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- MacParrot, on 12/11/2008, -5/+431. Mac Touch
For all everyone oooohing and aaaaahing over a possible touch interface computer, I've yet to anyone show even a concept one that would be worth having. In short, no.
A-Book
OK, I could see Apple doing an e-reader. Not sure if it would be any better than what anyone else has made, but Ives has pulled some pretty slick rabbits out of his hat before. I'd give this a maybe
Its own version of Flash
Yes because the world needs yet another version of proprietary web magic beyond Flash, SilverLight, and a few of the others. No thanks
Apple Touch Table
Because Microsoft's Surface didn't suck enough?
OS X in a browser
As long as Apple keeps making Macs, they will never release any kind of Web OS. Economic suicide.
Apple Watch
Sure, why not? How about an Apple cutting board for the kitchen too. It can let you know when your iKnives need sharpening
Mac Dashboard
Isn't there enough crap in cars that can go wrong? Stick with on-the-go entertainment and leave driving egonomics to the car makers please.
Mac Goggles
What? (head spinning)
Mac Transit
WHAT? (head exploding) - Scott2, on 12/11/2008, -1/+24buried for "OS X in a browser" idea.
Not everything belongs in a browser!!!! - drgmdp, on 12/12/2008, -3/+25by digging this you're encouraging the writer to post more and more stupid articles
- gman080804, on 12/12/2008, -1/+2111. A new wardrobe for Steve Jobs
- konataXchan, on 12/12/2008, -0/+17Cheaper more affordable computers?
Yeah not bloody likely. - roebeet, on 12/12/2008, -1/+15WTF? #1 and #2 - possible. #3 - too late for that party, not going to happen.
And after #3, it degenerates into complete stupidity. - Wormwoods, on 12/12/2008, -1/+14I consider myself to be somewhat of an Apple fanboy, but wow.... that's just too much.
- virtualonliner, on 12/12/2008, -0/+13Mac in browser? Mac House? Mac Dashboard? Mac Goggles?
LSD is a fine fine drug. - adasha, on 12/12/2008, -4/+16I would like to see a volume control for Apple fanboy frothing
- mssantos, on 12/12/2008, -2/+14That would have to be the most thoughtless Apple related list I have ever read and will ensure I never read another Tech Radar article.
- shadydentist, on 12/12/2008, -0/+11How the hell did this list come about? An apple version of flash? Why is this being dugg?
- BarriedaleNick, on 12/12/2008, -1/+109. Mac Goggles
What the author of this article was wearing. Magically transforms the user into gibbering macfanboyism.. - pandaxrage, on 12/12/2008, -0/+8Oh its like one of those chain things. You think of the most creative intuitive thing you want Mac to design then you add "In my pants" to the end.
OS X powered sex toy, in my pants. - sanderton, on 12/11/2008, -6/+13They really need to make a Media Center equivalent to go with AppleTV.
I have a Vista PC just to run Media Center, plus Linksys extenders. I would much rather have the Apple interface to my telly via an iMac and an AppleTV.
Maybe it's just too hard to get something that works with the requires Apple quality? - tomoliveri, on 12/12/2008, -0/+6People, take a second look at these ideas..
They're all bad!!
apple e-book reader... really???
who would want to pay an extra 50 bucks for the apple logo on that?
I paid the apple tax on my macbook and its great, totally worth the price.. but these ideas.. they're all stupid - dixhuit, on 12/12/2008, -1/+73. Its own version of Flash.
Urm, no. What would be the point in that other than to cause unnecessary suffering for all users & developers?
I'm assuming this is a solely iPhone driven suggestion. Apple need to get it sorted with Adobe so we can keep a truly cross-platform plugin, not start making another completely different one (Microsoft's already started down that completely retarded path for us).
Buried for not really thinking any of it through. - ThirdPrize, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5You should all be ashamed of yourself if you Dugg this article.
- Enlightenment, on 12/12/2008, -3/+8Introducing the Apple Smug!
