Submitted by MacRegor (not verified) on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 17:37.
I agree with you that it may be too early for WIMax, but... Apple a late adopter? Maybe you were only considering Apple's hesitancy on blue-ray, but for years Apple has been known for pushing the state of the art. Apple has adopted the best of the existing technologies and has helped to widespread them.
It was Apple who adopted Xerox's mouse. It has been Apple ho has advanced the Multi-touch technology with the iPhone, now everyone following suit. It was Apple with the iMac who pushed the use of the now ubiquitous and then unknown USB. Without it we would still be stuck whit serial, parallel and PS/2. These are just a few examples of good technologies that Apple has helped to widespread for everyone's the benefit.
But it's not just hardware it's software too: Apple helped to win the battle against wma with the iPod and now it will do the same to help killing the wmv format and its awful and proprietary codec VC-1. Remember that in 2005 Apple joined the blue-ray board of directors, so Apple's sure interested in it, now with the HD-DVD officially defunct, it's a matter of time Apple decides to add blue-ray on its products. It won't last long until we see it, maybe later this year.
On the other hand, you say 5-10 years for WIMax. This is ages in computer technology. Take into consideration that, for example the iPod was introduced just 7 years ago when few people knew about mp3 players. I think that the adoption of WIMax will be much faster than that.
I agree with you that it may
I agree with you that it may be too early for WIMax, but... Apple a late adopter? Maybe you were only considering Apple's hesitancy on blue-ray, but for years Apple has been known for pushing the state of the art. Apple has adopted the best of the existing technologies and has helped to widespread them.
It was Apple who adopted Xerox's mouse. It has been Apple ho has advanced the Multi-touch technology with the iPhone, now everyone following suit. It was Apple with the iMac who pushed the use of the now ubiquitous and then unknown USB. Without it we would still be stuck whit serial, parallel and PS/2. These are just a few examples of good technologies that Apple has helped to widespread for everyone's the benefit.
But it's not just hardware it's software too: Apple helped to win the battle against wma with the iPod and now it will do the same to help killing the wmv format and its awful and proprietary codec VC-1. Remember that in 2005 Apple joined the blue-ray board of directors, so Apple's sure interested in it, now with the HD-DVD officially defunct, it's a matter of time Apple decides to add blue-ray on its products. It won't last long until we see it, maybe later this year.
On the other hand, you say 5-10 years for WIMax. This is ages in computer technology. Take into consideration that, for example the iPod was introduced just 7 years ago when few people knew about mp3 players. I think that the adoption of WIMax will be much faster than that.