iPhone OS

[Ashley Aitken]

On 14/01/2007, at 9:19 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 13-Jan-2007, at 16:34, j o a r wrote:
>> Remember when Steve introduced the first LCD iMac? He talked at  
>> length about how _other_ manufacturers faced with trying to make  
>> an all-in-one computer with a flat screen would have just put the  
>> computer behind the screen, but that it was _unnatural_, and that  
>> Apple had come up with the much better "lamp" design...
>
> And he was right.  It was only when they could really put the  
> computer BEHIND the display, instead of using the display as a  
> 'shield' to hide a grey box that they moved tot he G5/intel iMac  
> design. There's nothing inconsistent with what The Steve said about  
> the G4 iMac and the later G5 iMac design.

No, I think this is incorrect.  There was talk about the two designs,  
firstly the iMac with the computer behind the display (G4) that was  
rejected in favour of Steve's sunflower (which I happened to like a  
lot).  When the sunflower didn't sell as well as they had hoped (and  
they couldn't cut the cost of the arm etc) they moved to the all new  
iMac, the original design, which by the time was to be a G5.

>> I also think that the comments about physical keypads was mostly  
>> targeting PDA phones. I think that the tactical feedback of a  
>> physical keyboard is superior to an on-screen keyboard when you  
>> have a simple device with limited functionality and screen size -  
>> like a basic mobile phone.
>
> Depends on how much typing you do.  I personally find the T9 system  
> on my RAZR to be perfectly adequate for what I use it for.

An iPhone nano could use the click-wheel to dial the occasional  
number (like it is used to enter the security code etc.)  Of course  
with fully-integrated contacts, favourites and recents, users could  
mostly dial with the click-wheel (scroll and click).  I personally  
would like an iPhone nano and, given the size of an iPod nano + RAZR  
combined, I think it could be a reasonable size (i.e. still quite  
small).

Cheers,
Ashley.