“A number of universal applications on the iOS App Store have listed an unknown product placeholder name — ‘ixMac.MarketingName’ — as a compatible device, fueling speculation that Apple could be poised introduce apps on a new device,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
“The App Store bug has appeared under the compatible devices list for a number of universal applications, or software that runs on Apple’s entire range of iOS devices — the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad,” Oliver reports. “The unknown product ‘ix.Mac.MarketingName’ does not appear on all universal App Store applications, as MyVoice Communication Aid, which relies on GPS data and voice input, and Bing for iPad, which is not a universal application, do not include the listing. But many other universal applications, like Marvel Comics, do feature ‘ix.Mac.MarketingName.'”
Oliver reports, “That led Engadget to suggest that ‘ix.Mac.MarketingName’ is more than just a glitch, and perhaps a placeholder for a new supported device that will run software from the App Store.”
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let the games begin…
It’s gotta be Apple TV. Then they could begin to compete with console based gaming systems… iPhone as the controller and game on the tv?? Sweet.
That would be awesome!
Expensive controller though xD
I think it has been put there to see how many rumors and what the wildest rumor is that someone could develop. It is just SJ playing with your minds! You are now in the Twilight Zone.
+1
Throwing smoke!
C’mon iJetPack!
i just came across a guy who sold his 60 day old imac for a gateway pc. Why? Because one website he needs to use is not safari compatible! Isn’t that sad?
Meanwhile, in Kremlin watching news, analysts believe that Lenin is still dead.
The return of the eMate!
I don’t think it’s Apple TV, because the user interface is so different. Can you can design an app to be “universal” between a touch screen device and one that uses a very simple remote control with half-a-dozen buttons? Apple TV doesn’t even have a cursor on the screen to point. Perhaps it would work for a simple app…
If this is not some joke being played by Apple, perhaps that “placeholder” is referring to an iOS app running as a Dashboard widget, on a Mac with Mac OS X Lion. The only issue would be representing “multi-touch” on a cursor-based system, but since you can use multi-touch gestures if you have a Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse, or MacBook with “glass” trackpad, I can see how it might be done.
Many new Mac users are coming to Mac through an iOS device, so it would be a good move to further entice them to “get a Mac” instead of another Windows PC. It would make for a nice “one more thing” at the Lion launch.
apparently the word du jour is “Mystery”.
It could be every Mac running Snow Leopard with a magic trackpad.
Why doesn’t someone just email Steve Jobs and ask him? Maybe he will reply.
I’m really hoping it’s an ipad running a slightly smaller version of lion (like ios with applescript/automater and a windowing system (yes I have tried a windowing system on the ipad at native resolution, it works nicely, the only issue is the size of the close button on the title bar))
that
would
rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!