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Vox Pop: What's your pick for Steve's big reveal?
Merlin Mann | Jan 8 2007
Of all the speculation and Steve-watching over the past few weeks, the recent chatter about an Apple "nano-computer" may be the most interesting and thought-provoking of the bunch. Bob Snow writes:
And here I was conservatively predicting/begging-for (@00:51:04) a 12” MacBook Pro by next year. Always thinking too So, what's your guess? What will Steve's E-ticket ride be at Macworld this year? 29 Comments
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 @Peter There is definitely a market...Submitted by MEP (not verified) on January 8, 2007 - 5:17pm.
@Peter There is definitely a market for smaller computers. Head over to Dynamism.com to see how much people are willing to pay to import sub-notebooks from Japan. I would love a compact notebook computer from Apple, and I fail to understand why the sub-notebook category hasn't taken off in the US. I guess it's the same mentality that makes people buy big cars and SUVs. I thought the whole point of a laptop was portability. Doesn't a 17" widescreen kind of defeat that purpose completely? If I wanted all of the power of a massive Dell Hosstop, I wouldn't be buying a laptop in the first place. What I need on the road is a basic system that doesn't weigh 20 pounds. Smaller is better. I'd buy a Libretto if it ran OS X. I doubt Apple will release anything smaller than a 12" screen though -- primarily due to technical constraints of the processors OS X currently supports -- which is a shame. As for predictions of what could actually happen... I think iTV and Leopard are going to be the big announcements this year. Whatever Apple has planned for their "TV" product it's going to be unexpected in some way and they're going to try and make it this year's big revolution. The entire iLife suite will be worked in to the product, perhaps with a new program, iTV, being added to the Macintosh iLife suite. Expect Apple's concept of TV to revolve more around iTunes and/or Google video rather than actual broadcast television. All of the rumors about new portable devices from Apple will probably end up culminating very disappointingly in a remote control for iTV (or whatever it winds up being called). Leopard will be shown finally, and this time all of the features will be previewed. It might even be ready for sale. iWork might finally have a spreadsheet component which would be nice though maybe too little too late. As much as I'd like a cellphone with a halfway usable UI, I don't see Apple going in this direction. Same goes for PDAs. If Apple ever does delve into PDA functionality, it will be as an extension of the iPod, not a rebirth of the Newton. I can't imagine Apple jumping into the tablet market. It's a stillborn market -- tablets just don't sell and Steve is not the type to support development in markets that don't have immediate potential (as the death of the Newton will attest to). » POSTED IN:
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