Comments on: What if the Apple iPhone is the first step towards a MacPad?

By: Danny B

Danny B — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:28:22 +0000

New Tablet Mac (w. multi-touch screen) also an iPhone monitor.

How about a new tablet Mac with a multi-touch screen? I know, this is not a new Apple rumor. The twist is letting this new Mac link up with the iPhone. This is not just a synch, but an actual link (wireless or tethered) such that the tablet Mac can act as a monitor for iPhone. But it’s more than just a monitor (when it this mode), it is a “hands on” monitor with UI that can be identical to the iPhone, but on a much larger screen. No problem with an undersized keyboard now.

I think it would be a great synergy between two new products! Your cool new Tablet Mac has Leopard X.5, does everything and features a full size multi-touch viewscreen. And wow! The Tablet Mac can be linked to the IPhone and also act as a monitor with an identical “hands on” interface to the iPhone!

By: erick

erick — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:37:34 +0000

iphone is just the first product from Apple, wait for more from them!

By: Vincent Nguyen

Vincent Nguyen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:50:10 +0000

Mark, I dont count the markets you listed as mainstream consumer electronics.

By: Mark Polino

Mark Polino — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:10:59 +0000

“The only market that Apple’s not in is the UMPC.”

What about the markets for:
Slate Tablets
Convertible Tablets
Media Centers/Tivos/DVRs (Apple TV won’t record)
Industrial/Ruggedized devices
Embedded Devices
Electronic Billboards

It seems Apple has a few more markets that they’re not playing in.

Mark

By: Sam Targile

Sam Targile — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:16:16 +0000

Absolutely!

The medical field has already been identified by Apple and there are many other vertical markets that Apple with OS-X can dominate. Media morons are soooo myopic it makes you wonder what they would do if they weren’t spoon fed FUD all day. Certainly investigative analysis would be extraordinarily rare.

By: Vincent Nguyen

Vincent Nguyen — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:23:35 +0000

yep, according to Cingular, no service plan – no Apple iPhone :(

By: Oz

Oz — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:13:34 +0000

“Umm… is it just me, or isn’t the iPhone already a PDA/handheld computer?”

But what those of us who don’t need or want a phone and yet are forced to have a phone plan or else not have access to the iPhone?

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:50:22 +0000

Umm… is it just me, or isn’t the iPhone already a PDA/handheld computer? It’s got an integrated, self-contained keyboard, OS X, internet surgind, email, etc…. All Apple has to do to make it more “computer-ish” is to increase the ROM (maybe even RAM) and POOF! instant computer.

Heck, I want the iPhone BECAUSE it’s more of a PDA than a cell phone. It’s incredible.

By: the rarr

the rarr — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:45:28 +0000

Apple will invent a new interface that is appropriate for a smaller screen….

It will be a full install of mac os X, but how you install software and interact with the file system will be different… ie. they will re-do the finder and create a new standard .

By: Cannot say

Cannot say — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:11:59 +0000

I have said this before in a Mac rumor site.

You will be VERY SURPRISED with the next iteration of the iMac.
Steve Jobs wasn’t kidding when he spoke about the next 30 years…
Something BIG is coming your way…

By: Joseph Awad

Joseph Awad — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:10:39 +0000

Absolutely agree. Apple will enter this market when they have a leapfrog/pace setting product and it is clear that the iPhone signals that they have the technology and UI to allow this. I believe/hope that it will be this year given that Jobs always has things he denies on the drawing board. Since he doesn’t need FCC permission, the announcement will come immediately before release.