Future Apple Hardware? Four Outrageous Prototypes Revealed!
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Eighteen months. It’s been 18 long months since Apple last released a game-changing piece of hardware, a product that reinvented a category and captured our imaginations, provoking eyes agoogly and jaws agape. That product was, of course, the original iPhone, a smart phone that could have been aptly named iPhone SG--iPhone Sui Generis--for it truly belonged in a class by itself.
But can any product release since the iPhone be considered an indisputable game-changer? The MacBook Air--slim of profile, portly of charm--came close. However, once you come down from the high of marveling at its aesthetics, the Air is still a rather prosaic notebook from a functionality standpoint. A changer of games it is not.
And so we’re left to wonder what comes next. It’s been 18 months, and an Applequake is due. Just three months ago, we were anticipating a new form of MacBook, something of the nano or touch persuasion, remarkable for its small size or novel user interface. But that MacBook never emerged, and its rumored code name, the “brick,” turned out to be a reference to a new manufacturing process, not a game-changing product, in and of itself. Well, we’re still smitten by this whole brick concept, so to satisfy our curiosities, we conjectured, spec’d, and illustrated how this notebook could take shape. And then we went further, designing three more game-changing fauxtotypes that could maybe, possibly, conceivably find a home in the Apple product universe.
Is it presumptuous to think our ideas could ever pass the muster of Apple’s design team? Most certainly, yes. We’re not privy to any official, codified design briefs (which surely must be the most fascinating design documents of the 21st century), and we’re not handcuffed by the limits of technology, economy, legality, and all the other factors that stop wild ideas at the cocktail-napkin stage. Nonetheless, it’s because we’re so entirely inspired by Apple design that we’re compelled to play along. The following four products are just fanciful “what ifs” to explore and hypothesize while we wait for the real game-changers to emerge.
Check out our first prototype, the triBook. More screen real estate than you can shake a stick at.
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So, I noticed that 50% of the comments deny the existence of any of these products and 50% are all thumbs up.
I can tell you all right now, Apple does have these prototypes and they do work.
I have the proviledge of knowing someone working for the R&D department at Apple. Through this individual, I was able to see these prototypes.
The tribook is amazing....they are planning on making some changes to it before releasing it, but you can definitely count on seeing these hitting retail stores with-in the next 3 to 4 years.
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January 25, 2009 at 12:56pm
Seriously... who wouldnt love the compactness of this "netbook"?
One open you can then have additional real estate in an instant without sacrificing resolution. watch blu ray and play widescreen FPS games...now this is the "WOW FACTOR"
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January 20, 2009 at 2:57pm
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December 27, 2008 at 7:49am
As these products were presented I believed them to be real prototypes. The iCom is by far one of the most intriguing concepts I have ever come across. What makes it so convincing as a true prototype is that it is such a typical Mac design. I'm putting this product on watch. As soon as something like this is put into production - whether it be in 12 months or 12 years - there will be one on my nightstand.
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December 02, 2008 at 6:34pm
Hello applefreak72,It seems that Apple can indeed make a silk purse out of a sows' ear. I have been selling the MacBook Air, light, sexy, under powered, over priced with a perception of weakness in the shell and that, "I am afraid I'm going to break it feeling." If folks will spend $2,700 for a 17" MacBook Pro - What would they pay for a triBook? The iCom is a real winner, I can see a number of those devices in every home... Well done to Jon Phillips and Adam Benton. Imaginative and fun...
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December 02, 2008 at 3:43pm
while these products most likely won't become a reality, its nice to dream. i think it would be great to have any of these products. especially the tri-book and icom.
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December 02, 2008 at 12:52pm
The problem with the triBook is that the screen's obnoxiously wide. Not only will it annoy people nearby, but imagine some guy accidentally elbowing a screen off...
Also it looks kinda ugly and there's too much bezel between the screens.
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December 02, 2008 at 9:40am
Maybe we overestimated our audience's familiarity with Apple and its practices? Because with all due respect, it's well established that Apple doesn't share *any* prototypes with anyone, ever, let alone "outrageous" ones. Regardless, I apologize for the confusion.
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