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It might have been a canary trap but I don't know for sure. However, there was still a real product that Apple was trying to keep under wraps. The Asteroid rumors talked about a relationship and with Apogee Digital and some piece of hardware. W…
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Php would be a bare using speech-to-text rather than a keyboard. However, why the heck does php, objective C, and other computer languages have to be so unnatural to write? I want the computer to conform to me, not the other way around. I think w…
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Look, if one always takes the attitude that it doesn't work today, therefore it will not work tomorrow, then we would never advance technology. To advance technology one has to work on the stuff that is impossible today. Therfore the impossible is…
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Typing for most people is not faster than speaking. Plus, people should need no extra training to speak. However, they need lots of practice to learn to type fast and accurately. If a person does need to improve their speaking ability, then t…
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Speech recognition is the future of text input. This is the most natural way for us to interact. When speech recognition gets good enough, most of us will use a keyboard very little. With a multitouch device, I could see a virtual keyboard fo…
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Vinea, thanks for those links. I never even heard of that research. I guess I should have guessed Microsoft's Bob was not there first. Kind of scary how similar the Apple video was to my vision. Or I guess I should say the other way around. I…
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Guys, You obviously know your stuff in app development and what you say is all valid. However, I'd prefer to raise the discussion from leaves to the forest. Leaves are important but one can easily loose track of the big picture. I think the …
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Some of you have raised good points so far. I know many smartphones do most or all of what the iPhone does but I think the iPhone has many tricks still up its sleeve. Anyway, at the heart of the matter, one could say a Windows PC does everything a…
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I agree that the main potential of the iPhone is a couple years off and that it needs to fill a niche now. However, I also think you guys are right that is why Apple is promoting it not as a handheld computer but as a better smartphone. It fulfill…
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I know laptops will someday boot faster but they demand two hands on the keyboard and you have to sit down, or at least put the laptop on something for support. A handheld computer uses one hand to hold the device, and one hand to interact with it.…
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I am surprised how few people know about WiMax. Or if they do, they aren't talking about it much. Currently WiFi is limited to 200 feet or less. WiMax will be like 20 miles. This is a huge difference and can't come fast enough. Also Intel is bu…
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Ireland, I know you like the all in one - or should I say Apple likes the all in one - but I sure hope the screen is separate from the box. Anyway... Some of the people here have not read the other threads that talk about an Apple solution in th…
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A TV from Apple is not that different from their 23" LCD monitor. So it would be an easy product to make. As for Apple introducing just a tv, of course that would be stupid. It is the box that goes with the tv. The point is the one box that co…
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Some good discussion on this thread. Althought the thread is officially about video games, what people need is not another game console but is a good living room solution - one box and one remote. However this solution will have to go head-to-…
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I would love to see somebody do an actual latency analysis on this. What about direct connenct with an uncompressed signal over something akin to SDI? This would solve the latency compresion issues and network bandwidth issue. This could be done.…
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I agree with Ireland, although I hope Apple keeps the setbox separate from the tv. When I saw the question how would Apple sell a tv, I had the same thing - huh? The answer to this question is so easy I don't see how somebody could even ask th…
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The PS3 and Xbox360 do nothing for simplifying the entertainment system setup. Apple should focus first on that. Whatever this hardware is should be capable of playing some fun games at least. Same for the iPod. So the iTV should have at least s…
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melgross, About latency. The only extra latency would be the iTV to Mac and back traffic. This depends a lot on one's network but I think this traffic could be streamlined and made fast enough. Apple has Xgrid so they know all about handling…
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If Apple can stream video from a Mac to the iTV, why not stream the video from a video game? Apple could then make a game controller that hooks to the iTV and it sends the game control signals back to the Mac. The Mac does the game processing and …
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I agree with hmurchison. Game consoles are much more than just game platforms. They can play HD-DVD/Blue Ray/DVDs/CD, connect to the internet for music and video downloads, show photo slideshows. Sony and MS are direct threats and competitors to …