- feshmania, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5I feel like the author doesn't understand teh technology behind an e-book reader. All the gestures and color would be nice, but you end up missing what's so nice about the readers: the electronic ink.
- ch40sBr1ng3r, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5This guy should get a new iBrain. Buried.
- dborgir, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5buried:
1. too much mac (enough of a reason to bury it)
2. 10 items over 2 pages
3. Mac Touch is an idea that only someone who hasn't put enough thought into it would suggest - zoodoo12, on 12/12/2008, -1/+6first the article started out promising, then it took a turn for the worst...
A Mac touch and Mac flash, yeah, I can see it, but a Mac house and transit is just god damn ridiculous. Does the author know how many years it would take to develop those.
I feel like the author ran out of ideas and asked a seven year old what they wanted to see. - Beanz7890, on 12/12/2008, -0/+5What a load of crap!
- benroy, on 12/12/2008, -0/+4Anything that I won't have to buy a better/updated version of in six months is a step forward.
Most iPod owners have at least two or three old ones they either keep in a drawer collecting shame, or have been given to a less fortunate friend or family member.
Either way, planned obsolescence is a bitch. - davidfremily, on 12/12/2008, -0/+4Buried: anything written while high should not be let out + all these concepts are total *****
- Straylit, on 12/12/2008, -2/+6At first the article was just a bad idea. At about number seven and ascending it got a violent shove into '*****'.
- darkcompass, on 12/12/2008, -0/+4Opensource OS X to people who want it - license it to the hardware manufacturers.
Apple then dont need to support it, people like Dell and HP will, people who download the open source distros will have to support themselves.
Each release will be based on the "Pure version" supplied with Apple products.
The ABook idea is good, but will hurt iPod Touch, increase the size of the touchs display by 50% to make it a reader.
I would go and queue for a imac touch. - carbonfilament, on 12/12/2008, -3/+7I love apple, I have 3 macs in my studio apartment. They all are wonderful machines, beautifully designed. OSX is great.
However, 10.5 is amazing, but far buggier than 10.4. If it weren't for quickview and spaces (as buggy as it is) I might go back to 10.4 just to get the stability back. It seems to me that market share is growing faster than they can cope, and to keep it up they are pushing more and more projects out the door in an incomplete state. Hence aggravation over recent hardware failures, retarded crashes/gliches in 10.5, (sorry-I ran 10.4 for 2 years and never crashed once. with 10.5 I crash about once a month) and the overall feeling of "Beta Culture". In a way, I think the growing market share (recent switchers who are used to their windows machines that crash) is creating an atmosphere that this sort of thing is ok.
So please, please, please, lets stop these ridiculous articles trying to predict what gold brick apple might ***** out next. Id much rather they spend some serious time on development of the stuff we have and the stuff thats coming out the door next (read-snow leapord) then some shiny expensive and sadly underdeveloped new product.
Oh and:
THIS LIST IS TOTALLY RETARDED. - chadillak, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3Here's a little writing tip: when making a top 10 list, don't start off #8 with "here's where things get interesting"... this whole list is like the author just looked around at things and mixed them with the iphone.
- MacParrot, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3Um...you do know that Zunes don't work with OS X? So unless she keeps another computer with Windows lying around (not outside the realm of possibilities) or is using bootcamp (seems kind of an extreme way to use one) I have to wonder if you're either trolling or what the heck you're doing that so many Apple products are failing.
The MacBook would have been replaced on whole by now. Are you trying to say that you've had the same problem with three different laptops? If your HD died (even twice) in the same year, Apple would replace it so why did you replace it yourself? WiFi is a different matter with too many variables to cover. Anyway I smell BS - opusaz, on 12/12/2008, -1/+4ohfercryinoutloud give us a $1000 Mac tower, and update the minis already. Sheesh.
- dext3r, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3Agreed. I started out reading this list with cautious optimism. By the middle, I was ready to dismiss the entire thing, yet I kept on. Now at the end, I fear for the stability of the author's mental health.
