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More Touch Devices in the Future from Apple

Thursday January 25, 2007 3:48 pm PST by Arnold Kim
UBS Research analyst Alex Gauna upgraded Broadcom's stock to "buy" based on beliefs that Apple will expand the use the touch-screen technology (which is based on a Broadcom chip) to other devices:

UBS believes Apple may migrate the technology into other offerings, including iPods, notebooks and Apple's forthcoming television product, over time, Gauna wrote.


MacRumors Editor note: It seems obvious that Apple did not develop this "Touch OS X" to be used on the iPhone alone. The Touch OS X technology that is incorporated in the iPhone will almost certainly make its way into a touch iPod, and potentially into other handheld devices.
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syklee26
66 months ago
thanks UBS for informing us with the inside scoop.
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Zwhaler
66 months ago
Yeah well this technology can only go forawrd, so we can expect it in other devices.
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dllavaneras
66 months ago
I really want a tablet or a Macbook with this technology...
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Peel
66 months ago

UBS believes Apple may migrate the technology into other offerings, including iPods, notebooks and Apple's forthcoming television product, over time, Gauna wrote.


Well, unless Apple offers a 50" LCD monitor, or an overlay for my plasma TV, I don't see this coming to the Apple TV. And even if it did, what am I supposed to do, get off my butt and walk up to the TV to touch it to interact with it? How 1970s!
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Ghibli
66 months ago

Well, unless Apple offers a 50" LCD monitor, or an overlay for my plasma TV, I don't see this coming to the Apple TV. And even if it did, what am I supposed to do, get off my butt and walk up to the TV to touch it to interact with it? How 1970s!


Why not a touch-screen remote controller? That would be really cool...
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DamoRed
66 months ago
Who says it's for the television itself? It would be used in the remote control.

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Peel
66 months ago

Why not a touch-screen remote controller? That would be really cool...


Yeah, I could see that. Though the price for the remote would go up from a couple bucks for the current apple remote, to probably $100 for the touch-screen remote. But if it were an Apple Universal Remote (:apple:Remote) that could be programmed to control ALL of my electronics, and have a great UI for doing this, that would totally rock!

That's my complaint with all the universal remotes, is that the way things are grouped together never seems to fit with my setup, or I've got one extra button that I need off of the original remote that's not duplicated, so I need to keep the original around for that one function.
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twoodcc
66 months ago

maybe


i hope so :)
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Master Atrus
66 months ago
I think this is kind of a "duh!" Products are always combined across other product lines. It wouldn't suprise me for Apple to develop a touch screen LCD for their computers and laptops. This way you don't have to use the keyboard or mouse all the time. Just touch the screen to open things ...

:)
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j33pd0g
66 months ago
I would like a full size touch-screen keyboard... Imagine how cool it would be to swap from keyboard layout to mixing board layout, or maybe just swap the place where your number pad is with special features/functions defined by whatever "app" you have open... the possibilities would be endless. Can't you read it now? Apple reinvents the keyboard!
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