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Apple's Smart Phone Depends on OS X Tie-Ins 260

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @01:42PM from the steve-jobs-hard-to-shop-for dept.

anaesthetica writes "According to AppleInsider, Apple is not only working on a cellphone + mp3 player iPhone, but is working on a second model designed to be a smart phone, highly integrated with Mac OS and .Mac. The smart phone has gone through several iterations, as the notoriously demanding Mr. Jobs ordered the elite team working on the phone to redesign and re-engineer their prototypes. Capabilities are reported to include Front Row interface, syncing contacts and iCal with .Mac, "call ahead", iChat video conferencing integration, WiFi, and a slide-out keyboard. Too good to be true?"

Comment Re:Who fired Apple's industrial design team? (Score 1) 647

by allen1979 on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:05PM (#15861074) Attached to: Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC

I was thinking about this today, and I'm fairly sure it's a part psychology, par marketing.

I remember when the MacBook Pro came out - being an aluminium Powerbook owner I'd been dreading it. I couldn't afford a new Mac, and the PowerBook was (is!) my pride and joy.

When the MBPs turned out to be physically almost identical, it softened the blow. I didn't feel like I'd been cut adrift from the world of Macintosh like I thought it would. I still feel like a Mac user, not an "old Mac" user.

You can bet the millions that had just bought iMacs G5s - and now Power Macs - felt similar when the Intel versions of their machines were released.

By having them look like PPC Macs, there is a very clear message being sent out that these Intel machines are still Macs - Apple hasn't sold its soul to Intel, they're not a PC manufacturer, they're just using their processors. The Mac is still a Mac.

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