Tag: apple

apple, making more pie… tablet, anyone ?

we all know that reading is dope, but is apple going to transform the reading experience and reignite the fireeeee??? (read fire, with excitement dot dot dot)

so… now that we been waiting since year zero for something like this. apple took their time to slow bake this pie, and make sure its fully roasted before giving us a peek, just so you can drool some more. yes, the technology has been around for some time, but no one yet did master the business model to make it work.

in typical fashion, apple is about to say yes or no on it tomorrow. lets keep our pretty fingers crossed, hope that the fairy tale continues, and watch stevie & co. pull another rabbit out the hat. hopefully apple delivers the scratch …

meanwhile, gizmodo has the geek team on standby (they must be real itchy by now):

“The Apple tablet could change everything. That’s what people are hoping for, revolution. But revolutions don’t actually happen overnight, especially if you’re talking about turning around an entire diseased, lumbering industry, like publishing.”

… linky linky : (Pondering The) Apple Tablet’s Print Revolution

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(Pondering The) Apple Tablet’s Print Revolution

iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste (but no background apps)

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Digg’s Kevin Rose … just drove the nerds of SXSWi crazy with his latest gaze into the crystal ball:
he says the iPhone 3.0 will have copy and paste.

While these predictions may be true, we will have to wait untill the apple press release for the full feature set. The Apple press conference coming up tomorrow, Tuesday March 17 2009

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future

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The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive.

What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design.

That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the ’50s and ’60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:

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via: Gizmodo

note: on BRAUN DESIGN LANGUAGE please check in our March 2009 archive,  for another video with Dieter Rams explaining design language and his work at BRAUN