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10 big Apple rumors that never came to pass
As an Apple blogger I have seen my fair share of rumors, it is my job to read and report about them after all, though I must admit that I am tired of them. The endless rumormongering is getting a little old, and a little ridiculous. That's why I enjoyed this list of the 10 Biggest Apple Rumors that never came true over at the Apple Blog. All your favorites are there:- Disney to buy Apple (any day now!)
- Tablet Mac (not going to happen any time soon)
- Apple PDA (the iPhone will have to do)
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Ogilvy said 5:25PM on 5-14-2007
howsaboutaiphone?
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Jake said 5:28PM on 5-14-2007
But seriously, there's that iHome media center thing that never came to be. Also the touch screen iPod STILL has to make its appearance (not phone)
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Brian said 5:45PM on 5-14-2007
I think this article was pretty narrow minded. There is indeed the Shuffle, the
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shane fl said 6:05PM on 5-14-2007
COMMON SENSE tells me Steve Jobs has an unrevealed trick up his sleeves that won't be revealed until the the WDC. The accelerometer technology used in the iphone I believe has a dual purpose. My guess is that if I can think of this, then all those brains at Apple should have figured this out during development.....Long time ago.... If you think about how the Wii operates you will figure it out. If you were using the browser on the iphone reading a news article fo example, like most PDA's the screen is so small you constantly have to move left or right to read. Good thing about the iphone you can use your fingers on the touch screen to slide left or right. This is already a leap up above PDA's. But I believe there is more... the iphone will give you an option to use the accelerometer technology for this. Imagine while sitting on a chair you are holding the iphone about 12 inches from your eyes in front of you. Now if you decide you'd like to move the screen towards the right, your hand would hint to the right and the rest of the news article would appear instantly. Sort of like sliding a rectangular piece of glass on a newspaper surface. Up, down, left , right. Even easier than two sliding fingers. And last thing is... why just use this great technology for simply knowing if the screen should be up right or in widescreen???? I'm guessing the Apple minds are creative enough to exploit the "accelerometer". DON'T YOU? yes, I do own Apple.
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andrew harrison said 7:50PM on 5-14-2007
COMMON SENSE tells me that using paragraphs makes readability easier.
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franko said 7:51PM on 5-14-2007
i don't care what anyone says -- i want an apple-made tablet, or even better, an ebook reader. PLEASE, apple, PRETTY PLEASE! i'll be your best friend...!
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dogarms said 12:03AM on 5-15-2007
I reckon they missed a couple of doozies in that article.
I'm still waiting for my G5 Powerbook...
...or Cinema Display with iSight built in...
...or iPod with wireless/bluetooth...
...or iPhone with 2 batteries...
...xMac...new iMac design... the list goes on!
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JeffDM said 11:13AM on 5-19-2007
So there may be games that let you control the Monkeyball by tilting the device as if you are controlling the platform?
I'm thinking that the cinema display is going to have to include an iSight eventually, it's just a question of when Apple choses to replace the design. The notebooks had to be updated anyway with the Intel chips, but there isn't the same architectual impetus to replace the Cinema Display. I really don't know what the deal with iSight is, if it's like the iMac/MacBook (Pro) iSight, it won't be very good. I'd like to know what fraction of iSight/iSight capable Mac owners actually use it for more than ten minutes, it just seems like adding a feature to add a bullet point to the feature list rather than actually being useful to most people.
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