iPod, iPhone, iCar…Why not iWorld?

I think Apple is missing a huge opportunity not competing with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. I think they ought to create a device for total world navigation, travel and global social networking. Seems right up their alley. We have the iPod that revolutionized the music industry; we have the iPhone which Applephiles just went ga-ga over; we have rumors of the iCar, a proposed collaboration between Apple and Volkswagen but that seems a bit far fetched. Why not a mobile handset that tries to link the world with real-time imagery, global social networking with automatic language translation, and a navigation device that gives you travel assistance from Bangor to Bangkok. But first they have to catch on that GPS is really a technology that works and that they missed the boat not having it in iPhone 1.0. Maybe Mr. Jobs should offer yet another rebate to buy a GPS add-on. Still, the iWorld should be next…don’t you think?

Quote of the Week

“Anyone with two introductory courses in GIS could have done this work, and yet it was considered important enough to be accepted in a professional journal.”

- Dr. Raja Sengupta, a professor in the Department of Geography and the McGill School of Environment on his work tracking avian flu in the McGill Reporter.