lantinian
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Dude, the electric blue/pink iMac was a decade ago... ;DWell if the iMissiles are electric blue or pink, at least the bad guys will be in for a good laugh on their last breath!!!
Do you also laugh when you see an aircraft armed with training rounds, say an F-22 with orange GBU-39s? :Pink iMissiles... OK, yeah, I had a good laugh at that one!
How 'bout a shop vac, "iSuck".
I appreciate a the good jokes but not the sarcasm if there was any. It very easy for tech geeks to feel they know better than a company that these days seams to design and market products for the most average of Joes. An approach fundamentally prone to jokes. You can basically put "i" in front of everything or refer to the shinny girly aspect of things or the fact that its products seam simple to the point of lacking features needed by the average user here.
Apple products by no means seams have the military or utility feel needed to end up on Batman's belt or be used by Skynet. One can almost joke that even the energy of the Cube will not turn an Apple products into a Transformer because the sheer lack of features.
The reality if quite different though.
The military has been using iPods in Afghanistan for many years. The last couple of years saw an explosion of adoption of iPod Touches and iPhones in units in both Iraq and Afghanistan, where they provide critics services like on the fly voice translation, sniper ballistics calculation and others.
In fact contrary to the Marketing. It is not the DROID that has military feature but the iPhone. For if you ignore the looks and the marketing, Apple offers products that are the most reliable and simple to use of all computer makers. They offer solid design, little or no moving parts, and transcend cultures trough the of things like english physical keyboard.
In a couple of days, Apple will introduce the iPad, a device infinitely suited to military applications. From a replacement to portable diagnostic units for jets like the Raptor, to personal consoles of field commanders, to control pads for UAVs. e.t.c.
Two years ago, Apple bough a computer chip company names PA Semi. They were building military chips at the time of the acquisition. Low powered chips used in missiles. Initially the military jumped on the possibility of Apple stopping the production of those components, but Apple promised to fulfill all orders to date. Now Apple has produced its first custom silicon in a long time, called the A4 - the main processor in the iPad. At the same time the military finds itself using ever more Apple products on the field. Frack, even the Taliban are using iPhone for military purposes these days.
The new Apple ecosystem of products is widely adhering to standards and being platforms by software and hardware point of view are very military in their fundamentals. The US army saves a ton of money on R&D and procurement costs utilizing "off the shelf" equipment like that.
let me guess... their interface will be so revolutionary that they'll replace the joystick and every control with a circular touch pad
Just because you might lack some imagination to see the possibilities does not mean they do not exist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ejh--_56ic
Back to the Next Generation Bomber Studies, if anyone has not thought until now that Apple will not be a subcontractor in one way or another for this project needs to look look again.
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