Speculation: New iMac Will Look Like iPhone

Edited to correct my obvious typo. The more I think about this, the more it makes sense. This would be the perfect platform to introduce a radical mouse replacement for — like a huge trackpad with multitouch. The design language screams multitouch. Curiouser and curiouser.

Original Post: Interesting bit of speculation over at Gizmodo today about the new iMacs we’re all expecting hear about tomorrow. It’s all summed up in the picture they mocked up above. Basically, if the last generation of iMacs was made to look like the big brother of the iPod, why shouldn’t generation tie into Apple’s new top-of-the-line portable lifestyle device the iPhone?

Back when Apple introduced the first Intel iMacs in January 2006, I was quite surprised that the company maintained the identical form factors from the the final PowerPC iMacs, which were only three months old at the time. Thinking about it more, however, it made perfect sense. Apple was deliberately designing to emphasize the reliability of the new technologies. Now that the Intel Macs are runaway hits, it’s time to emphasize the benefits of connecting an iPhone to an iMac. A perfect design strategy.

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