I'm sure the iPhone will be a terrific product, but I was thinking of it more as a vanguard product and probably not the actual piece of hardware that we might find useful at the eyepiece. One drawback of a palm-sized do-it-all controller/atlas is that many of the digital devices it could in theory manage get their power from a USB connector on the computer- and that will be out of the iPhone league for a long, long time. We'd need a revolution in storage-battery technology first. The planetarium programs are available for specific phones by certain providers already. Unfortunately, not mine, darnit. --- Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes@earthlink.net> wrote:
So Joe, don't throw out the laptop just yet. I think you'll continue to appreciate the fact that it can show you a lot more information than an iPhone. And perhaps a not-too-far-away Apple laptop will ditch the hard drive and let you stay up late.
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