Here's one for you guys...I'm yanking this completely out of my imagination. Since it's Christmas, I figured what the heck, there's no harm in asking:
In 2007 Apple will launch an "Ultra Mobile PC" based on Intel technology. This product will potentially come around the same time as their IPTV set top box. It will coincide with the launch of a full fledged video/movie service from Apple. Possibly, Apple will take some of the technologies in Viiv & Robson (instant on/off; multi users, flash memory for faster boot and potentially storage of content for CE functionality w/o having to load the OS; etc). It will come with a remote control. If all my fantasies were to come true, it will have a docking station connected to my TV/home entertainment system so that I can just dock it when I'm home and use it as my movie/music player. And if I'm specially good, Santa will throw in high bandwidth wireless connectivity so I can download movies and music from iTunes anywhere in the house.
What do you think...? Is Santa (or perhaps Steve) listening?
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Sorry 180, as awesome as that would be, Intel doesn't currently have a mainstream product that could work in the ultra mobile department (unless they somehow found a way to make a UMPC that's the same size as its battery). Their only real option is Via or Geode, which would mean that they'd have to anger Intel by giving AMD business, or they'd have to anger Intel by giving Via a reason not to leave the CPU business (which Intel has been threatening Via about for the past few months).
My dear chap - you must read a little more before making such claims.
1. Intel has a range of low and ultra-low voltage Core & Core Duo mobile parts (Core 2 Duo will not be far away):
http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/showchart.aspx?mmID=31,28,38,882791,879593,34,33&familyID=2&culture=en-US
2. The first generation of UMPCs are mostly based on Intel sillicon:
http://umpc.com/Devices.aspx
http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/platform/devices.htm
3. I know the general opinion of Intel's management is not high with many readers but even they would not have a division with a senior Vice President running it if they didn't intend to have products to sell.
The principal issue dogging Intel & Microsoft here is to bring the end user cost down to the targetted 600 USD for their OEM customers to really ramp this thing. But I can assure you Apple will be less pressured to bring cost down and more to create an amazing product.
I'm waiting for the day they come out with wireless high bandwidth computer-->TV connections.
I'm so frikking sick of cables.
Thanks 180, I was basically just trying to finally get a link out of you with the specifics of their embedded and or ultra mobile parts. We'd argued a lot on this before and you'd never been very specific.
It would be interesting if Apple did that, but I'm pretty sure the UMPC market is still too slow to sell the volume necessary for such an investment.
It's funny that you created several posts about Apple iTunes and I without knowing anything about these just did an article about the collapse of the music industry. I don't see that Apple iTunes is having much effect with music distribution and I don't see anything getting fixed until we get something much, much better than iTunes.
Read my post here - and you will understand why I think Apple will become a market mover in the consumer segment in the long term:
http://sharikou180.blogspot.com/2006/09/apple-effect.html
Sounds like a hybrid that's not quite a computer nor a DVD player. Given the state of bendwidth nowadays, they wouldn't be able to get content down fast enough. Throw in HD content and it doesn't sound that likely
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I already read it. However, I'm not talking about Apple as a provider of compressed digital music which I'm sure is fine.
What I was referring to was one of two changes: either a drastic change to temporary use pricing for older music or some new conduit to iTunes that bypasses the big recording labels. One or both of these would be necessary to fundamentally change the current decline in the music industry.
So, did you hear the news? Apple is going to start selling the iPhone for $400. And, Apple is changing its name from "Apple Computers" to "Apple Inc."
I'm not sure this change in name goes along with the idea of Apple as a strong future computer player. It seems like Apple has its eye more on consumer electronics.
Did you also notice that the new Apple TV is based on an Intel microprocessor.
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