DISQUS

7oby · 1 year ago

Watch out, Steve, next he's going to have his daughter write you a letter with the exact same suggestion and make headlines when Apple Legal says "We don't accept outside suggestions" to a kid.

JP · 1 year ago

Tristan is a boy. ;)

Veruca Salt · 1 year ago

GPS on the Touch.

You think I went away. I didn't. That's all that's left to make it a perfect device (until It's on an iPhone that's not shackled to AT&T).

Much Love,
VS

Fake Willy Wonka · 1 year ago

You forgot to say-

"and I want it NOWWWW!"

entropy · 1 year ago

I agree that GPS would be a nice feature on the touch or iphone, but to be frank, it would not make a difference regarding whether or not I would buy it. I doubt I would need it all that often.

Rob · 1 year ago

But, if they really want these location based services to take off, GPS is the only reliable support. Triangulation doesn't work half the time.

lastangelman · 1 year ago

Another reason not to accept ideas from outsiders:they always want a finders fee or a cut of the profits.

Christopher Williamson · 1 year ago

I don't want anything new, I just want to see you 'tards drag portions of your product line into the 21st century, specifically, the MacMini.
Gimme enough VRAM so that I can actually stream HD video off the net instead of suffering with that herky-jerky stuttering crap I'm dealing with now. Gimme a blu-ray drive in it, so I don't have to wait until I'm working on a SONY movie to buy a discounted player (doesn't have to be a burner too, but that'd be nice)

I like being able to sit on the sofa, and jump between the movie I'm watching on my big-ass LCD TV, and the net, and video chat, with my wireless set-up. Or, I WOULD like that, if I could actually do it. Currently, I can't.

I DON'T WANT APPLE TV.

ray · 1 year ago

yeah, and i don't want a smaller mac mini.
for all i care, make it the size of the cube, i.e. double its height.
make room for more ram, a 400gb hd, a blue ray drive, and a graphics card that supports 2 big monitors. and add some fw and usb connectors.
and while you're at it, move the power switch to the front!

peruchito · 1 year ago

i like the idea. please steve, make it for me? i mean it could read pdfs like a magazine, and you just go from page to page like an ipod touch. i'd pay big cash for that. you don't want our big cashes?

Luis · 1 year ago

I've never seen an iPod (from Lima-Perú) but I'd think twice befor buy one if I can't read pdfs or any other common formats.

sabeke · 1 year ago

Hmm, I don't think Adam Engst is "some guy."

Nicholas · 1 year ago

RSJ doesn’t read the emails eh? Bet he does!

M+B · 1 year ago

Bill Gates dancing with his iPod!
http://www.mbfala.com/Jackson/BillGatesipod.html

acap. · 1 year ago

Hobla, you have nice gallery-rooms. My compliment to your light-designer.

acap. · 1 year ago

Maybee the iPod large version would be better than the iBeam standard-device (it beams just up to T-Shirt format; without arms).

topazz · 1 year ago

I love you just the way you are.

Mike Cane · 1 year ago

Fake Steve has a hate on me. Otherwise he would have linked to me me me here: Steve Jobs Is Up To Something. Probably Big.

Thank you, Tidbits, for Ripoff #3.

For The Record: Apple and eBooks

Mr. Strickland · 1 year ago

HELLO, "McFly" (as knuckles rap on your melon-fucking-head like someone knocking on a door)...

Nobody gives a shit about your troll-tard pay attention to me & click on my self-promotional drivel bullshit, you fucking moron!

faddah · 1 year ago

yeah, i was about to go: cue mike cane to say how he has been predicting this for months and all these bastards are stealing his brilliant scoops, plus link to his blog yet again, in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... aw, but he beat me to it.

cane, is your automatic irony meter™ low on its batteries, or something, or do you not get you're acting like the very type of people fsj is talking about in this post?

but thank you for at least not mentioning nader. for that, you get to breathe oxygen, another day.

Mike Cane · 1 year ago

Oh shut up, you two. Commentards are lower than blogtards.

Go Nader. Heathen dogs.

Mike Cane · 1 year ago

Oh yeah, and I'm still miffed that last year he didn't call me a scumbag blogger along with everyone else! (And no, it doesn't count if *you* do that. You're not The Annointed One.)

acap. · 1 year ago

Can you please explain me what a scumbag-blogger is or shall be - if possible in some drifting conclusions?!? or are you totally milfed and melked from the microtards & can't explain it under this circumstances?!?

Glenn Fleishman · 1 year ago

This implies a) we're all reading you, and b) that writing an original composition from one's own ideas, which may happen to have a similarity to other people's ideas means you're ripping someone off.

Since I know Adam well and was privvy to seeing the drafts of the article, "rip off" is inappropriate.

