Jobs Is Back. The iPhone 3GS Is A Hit. What’s Next?

ecliptic said:

Here’s a growing niche that needs filled:  Liberty computing and communications.

What I want is total privacy. Absolute, get the government out of my life privacy.

Boycott Google YouTube MySpace Facebook Yahoo - because they are spying data-mining scumbags.

Imagine you have a business ... and instead of trying to please your customers ... you are deliberately undermining their privacy and selling their personal info as a side business.

Is that any way to treat your valued customers?

Instead -  use cuil or ixquick for your searches, try vimeo or blip.tv for video… create your own private group on .ning for social networking ... check out infrowars.tv or WideEyeCinema.com for movies that matter ... and boycott any web business that spies on you. Microsoft comes to mind ... ( NSA backdoor access anyone? )

Total privacy IS possible and it is the future of the web ( and every other business as well ).

I’d like an iPhone that makes spying a lot more difficult for AT&T\NSA ...

I’d like an iPhone case that is a “tin foil hat” ... blocking all signals completely.

I’d like a laptop that is really secure, with secure access to the web and “anonymizer” layers that make government snooping a lost cause.

Down with snitches and snoops!

RKW said:

No tablet here. I want real, honest to goodness hardware KEYS! Having a touch screen along with hardware keys works for me though:)

Art said:

I would pay a few hundy for an iPod touch on steroids. It’s fine for casual use and I bought one and had fun for a while. But I can’t type on it very well and it’s just…...... too small. I need something bigger. Something bigger than an iPod touch and smaller than a notebook. And yes, it should run OS X but also be able to run all the apps in the app store. And hey, while we’re at it, why can’t we run those same apps on our Macs?

That’s my near term wish list that I think will come to pass. In the far out future, I hope to see solid state computing. No moving parts. New battery technology that lasts a lot longer. Far better screens and new levels of integration with all the doodads that make our lives crappier but more mobile.

Jared B. said:

I can’t buy any new Apple products. Steve Jobs has all my money.

Ruudie said:

Don’t you see? The Macbook Pro’s will be renamed - good idea to start speculating on a name right now. Because the next big thing…. tada… will be a true macBOOK. Read a downloaded novel, a paper, a magazine, watch a movie, a musiclip, youtube, read your mail, watch the newssites… All on a handy, good looking, probably booksized device, with a specifically new type of screen, that will make reading text for more than five minutes perfectly possible. The WHOLE newspaperbusiness is eagerly waiting to jump the wagon - they need it to survive. Imagine: download your newspaper via itunes everymorning before you leave the house. Cheaper, and no waste! I think that only Apple has the creativity to pull it of.

iPhone Phil said:

Maybe we should ask a different question. Does anyone really need a device that sits between an iPhone and a MacBook laptop? Er, a notebook.

For serious mobile computing, you gotta take your Mac notebook, right? For casual mobile computing, the iPhone is just fine… even the iPod touch.

Is anyone who already owns an iPhone/iPod and a MacBook going to buy yet another Mac, a tablet, and spend $800?

Tucker M. said:

That’s a good review of Apple’s past 10 years. What about the next 10 years?

More Macs, more iPhones, more of OS X, more of Apple selling stuff online, whether music, TV shows, movies, or apps and games, it’s still the Apple of today.

What’s new and different and better?

Sunglasses with a wireless Mac screen that’s thought controlled?

Twitter by blinking?

steverino said:

Let me see if I understand you. The next great thing will be… a Mac?

Didn’t we do the next great thing 25 years ago already?

If you’re talking about a tablet Mac that’s very small, underpowered, overpolished, and too expensive, well, you’re probably spot on.