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Address Book, iApps, and Metallic
Authored by: joelr on May 07, '02 01:30:45AM

Here is my .02 ...

As others have said here iApps are going or have gone Metallic. This is consistent and makes sense since all current iApps are Mac only and Apple wants to distinguish these iApps even further so on Mac OS X.

Why Address Book? Where other iApps were born iApps (iTunes, iDVD, iChat, etc) Address Book is an iApp and it doesn't know it yet. I think that Apple is laying the foundation for some sort of hand-held, tablet, or other as yet unfathomed iDevice, this rumor is endless I know but I don't think it would persist unless there was some truth. When Apple does something it makes it a point to do it way way way better then anyone else (i.e. the iPod, even the Cube to some extent). I think this makes even more sense after today. Not a lot has been made mention of it but Ink is a new app they announced today, hand writing recognition system wide....

iPod has been very successful. Certainly in ways Apple didn't intend, What with all the different things and information you can "sync" to the thing. With the new 10gb iPod you can now officially sync your Apple Address Book. Not a giant leap to sync a metallic Address Book (iContacts?) with a future iDevice. On Apple's "Jaguar" page they tout Cell phone - Address Book integration.

I think the thing that is holding up such a device is a affordable hi-res color lcd. Apple killed mono-chrome with the Newton to bring back anything less then 16bit and maybe even 32bit color would be counter to Apple's current do it better or don't do it attitude. Apple is willing to take time to get it right and I'm willing to wait.

Joel.



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Address Book, iApps, and Metallic
Authored by: saint.duo on May 07, '02 02:11:11AM

heh, actually there WAS full color newton about the size of the 2000/2100, but it never got released before Jobs(?) canned the Newton project.
Wish they would've released it. oh well...



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Address Book, iApps, and Metallic
Authored by: balthisar on May 07, '02 06:27:34AM

All the rumors speak of an Apple-branded Palm, which would be cool -- the Palm OS with some Apple-specific goodies. With one caveat, the BEST possible thing (today) that Apple could look at would be the high-end Sony Clie. My 760PNG is awesome:

o Double-resolution (4x pixels) of a standard Palm
o Plenty of colors (16 bit - 65536 colors)
o MP3 Player (well, it's not 10GB, but 136MB is okay for me)

The "caveat" I mentioned is the damn thing doesn't work with my Macs -- it's not even supported! (Work is PC, where I use it anyway).

I was horrified when my Palm V died a wet death, but THIS is an awesome PDA.

I *do* have an original Newton 2100, and as old as it is, and even with the grey-scale, it's still by FAR a better PDA overall -- but it's too HUGE to do anything with at work.



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Address Book, iApps, and Metallic
Authored by: Mosaic on May 07, '02 08:57:35AM

Labels? Where are the Labels! Yes I love everything and am not hear to gripe, but with over 75,000 file, Labels is the best way to keep files organized in the same folder.



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