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The Godfather · 05:52 PM

What will come first?

Bonafide mini-iOS watch
i7 MBA with Touch
Touch less iPad
OSXI Nyancat with with common source code between desktops and iDevices or at least compatibility.
AppleTV with video hub and Facetime

I wanted to make this a poll, that is why you may not see these options until now.

BLAZE_MkIV · Nov 15, 2011, 05:46 PM

The egg.

Shaddim · Nov 15, 2011, 06:15 PM

Apple branded HDTV running iOS, 802.11n, DLNA support, App store access, and iPod Touch style remote. It'll be amazing, wonderful, stupendous...

... however, it'll only have HDMI ports and it won't be HDCP compliant, so you can't connect a "legal" Blu-ray player.

design219 · Nov 15, 2011, 07:27 PM

This is kind of tough, because the big things from Apple are things we don't know we need yet.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 15, 2011, 08:24 PM

It'll be this thing: *Rare* Original APPLE TV PIPPEN Prototype Circa 1995 | eBay

BLAZE_MkIV · Nov 15, 2011, 08:29 PM

You mean besides Siri? Real voice controls for the computer is the next consumer electronics interface revolution. There area allot of ways to leverage that, home automation, roaming profiles based on voice match. No need for UI controls just 100% content on screen, no arm fatigue like a vertical touch screen. Zero learning curve. When they publish api's to integrate your service with Siri, "Siri get me Oprahs' book of the month."

Uncle Skeleton · Nov 15, 2011, 09:15 PM

Voice control is a non-starter IMO, because it makes computing as annoying as talking on a cell phone (to anyone nearby). Yecch.

I have a few ideas for what I hope the next big thing is, and if it's anything short of this I will be severely disappoint

lpkmckenna · Nov 15, 2011, 09:57 PM

There is a 15" MacBook Air coming soon, and Apple is gonna assault the airwaves with commercials. It will sell like crazy, while the other PC makers are still trying to get their "ultrabooks" into the market.

besson3c · Nov 15, 2011, 10:26 PM

I hope Apple gives us some new label colors for the Finder, cause I'm getting really tired of the existing set.

olePigeon · Nov 15, 2011, 10:43 PM

MacBook Duo. iPad that docks and becomes an OS X desktop.

jmiddel · Nov 16, 2011, 02:54 AM

The latter would require total iOS and OS integration, or not?

brassplayersrock² · Nov 16, 2011, 03:48 AM

I would like it if Apple somehow setup wifi towers all over the world so that phone calls would be free, and everyone would have wifi wherever they went, including during plane rides.

Spheric Harlot · Nov 16, 2011, 04:03 AM

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton

Voice control is a non-starter IMO, because it makes computing as annoying as talking on a cell phone (to anyone nearby). Yecch.

I have a few ideas for what I hope the next big thing is, and if it's anything short of this I will be severely disappoint

Carrie Fisher?

Well, I guess it's a follow-up to Jeff Goldblum...

Sealobo · Nov 16, 2011, 05:51 AM

"Apple is a mobile company."

an Apple TV set is not mobile.

i don't know.

Apple should make electric cars.

Waragainstsleep · Nov 16, 2011, 06:26 AM

An Apple car stereo would be awesome.

OreoCookie · Nov 16, 2011, 07:55 AM

The next big product will be called iResurrect Steve Jobs. All they have to do is tune the reality distortion field strengths just right …

Hawkeye_a · Nov 16, 2011, 08:29 AM

Television.

1. A recent study found that for the first time, most of the video consumed was delivered online.
2. iTunes movie/TV shows + iCloud
3. iOS

I'm almost certain this will be the next big thing, the next category that gets redefined, Guy Kawasaki(among others) have also hinted it.

mattyb · Nov 16, 2011, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

I would like it if Apple somehow setup wifi towers all over the world so that phone calls would be free

Free? Apple?

olePigeon · Nov 16, 2011, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by jmiddel

The latter would require total iOS and OS integration, or not?

