What is the Apple Star N84? ARM hybrid, touchscreen MacBook, just a new iPhone?
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It gives great demo but after a short period of time, you start to fatigue and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. it doesn't work, it's ergonomically terrible.
Touch surfaces want to be horizontal, hence pads.
For a notebook, that's why we're perfected our multitouch trackpads over the years, because that's the best way we've found to get multitouch into a notebook.
We've also, in essence, put a trackpad -- a multitouch track pad on the mouse with our magic mouse. And we've recently come out with a pure play trackpad as well for our desktop users.
So this is how were going to use multitouch on our Mac products because this (he points at someone touch laptop screen) doesn't work."
-Steven Paul Jobs, Oct. 20, 2010
Invent a better computing device. Leap Motion + eye tracking + voice input + Google Soli + ...
Even after the stock buyback, Apple has plenty of remaining cash to invent the future.
Before anyone trots out dictionary definitions, I just mean the world identifies a laptop as a device with a horizontal keyboard and a vertical screen. Even ones that rotate the screen aren't called laptops anymore, they're called tablets or convertibles
In five years time we'll probably see the end of Intel macbooks, maybe Intel macs entirely.
Other than that, it's a big jump from the A series chips to something like an Intel i9. Maybe if they can make a 10-20 core version of their chip but I don't know how well high core count ARM chips work.
Of course I am an edge case. I never made a contrary claim, just dropped my two cents in the bin, but of course I've been HNed for doing so.
Not familiar with that. I know 'slashdotted' but what's HNed?
Why won't you allow intel chips in your house?