They are going to become a car company! The ipod?? Its a car stupid!! and it hovers!! Jobs bought the real "IT" segway thing and it is a flying car!!!!
//thentro runs around, hits a wall and falls over// :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
<strong>Have a look <a href="http://www.spymac.com"; target="_blank">SpyMac.com</a></strong><hr></blockquote>
If you haven't realized already, spymac is a pathetic fraud with crappy 3d renderings complete with classic photoshop effects. Can't believe how many idiots still go around trumpeting that site. Yahoo even ran a video story on it.
There was some discussion around here about a slot on the new imac that you could plug you ipod into like a removable drive. (I forget who thought up the idea.) What if Spymac is actually on the ball this time, and the unknown "sixteen pin connector" is a new version of the duo-dock connector?
Absolutly no basis for this idea, but how cool would it be to have a dock slot for the iWalk/iPod/iwhatever digital hub devices( all of them could use the slot or plug in via firewire- faster tranfer if plugged in via the slot), as well as having the wireless firewire that 1394.org has been discusing- a 10 miles range wireless connection directly to the computer, not through the internet.
You could have the iwalk as a portable desktop- your computer, and it's files available via wireless firewire over a ten mile range (For me, that includes my work), or use the iwalk as a PDA.
slide it into the slot for actually transfering files quickly. Otherwise, it would auto update any file you alter via the iwalk- the iwalk would basically be a second monitor for the computer, but with its own proccessor. It could get confusing to people though, who suddenly can't access their computer once then hit 10.1 miles, or it gets stormy out.
Job's 3 issues with PDAs as they currently stand-dumbed down internet (solved by an ARM- based device like the ipod, that is powerful enough to handle Flash(.swf)/DHTML files), that no one brings it to a meeting (solved if it had a live connection directly to your office computer, so that you could be writing to a file on your computer, not to a file locally on the iWalk), and three- how it is a pain to sync them (this was a peve he had mainly with the newton- the Newton had its own OS, it was its own thing, not a "digital device as part of the digital hub". The above idea for the iWalk would solve these problems, by making the iWalk for walking around with your desktop in your hand- not making you figure out a home network, and which computer has the latest vertion of you files, etc.
You couldn't do more than text, email, adress book, web, and maybe itunes visualisations, and file managment, but I would buy one of these- I could have access to my computer directly from work- no telneting over to it through the internet. It could be nice for remote- admining servers- a remote gui, maybe it could be set up to virtual desktop with a few different machines, a couple of stylus hits, and you are looking at a different computer's desktop.
RW, you're close to what i have theorized in the past. consider that everyone has an idisk accessible from any computer anywhere with an internet connection (this was limited to mac-only before itools went all webdav-vy). apple has also pioneered wireless networking for the home and soho markets. now, as you said, the big limitation of using a pda is having to haul it back to your computer to "sync" it. screw that! just walk around, latch onto an internet signal, and "sync" all your data from anywhere... anytime! to do this, though, apple would need a major partnership with a telecom company to ride on the back of their infrastructure. screw syncing your ipod. just download the tunes form your idisk to your ipod wirelessly anywhere (as long as you decrease your quality expectations. internet anywhere (instead of having to log in at a stupid pc-based internet cafe with coffee jockeys doing tech troubleshooting.
suddenly, the plan comes together folks. i can see it now. :eek:
I'm never one to follow the crowd but hell, everyone else is doing it...as far as the next creepy message is concerned, I don't think anything could drive us crazier than this:
<strong>What if Spymac is actually on the ball this time...<snip></strong><hr></blockquote>
If SpyMac is on teh ball at all, they'll release this so-called video of the "iWalk" in use. My opinion? THey're full of total bullshit and talking as though they have facts. Simple.
i figured out what the "beyond the rumor sites" is referring to! apple is going beyond mosr's prediction of a dodecahedron powermac and making a g5 with an 18-sided casing!
Perhaps this spymac things has been set up by steve-o himself and he uses it to blackmail Phil Schiller into losing weight. "Ey Phil, get under 200 pounds or I'll post your gay pictures on spymac!"
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They are going to become a car company! The ipod?? Its a car stupid!! and it hovers!! Jobs bought the real "IT" segway thing and it is a flying car!!!!
//thentro runs around, hits a wall and falls over// :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
<strong>Have a look <a href="http://www.spymac.com"; target="_blank">SpyMac.com</a></strong><hr></blockquote>
If you haven't realized already, spymac is a pathetic fraud with crappy 3d renderings complete with classic photoshop effects. Can't believe how many idiots still go around trumpeting that site. Yahoo even ran a video story on it.
<strong>Oh, and it will be more than the boards can take.
Yeah, this is war!
We'll see.
userone
Now I am starting to believe we will be seeing G5 PowerMac
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
nice 1
Should better read kormac77, or was it 76?
Less than 60% of you will survive until January 7. Way less.
Absolutly no basis for this idea, but how cool would it be to have a dock slot for the iWalk/iPod/iwhatever digital hub devices( all of them could use the slot or plug in via firewire- faster tranfer if plugged in via the slot), as well as having the wireless firewire that 1394.org has been discusing- a 10 miles range wireless connection directly to the computer, not through the internet.
You could have the iwalk as a portable desktop- your computer, and it's files available via wireless firewire over a ten mile range (For me, that includes my work), or use the iwalk as a PDA.
slide it into the slot for actually transfering files quickly. Otherwise, it would auto update any file you alter via the iwalk- the iwalk would basically be a second monitor for the computer, but with its own proccessor. It could get confusing to people though, who suddenly can't access their computer once then hit 10.1 miles, or it gets stormy out.
Job's 3 issues with PDAs as they currently stand-dumbed down internet (solved by an ARM- based device like the ipod, that is powerful enough to handle Flash(.swf)/DHTML files), that no one brings it to a meeting (solved if it had a live connection directly to your office computer, so that you could be writing to a file on your computer, not to a file locally on the iWalk), and three- how it is a pain to sync them (this was a peve he had mainly with the newton- the Newton had its own OS, it was its own thing, not a "digital device as part of the digital hub". The above idea for the iWalk would solve these problems, by making the iWalk for walking around with your desktop in your hand- not making you figure out a home network, and which computer has the latest vertion of you files, etc.
You couldn't do more than text, email, adress book, web, and maybe itunes visualisations, and file managment, but I would buy one of these- I could have access to my computer directly from work- no telneting over to it through the internet. It could be nice for remote- admining servers- a remote gui, maybe it could be set up to virtual desktop with a few different machines, a couple of stylus hits, and you are looking at a different computer's desktop.
<strong>LOL
Should better read kormac77, or was it 76?
Guess again
The wait is more agonizing than your girlfriends last pregnancy test!!!!
<strong>
Guess again
78?
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: olli_g ]</p>
suddenly, the plan comes together folks. i can see it now. :eek:
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: rok ]</p>
4 days to Macworld San Francisco.
Less than 60% of you will survive until January 7. Way less.
4 Days to Macworld San Francisco.
"It's not an iMac."
-S
<strong>What if Spymac is actually on the ball this time...<snip></strong><hr></blockquote>
If SpyMac is on teh ball at all, they'll release this so-called video of the "iWalk" in use. My opinion? THey're full of total bullshit and talking as though they have facts. Simple.
--Alexis
4 days to Macworld San Francisco.
Fasten seat belts. Phil Schiller rolls on stage.