“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’s annual Macworld surprise may be a slimmed-down laptop and a higher-capacity model of the iPhone,” Connie Guglielmo reports for Bloomberg.
“Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster and UBS AG’s Benjamin Reitzes expect Jobs to capitalize on demand for the Mac by introducing a smaller, lighter version of Apple’s MacBook notebooks. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst David Bailey anticipates a version of the iPhone with 16-gigabytes of storage, double the capacity of the current $399 device,” Guglielmo reports.
“‘Ultra-portables don’t sell a ton,’ said Andy Hargreaves of Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon, who expects Apple to introduce one in January. ‘Then again, music players didn’t sell a ton until Apple came out with the iPod,'” Guglielmo reports.
“A slimmed-down Apple notebook will cost less than the $1,999 MacBook Pro and have a screen between 11-inches to 13- inches, Munster said this week in a note, citing unidentified Asian component supplier,” Guglielmo reports.
“Jobs, 52, also may introduce a larger-screen handheld device for playing music and video and surfing the Web, said Andy Neff, an analyst at Bear Stearns & Co. in New York. Apple may also unveil a new version of Apple TV, a $299 device that connects to TVs and lets people watch movies and shows stored on their PCs,” Guglielmo reports.
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That thunder has been stolen by Ford when they announced ‘Sync by MicroSoft’. I wonder how well that is working out.
Look at it this way: we’re dealing with Ford and MS. The only way it could be worse is if Dell’s building the Sync hardware.
And remember, one of its key features is the ability to text message from within the car. What next, the windshield turns into a video screen so we can watch movies while driving??
crunch,
I ran across a show recently talking about future cars. A guy was saying that the cars will be taken over and remotely guided to your destination. Meanwhile the windshield would turn opaque and become a video screen to entertain you on your hands off voyage. If MS were involved it would be called ‘Sunc by MicroSoft’. As in ‘Our Asses Are Sunk’ !!! Scary stuff, fer sure.
January 24, 1984,
I kinda agree with ChrissyOne on this. Except that I’m more cynical. Most teenagers (or younger) right now couldn’t give a rat’s ass what a parent or adult thinks or advises. Most of them that I know, even though they may act somewhat polite, are self-centered, hedonistic little know-it-alls. I doubt if it will get any better in eight years time. Of course, I don’t blame them as much as I do their parents and our spoiled, selfish society. But heh, what’cha gonna do?
Meanwhile the windshield would turn opaque and become a video screen to entertain you on your hands off voyage.
Scary indeed, when you think autopiloted aircraft still require a clear windshield & a human being at the controls. And that’s in the relatively orderly (if congested) world of commercial airspace!
It’ll be interesting when auto-driving cars do “go live” on the anarchy of the streets. Then again, compared to the level of idiocity seen out there, auto-driving cars would be hard pressed to do much worse.
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crunch,
Amen, brother. There is nothing like having a woman driving a Lincoln Navigator (while talking on a cell phone and applying makeup) tailgating your butt. Of course, it’s not just women, but they scare me the most. They have become so crazy aggressive on the road anymore.
P.S.
If you are a female I deny every word above.
“Most of them that I know, even though they may act somewhat polite, are self-centered, hedonistic little know-it-alls.”
They grow up so fast.. {sniff}
ChrissyOne,
Yeah, sometimes I wonder if some of them are mine that spawned out in the wild. A chip off the old block.
tv needs to be some sort of DVR for me to buy it.
Alex,
Please don’t change the subject. Thanks.
I urge this Zune Tang to muster his best efforts towards feeling the touch of a woman (not his mother or a relative) for the first time…I guarantee he’ll get more satisfaction out of that than he derives from his sophomoric and banal posts.
G.B.J.,
I wouldn’t bet money on that. He reaaally likes irritating the crap out of us. I truly think it beats sex for him. But, I could be wrong.
Of course, it’s not just women, but they scare me the most. They have become so crazy aggressive
True story: how about one that runs a red light, nearly hits you, passes you on the shoulder, then races ahead & pulls into Wal-Mart?
IMO auto-driving cars are all but becoming a necessity. Too many people are too stupidly aggressive to be driving.
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As for Apple, they really do need a bigger automotive presence (unless of course Steve is looking ahead at a post-car world). It’d be a shame to leave MS unchecked and have the PC experience repeat itself…
crunch,
Earlier tonight I watched the 12/07/07 episode of Tekzilla (free iTunes podcast) and Patrick Norton was talking about the Ford/MS Sync system. He used it and said it really worked well. They showed it in a Ford Focus and it seemed pretty cool. Apparently it will be available for all Fords, Lincolns and Mercs.
You may be right. Most car makers are making the stereos iPod ready. Why not integrated Apple technology?
It won’t be a surprise if we keep getting more rumors of the ultra-slim Laptop
@Yo, Dolita.
Games are not important–seriously. When the Mac was first introduced, critics compared it to a toy–“real” computers had CLIs and were for “work.” Now, on the other hand, find a computer that _doesn’t_ have a GUI–and there are games on Windows. What does that tell you? That the Mac is _the_ machine for work. As it should be! It just works.
But really, if you want games–get a dedicated console! And don’t clutter up the Mac with frivolous wasters of time.
Flame me all you want and say that “people NEED games LOL!!!1!!” but when you move out of your parents’ houses you’ll see what I mean.
ChrissyOne: In Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, the character Harry Seldon returns as a 3 dimensional simulation to the prognosticators to provide pivotal guidance that grows more philosophical as the time line extends.
The most powerful advice is that already known, but strengthened through repetition.
Perhaps your daughter would benefit from a discussion of the joy of a firstborn’s birth, and then again later about the death of a parent.
Both predictable parts of life that are timeless.