July 8, 2007

MacDailyNews - The only thing really wrong with Apple’s iPhone is its name

Back to the naming issue: Apple’s “iPhone” isn’t really a phone at all. It’s really a small touchscreen Mac OS X computer, a Mac nano tablet, it you will. Here’s how misnamed the iPhone is: some people are complaining that Jobs didn’t spend enough time on the Mac in his keynote! Folks, iPhone is not only a Mac, it’s the most radical new Mac in years! What’s to stop Apple from making a 12-inch (and larger, and smaller) one of these (use the headset for the phone, please) and calling it a Mac tablet?

I don’t want an iPhone. I don’t want to be stuck with AT&T’s pokey EDGE network and I don’t want a 3.5″ browser.

But I’d love an 8 1/2 x 11 iPhone with a hard disk and about a thousand PDF books on it… wouldn’t that make a terrific complement for Google Books? I’ve read rumors that Google and Apple are thinking about working much more closely … an iReader with iBookstore would make a lot of sense. Maybe this is where Google Book Search is going with its long-delayed “online access” option. (I submitted my pricing info for online access more than 18 months ago, and no sign of the feature yet…)

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wfzimmerman's review: "Rather surprising that no one else in LibraryThing has this handy reference to a very common and quite serious childhood illness."
Pocket (1998), Paperback, 304 pages
tags: singleton

wfzimmerman's review: "I decided to keep this because the front flap informs me that the author focused on understanding who exactly was in the Gestapo and what they did."
Basic Books (2000), Hardcover, 636 pages
tags: first edition

wfzimmerman's review: "One of the very best Wolfe books, and one of the most prescient and enlightened novels ever written about civil liberties."
Viking Press (1965), Hardcover

wfzimmerman's review: ""Sharecropped" follow-on to the Wimsey novels. Not, alas, especially distinguished ... I would have liked to see a much more florid storyline."
St Martins Pr (1998), Hardcover, 312 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "This was one of Parker's favorite movies, and, I have to say, one of my favorite movies to watch with him. The movie made use of the beautiful Alaskan setting and a moving boy-becomes-man storyline. The read aloud storybook is not up to the same standard, and for younger readers, but an ok choice for BROTHER BEAR fans."
RH/Disney (2003), Hardcover, 72 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "This was Parker's favorite book for Kelsey to read to him."
Aladdin (1972), Paperback, 32 pages
tags: Parker favorite

wfzimmerman's review: "Hypnotic recitation of hundreds of now-extinct species disembarking from Noah's ark. I know, because I have been forced to count, that there are 128 distinct pairs of animals. A worthy book full of interesting illustrations of defunct crypofauna. Also noteworthy as early representation of Christian environmentalism."
Greenwillow (1990), Hardcover, 40 pages
tags: Kelsey favorite, Parker favorite

wfzimmerman's review: "Dragonland kids visit their sickly-sweet draconic opposite numbers."
Random House Books for Young Readers (2000), Board book, 12 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "Actually, something of a Dad favorite. Incredible photos of lion cub cohabiting with puppy, cat, little boy, rather miraculously not eating any of them. Kicker is that l.c. goes to sleep."
Trumpet Club (1993), Unknown Binding
tags: Parker favorite