Patent APPLEcation Ping!
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Posted on 10/04/2009 7:28:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Just read rumors that a new iMac line, and MacBook line is on the way soon! I posted a note on the Apple forums a few days ago, innocently, asking if anyone knew if new model were coming out soon because I am thinking of buying a new MacBook. Well, you would have thought I cursed Steve Jobs. I was hammered for violation of ToS, and received a notice of deletion to my personal email. I thought the reaction was a bit over-the-top for what I ask, but now I know why. It has been leaked via a dumb mistake by their marketing people that the new line is coming.
Really! I am way, way overdue for a new MacBook.
But this is the Netherlands. Do they release in the USA at the same time as Netherlands?
I thought I saw a headline about a new iMac but I couldn’t find it when I went back and don’t really remember where I read it. I bought a used iMac 2.16 on eBay and got it Friday. Bought it far a friend and paid $540 for it plus shipping from a newby. Buyers shy away from newbies...
Whether Apple or otherwise... somebody’s got to come up with the next generation language interface. I don’t know what it’ll be... but Dear Lord we can’t still be using a QWERTY keyboard to enter text in twenty years. Please!
:-)
I have no idea, but I will guess yes. If they don;t release at the same time they run a huge risk of losing sales at the location selling the older model. If I knew a new model was selling in NL, there is NO WAY I would buy a system here until the new model came out.
I think an entirely new interface is needed for keyboard entry. Voice recognition is getting better, but still needs patience to get 90%.
Yes.
But keep in mind, when they talk about an updated MacBook, they’re referring to the white plastic model, not the aluminum MacBook Pro line.
Oh, I did not know Apple had a white plastic MacBook. I thought white plastic was iMac and that Apple only had aluminum iMacs. :(
Yes, a new interface is needed... but I don’t think it’ll be voice. I don’t WANT to have to say things that I’m typing. I don’t want to be speaking in my office, so that whoever is walking by can hear it. Or my neighbors or visitors or whoever...
It’s got to be silent. No moving parts. A surface like they’re discussing here, or a laser-interference engine in empty space... or something. If I knew what it was I’d have invented it already and be retired, I suppose. :-)
My daughter is a buyer in a Cal/State college bookstore and she is waiting to buy a new iMac when they come out. The bookstore stocks and sells Apple hardware and products to students and faculty and will order PCs if asked. She doesn’t tell her Dear Old Dad anything about new pending releases...
Makes you appreciate the simplicity of the QWERTY keyboard. Kind of like the wheel—simple, yet elegant at the same time.
Well, I just went to the Apple site. The aluminum Macs are “MacBook Pro” ... the white plastic ones are “MacBooks”. So you are correct.
However I was surprised to see that an iTouch is only $199. I paid around $500. But that was when they first came out.
As a standalone user interface device, this may succeed. As a tablet computer, however, this brings very little to the table. A cursory look at the existing tablets will tell you that - there are plenty of resistive devices that already serve the tablet market (many below Apple’s likely price point). The device never caught on because it’s a niche that didn’t need filling.
That won’t stop the legions of Apple fans who will buy anything Apple-branded, though.
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