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- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -2/+24Those are some of the sexiest fingers I've ever seen.
- NathanCH, on 08/30/2008, -4/+17The only fanboys are the ones who call people who use different operating systems "fanboys".
- geekblake, on 08/29/2008, -13/+23This is stupid. Multi-touch tablet laptops already exist and are manufactured by companies other than Apple. There is nothing here to patent. The only development they seem to be hoping to make is some software to recognize mouse gestures, but there is already software out there that recognize mouse gestures too.
This is just the usual from Apple, taking something that already exists, making their own version of it, making a prettier UI, and selling it for double the price. - lostngone, on 08/30/2008, -2/+11LOOK AT THE HANDS in the pictures!!!!
What are these things for aliens?!?!?!? - cawpin, on 08/29/2008, -3/+11Spam sites are ridiculous.
Source:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/28/appl ... - Velnich, on 08/30/2008, -2/+9Why, hello there yesterday's digg.
- ww3ace, on 08/29/2008, -7/+13I can't wait for a worthwhile multitouch interface to become popular enough to allow the technology to become standard. If anyone is going to do it it might as well be apple.
- jdpdg, on 08/30/2008, -3/+9Dupe
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/28/appl ... - JerichoKS, on 08/29/2008, -4/+9We won't see this until January 2009 unfortunately.
- PartlySean, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Gross.
- incubusbeatsall, on 08/30/2008, -4/+8Because everyone goes nuts over it. If it were a Microsoft patent, no one would give a *****. Just because it's an Apple product, people are dying over it.
- foresmac, on 08/29/2008, -3/+6I think this is still a few years off, but I think it will happen eventually.
- oli35, on 08/30/2008, -2/+5I'd hate to have fingers like that when using this iTablet thing.
- Karmavs, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3The NY apple store elevator has buttons.
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3only works for people crippled by pressing "command key" instead of right mouse button, as shown by the hands.
- mycoplasma, on 08/30/2008, -1/+4You forgot the most important parts, adding the i to the beginning of the name and putting an apple logo on the back. Most people these days are stupid enough to buy it just because of that
- zdiggler, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3Midas is like Apple. Charge more then local shops.
- FasmTrout, on 08/30/2008, -2/+4http://digg.com/apple/Apple_details_next_gen_multi ...
- rodbro, on 08/29/2008, -7/+9that's called improvement, and when something is improved and then marketed well, it does make money. what's wrong with that?
- m85476585, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Yes. Apple products are designed by aliens. Steve is actually an alien disguised as a human.
- BrendanSheehan, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2geekblake no doubt looks at the iPhone and wonders why it sells, and comes to the conclusion it's because of the Apple logo. Yet if you show your iPhone to someone who has no clue about technology, with a case on it hiding the logo their eyes pop out of their head when they see you demoing it. Zooming on the photos etc.
Like it or not blake, but I think you are oversimplifying why Apple's being successful lately. Sure, touchscreen phones were around before the iPhone, but the iPhone didn't simply copy them. They rethought what a phone should be, and why it should be touchscreen. That and the speed of the animations, and the lightness or the UI was totally "new". The made the Smartphone accessible to consumers, easy to use, and cool too.
If they do to the tablet market what they did to the phone market, they won't be just copying others (as you put it) they'll make it different. And making it better looking is just a bonus. You're clearly missing the whole point here. - Dotcommer, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3Wait! lunch come back! I'm sorry! i didn't know yz101 was going to say something like that!
- RogerStrong, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3Except for fiascos the Apple III, the Lisa, the Newton, the first Mac portable, a recent mouse, just about any QuickTime install program for Windows.....
- EtherGnat, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Zing! Or at least it would be if Microsoft had tried to patent the Page Up/Page Down keys. What they actually patented was a user configurable mode affecting page up/down which would allow a person to easily go to the exact same point on a page regardless of zoom level, and automatically adjust for things like different page sizes.
Try reading the patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT ...
It's still kind of a lame patent, but its hard to fault any company for protecting themselves given the number of BS patent lawsuits that are filed. - meghalc, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3I say its going to be a waste of money. Its probably going to be $3000 usd.
A windows tablet pc will do everything this would do but 3/4 cheaper. - inactive, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3That's only just barely pocketable, judging from handsize. and if you did put it in your pocket, people'd think you're really happy to see them
- generalLEE, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3Don't you know anything? Apple has found a wormhole in the space/time continuum. This technology is actually that of a distant civilization. Now bow down and pray that they don't come through the wormhole and bust a cap in your ass for dissing their five thumb digits.
- apickle, on 08/30/2008, -3/+5Ugh.... that looks really stupid. Leave it to Apple to leave out the real keyboard of course. That would make it look ugly, despite getting laptop AND tablet functionality out of it.
*sigh*
Thanks. One Dell Latitude XT, please... - wollacott, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1is it me or was this device shown in eureka season 3 episode 5? the device did look like a apple product.
- mrBitch, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1RE : " ... Like it or not blake, but I think you are oversimplifying why Apple's being successful lately. Sure, touchscreen phones were around before the iPhone, but the iPhone didn't simply copy them. They rethought what a phone should be, and why it should be touchscreen. That and the speed of the animations, and the lightness of the UI was totally "new".
Well said, but I have to admit to being an Apple basher for many years...
