Your Next Laptop May Not Be a MacBook Air, But It Will Probably Look Like One

Once again, Apple leads the rest of the world follows. Imagine what the world would be like if we had 3 or 4 Apples in different industries…

Just another step in the 40+ year progression of smaller, faster lighter computing enabled by Moore’s law. Better not blink though – with Windows 8 rumored to be only 12 months away your next PC may actually be your smartphone when docked driving a big screen and a keyboard.

“. Imagine what the world would be like if we had 3 or 4 Apples in different industries..”

We’d live in a world full of proprietary things that aren’t easily expandable and require you to live by the rules set forth by Apple as gospel.

And yet somehow the Mac is the only name-brand PC that ships with an open HTML5 browser, and the only one that ships with open source software (over 200 projects, including a full Unix and full Web stack), and Apple’s WebKit open source browser engine is used by Google and HP and Nokia and RIM and many others, and the Web was created with Apple’s developer tools, and iOS has by far the most developers and apps and accessories and the best open app environment (HTML5) on a mobile. So I guess you don’t actually know what you’re talking about.

Credit where credit is due: WebKit is KHTML by the fine folks at KDE. Still goes to your point.

I had a laptop that was under 2lbs with 8 hour battery life and only 0.75″ thick. I miss it. It lasted four years, but finally died in 2007. RIP Portege R100. Luckily, the MacBook Air picked up where you left off.

Now all we need is to integrate OS X and iOS together and throw Apples ARM & Imagination Tech chips in them…

Uh, sorry, but what happens if you drop that smartphone in the water or leave it in the back seat of a taxi cab? Is your big screen and keyboard going to restore all your apps, data, music, videos, books when you plug in your replacement? And please don’t mention the cloud, I don’t think the cloud is going to cover the 100+ GB of content most people have on their real computers.

It might be or may be not. The thinness might be the same but I do think some innovations may happen along the way like a slide keyboard. We know how fast technology innovators are.

Such a load of misinformation from a single post.

1) Safari is not OPEN. Can you contribute code? No. Can you modify his code? No. Mozilla Firefox IS open. Safari’s plugins have to get by the standards that Apple defines. Firefox’s plugins? Well, if I want to make one, I can make one and people can download it right off the bat, no strings attached.

2) Full unix stack? Mac OS X is a unix-derived system, not a unix system. Big difference.

3) As Barnes says, Webkit was open source “before” Apple claims it. Now they even /flex at their “openess” when other browsers (hint : Chrome) uses it. Haven’t you checked the last Apple event with Jobs smiling as he claimed that Chrome’s installations also counts as their success?

4) Most developers for a mobile platform? Judging that you need Mac OS to develop iPhone applications and taking into consideration Mac OS X marketshare I can’t figure out how did you came to that conclusion. I can safely assume though that people have bought a Mac just to develop for iOS, the moment that Google for example only asks for you to download their tools, regardless of the platform. How is that “open” mobile?