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Jul 18, 08 - 11:49 am Comment from: JadisOne

It's a phone, not a laptop (although the lack of MMS is a little bothersome). I guess people want quad core chips in their cell phones to drop that call even faster.

If you want to do all those things may I suggest a MacBook Air?

Jul 18, 08 - 11:49 am Comment from: clinicaltechmaster

iPhone 2.0 software just came out. Apple will make it more fabulous
soon. Be a little more. patient.

@JadisOne - I'm hoping for a dual core CPU for help with deciphering all the double talk.

Peace.

@JadisOne
" . If you want to do all those things may I suggest a MacBook Air? ..."

Obviously you do not possess an iPhone or your remarks would be markedly different. Once you have an iPhone, you marvel at its functionality and dream of additional features. I'm sure someday you'll own one and understand.

"If you want to do all those things may I suggest a MacBook Air?"

You need a MacBook Air for multi-tasking, copy & paste and notes syncing?

I hope the idea of purchasing that overpriced piece of shit laptop isn't Apple's official response to these much needed enhancements. They'll be laughed out of the smartphone market.

Arthur's prediction does not foresee a middle ground product like an iPhone-like tablet device that spans the gap between the phone and the Air.

One effect of the iPhone could be that people get comfortable with OS X by using the iPhone and then take a next step to getting and internet tablet. In a few years we may see 125 million iPhones, 40 million tablets and 30 million Mac BooksMacs.

In other words, Apple may own ultra mobile computing without it being dependent on the iPhone.

Another product offering between a Mac Book and the iPhone could be multi-touch screen on the Air. When I am reading PDFs on the my Air (which I do all the time), I often get the urge to turn it sideways and hold the Air like a book. If the screen would spin to portrait (as it does on the iPhone) and let me flip pages of the PDF sideways with my hand, then I would find the experience better than any e-book reader out there. One resolution-independence becomes a reality, then I could zoom into to read like on the iPhone as well. Finally, if Preview would let me draw freeform markups, underlines, etc on the PDF, then I would never printout a PDF again!

When will people get their facts straight?

The iPhone OS IS a multitasking OS, it's Unix hello!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having a multitasking os deoesn't mean that you have to apply it everywhere. The iPhone OS is the example.

Do people know how much resourses would eat (and battery) having the applications multitask freely? There's a reason that Apple made the OS work that way with the GUI APPs. This is not a laptop or a full desktop computer, you do not have lots of Hard Disk space nor RAM.

Just try to imagine playing Crash Bandicoot, then running the Music Player in the background, App Store installing Software, Safari with My Space in the background, and like 5 more tabs open.

That would be a big freaking mess!

Want a full PC multitasking, then get a laptop or a desktop PC.

Let's see if we can make a 'prediction' about Charles Arthur....

His second (of only two) neurons withers and dies because he's only using one.

Typical 'analyst' idiot - his 'insightful' article does not even merit commenting on.

I think what Apple is really doing with Snow Leopard is to have a single operating system for all of their devices. I suspect we won't have an iPhone OS and Mac OS for very long--we'll just have the Apple OS.

Isn't is so way cool that the missing features this guy is crying about will later
be a simple software update. What will he cry about then. Most people don't even know what MMS is, dude, and everything else syncs through iTunes...do you think Apple will be able to sync notes when it makes it priority.
People talk as if the world revolves around them. The iPhone is in its infancy and is not even out of the starting gate. Developers waited 7 years and got Vista.

Jul 18, 08 - 01:35 pm Comment from: Cubert

@hairbo,
Apple has already rebranded Mac OS X to just OS X - likely for the reason you cite.

Jul 18, 08 - 01:54 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

The heck with the iPhone and MacBook Air. This is the world beating device I'm waiting for:

http://gizmodo.com/393815/exclusive-dell-mini-inspiron-their-first-mini-laptop

I'll be another bloodbath!

Jul 18, 08 - 02:11 pm Comment from: Denny

@Sir Gill Bates

You go to be kidding me. What a piece of crap. All apple has to do is release a smaller MacBook Air anytime they want to.

Jul 18, 08 - 02:46 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Denny,

Yes Denny, I was kidding you.

All this guy has done is describe iPhone 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8 & 3.0.

I'm sure some Mac programmer in Jobs' basement has already figured out most of the stuff on people's To-Doo-List. Love to see the test units in Apple's lab. They just haven't perfected it yet, so they're not releasing it. MobileMe is not your typical user experience from Apple, the smooth UI on iPhone and Macs are, but it's the first time Apple HAD TO deliver on the date with a platform they are new at. Frankly, the fact that nobody has figured them out yet from the SDK shows just how tight the OS is. Not some junkware full of holes and premature applications. Most production released apps have fewer features than they have in the dev box or on the original to-do-list.

