IncisiveGeek

Imagine if Apple made a netbook sized enclosure that you slide your iPhone/iPod Touch into and it turns the device into a netbook. The enclosure could house; a screen, keyboard, trackpad (use the iPhone/iPod Touch screen), extended battery, speakers, SD card slot, usb port(s) all connected to the devices dock connector. The beauty of this is that the iPhone/iPod Touch already contains the most expensive bits.

Will Apple do something like this? I don’t know. But if any one company could pull it off it would be Apple, they do control the stack top to bottom.

Pros:

• Fast boot
• Apple controls hardware and software, so doable
• Mature App Store could be expanded for “netbook” apps. Ex. A full version of Safari, TextEdit, Preview, Terminal etc
• Built in cell data service and/or WiFi

Cons:

• Hard to answer your phone when docked in netbook, Bluetooth headset could remedy
• Apple would probably charge too much, and require a new version with each iPhone/iPod Touch change
• Cell partners may not like the surge in data usage
• The extended battery may need to be quite big to power the larger screen

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I have had my iPhone for nearly a year now and just loaded it up with my first ringtones. I almost fell off my chair when I discovered that custom ringtones can only be set for voice calls not text messages, WTF! On my iPhone 2G 16GB I only have a choice of 6 sounds for when I receive text messages! The real kicker is that the ringtones I loaded on the phone were intended for when I receive text messages, argh!

Sometimes Apple makes some back asswards decisions.

Just fixed a corrupt boot partition (probably only 1 file) on my fathers MacBook Pro (early 2008). I used Target Disk Mode, installing the 10.5.6 Combo Update on it from my MacBook Pro. This feature sure is handy for a situation like this, it is a real shame that the new MacBook’s (non pro) don’t have FireWire ports. RIP FireWire/Target Disk Mode.

A friend of mine just released a flash game called Plink at a place called MochiAds. MochiAds is like Google AdSense for flash games, very cool.