Apple Products Wishlist

What would be a product that you would really like to see introduced by Apple?

Now that Apple is officially Apple Inc., they're obviously putting more importance into the iPod and the Apple TV and iPhone along with the Macs. What other products would you like to see added to Apple's product lineup?

I personally would like to see the return of a digital camera line. Yeah, Apple used to have a QuickTake digital camera, but it was discontinued. I think it'd be really cool to see Apple re-enter the digital camera market so Sony's not the only one with sleek digital cameras. Plus, Apple can make it integrate seamlessly with iPhoto!

 

Ultra portable Macbook. < 4lbs, 12" widescreen.

I just bought a black Macbook though.

 

Haha, I think we're going to see that wish fulfilled pretty soon . Its almost inevitable for Apple to release an ultraportable again.

 

MacBook Pros in all all the ipod nano colors.....although actually that would be more appropriate for the macbook line, since most of the consumers get macbooks. Speaking of which, a 15inch macbook. Hm....a more affordable smartphone....I'd buy the iPhone if it wasn't so goddamn expensive.
Digital camera, printer, speakers, the list can go on and on and on.

 

damn. i might have to sell my macbook if that does come true.

 

I want an 11.1" ultraportable by Apple!

 

I'll be the one to say a tablet MacBook would be great!

 

what about an afordable iphone which do not cost as much as a computer ?? huh ?!? possible you think from apple ?

 

Version 2 of the iPhone. The changes I want are a user replaceable battery, and expandable memory. Both of those I believe will be in the next version because people who use smartphones will demand that. Also, a cheaper price. This can easily be achieved by getting rid of the majority of internal memory. I want a smartphone, not an mp3 player. I wish phone companies would stop with the mp3 and camera stuff. I want a phone that works. I already have a good digital camera and mp3 player.

I also think they need to release an ultraportable MBP.

 

Maybe Apple can have two iPhones....one with the whole iPod capability and one without. Wait, what am I saying?

 

I'd also want a Touch screen iPod, such as iPhone without the phone...but it seems imminent for that to happen anyways.

 

maybe some kind of crazy tablet PC in partnership with Wacom that works as well as one of Wacom's Cintique tablet screens, that will never happen because it is way too expensive but that would be pretty badass.

 

I'll be interested in version 2 or 3 of the iphone, when it doesn't cost quite so much, and has more storage. An ultraportable macbook pro would be great too.

What I *really* want though, is freakin responsive interfaces. My macbook makes me stop what I'm doing more than any other computer I've owned. It's incredibly annoying. (and in fact, it's made me friendlier towards Windows)

 

I would love a MBP in black to match my 8GB nano.

Tech wise....I want an internal memory card reader. I find that is something I use every day, and I'm tried of carding around a USB device.

 

I don't think the MacBook Pro will have colours, just a guess, but I guess its the "professional model" Mac so it has to be "aluminum silver" just like the Mac Pro.

What would you guys think about a black iMac? I personally think its...awkward.

 

A ThinkPad or Dell Latitude laptop with optional Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

 

I actually really hope they never shrink wrap OS X. It would kill its biggest advantage: a closed system. Windows is a great OS, its biggest problem is compatibility. It needs to run on countless hardware and software configurations and that leads to problems with stability and security.

 

and then you'd run into all the driver issues that Linux does, and people would start to flood this list with sob stories about not being able to read install instructions.

 

It would reduce the price of Apple laptops if other companies made the hardware and Apple made the software. Every computer could run Windows and Mac operating systems. Then again, I think ASUS makes most of the hardware for Apple anyways. Is it a good idea to generate your own competition by letting other companies sell your software on their products? Apple would increase in size if a fraction of HP, Dell and Lenovo products were installed with the Mac operating system.

 

Well software-wise, sure they may see a small increase, but they are already around #4 I believe for hardware sales. They make their money off of hardware, not software. That's why iLife comes with every Mac for free and OS X is only 129, and something like 69 for students. Apple's bread and butter is hardware. The software just makes the hardware more attractive.

 

That makes sense. I am not a fan of Apple's base MacBook Pro because it starts with a 2.13 GHz processor. I think the 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor is good enough for the lowest MacBook Pro model. Apple does this to encourage customers to buy higher model parts than they normally would buy. This creates some problems when a PC user (like me) tries to switch. I do not mind spending a little more on a 2.0 GHz processor, but the 2.13 is just a little too much for me.

