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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Stitch, you're right!!
Macbook Air - the thinnest notebook around! Pull it out of a manilla envelope. Le, do you have your credit card ready? Let's go to the Apple Store, man!
Well thanks for the congrats, but I was predicting something more along the lines of a tablet computer with a touchscreen interface like the iPhone. It would be thin too. The MacBook Air is an engineering marvel but I think it will be the next Cube. The price is high ($1800 starting price), but it does not have all the features of a Pro model. So you are paying dearly for the miniaturization. Some will buy because it is so unique, but not in large numbers is my guess.
So all in all my predictions were overly inflated. The iphone only got a software update not hardware. The Apple TV price was cut, and new movie rental software was added. Close guess on this one. The tablet PC did not materialize, but the innovations of the Air may allow for a tablet in the near future. With all of the engineering of miniaturizing. A tablet can't feel like a brick. When Apple gets to a size which feels like a electronic clipboard, I think then we will have a true tablet computer with touch screen interface.
Quite possibly the Macbook Air will end up being the notebook version of the future, while those who want to go even smaller will eventually buy the "Air Tablet". Hopefully prices will have come down by that time.
By the way, when you look closely at the iPhone update, it really is awesome! This is how it will go for a while - Apple doesn't need to introduce new hardware to give the iPhone newer, cooler features. This will be an incredible competitive advantage with time. Nobody updates and refines software, as well as make cool new apps, like Apple. (In my humble opinion).
MacFan you are such a humble person, no need to append to your posts. It is always implied. I agree that Apple has made the cell phone now a platform that can be updated. This will give people more of an incentive to pay higher prices for the phone when you know it won't become outdated really quick. Plus with each software update, Apple spreads goodwill to all iPhone users. Further cementing the profound attachment ( or fanatisim ) to Apple products. Of course the competition is not standing still. I believe that Nokia and Samsung are worthy competitors. What they lack is the integration of software and hardware the way Apple has. Software has been typically an afterthought for most cell phones, resulting in poor interfaces. The future looks good for Apple. If they get so far ahead of the competition, then I believe the competition will have to consolidate to have the resourses to catch up. Apple has lept far out of the gate in the first cell phone release and left the competition with their collective jaws on the ground. ( I thought you might appreciate the trash talk )
Trash talk between friends is a good thing, not a bad thing!
By the way, it's pretty funny when you see the Verizon knock-off arrange and make the icons look just like the iPhone. One problem, they lack the functionality! I admit the folded keyboard is nice, but it make the thing quite a bit bigger!
I know, the knockoffs had to be slapped together. These came out in less than 6 months while Apple was developing the iPhone for over 3 years. How good could it be? Just cause it has touchscreen and the icons look the same doesn't mean that it works even close to the same. But at least there is competition to nip at Apples heals to keep them moving forward with new features and lower prices.
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Well thanks for the congrats, but I was predicting something more along the lines of a tablet computer with a touchscreen interface like the iPhone. It would be thin too. The MacBook Air is an engineering marvel but I think it will be the next Cube. The price is high ($1800 starting price), but it does not have all the features of a Pro model. So you are paying dearly for the miniaturization. Some will buy because it is so unique, but not in large numbers is my guess.
So all in all my predictions were overly inflated. The iphone only got a software update not hardware. The Apple TV price was cut, and new movie rental software was added. Close guess on this one. The tablet PC did not materialize, but the innovations of the Air may allow for a tablet in the near future. With all of the engineering of miniaturizing. A tablet can't feel like a brick. When Apple gets to a size which feels like a electronic clipboard, I think then we will have a true tablet computer with touch screen interface.
Quite possibly the Macbook Air will end up being the notebook version of the future, while those who want to go even smaller will eventually buy the "Air Tablet". Hopefully prices will have come down by that time.
By the way, when you look closely at the iPhone update, it really is awesome! This is how it will go for a while - Apple doesn't need to introduce new hardware to give the iPhone newer, cooler features. This will be an incredible competitive advantage with time. Nobody updates and refines software, as well as make cool new apps, like Apple. (In my humble opinion).
MacFan you are such a humble person, no need to append to your posts. It is always implied. I agree that Apple has made the cell phone now a platform that can be updated. This will give people more of an incentive to pay higher prices for the phone when you know it won't become outdated really quick. Plus with each software update, Apple spreads goodwill to all iPhone users. Further cementing the profound attachment ( or fanatisim ) to Apple products. Of course the competition is not standing still. I believe that Nokia and Samsung are worthy competitors. What they lack is the integration of software and hardware the way Apple has. Software has been typically an afterthought for most cell phones, resulting in poor interfaces. The future looks good for Apple. If they get so far ahead of the competition, then I believe the competition will have to consolidate to have the resourses to catch up. Apple has lept far out of the gate in the first cell phone release and left the competition with their collective jaws on the ground. ( I thought you might appreciate the trash talk )
Trash talk between friends is a good thing, not a bad thing!
By the way, it's pretty funny when you see the Verizon knock-off arrange and make the icons look just like the iPhone. One problem, they lack the functionality! I admit the folded keyboard is nice, but it make the thing quite a bit bigger!
I know, the knockoffs had to be slapped together. These came out in less than 6 months while Apple was developing the iPhone for over 3 years. How good could it be? Just cause it has touchscreen and the icons look the same doesn't mean that it works even close to the same. But at least there is competition to nip at Apples heals to keep them moving forward with new features and lower prices.
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