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Apple Tablet Media Event Today: 'Come See Our Latest Creation'

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sidelarge said:
Reading any serious book on this device should be as uncomfortable as on any e-book reader available today, or possibly worse.

Actual book vs. e-book is totally different from MP3 vs. CD or those other arguments. Unlike when you listen to MP3 files, you can't fool yourself into thinking that you are doing fine since it's actual physical discomfort instead of some subtle quality drop.
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It is not a physical discomfort for me to read on my Kindle. But it can be for me to read a book, depending on its size. Besides, I cant adjust the print size on a book, I can on my Kindle, thereby making it easier.
 
"Everything from an iphone"? LOL. Where is the most important feature, internet mobility? To those saying it didn't need the phone part because you won't put this to your head, obvious its for connecting to the internet that you need the 3G. Also, when you use ichat to you put your computer to your head or do you just talk to it?
 
cjmillsnun said:
No, he's a rabid Fanboy. Don't get me wrong, I love Apple products and OS X but I will call em on when they make a mistake. And this is as big a cock up as it gets.
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How can you say this now? I think a year from now we will know. I've heard the same things on this very site from some who said iPhone would fail especially because of AT&T. I heard the same comments about the MacPro as well. Perhaps it will fail and not. I will withhold my comments until I know more and actually try the thing
 
Seeing this is Apple, they almost never announce a price for their product that makes people happy. So don't put too much hope on it.
 
And the iWork demo is done. "So what are we going to charge for applications like this? We're gong to charge just $9.99 each." He means $10 for Pages, $10 for Keynote... etc.
 
This is disappointing. A useless product. My iPhone and MBP takes care of all this.
 
kdarling said:
Question: can we use a virtual yellow highlighter in these readers? That's what would make them useful as reference / textbook replacements (for me, anyway).
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Agreed. Every document on this iPad (yes, the name does suck rocks) should have a hide-able annotation layer by default.

Unprocessed1 said:
Handwriting Recognition PLEASEEEEEEE
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System-wide shapewriting option too please.
 
This will ABSOLUTELY be a big hit. Even though all of the uber-techies are saying that it's useless *to them* means *NOTHING* about the average persons need for a device. It does enough different things that average users, kids, and students will eat it up. They want something they can actually read and use (bigger than iPhone) for a non-macbook-pro price that does all of the casual user things. It'll sell.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
Let the big 3rd party handle that one.
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If it can't multi task like the iPhone and 3rd party apps are not allowed to integrate into the OS, are we going to be opening a dictate program, speak, copy text, fire up iWork, paste it into iWork then reformat it?

A bit cumbersome no? :confused:
 
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