I just don't see Steve holding a tablet on one hand with a stylus in the other, and a pencil behind one ear like some UPS delivery guy. Seeing how the Cube evolved into the Mac Mini, if newer MBA keep getting a little smaller, a little slicker (if that is possible), with a bigger TouchPad, that'll blow away any tablet.

Jul 18, 08 - 04:39 pm Comment from: JadisOne

@Truth Teller,

My wife possesses an iPhone (first gen) and I (and she) absolutely love it. I love showing it off and have gotten at least three of my friends to get one. I do love the iPhone's functionality and capability and am waiting until my contract expires so that I can switch carriers and get an iPhone. So, to say the least, I am full aware of what the iPhone can do.

My point is that I can't understand what is this rabid infatuation for wanting the device to cut and paste. If you need to do that kind of heavy lifting, wouldn't it be better to use a laptop?

I guess for some the iPhone could be a MacBook light, but for me, I like using my wife's iPhone for access to our brokerage account while traveling, taking notes, listening to the music, looking at the occasional TV show and, of course, talking.

If Apple incorporated a matter transporter into their iPhone, these lot would complain that the screen wasn't big enough to order big macs through.

With the full line of Macs now migrated over to being Windows compatible PCs, and developers covering both platforms with a Windows version of software, the iPhone is definitely the future of OS X development. That is, until some enterprising developer comes up with a Pocket PC emulator for iPhone.

Jul 19, 08 - 01:59 am Comment from: Sky

I'm impressed by how much of Windows and Office functionality Microsoft was able to pack into a 32MB PocketPC. Pocket Word and Excel did much of what I needed these apps to do in a small, stable footprint. Apple can certainly do at least as well in its lite iPhone implementation for OS X.

iPhone needs much more powerfull hardware before really reaching its potential. Perhaps in the next 3-5 years...

@Jerry

You are right on. There are TONS of Apple-loving Mac-haters all lining up for the iPhone, not realizing they are buying Macs in phone packaging. The iPhone is the ultimate Trojan horse for Mac (OS X) development.

No more talk about Windows Mobile. It's been out for years and has 0 momentum. I'm tired of hearing people talk about it like it might hinder the iPhone's future. Please, it has hindered its own future. It's Windows after all!

" It's been out for years and has 0 momentum."

Yet it still outsells iPhone, has 18,000 available applications. It has maybe less buzz, but there's more substance.

"the iPhone is definitely the future of OS X development. "

That's for sure. With the desktop versions of the OS left to languish with No New Features, there's only on version of OS X that Apple's putting effort into.

Apple can see it's future. It's as a seller of PC clones running Microsoft's OS's (Hence minimal Mac OS X investment this year, Steve won't go to Vista until SP2 is out) and replacement of it's successful but declining iPod business with a successful iPhone business.

Jul 19, 08 - 10:49 am Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"Yet it still outsells iPhone, has 18,000 available applications."

And I would bet that those apps are just as useful and well crafted as the thousand available for Windows.

"Apple can see it's future. It's as a seller of PC clones running Microsoft's OS's"

Transition: Your blood sugar level is too low which is causing your dementia. Eat a candy bar or drink some orange juice and come back when your brain is functioning.

"Transition: Your blood sugar level is too low which is causing your dementia."

How do you explain No New Features in Mac OS X next year and the switching of the bulk of the development team to the iPhone version?

Having moved you all to the Great Satan Intel, who with Steve's blessing you all began worshipping instead of decrying as a False God, he is now getting you all used to Windows through Parallels and Boot Camp and preparing the ground for your next transition.

Just as with Intel, when Shepherd Steve blesses them, you will worship at the altar of Microsoft. Every knee will bow!

Verily it is written and so it will come to pass that upon the transition to Microsoft the faithful will endlessly post "Now behold Microsoft maketh an OS truly worthy of Apple Hardware" and "It be the industrial design that maketh Apple Great!"

Before that day, the faithful shall denounce the signs of the transition, and shall endlessly post that speaking of such a transition is heresy.

Jul 19, 08 - 03:04 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Transition,

I'm sorry, I can't explain anything since Apple doesn't confide in me.

As for Windows, I'm already used to it. I use it at work and I own two PCs with Windows XP. I also use Ubuntu Linux, although not to a large degree.

My Macs are my favorites, but if I didn't have them I would still survive quite nicely. Although not as comfortably.

Jul 19, 08 - 03:08 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Faithful,

It sounds like you have a calling.