The guy just keeps saying random things should run OS X. Traffic signs, guy? My garbage bags run OS X and send messages to my iPod when they are full. *_* - Hellman109, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3All those products would just be apple versions of existing products.
- inyearstocome, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2There are a number of great ones out there that Apple could use, but they wont....
However, you can if you want to. XBMC (xbox media center, which isnt just for xbox) is OSX capable, as is the popular linux born MythTV Media Center. Check them out if you want an OS X and other *nix solution - diomedes31, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2What a load of unimaginative *****
- MiGs2, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Hover boots?
- timohackbarth, on 12/12/2008, -1/+3apple needs to to do an actual "consumer - notebook" or netbook. something that actually is in a moderate pricerange like the mac mini... a portable device inbetween iphone & macbook...
- indiepenguins, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2I'm still waiting on the iRing : http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/04/cool-concept- ...
- dixhuit, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2iCantBelieveItsNotButter
in my pants. - biocandy, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2OS X in a browser?... and how would you start that browser?
- jaygeeze, on 12/12/2008, -8/+10"It's own version of Flash", LOL. We all saw how that worked out for Microsoft with Silverlight.
- Altotus, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2Nah. They simply don't do the low-end. There's too much competition, and paper-thin margins. HP's laptop division has an operating margin 1/3 that of Apple's laptop division. In North America, HP sells 2 notebooks for every 1 that Apple sells, but HP makes only 1/3rd as much profit per sale on each notebook. Apple sells less but is more profitable -- namely because they intentionally avoid the market segment with the most competition and strongest downward price-pressure.
I'm guessing that either Dell or HP will follow suit with Apple and begin withdrawing from the low-end commodity notebook market for the same reason Apple doesn't go there: too crowded and margins too low.
Apple's quite price-competitive and still highly profitable in their segment, and I don't see them moving from that spot. What you're going to see is more focus from HP and Dell on their high-end. For example, increasing the build quality of the Latitude, optimizing the performance, switching to higher res and LED IPS-type displays, etc. - nikki2300dk, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2I think right now they ought to continue to work on improving the iphone.
Sure it's selling great. I have one and like it, but don't love it. All the non-phone aspects are great, but the phone part they still have a lot to work on. Sometimes I really miss my sony ericsson. Things like.... mms, copy/paste, a nice camera, being able to use music for ringtones and alarms, typing sms super fast on a keypad. Apple needs to learn the lessons companies like nokia and sony ericsson have. - CDRaff, on 12/12/2008, -1/+3Quality control. I love Apple products, though they keep biting me in the ass. My wife's Macbook, Dead HDD after almost a year, genius replaced it, died again, so I replaced it myself. Again my wife's Macbook, power inverter for the display causes flickering, been replaced 3 times. My MacBook Pro, WiFi card drops every 15-30 mins without fail, take it in Apple sees no issue will not replace. And I will not go into detail on the 2 Ipod Classics, and two Touches that have failed on me.
- MacParrot, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2What? So let me get this straight. Apple should open source OS X so anyone can install it on a any PC. Soooo, how does Apple make any money then? OS X is the reason many people still buy more expensive Macs (sure I said it). So they make NO money off the OS (because they just open sourced it), and NO money off the hardware (because why would anyone buy a Mac if they could buy some POS $399 and run it badly instead). But on the plus side they don't have to worry about support costs????
- wyrdness, on 12/12/2008, -0/+2How about a quad-core mac? Every other manufacturer has a quad-core machine except for Apple. I know that you can buy a Mac Pro with one processor removed, but that doesn't really count.
- Transporter2000, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1it time to catch up to the times, Mac has a second mouse button, has for years
- ChrisWickenscom, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1Apparently this retard has never heard of a kernel panic.
I like apple, but I'm REALLY sick these obvious fanboys thinking apple can do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING and it will be better than anything on the entire planet. - britoca, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1actually, Apple needs to DIE
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