Appreciate your analysis. Your site is now part of the list of sites I visit daily.
Being a big fan of 3dconnexion products, I don't see why some enterprising lad couldn't interface an iPhone as a secondary (left hand in my case) input device with (right hand) mouse as a context sensitive input device for applications (like the Optimus keyboard). Lift it up and it flips back to iPhone mode so you can take calls. Bet you that somebody at Apple has tried this.
Personally, I see the iphone as the first instance of a tablet format mac, with more on the horizon.
Some of your prediction are tru, others not. Apply to be a Apple developer and with the latest state of the union on leopard you can finetune your predcitions. You still need to balance what you can tell or not after signing the EULA agreement of course...
"Some of your prediction are tru, others not."
Go on, tell us which ones!
I'm not convinced that becoming an ADC would be that much of an advantage. Yes, I'd know what was in the actual fielded OS builds. But I also believe that Apple does hold some "good stuff" back for marketing (and competitive advantage) purposes until the very last minute. Therefore, I haven't yet succumbed to the ADC temptation.
At the end of the day, some people like solving the New York Times crossword puzzles, I like trying to solve marketing puzzles. And since Apple is so secretive, they are much more fun to work than the Times puzzle -- the answers only come out about once a year (if then).
Thanks for the comments all,
Carl
The most "obvious" super attractive additional software feature to the iPHONE for me would be a voice recognition feature so that emails could be composed vocally and not necessarily using the QWERTY keyboard. The multi touch keyboard for dialing a phone seems to be very easy to use in just the manner we always use it, poking one finger at a time. However, even a wondrous touch senstive virtual keyboard is just going to be somewhat "small" ,especially for pudgy fingers.
With the existent, "spell correction" available on the touch screen and with voice recognition already available in Apple software elsewhere, as well as voice processing capabilities in the phone somewhere already a well...it seems natural to allow users to compose the kind of short simply emails that they will typically be sending via a phone vocally. That would certainly be a SMART phone, wouldn't it? The QWERTY keyboard could be used as a second alternative, but imagine how wondrous it would be to simply "speak" your emails into the iPHONE and then click "SEND".
First, I know quite a few people who hate the trackpad. I'm not one of them, but they usually buy a bluetooth mouse for their MacBooks. So I think forcing a trackpad would turn off quite a few people.
As for "resolution independence", that's a given. Apple warned developers at WWDC that resolution independence is coming in Leopard and Apple's displays would be changing and unless you want little tiny windows, you'd best get on board.
The screen sharing function in Leopard looks to be a productivity enhancer.
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