Posts by No2AreAlike

Apple's iWatch to appear in 2014, will RULE your home – new claim

Re: "what the hell good is it?"

Example: watching TV. Do you have your iPhone in hand? No. But you have an iWatch on your wrist. No need to look for the remote, just touch the watch to pause what's onscreen. Go to another room, touch the iWatch again, and the playback resumes on that TV. Room getting cold? Use the iWatch to turn up the thermostat.

Example: leaving home. If you forget your iPhone, your iWatch lets you know. When the iWatch leaves, the Apple TV gateway alerts all of your linked devices to go into their "away" settings. TV off, lights off, etc.

The point of an iWatch (in my estimation) is that it is a simple, versatile UI that is always with you and can control what's around you. If you need to run an app, use an iPhone or iPad or whatever. But to quickly control your environment with just a touch, use an iWatch.

Apple to uncloak new iPads, iMacs at October 15 event?

A Bigger iPad Would Be A Laptop

A 13-inch iPad or larger would be a laptop or convertible by default. It would be too big and too heavy to hold casually, so it would be used like a laptop whether there was an attached keyboard or not. But with any chip less powerful than the A7, it would not run games or sophisticated productivity apps well.

Apple need not create an iPad Air, just putting an A7X in a 13" iPad would attract both the peripheral makers and software developers to port their Mac OS apps. I would really hoist Microsoft on the horns of a dilemma - support the iPad 13 with Word, Outlook, etc, or miss out on the fastest growing laptop in history. But if they do support it, the Surface is toast. That could take Windows Phone and Windows 8 with it if they can only sell their OS on desktops.

First look: iOS 7 for iPad

iOS on smaller things...

Could it be that iOS 7 is designed for a wider array of products? Whatever you think of skeumorphism, on smaller screens or physical buttons in cars or on remotes, the new icons are going to be more easily recognized. The first-gen apps also look better-suited for much smaller screens like wearable s and remotes.