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Apple Patent Points To iMac Touch Running OS X and iOS 239

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @09:37AM
from the because-they-can dept.

siliconbits noted an interesting little tale of a recently surfaced Apple Patent covering an iMac Touch with a flex base that switches from iOS to OS X based on orientation. There's some interesting food for thought in there ... I can't decide if I like the idea or not.

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Re:i guess apple hasn't learned from MS and IBM (Score:3, Funny)

by Rogerborg (306625) writes: on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @09:57AM (#33355368) Homepage

You're comparing apples to car analogies. Microsoft and IBM both represent(ed) the default provider, the one you had to find an excuse to switch away from. Apple's customers are almost entirely voluntary.
Put it this way, when Ballmer said "Vista is just fine - you're using it wrong", a preponderance of Windows users said "Noooo, no, I don't think so. I'll stick with XP or wait for 7". But when Steve said "You're holding it wrong", the preponderance of iPhone 4 owners said "Yes! YES! I am holding it wrong! It's my fault! Thank you sir, may I have another?"

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Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @10:30AM (#33355906)

Tables have been around for 20 years
I'm pretty sure they're older than that...

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Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:2, Funny)

by BrokenHalo (565198) writes: on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @11:20AM (#33356676)

You are obviously too young to remember how we used to rest our beer glasses and coffee mugs in mid-air with nothing more than casual use of the power of our minds. The invention of these "table" things just made the activity obsolete.

Now get off my lawn. :-D

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