I only changed my mind when I bought a MacBook Pro (for the price, the hardware specs were way above any other laptop back in late 2006 ).
In a few months time my MacBook will be 2 years old -- and I now do all my development under OS X.
I only boot into Windows for games ( TF2 rocks ) -- Like it or not, Windows & DX still owns the gaming industry. - estvir, on 08/30/2008, -6/+7Because all of you hate Microsoft when they do it? Because you're a bunch of two-faced, moronic hypocrites who drool over anything glorious Steve Jobs thinks you should use?
- BrendanSheehan, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1For the record this tablet will be called "Mac touch".
You know; iPhone, iPod touch.. Mac touch. - mrBitch, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1RE : " Except for fiascos the Apple III, the Lisa, the Newton, the first Mac portable, a recent mouse, just about any QuickTime install program for Windows "
I'll give you the Apple III, the crappy "wtf-were-they-thinking" puck mouse, and that QuickTime and Windows don't play well together.
BUT : " ... the Lisa, the Newton, the first Mac portable .. "
Go and do a bit of research about the above products you listed as "Apple fiascos "
The Lisa was the first commercial OS with a mouse and a GUI front end (Apple licensed Xerox research and even hired Xerox engineers as contractors on this project).
The Lisa was expensive, the hardware was way underpowered for what the software was trying to do... but the "Lisa" was also the seed for the "Mac" and ( much later, MS "Windows").
The "Newton" was a market failure, but it led to the formation of a joint partnership between Apple and Acorn to form ARM. Your mobile phone has an ARM (or an ARM tech licensed to Samsung) processor in it.
The first Mac portable led to the entire laptop market being where it is now.
Look at your tech history and you will find Apple has ALWAYS led, and when you're on the bleeding edge you do (sometimes) bleed quite a lot.
I grew up in the days when "microcomputers" were being sold but no-one knew what to do with them (besides play games). The most popular software running on those things (besides games) were mostly "recipe / cooking" programs.
In fact, the first spread-sheet (Dan Bricklin's "VisiCalc") was coded and running on an Apple II :
http://lowendmac.com/coventry/06/dan-bricklin-visi ...
" during his tenure as a graduate student that he [Dan Bricklin] conceived the idea and design for the electronic spreadsheet, teaming up with his friend Bob Frankston to do the programming.
Together they founded Software Arts, Inc., in 1979, where Dan served as chairman from 1979 to 1985.
The product they produced, VisiCalc, is credited with being one of the main catalysts that brought about the rapid growth of the personal computer industry." - xaxxon, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I know it's not multitouch, but the modbook has been around a while
If it wasn't over double the price of the macbook, I'd want one.
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook - BlueStarr, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Really? Why is that? The technology is here, now. The software issues that might pose a problem but could be worked out over time. Apple has been working on independent resolution since 06? The fact that it illustrates the zooming action in the patent tells you something.
The OS X dock has been doing this since the beginning. There are perhaps some issues that we don't know about but I think Apple has been working on this longer than we realize. The jump from the dimensions of the iPhone to a tablet, I think are negligible. - dagr8tim, on 08/30/2008, -2/+3Remember, Jobs *HATES* buttons. I recall a story about the apple store (church) in NY having an elevator that goes between 4 floors. It has no control buttons and stops on every floor on the way up & down.
Jobs really gets on my nerves. Woz was totally under-rated (and not to mention screwed over) in that partnership. - xaxxon, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Err, it IS an Apple original naming scheme. They invented it.
- flny007, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Thinking back to the board meeting mentioning a temporary cut in profits for some new development, maybe all MacBooks/Pros will eventually be tablets? Making the whole line into tablets would bring the costs down quicker than making one tablet. (via mass production discounting)
That said, I've never given a crap about tablets. - mrBitch, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1You're absolutely right! A Windows solution is ALWAYS the right answer!!!!!!!!!!
ALSO :
... A windows phone will do everything an iPhone would do but 3/4 cheaper...
oh wait... all the Windows Mobile based smartphones are NOT 3/4 cheaper, and UM, they DON'T do everything an iPhone does... - Whitey07, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Looks pretty cool.
- shawnanigans, on 08/30/2008, -3/+4Whose ***** hands look like that?
Slightly bigger picture http://images.macrumors.com/article/2008/08/28/121 ... - LeviTheSmith, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Imagine someone patenting the Page Up and Page Down keys! That would be ridiculous!
- Galaxylander, on 08/30/2008, -2/+3This is ancient, come on people, look at the iTunes window, it's like iTunes 4...
- ssavoy, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Fail
- mrBitch, on 12/26/2008, -0/+1RE: "The first Mac portable led to the entire laptop market being where it is now.
Look at your tech history and you will find Apple has ALWAYS led, and when you're on the bleeding edge you do (sometimes) bleed quite a lot."
Poetry. - Mithivh, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1All he was saying was they should start coming up with something more original. The fact that they started the iCraze doesn't mean it's not getting old.
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0there is no doubt in my mind that the mac tablet is coming. that is the next step, theres nothing else they can do.
- Rooobbbbb, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Just because it was just found does not mean it is new, Apple submitted this Jan 31, 2005. A mac tablet may never happen and this doesn't prove all that much since nothing has come of it in 3 years since it was filed. At best there are some similarities between gestures and what is in use in the iPhone but I'm sure they have a seperate patent for that too along with countless other ones for things they will never utilize.
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