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Slight side topic…. I do wish Apple would allow the iPhone’s OS to be displayed via the video out cable and not just the iPod side of things!

An obvious reason would be for Photo Slide shows and YouTube.

But, also being able to use the iPhone in a car environment… with the GUI showing up on the cars display, this would allow the GPS duties to flourish!

Apple use this in their iPhone demo’s (I understand that this would be a different sort of connection more than likely just sending the screen commands to a presentation) But it should be possible… shouldn’t it?

The iPhone already has an external display connector, you can buy it on the apple website. Includes a charger too.

I’m thinking in terms of a wireless connection.

Peace,
Gene

The iPhone already has an external display connector, you can buy it on the apple website. Includes a charger too.

Doesn’t the iPhone already have a touch-screen keyboard
which is used in the horizontal position?

There are many great ideas still in the Apple portfolio.
Too bad I couldn’t have afforded the patent on many
of mine I gave away; some eventually became products.

The keyboard on the iPhone, along with its touch-screen
technologies, are rumored to be transferable to MacBook.

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Good luck & happy computing!

Moving the Macbook to an aluminum case and the latest version of Intel’s CPU/chipset is evolutionary, not revolutionary.

Years ago, a company had a product that would project a keyboard onto a flat surface, and sense which “key” you pressed.

If Apple could integrate that technology into the iPhone…

That sorry diversion aside…

I think Steve Job’s presence in the digital media world has been a boon for many persons no matter their own persuasion or beliefs.

The advances brought about by those who push others to try harder and advance the boundaries of the present do offer us better tools and processes to solve problems of the present and future.

And I doubt ‘milking the Mac’ was the real thrust of the topic at the time; & as time oves forward, we can see there is more to the man and more to the world than was seen in general when that was said.

I wish Steve Jobs well, and good cheer; & the same with all persons and all nations.

Good luck & happy computing!

Well I did bring up many facts… Those who know Steve well enough will say the same about him. Maybe you should consult some experts regarding laptop and wireless performance also.

But nice change of subject though…. As I recall Hitler brought Germany out of a recession too. Maybe we should have let him continue his pursuits also?

First let me remind you about your reading comprehension problem, the fact that you ignored the phrase “except for a few niche markets” in my comments about the capabilities of a notebook. Obviously, I realize that the top-of-the-line Mac Pro beats the pants off a MacBook Pro, at least for now. But as quad-core chips become more ubiquitous in the portable space, you’ll see smaller and smaller markets for the traditional desktop workstation.

In any case, this conversation is taking a very sick turn, with your reference to Hitler. Do us a favor and don’t return with this gibberish. Thank you.

Peace,
Gene

Well I did bring up many facts… Those who know Steve well enough will say the same about him. Maybe you should consult some experts regarding laptop and wireless performance also.

But nice change of subject though…. As I recall Hitler brought Germany out of a recession too. Maybe we should have let him continue his pursuits also?

I realize you’re just a bomb thrower with no real interest in presenting facts, so I’ll just point out that, if you bought Apple’s stock when Steve Jobs returned to the company, you’d be very rich today.

Peace,
Gene

Well Mr. Steinberg, yet another fluff piece with only a paycheck in mind. Your article is neither accurate nor informative. Steve Jobs is a jack ass and there were very good reasons he was tossed out of Apple in the first place. Any success he has shown only reflects how poorly and incompetently his predecessors preformed not how well he is doing. Anyone ‘qualified’ for his position would have done equally as well, maybe better. Sadly Apple’s Board is also incompetent and put even more incompetent idiots in the top position. Apple sans Steve has no direction at all… There’s the real story!

Maybe you should do some research also… A laptop is not a portable desktop. It is a smaller, weaker, more fragile and more expensive baby brother of desktops. Any laptop that could perform head to head against a desktop would have a half hour battery life. Does it really make any sense to pay more (by far) for a smaller screen, nonstandard keyboard, nonstandard mousing devise, slower processor, less memory, smaller hard drive, which also has a much higher failure rate? Premium pricing has always been attached to laptops because of the smaller market and the cost of miniaturization. This is simply no longer true and current models now cost about the same to manufacture. We all clamor for faster computers and broadband speeds yet we unknowingly buy laptops and connect via wireless only to severely reduce their speed. The simple truth is; Desktops connected via copper (or fiber optics) will ALWAYS out perform laptops or wireless connections. How about you write another article to atone for this big load of poop and expose the truth about laptops and wireless, instead of perpetuating the already abundant misconceptions regarding these technologies. Give me a high performance desktop, hard connected to the internet any day! And dump that Bozo Steve!

On a positive note you did spell your name right…

Steve Jobs often makes bold statements, then does the other. I think he said it wasn’t necessary to have an iPhone, then came out with one. And so on.The recent one was a slam on Kindle by saying people don’t read anymore. Which makes me wonder if they will come out with some kind of tablet that is like a large iPod Touch that has the ability to read books. I don’t expect it, because there doesn’t seem the market for such a large device, but…who knows?

Steve was talking a long time about about milking the Mac – and I’m sure he really believed it.

Anyway, Steve’s always onto the next thing, right? The Mac will still be there, but he was interested in the next thing.

And, so we got the iPod and now the iPhone. Is there anything else left to discover and create? I can’t think of anything, but Apple has always been a hell of a lot smarter than me.

Pat

The desktop computer is in decline, but I don’t expect it to disappear any time soon. Even if it stops being the front end for anyone except professionals and gamers, powerful yet bulky machines will live on as our home servers.

The faster we make our computers and the larger the drives we put in them, the larger and more complex our files become. I don’t see that ever changing. The QuickTake digital camera delivered 640×480 still images and the first QuickTime movies were silent collections of 160×120 pixel frames. Today we shoot RAW images and watch 1080p video with embedded 7.1 audio. Tomorrow we’re going to have 300 dpi displays and demand media files to match.

Even if he meant the hardware he could not have forseen the lackluster reception of Vista and the opportunities that created. Only the insane don’t rethink things when new data comes along.

I think he’s past milking and into the cream.