Comments on: Apple’s Plans Should Be Clear: High-End iPhones and Global Positioning

By: John Koivukangas

John Koivukangas — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:16:38 +0000

Thank you for the latest in a recent series of down-to-earth guestimates of Apple strategy. As a medical doctor, I would need an iPhone (cell, WiMax, touch screen etc.) with enough memory and GPU to handle not only phone, PDA and internet functions, but actual hospital information spread over the many huge databases, integrated in a revolutionary way. Of course, a good GUI has been missing. Enter: Onesys Navigator, which I helped into this world, recently released here in the US. Most IT companies are run by individuals with, fortunately, no immediate and personal health concerns and health care delivery experiences. This means that hospitals are the last things on their minds. Maybe Apple will finally provide us with what is needed: a real-world mobile device for the health care vertical market. It is ready. There would be lots of partners and 700,000 physicians in the US alone. So power to the high-end iPhone and all the best from one innovator to another!

By: shimon

shimon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:04:03 +0000

I like the firm point on NO iphone nano. I think it would be a really horrible product, not to mention so niche and so cheap. I just got worried when it seemed like Apple was focusing so much effort on that. I’m glad they aren’t.

By: nico

nico — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:29:49 +0000

@Michael: Are you building an app that would need this? If so, what in gods name could you need this for?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:02:15 +0000

Well I’m not dying for copy&paste, but I do wish Apple would add and enhance data detectors to cocoa touch. This alone would solve most people’s needs.

By: Aviv

Aviv — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:57:55 +0000

@Ryan: I like your style.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:05:06 +0000

Thank you for correctly stating the functionality as “copy-and-paste” instead of the less correct “cut-and-paste”. This has been bugging me with many other sites. The copy is what we’re all dying for; cut would be gravy.

Minor details I know…

By: jojo22

jojo22 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:51:05 +0000

A smaller iPhone would be a really awful product. Only high school chicks would buy that device.

By: GB3

GB3 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:16:41 +0000

I don’t know about a completely touch tablet anyways. Productivity is just weird because it would be touch. That would just be weird. If it were mote than $350 it would be really weird.

By: Aviv

Aviv — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:10:07 +0000

@Elvin: I probably wouldn’t buy either LOL But I would buy a bigger, better, faster iPhone.

By: Elvin

Elvin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:01:58 +0000

First of all. I would buy an iPhone nano. Second of all. I would but an Apple netbook. But I am an Apple craved lunatic… So, I don’t count.