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CNN: Apple promises "breakthrough" product

updated 04:00 pm EST, Wed December 19, 2001

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CNN reports that Steve Jobs will unveil a new consumer product that is "innovative, revolutionary, and different" at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco on January 7.

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First Post!

Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man!

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What's next?

We have music. Photos or movies are left. I wonder what it might be. I would not have called the iPod revolutionary, did Apple? I don't think they did, either, but the media just was CERTAIN it would be.

Maybe this time it /is/ revolutionary?

(And the iPod does rock, but it didn't change the world.)

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Or...

Will it be a new iMac? Hmm. Probably the iMac/Cube hybrid we heard of a long time ago.

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Oh no...

God forbid, another innovation from Apple ;)

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I think

Everything from Apple is innovative. So what? ;-)

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not CNN

Technically, this is being reported by PCWorld, not CNN.

Sorry to be picky.

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Lemme guess...

I say it's... a flat-panel iMac!

Ok, what do I win?

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I know...

It's the G5 Cube! Ha ha ha ha...

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spousal justification

What I want to know is does it have some feature my wife will want...? If not.. I won't be getting one.

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turn the hype machine...

...up to ELEVEN!!!

Jobs is trying to create Son of Ginger, by the sound of it. ;-)

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Spank me. I'm excited!

I'm soooo excited about this year's MWSF. Whether or not things are "revolutionary" remains to be seen, but we have a good shot some pretty darn good things. There are so many products that are ripe for an update not to mention OS X 10.5 (hopefully).. I'll be glued to my monitor the whole day.. It feels like an alignment of Apple planets around the "Sun King".....or something.

So without further ado....Spank me now!

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Overhyped

We're talking about a DUTCH press invitation here...if any of you would know how completely ignorant the people working there (here, for me) for apple are, you'd know that we can probably expect something like a new color for the iMac.

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imac

everyone already knows that its a flat panel iMac, probably with gigawire, and you can dock other peripherals with it, or pull off the flat panel and use it like a tablet and dock it to the iMac. Something along those lines anyways.... It'll be cool.
Its gotta be better than "Ginger" or IT, while the technology of it is great, what its used for is ho hum. A scooter is a scooter, no amount of technology is going to change that.

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Re: Not CNN

Um, the link takes me to an article on CNN. Techically, you are wrong so no, you're not really picky if you're wrong.

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Re: hype

Love it! Another scooter! This time with an iMac installed!

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re:Spank me. I'm excited

where does the line form for spanking you?

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Re: spousal justification

LOL! Amen, brother! I feel your pain. ;)

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re: Not CNN

-- Um, the link takes me to an article on CNN. Techically, you are wrong so no, you're not really picky if you're wrong.--

Hey, lets start looking around a bit. Look just above the article "From PC World" ... now take that foot out of your mouth. Here's the original story from PC World:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,76263,00.asp

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I heard it's a...

...G5 with a flexible-membrane organic display that you can "stick" anywhere and has touch sensitive and handwriting recognition capabilities. Becuase the display is detachable and wireless you can throw the membrane on a wall and watch movies!

What a wicked web we weave...

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iMac

Sorry to say, but slapping an LCD on an iMac is NOT revolutionary. It better be more than just that, otherwise, people will tune Apple/Steve Jobs out the next time he has another "revolutionary" product.

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price

will the price be revolutionary like the imacs was so as to sell like hot cakes? i wonder......

berserk, i hope

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seen it!!

i've seen it!
it's a titanium quadra, with a 10" b&w monitor...
and a new slogan, "Think Careful".
guess the message is to slow down a little.
whew! and a bundle deal at $299. U.S.

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it's a digital

camera. they're coming out with series of digital devices.

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Here comes the whining!

First of all, "revolutionary" is a translation, and I'm guessing not a very good one.

People are getting all hyped up again, and if this thing doesn't cure cancer while cooking an omelet and cost $299, people are going freak again.

Geez people, stop taking these "hints" and "predictions" so literal. Whatever it is, some people will like it, and some won't. Steve Jobs has not been put on this earth to cater to your specific needs.

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OH YES HE HAS

I want my dual 2.8Ghz iBook G5 at 999, 899 edu discounted by jan 7 or I'm gonna, I'm gonna... well I'm gonna, so there!

