at nasa, we have a local nasa center nearby. it was a terminal which was connected to a big computer somewhere. this is one of the consoles they might be using in the future. looks very much like a regular typewriter. too often the equipment in the past has been designed for machines, not for people. i saw my second computer, the hewlett-packard. the computing calculator. it was very large. had a very small cathode ray tube for display. i got a chance to play with one of those in 1968. i went up to hewlett-packard s palo alto research labs every tuesday night and spent every spare moment i had trying to write programs for it. i was so fascinated by this. we have a pointing device called a mouse. doug engelbart, inventor of the mouse, was asking new questions about our changing relationship with computers.
apple also having folks sign up for two-year contracts and in the process upgrade their phones every year or two if they pay about $30 a month to do so. then there s apple tv, you can talk to it via the remote control, it will support third party apps. the new apple tv hits the market next month, about $150. and finally the ipad pro with a gigantic almost 13-inch screen. look, this is so expensive, it starts at $800. and the pro works with the pencil, the apple pencil, the stylus that you buy separately, but it is the same exact tool the late steve jobs dissed! who wants a stylus? [laughter] you have to get em and put em away and you lose em. yuck. [laughter] nobody wants a stylus. so let s not use a stylus. we re going to use the best pointing device in the world, a pointing device that we re all born with. we re born with ten of them, we re going to use our fingers. that was actually eight years
born with the ultimate pointing device, our fingers, and iphone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. check your news chops next hour when we put the question to chad meyers, our meteorologist. . white house officials and lawmakers meet today to talk, rather, about spending cuts. ed henry, part of the best political team on television. ed is at the white house there. what is vice president biden and the rest of those folks doing to try to come up with a deal? reporter: this is really the first big substantive talks, getting all sides together, the white house with democrats and republicans on the hill. it will be brokered by vice president joe biden in sis capitol office, meeting with mitch mcconnell, john boehner and democratic leaders as well, the white house budget director and the white house chief of staff. they are getting the big officials finally together in one room because they have big
condition pad is now a reality and sure i could tell you that is has a 9.7-inch touch screen and weighs 1.5-pounds and will run from $500 to $800. what i need is a hip british guy to explain what it all means. it is true when something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical. and that is exactly what the ipad is. there is no pointing device. there isn t even a single there is no up or down or right or wrong way of holding it. i don t have to change myself to fit the record, it fits me. oh. just like that black t-shirt. that was magical. why do all british men wear tight black t-shirts? like simon cowell. makes me sick to my stomach. maybe we found our guy here. simon is leaving. yeah. greg: back to me, people. applebot see jobs goes one step