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Microsoft announced last week a revolutionary “new” interface for computing. I really wanted to comment on it last week, but with a very shortened week, did not find the time to do so. A friend posted a link on his site, reminding me to comment… so, thanks Steve. 🙂
This really looks phenomenal. It’s a real interface. No mouse… no keyboard. You just use your hands. You can even have multiple touch points. It’s fantastic.
And looks A LOT like the iPhone.
When the iPhone was announced (and demoed) in January, Steve Jobs said they had filed LOTS (he said a number, but I forget what it was) of patents for this phone, and that they would be enforcing them vigorously. And after seeing the Surface demo online last week… I can see now why he said that. 🙂
Microsoft claims they have been working on this project for five years. I believe Apple claimed a similar time frame for the iPhone. It will be quite interesting to see what happens here… 🙂
So, if you’d like to check it out… it really does look fantastic. (Link below…) I love the way you can set stuff on top of it and it automatically recognizes it as a device to read or save to! Fantastic.
In related news… Apple announced today that iPhone will be released to the public on June 29th. They also released some ads. Neat stuff.
Technology is pretty cool!
But of course… Apple’s is just a tad better. (And Microsoft is a LOT better at copying it…) 😉
How about a professional opinion:
I love everything about the iPhone except the phone itself. I’m not sure it will be good to talk on while on the move and am fearful of an outrageous AT&T plan.
So here’s my question: are we going to see [soon] a phone-less version of iPhone? Because I would be very interested in that.
I’ve heard rumors of yes and no. Yes, because it would completely kill the Zune and no, because there’s too much invested into the complete iPhone itself.
Thoughts?
Unfortunately, I could hardly be called a cell phone user, so it’s hard to comment on the phone-fulness of the iPhone. But I completely agree… a Wi-Fi enabled iPod like that would be pretty neato!
I do believe Apple will release a 6th generation iPod that is something like that, but not sure of the timing. They’ll probably want iPhone to have a good chunk of time on its own. They are certainly pushing that little device.
Perhaps by Christmas there may be a phone-less iPhone? We’ll see…
I would much rather have a phone less iphone same features minus the phone. Mostly because I hate at&t