“LOOPRumors received a tidbit of information today suggesting Apple is planning to develop a hybrid OS into their next iMac,” LOOPRumors reports.
“The iMac should be equipped with both Mac OS X and a touch interface for iOS,” LOOPRumors reports.
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It makes a lot of sense that you can run ios4 apps on a mac. After all the core os is the same.
Why have it on a imac?
Who are these guys? How are they suddenly credible for apple/Mac rumors?
But wouldn’t this suddenly make the iPad and iPhone less attractive purchases?
Just what a those gorgeous big screen iMacs needs… fingerprints and pixelated apps?
Whoever they are, they probably have more credible sources than MDN.
Hmmmm, Ballmer and the boys right now are trying to figure out how to get the big a$$ table cameras into the back of a dell flat panel !!!
Huh? That makes absolutely no sense. Apple would no split their OS strategy and deploy iMacs with a “hybrid” OS and the rest of their macs without. That 10.7 might include something like that might make sense, but why would you want it? How do you interact with a touch OS on a non-touch computer? This is a stupid rumor.
I still don’t understand why you can run Apps as widgets? To me the size and resolution would seem to be a no-brainer.
Huh? How is the developer supposed to map
portrait/landscape/compass/accelerometer/gyroscope/GPS/MultiTouchUI/Vibration/FreeRotatingScreen
onto
Keyboard/Mouse/VerticalScreen
?
I can haz farmville?
dream on, not worth the time reading such jibberish…
I do the I CAN HAZ around here!
If you want Farmville, just use a regular Mac and log into Facebook.
The rumor may be false but the idea makes sense. Having all the apps available would be a major selling point as well as killing the “no games for Mac” arguement.
If this happens it won’t involve touching the screen it will use the magic mouse or w/ laptops the trackpad.
My only question is why new hardware can’t this be done w/ new software? Or does this require an A4 chip added to the Mac?
“If this happens it won’t involve touching the screen it will use the magic mouse or w/ laptops the trackpad.”
How would that work? iOS is for directly touching the app (well, the location of the app’s icon on the screen, but you get the idea). How would you touch a trackpad in precisely the right spot to tap an app without having to slide something like a mouse pointer over to the app in the first place?
What would be the purpose of a Mac running iOS only? Unless it is a tablet. I just can’t see the utility of a touchscreen iMac with iOS. Maybe an Apple TV with iOS would make sense. Certainly it would be nice if you could run iOS virtualized on Snow Leopard so I could run games and other apps from my iPhone on my Mac… but I just don’t see Apple doing that.
An Apple TV with iOS would make more sense — especially if it could run using the iPad as the touch interface.
Dumb rumor, I think. Apple developed iOS with a separate and distinct GUI for handheld devices with touch screens. Mac OS X has the GUI for devices that use a keyboard and mouse or mouse-equivalent. It would be very un-Apple to mix the two.
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With an accelerometer? I can just see flying jet airplanes with it on a 27″ i7. Could really build your arm muscles.
And that would include the release of the Magic Trackpad device.
This particular rumour sounds bogus, however the concept is definitely coming.
A flat-lying (or slightly tilted) touch-screen iMac will definitely soon replace the last-century user interface model of keyboard-mouse-dialogbox. I can see how they’ll transition this by building a hybrid – multi-touch iMac, with an auxiliary mouse and keyboard, with both OS X and iOS running (perhaps like the old ‘Classic’, OS X running sandboxed inside the new iOS). Once every major (and most minor) applications are properly ported over to multi-touch UI, the ‘Classic’ OS X environment will then become optional.
My initial guess (from earlier this year, when iPad was announced) was that five years from now, Macs will be sold without keyboards and mice. I wouldn’t be surprised if the first such Mac arrives next year. Two months from now? Unlikely (although not quite out of the question).
I’m with romeodawg…metaphorically.
The only logical validator is the photo of the keyboard sized flat trackpad that we saw a few weeks ago.
Then you could access the “touch” interface without having to wipe your hands from eating the jelly donuts!
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I do not see a direct touch interface on a monitor – ever. It doesn’t make ergonomic sense much less marketing sense.
On the however side of things, I do find myself reaching to do somethings on my dual 30″ displays – such as move a 3D illustration but I laugh at myself when I do it.
Cheers.
Don’t eff up OSX. Make the OS run iOS apps as dashboard widgets- fine. But don’t eff up my desktop/laptop OS.