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By: Apple Netbook Actually an E-book? | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:15:31 +0000

[...] developing a new touchscreen device are picking up traction and credibility. In the past few days, Claims made in a Chinese-language financial newspaper have been corroborated first by Dow Jones and now by Reuters as well. Consensus seems to be that [...]

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:18:12 +0000

Unless and until the iPhone/iPod touch UI gets materially better as a serious text input device, I still think the logical applications for this device are around entertainment and communication hybrids (where text input is tail, not dog).

To me, this makes it the perfect living room companion device, and also larger screen top opens up to more immersive entertainment apps (where device can overlay/compliment what’s on TV, be a Wii-like controller, be a communications dashboard, connect back to home office Mac, be the wedge to Apple TV viewing form factor, support Second Life/VR types of apps, etc.).

Blogged on this one at:

Apple, TV and the Smart Connected Living Room
http://bit.ly/FBEk

There is also a link at bottom of that post to analysis of Boxee/media center space.

Check it out if interested.

Mark

By: Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive Alley Insider closes the gap — today only 9 minutes behind AllThingsD «

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:53:32 +0000

[...] nemesis at AllThingsD, John Paczkowski. This morning at 7:16 a.m. PT, Paczkowski was the first to re-report the non-news coming out of some Chinese publication that Apple is preparing an oversized iPod [...]

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By: Stephen Klein

Stephen Klein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:31:35 +0000

What is too often overlooked is the fact that Apple is successfully delivering and supporting 2 OS’s: the Mac OS and the iPod OS.

If Apple wants to easily (as in the software is already built) redefine the “netbook” category–and win massive market share–all they have to do is expand the form factor of the iPod touch (and perhaps add seamless Flash and Skype capability).

Give the world a Touch with a 12 inch screen, and you’d see your local Starbucks filled with ‘em. Add an [optional] keyboard via USB and anyone just “internet-ing” would be satisfied.

The risk: cannibilize the Mac computer market. But anyone who wants to do “computing” (i.e. Photoshop, Movie-making, Photo manipulation, etc.) will still buy the computer…and probably a netbook-like device as well, for connecting from the road (or the bed).

The risk of NOT delivering something like this: losing the “internet-ing” user to some other company’s cheap netbook. And making all of those do so suffer with inferior products based on a highly inferior (to Mac OS and iTunes OS) operating system.