That article makes it sound like Apple is about to invent the circa 1999 Palm Pilot. Sync's calendar, contacts, media (ok, that's new) between device/ CPU.
How is this different than current smartphones? Anyone using one with a Mac? (I use one with my PC).
I think they wish is that they re-invent the Newton the way iPod re-invented MP3 players. It's a noble pursuit, but a challenging one. Let's see how many "why didn't they think of that" rabbits are pulled out of the hat with the iPhone. With a phone, the logical interface is voice command, but the technology doesn't seem to be ready, despite decades of it being around the corner, and sometimes, a simple numeric keypad is all that's wanted. It's great that all these new phones/pdas have touchscreens that you can display a phone pad, or QWERTY keys, but they've had to get rid of the "plain old regular" (TM) numeric keys that have existed on phones since the post-rotary dial days. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but phones go with phone numbers, and until they replace that with the equivalent of universal buddies or email addresses, I'm still punching lots of numbers. The future is bright, and I wish Apple luck if they decide to enter this arena, but until control can be wrestled from the service providers, they're going to have much to say about what goes on. |
