Mark Gurman ha riportato su 9to5mac alcuni rumors sul nuovo MacBook Air, che dovrebbe avere un design radicalmente differente dal modello corrente. Innanzitutto dovrebbe avere una sola porta: quella USB — servirà a tutto, anche a ricaricarlo.
Questo, per rimandare all’analisi di Ben Thompson: il prossimo MacBook Air sarà il primo personal computer Apple ad essere “mobile first”, ovvero si partirà dall’iPhone per arrivare al Mac, non viceversa. Non è più il Mac l’hub di controllo e principale, né iTunes: è iPhone, e iCloud.
And so, the story of the (rumored) MacBook Air starts not with the Mac, but rather with the iPhone. By virtue of its omnipresence it is the most important device in most consumers’ lives. It is the first choice for getting information, for communicating, for taking pictures. It is a device that a huge majority of people could live on exclusively, and it very much stands alone: all of its essential functions have cloud counterparts, but none assume a PC.
True, it would be nice to have a keyboard to type longer emails, reports or papers, or a larger screen to watch movies, but those capabilities – again, for most people, not all – are nice to have, not essential. Moreover, all of those capabilities depend on the same cloud services as the phone: email, social networking, photos, all of it comes over the (wireless) network, not a cable.
In this world, a Mobile First world, what exactly is the point of a port?