 

Well, Apple doesn't want to be a repeat of Microsoft; where they licensed Windows to any company that could pay for it. Now Microsoft is filthy rich, but they have to deal with so many issues with drivers and stuff.

Apple's main priority isn't getting market share. I don't see how licensing Mac OS X to Dell, HP and Lenovo will improve Apple and their products in any way other than making Apple more rich. If they wanted that they would've licensed Mac OS X away long ago; their main priority is making good products, software and hardware-wise, that satisfies the end user.

ASUS makes the Apple MacBook, that's all. That's not "most of the hardware". But ASUS makes great stuff, no doubt .

 

Apple would love to have Microsoft's high net income. All Microsoft has to do is invest a small amount of money into development, call it the improved edition and make lots of money. Right now if you own a business and you need software, you do not have much of a choice. The only company that might have it better is British Petroleum. Do not kid yourself, Apple would love to repeat Microsoft because those issues are much smaller than the enormous profits. Apple is still a business and a business's primary goal is to reach the largest profit possible. Currently Apple makes their largest profit through hardware markup. However, software has a much higher profit for a lower investment.

Worthless trivia time. IBM could have bought the Windows idea, but they thought it was a bad investment. IBM was convinced that hardware was more profitable.

 

Ya wanna bet!!!!
Your not an Apple shareholder are you???

Everything Apple is doing and has done in the last 1 1/2 yrs is purely to gain a bigger piece of the pie.
It was Jan 06 that Apple went to Microsoft and asked them to develop Office for Mac. Do your own research and you will see.
With Apple now having Intel, bootcamp, dedicated windows softwear for mac.... all this is purely to get more mac laptops to the general population.

Steve Jobs is on the verge or retiring due to a class action lawsuit sueing Apple for cheating out shareholders in the second quarter of 2006. Stocks fell to an all time low and it was the ipod that brought them back.

Market analysts are saying in a few years the Apple computer (pc mode) will outsell the osx OS platform.

Its all about market share and sales. And if Apple wants more then they will have no choice but to make the mac conform to PC.

 

Back to the orginal thread idea here is a short list of things I would like to see.
1) An updated airport express, I know they now have the apple tv, but I would really like a device that could except audio streams from more then just itunes...or perhaps the integration of an airport into a set of nice wireless speakers?
2) a smaller lighter macbook or macbook pro.
3) at least and sd card reader integrated into mb and mbp.
4) GPS on the iphone, this is the one thing that will stop me from getting one.
5) I noticed segate has a bluetooth harddrive for phones etc coming to market, perhaps a similar device for the iphone would be nice, or the addition of an sd slot for extra storage.
6) Wireless headphones for the ipod, perhaps something like the new Kleer, tech which seems much better than bluetooth.
And Im sure I will think of more later.
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ok here is another one

7) The ability to remotely/wirelessly control iTunes with the new iPhone or ipod so that I can for eg change song or playlist on my desktop media centre without needing to walk over and do it manually.

 

That's an interesting wish...I can see how wireless headphones would be much more convenient, but the white iPod earphones are also very distinctive and symbolic of the iPod's "cool" factor...as shown in the iPod commercials and elsewhere.

Plus, afterwards people would be talking to you and you wouldn't respond because you can't hear them but they don't know because they don't see the headphone wires, its just those Bluetooth earphone-mics, you think those people are talking to themselves .

 

My wish:

MBP update!!!

LED screen
User accessible HDD, RAM (a la Macbook)
8-bit screen (current ones are only 6 bit!)
S-IPS screen (greater vertical viewing angles)
NO GRAININESS in screen

 

tablet w/
-Santa Rosa
-Solid build quality and good look/design, needs to be very sturdy and have no flex.
-LED back-lit screen with good resolution and viewing angles. (At home I would use the tablet as a dual monitor setup with my large LCD screen)
-Wacom Digitizer
-Modular Bay for battery or slot loading dvd drive
-Lightweight, good battery life, and does not get too hot. (3+ hours minimum @ full brightness, wireless, and light usage, 5+ hours with a modular battery)
-Micro DVI/HDMI port that supports dual-link.

 

I would just like Apple to discover the GPU, that would make me happy.

 

all for the price of a dell inspiron 1501, right?