Nick · 1 year ago

Killing the Kindle? No chance. Calacanis mentioned the other day that the SDK will cause all sorts of problems for Apple. Imagine if Amazon come to Apple and say that they've developed an app to run on an iPhone to sell Non DRM high quality MP3s cheaper than iTunes sells them? Will Apple sit there and say "Yeah sure" or try and block it and face the legal reprocussions?
Best bet is to forget about the Kindle, as I'm sure that Joe Public will have forgotten about it in a very short time. After all, it's US only isn't it?

fred · 1 year ago

It's like people telling writers their great ideas for stories, like every story permutation hasn't already been written. Ideas are cheap, chumps. I'd guess people at Apple chew up and spit out dozens, hundreds of ideas every day. Execution is what matters.

Nick in MB · 1 year ago

keep them waiting I say.

Ed Anger · 1 year ago

Jeez. Adam (I am SO FARCKING BRILLIANT!) Enggssssgsstttt is at it again. If he was sooooo farking smart, why not create the software himself? Why he's falling all over himself about the Kindle is beyond me. With all its knobs and buttons and a clunky design, it's a failure out of the gate. Funny. Every book I've ever read has never had all that. And that's what makes a book so timeless.

I've learned that just about anything that has been done with hardware can be recreated in software. There was once a time when a video editor's room was full of boxes, sliders and knobs. Now it's all on the screen. The same is true for an engineer in a recording studio. So why should reading an electronic book be any different? If you can watch a movie on an iPhone or iPod, why can you not read a book? All it will take is software.

So instead of whining like he always does (which is why I gave up reading TidBits a long, long time ago), why not turn his infantile frustrations into ideas, and ACTUALLY do something? Instead of yet another "Apple should do this, and Apple should do that, Apple should buy this company, and Apple should buy that company" diatribe, STFU. It's pointless. Apple will do what it damn well pleases, and do what's best for its investors, who own the company. Adam Enggggnsstststtttt can go to the back of the line.

So here's a hot tip, Adam, you frigtard: invent something. Don't just complain, but create software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. THAT is how to solve problems. If you ever wondered why Steve Jobs is where he is, it's because instead of whining, he DID something about it.

Oh, and to that bozo couch potato who posted here complaining about getting faster HD streams and BlueRay so he can sit on his ass and stuff more Krispy Kreme doughnuts down his pie hole and watch high-def porn, STFU, you frigtard. It's coming, already. Jeez. You guys make my head hurt.

Glenn Fleishman · 1 year ago

That's a lot of anger you have there, Ed. I guess the name carries it all. Apple, in fact, listens to its customers, and makes changes to its hardware and software based on what they hear, despite their statement that they create everything out of whole cloth. They just don't ACKNOWLEDGE these contributions.

Mike Cane · 1 year ago

>>>Why he's falling all over himself about the Kindle is beyond me. With all its knobs and buttons and a clunky design, it's a failure out of the gate. Funny. Every book I've ever read has never had all that. And that's what makes a book so timeless.

Oh Christ. I think my appendix died!!

Grim · 1 year ago

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Glenn Fleishman · 1 year ago

I've often thought Apple products have a dream-like quality, along with the morning-after syndrome that comes when you wake up next to it, and aren't sure it's as pretty as it was in your dream.

Ryan · 1 year ago

This would also provide room for a full sized easier to use touch keyboard.

I'm sure it's already been finished, they're just waiting for the right time.

mdwychoff · 1 year ago

Hmm. A larger version of the iPod?

What's NeXT?

iCoffeetable, so we can browse all those beautiful coffee table photo volumes we create with iPhoto?

The Beastmaster MicroTurds have already demonstrated the Windows VisTable concept, or as it's better known by it's Codename, the BTOD (Blue Table Of Death).

Mike Cane · 1 year ago

>>>iCoffeetable

Come on! Apple doesn't go for cheap products.

Haven't you heard the leaks about the iPool and its Liquid interface?

acap. · 1 year ago

I've heard from, but never used, and never apendixed on a laughing coffeetable.

acap. · 1 year ago

blue table of dead old green dollar?!?

LKM · 1 year ago

I don't think Jobs would call the second most powerful person in the Mac market "this guy."

Zo · 1 year ago

Classic. When the time is right, I'll be wanting one. You fanastic snot, you.

steveballmer · 1 year ago

I'll tell you what I would like for you to do .....


http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Osiris Geronimo · 1 year ago

Hola Steve,

Te escribo en español, porque hay otras personas en el mundo deseosas de utilizar tus productos que por alguna razon u otra(el precio) no podemos especialmente en pais subdesarrollados como el mio, donde una MacBook Pro, es el salario minimo de año.

Creo debemos decirte que hacer porque has demostrado con exito, que las tuyas, lo que no logro entender si tienes productos para conquistar la mayor parte del mercado no lo tienes, eso dejaria mas beneficios al final.

Porque el Mac X, no esta en todas parte como una opcion, porque no

oakling · 1 year ago

I'm waiting for Apple to start their own publishing company and announce that they've recreated the Kindle in a cheaper, more portable, easier-to-read, totally recyclable format.