Possibly. Sure would be neat, in my opinion. You essentially detach the display from your MacBook Pro and it becomes an iPad. Connect it to the base and it's a full laptop.

angelmb · Nov 16, 2011, 04:11 PM

Kind of the Motorola Atrix 4G ? It is now being sold at the bargain price of one penny on Amazon.com

olePigeon · Nov 16, 2011, 06:06 PM

I was thinking more like the Transformer, but implemented correctly. My friend just about broke his because he keeps forgetting it's doesn't actually fold close, you have to take it out then snap it in. Nice idea, but poorly executed. Apple can do it better.

Athens · Nov 16, 2011, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by The Godfather

What will come first?

Bonafide mini-iOS watch
i7 MBA with Touch
Touch less iPad
OSXI Nyancat with with common source code between desktops and iDevices or at least compatibility.
AppleTV with video hub and Facetime

I wanted to make this a poll, that is why you may not see these options until now.

Bonafide mini-iOS watch (Doubt it but not something I would rule out)

i7 MBA with Touch (Never)

Touch less iPad (Doubt it, but Siri could make any iPad into something you mostly interact with via voice.)

OSXI Nyancat with with common source code between desktops and iDevices or at least compatibility. (Possible)

AppleTV with video hub and Facetime (Good chance on the Facetime, though I suspect it would be AppleTV integrated into a TV itself with a camera)

Salty · Nov 17, 2011, 01:50 AM

Apple's really a digital lifestyle company. The Mac is no longer the centre of the digital hub, it's now iCloud. The fact is that Apple's new product matrix is no longer consumer/pro/desktop/laptop now it's portable, hand held, and ultra portable.(MacBook, iPad and iPhone respectively the iPod touch being the budget iPhone)

Now it's less about what types of customers, but with those same consumers where they interaction with technology and where it could help them. At this point with the iPad Apple is now more than ever in the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room, etc.

With that said, I think one of the last major product categories we'll see is the TV by Apple which hopefully won't be called Apple TV. The question is what level of hardware can Apple build into a display that won't feel dated in a few years? This product is going to need to have the longevity of something like a console or more.

I could see Apple getting into the car deck market but I think that's a saturated market where they're going to want to compete because changing anything with a car is too big of a pain.

I also think you're going to see some sort of way to bring Siri up in either X.7.5 or X.8. I think Siri is going to be almost as revolutionary as iOS in general. I think Apple's going to find a lot of uses for it. Especially when they figure out ways to make it do even more. Imagine asking Siri when the bus is coming and having it use the geolocation to figure out what city you're in and figure out when the next bus is coming so you don't have to use a site to figure it out? Siri works well because a lot of the things you can ask it to do are the sort of things that actually do take work to figure out.

freudling · Nov 17, 2011, 02:34 AM

Apple TV. It'll be the centre of home. Siri, iCloud, App Store, Apple TV with movie, music, and TV streams. AIrplay...

Nov 17, 2011, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by The Godfather

OSXI Nyancat with with common source code between desktops and iDevices or at least compatibility.

Never going to happen. AppKit is for keyboard/mouse driven interfaces. UIKit is for touch-based interfaces.

However, Foundation is already common between iOS and MacOS. So there you go.

The Final Dakar · Nov 17, 2011, 01:29 PM

The next HUGE thing from Apple Inc

Probably the corporate headquarters.

BLAZE_MkIV · Nov 17, 2011, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by hayesk

Never going to happen. AppKit is for keyboard/mouse driven interfaces. UIKit is for touch-based interfaces.

However, Foundation is already common between iOS and MacOS. So there you go.

Yeah but you could leverage Fast User Switching or Spaces to switch between AppKit and UIKit and if the apps were persisting state they could even synchronize. Example all your open safari tabs would transfer as you docked / undocked. I just don't think mobile devices have the performance to run the desktop UI when they do this could work out well.

Nov 17, 2011, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV

Yeah but you could leverage Fast User Switching or Spaces to switch between AppKit and UIKit and if the apps were persisting state they could even synchronize. Example all your open safari tabs would transfer as you docked / undocked. I just don't think mobile devices have the performance to run the desktop UI when they do this could work out well.

There's nothing stopping developers from transferring state such as open tabs, etc. between the desktop and mobile device today. You don't need a common interface framework for that. But yeah, Apple could build some of that in I suppose - but it doesn't require a common framework to do so.