their realisation that highend PDAs should rather be pocketable PCs - running the user's desktop OS and desktop applications.



    At least the timing was interesting that Sony announced the CLIE's demise the very week they shipped their new VAIO U50 and U70 in Japan. The U70 runs a Pentium M processor at 1GHz.



    VAIO Type U website (Japanese)

    Dynamism.com's review (English)

    Video review of the U70 at Kurns & Patrick (English) [it's 20MB and in WMV only but plays fine in VLC]



    May we dare to hope that Apple is heading in the same direction with a new 'PDA'?
  • Reply 12 of 104
    banchobancho Posts: 1,517member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by hobBIT

    Many think that Sony's exit of the International PDA market has a lot to do with their realisation that highend PDAs should rather be pocketable PCs - running the user's desktop OS and desktop applications.



    At least the timing was interesting that Sony announced the CLIE's demise the very week they shipped their new VAIO U50 and U70 in Japan. The U70 runs a Pentium M processor at 1GHz.



    VAIO Type U website (Japanese)

    Dynamism.com's review (English)

    Video review of the U70 at Kurns & Patrick (English) [it's 20MB and in WMV only but plays fine in VLC]



    May we dare to hope that Apple is heading in the same direction with a new 'PDA'?




    That may indeed be possible but the prices on those is quite high and would only appeal to a small niche as a result. The form factor is also clumsy in that it is not pocketable yet not really large enough for what people would expect for a machine in excess of $2000. These machines always seem to appeal much more in Japan which is why none of them ever make it here in any mainstream way.



    It looks to me very much like those tablets the crew member takes to the captain on star trek to get his signature. Nerd factor - extremely high.
  • Reply 13 of 104
    messiahtoshmessiahtosh Posts: 1,754member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by macfly

    steve said no...about a pda in the past. he recently was quoted as saying he was proud of the pda that they DIDNT release...



    Steve never said that, he said he was proud OF THE FACT THAT THEY DID NOT RELEASE IT.
  • Reply 14 of 104
    murkmurk Posts: 935member
    Maybe the guy has been reading: http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=457_0_1_0_M http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=455_0_1_0_M They have recanted due to the repeated ?no PDA? quotes from Steve Jobs. Then again, I wouldn?t put it past Stevie to pull a sneaky one. His recent quote: ? "We said we're going to invest in the iPod rather than a PDA and we also said it looks a lot like a $400 computer.? (Link to quote) Considering the state of the PDA market, and considering the demand for the iPod, maybe Apple will make a PDA, but pass it off as an iPod. The PDA is dead. The iPod 2, that?s something completely new.
  • Reply 15 of 104
    addisonaddison Posts: 1,185member
    I think this chap was winding you up, but notwithstanding...





    I don't think that Apple will ever release a PDA, a convergence device remains a possibility. I phone/ipod/pda would be pretty cool and popular. Personally I use a Treo 600, which is exactly that without the iPod although it can't connect to the iTMS. So imagine being able to have a mobile with a built in iPod that would connect to the ITMS via GPRS with a PDA built in.



    This would be a great commercial product, the 'phone companies would love it, Apple would love it and it would be a huge hit with the kids.



    Sounds good but seriously, look at al the apps available for the Palm. many are high end commercail applications and I can't see them all being r3e-written for a version of Pocket OSX. We know that Linux works sucessfully on a PDA, Sharp has done it for years., but I just don't think it will happen. Windows PPC/Phone/iPod lookalike possibly but not Apple.
  • Reply 16 of 104
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    A new iPod - with a 60GB hard drive - and a color screen, AirTunes/Bluetooth abilities AND incorporating that Inkwell stuff so you can push buttons and scribble directly on the screen to input stuff...wouldn't that be sort a PDA, only cooler/better?



    Apple/Steve says "no PDA". Fine, whatever.



    What they DIDN'T say is "no cool-ass, next-generation iPod with wireless - and user input - capabilities". Hard-drive-based, lots of room, Apple's ease-of-use, integration with .Mac, iTunes and iPhoto, color screen, the rumored "home on iPod" feature, etc.







    Furthering the notion that, upon the iPod's introduction 3 years ago, I immediately thought "Pod? What is a pod? Why no music-oriented name, unless it's destined for much more...".



    We can parse "PDA" and Jobs' comments about it all live-long day, I suppose...







    We've got this Toshiba leak about 60GB drives. We've got this persistent "home on iPod" talk (Tiger marquee feature?), this recent AirTunes/wireless stuff, etc.
  • Reply 17 of 104
    As you all know, PDA stands for Personal Digital Assistant.



    Steve Jobs has repeatedly said that Apple will NOT come out with a PDA. In stead of talking back and forth about if he is serious or not (because HE IS!) the more interesting thing is lookin into WHAT a PDA really is.



    What I mean is, Apple could release the "next thing" in a handheld product. He never said they would never release a "handheld" product. The iPod is a handheld product...see where I'm going?



    When Steve jobs says they will NOT release a PDA, they will NOT release a Personal Digital Asistant, end of story. Anyone still talking about this should get a hobby . I'm not talking about the thread starter, it's as relevant as anything else in here to post the information he is sharing.



    Let's analyze what a PDA can DO, what it IS. If we can define this, then we know what Apple will NOT release. At the same time we could try to come up with "the next" thing,or what would "the next thing" do? Communication?, GPS?, Video? ....something we haven't thought of yet?



    I hope my post can help us all focus on the relevant issues in this exciting subject.





    Sincerly



    Brian Zebeaune
  • Reply 18 of 104
    chaserchaser Posts: 63member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Messiahtosh

    Steve never said that, he said he was proud OF THE FACT THAT THEY DID NOT RELEASE IT.



    Jobs stated that he is proud not only of the products Apple has shipped, but also the products Apple has decided not to ship. When asked to elaborate, Jobs replied, "an Apple PDA."





    See here, it's on Apple Insider!
  • Reply 19 of 104
    tednditedndi Posts: 1,921member
    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....
  • Reply 20 of 104
    kim kap solkim kap sol Posts: 2,987member
    Steve always breaks his promises so I bet an Apple PDA is right around the corner.
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