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New generation of Newton!

hmmmmmmm with revoultionary OS (mac os x!) and Apple would be the first to come out and shipping it before Handspring ever did with Treo!!

:-)

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I know!

It's a Segway with an iMac built into the handle! And the iMac is powered by cold fusion! But unfortunately for the rest of the world, you can't use the c/f generator for anything else other than the iMac or it will void the warranty. ;-)

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Quicktake

Apple used to have a digital camera, the Quicktake. One of the first.

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Beam me up, Steve!

It's a personal Transporter device based on Star Trek. No more planes trains and autos for personal transportation. Yeah!!!!!!

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iPhoto

I say it's the iPhoto blurb finally materializing.

:-P

As for the 'oh god, not another innovative product...' comment, there's supposed to be a little {/sarcasm} thing there. Whoops ^^:;

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its an iMac and more

It's a iMac that has a flat panel that detaches and becomes a tablet PC, using memory built in the LCD display, it can hold up to 500 MB of data. When your done, you dock it to the base of the iMac and it syncs up the data to the hard drive automatically. The screen is a touch screen lcd, with some voice recognition capabilites for letter writing etc. All for $999.99.

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reliable source....

I heard form a very reliable source that it has something to do with the ecumenical hamster

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Spy Photos

From what I understand, it's still an iMac, BUT! get this: dual processsor - and it goes waaaaay beyond using a mere LCD display - see here:

http://users.ntplx.net/~jpellino/seedifferent.jpg

Rollout date was pushed up from 4/1/02 to MWSF contingent on getting enough units.

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Price

Whatever it is, one thing is for certain: it'll be priced higher than similar (yet inferior) products - and there will be endless whining about it being too expensive to compete in the market!

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aliteration

someone said
what a wicked web we weave

I like the aliteration...thanks :)

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quick take camera

actually apple invented the digital camera

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re: quicktake

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldigitalcamera.htm

In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

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Dummies.

It's an iShirt.

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small thing

I hope it's another really small thing, like the iPod, but you record movies either with a built in lense or through a cable. Hardware mpeg4 compression in realtime... all with the same harddrive as in the iPod and a built-in screen so that you can view the content directly.

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no way

it's an iDick: smaller, faster and much more aesthetically pleasing.

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Cry wolf

Cry revolution one more time and I'll turn away....

at least lord of the rings lived up to it's hype...

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Right on Brotha!

Lord of the Rings frikken rocked! The Uruk Hai are so bad a**!

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ONLY a flat-panel iMac...

No tablet, blah, blah, blah. Think same prices as current iMacs (or slightly higher), slightly better specs and a flat screen instead of a CRT. That is all.

Their use of the word "revolutionary" is not for us. It's for Joe A. Consumer. You know, the guy who will go, "Hey! That screen is flat! Wow!" Apple doesn't (and shouldn't) care what we fanatics think is "revolutionary" when it words it press releases.

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meh?

ohhh noooess! not another revolutionary breakthrough!

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apple.nl

I'll bet the people in Bunnik (Apple Benelux HQ) cringe each time their creatively worded invitation appears in these stories. Even CNN now!

I know these people, I used to work there. Please don't read too much into it, it is not like the iPod invite, which was carefully planned. This is probably some incapable PR person (named Margriet :)

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I know what it is...

It's a monkey slapper that everyone can use when working on your new cpu late at night. It will be revolutionary in all aspects as it will be powered via usb and come with a lite version of the g4...

I can't wait!

Now this is living in a digital hub!

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Re. apple.nl

No, the bumbling PR person is named Edina Monsoon. I know her very well, she's totally incompetent, drinks smokes like a banshee and loves to party with her alcoholic friend Patsy.

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Bunnik is SO clueless!

I agree with the other poster's assessment of Apple Benelux - if it weren't for the Mac-faithful, I bet that group would single-handedly kill Apple in Europe. They couldn't even tell me WHERE to find OS X when it came out...(and I don't even want to talk about 10.1 in September....they only seem capable of setting up FCP expo shows...)

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the new device is

an iMac, with 15" flatscreen. What makes it revolutionary is the dockable iWalk that comes with it. Using OSX2GO, this palm sized pad has a colour touch screen, video camera, and 128MB RAM. When docked with iMac it functions as a webcam, and synchronises it's data automatically.

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