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And what are these portents, you may ask?
- Incorporating DisplayPort into all their products. This move is meant to both standardize all of Apple's equipment for ultimate use with a unified display, and also to crowd competing (and by their standards, inferior) cabling like HDMI out of the market. Apple has always been about tight integration of all their products, and giving everything they sell the option to plug into an iScreen would be big.
- The new 24" LED cinema display. This is Apple releasing their first pass at LED; LED displays should be able to scale up to larger sizes, so maybe this is their "entry level" TV in terms of manufacturing processes.
- The new "brick" process. I'm certain that the milling process they're using will also be able to scale up easily to larger aluminum casings for bigger flat displays. It saves money and retooling costs - you just enter a different program into a machine, and it starts churning out TV set cases instead of MacBook cases.
- All glass displays on MacBooks. This last one's more of a "touchscreen" comment than anything; incorporating glass into their manufacturing processes now means that they have the option of adding capactive multi-touch to displays later on, when it "makes sense".
That said, Apple may be 18 to 36 months away from doing anything with an iScreen type product. Maybe they going to wait for the whole DTV transition to pass and see what happens before advancing their plans too quickly; maybe they're waiting to see what mistakes Sony makes first too.
- Incorporating DisplayPort into all their products. This move is meant to both standardize all of Apple's equipment for ultimate use with a unified display, and also to crowd competing (and by their standards, inferior) cabling like HDMI out of the market. Apple has always been about tight integration of all their products, and giving everything they sell the option to plug into an iScreen would be big.
- The new 24" LED cinema display. This is Apple releasing their first pass at LED; LED displays should be able to scale up to larger sizes, so maybe this is their "entry level" TV in terms of manufacturing processes.
- The new "brick" process. I'm certain that the milling process they're using will also be able to scale up easily to larger aluminum casings for bigger flat displays. It saves money and retooling costs - you just enter a different program into a machine, and it starts churning out TV set cases instead of MacBook cases.
- All glass displays on MacBooks. This last one's more of a "touchscreen" comment than anything; incorporating glass into their manufacturing processes now means that they have the option of adding capactive multi-touch to displays later on, when it "makes sense".
That said, Apple may be 18 to 36 months away from doing anything with an iScreen type product. Maybe they going to wait for the whole DTV transition to pass and see what happens before advancing their plans too quickly; maybe they're waiting to see what mistakes Sony makes first too.