Comments on: iPhone Desktop: Unleash the Leopard in Your Pocket. $299.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:27:36 +0000

of course this is upcoming, but we are impatient for it to happen. Apple won’t do it I think, as they have too much time and money wrapped up in selling computers themselves and would shoot themselves in the foot doing this. So some start-up will need to do it first….

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:23:25 +0000

Very good article. Thanks for the good information!.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:36:05 +0000

But don’t forget according to Apple’s iPhone SDK guidelines you won’t be able to run any applications in the background ;-)

By: Jean-Cédric

Jean-Cédric — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:47:50 +0000

Interesting. Let’s push it slightly further. If Apple can squeeze a Mac into an iPhone, they would most probably soon be able to embed a small beamer in its back (they keep shrinking in size lately, don’t they) and a laser beam projected keyboard in the front (widely available today). Get your iPhone standing on flat surface and you then get the keyboard & mouse pad drawn on the table while the iPhone projects its screen against a vertical surface, be it a wall or a sheet of paper… Magic, isn’t it ?

There are hurdles to overcome (batteries, brightness,….) but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it appearing in this form as the ultimate portable device … even bringing the iPhone Desktop concept to rapidly become legacy…

Just my 2 (euro) cents :-)

By: Phillip H. Blanton

Phillip H. Blanton — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:46:28 +0000

I’d want the iPhone to slide in only about a half-inch, so I could use the iPhone screen as a second - albeit small - monitor. Wven though it is small compared to the normal monitor, it’d be a nice place to run system widgets, streaming video, etc…

Certainly there is no sense in wasting the iPhone’s display space by sinking the phone all the way in.

By: AF

AF — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:52:21 +0000

ARRGH. I hate wordpress. This is the link I was trying to post:

http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/new_apple_docking_patent_app_portable_sliding_into_side_of_display_imac/

By: AF

AF — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:50:29 +0000

Gnarly: Apple already has filed patents for . This is where the author’s post is coming from, even though he’s not citing his sources. It was all over the mac rumor sites in January.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:44:08 +0000

Since axosoft doesn’t support the mac, why should we care what this guy says?

By: gnarly

gnarly — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:30:36 +0000

dude i seriously think this idea should be submitted to apple. it seems totally plausible and that they should put some focus on this concept.

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