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And... Tablet Rumors Revived: Larger Mac-Like Tablet in the Works?

Apple has the Air, they decided to go with the mobile OS for their tablet.. they just released a tablet, wether its full OS X or not.. and they have the air...

we all saw apple's patent for a removable imac screen... this does seem like it is moving in that direction but

TABLET with mobile OS, and Macbook air with netbook lightness, but nice screen/keyboard etc
 
These type of post announcement rumors make me a little angry, because I feel they've been contrived by someone in order to distract from what Apple has actual done, by pretending they will do something better shortly... which inevitably doesn't happen. Worst that this is from TechCrunch.

The truth? No significant further iPad hardware updates until next year (not counting 3G announcements). No NEW iPad-like tablet releases until next year. iPad OS updates and more Apple iPad software releases later this year. iPad-like Mac OS based tablet? Certainly not this year. Touch-based iMac. Sure, why not.

~ CB
 
The rumors could also be because of a company by the name of Savant Systems. They take the current iMacs and make them touchscreens. So you can use them in home automation.

Savantav.com
 
No A4 needed

If the idea is to include a version of the touch OS alongside of OS X will not require the Apple A4 chip, let alone dual-boot a la boot camp.

Developers already run simulators of the iPad and the iPhone in Mac OS X. It's already right there.

Just remove the develop-y parts, and a multi-touch capacitive screen, and somehow tie the whole thing together in an elegant fashion interface-wise.

...

Good luck on that last part though.
 
"iPad Pro" or "iSlate" ???

iSlate could be the name, or it could be as obvious as "iPad Pro." It makes a lot of sense to also provide the more advanced device that takes advantage of Mac OS X. Apple is the king of incremental upgrades; some people just have to have it all (me included), and Apple capitalizes off of us that aren't typical users/buyers.

Also, I have to believe that the rumors of two different sizes, and two different OS's were correct. We even heard rumors of an iPhone based OS and a Mac OS X based OS. This really makes sense to me. The "pro" experience will provide everything the consumer version lacks... Camera, upgradeable RAM, FLASH support, Mac OS X application capabilities as well as App Store app Support, upgradeable SSDs, Artistic Digital Drawing, real graphics card, and OS X itself - ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE THE iPAD LACKS. Really, Apple can take this a lot further than just its simple $499 iPad. I definitely believe that sooner or later, an advanced OS X iPad Pro version is coming.
 
As steve jobs said he is getting us used to the idea of touch with the ipod touch,multi-touch on the touchpad/mouse and soon to be ipad. These are only stepping stones to a full blown mac tablet.
Is it silly to beat around the bush.. kinda but look how bad windows based tablets have failed to catch on. It's the momentum of these that will push forward the tablet idea.
I believe we will be seeing the full mac os tablets close to the end of the year.
 
HiRez said:
Like the floppy disc, I don't think desktop OS X is going to disappear overnight, it'll take years, but make no mistake, it's on its way out.
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And what, exactly, are people going to develop iPhone/iPad apps on, then? Windows? Yeah, right....

--Eric
 
Ha, Ha!

illegallydead said:
Am I the only one that is kind of annoyed by TechCrunch's poor grammar? On several occasions, the quote says "were", "were hearing is that...". LEARN WHAT A CONTRACTION IS!

Haha my grammar-nazi of a proffesor is already getting to my head :rolleyes:
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You must have misspelled professor in irony. Funny...
 
The only thing you should should take away from this article is just how disappointing the iPad announcement was.
 
All I can say is...

...I hope it's the last rumor for a while.

I've never seen so many people so damn eager to display their ignorance of so many things in so little space (e.g., the discussion about e-books was, for the most part, totally unencumbered by anything that even smacked of experience in production of e-books.....and quite proudly so)
 
Maybe all new macbooks will have a iPad built in.

So it will switch to a iPad simulator mode when you activate the touch screen.


Kinda like how FRONT ROW simulates :apple:TV
 
Apple keeps it simple, one at a time, and that's what makes it so different, and focused and more geared towards your needs instead of spec sheets. Not even considering the touch is already as big as it could be without making it uncomfortable to hold, this rumor has no credibility
 
jeznav said:
I thought Snow leopard was redesigned from the ground up. They could introduce UIKit and CocoaTouch on the Mac OSX though. It's going to be like Carbon vs. Cocoa all over again, but this time AppKit vs UIKit/CocoaTouch. It sucks to be a developer.
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I think it's more an ongoing part of the of the Carbon vs. Cocoa.

The Two Cocoa should have no problem merging and giving developers a single scalable SDK over time. Although Cocoa Touch does need to add support pre-click or hover over with feedback, which is what gives a mouse it's accuracy for finer work like CAD, vector design, photo manipulation.

I understand carbon isn't so flexible so while there is anything left that has a UI based on Carbon it's touch support will be rudimentary at best. Carbon has been on the way out for a while. The average user doesn't understand that and will just think the whole idea is bad, as we have seen with tablets to date.
 
So in other words... much like the HP TouchSmart but probably much better and… only a few years later?


hp-touchsmart-468.jpg
 
Who wants to join me in making a tech blog? We can start by making stupid BS rumors about future Apple products and hope that other sites pick it up. We just need a fancy name and it's all set.
 
HiRez said:
I agree. This is the beginning of the end for traditional desktop OS X. Apple surely sees that fewer and fewer people are using desktop machines with each passing year, and they're increasingly not going to pay $2000-$3000 for them anymore either. They realize their future is replacing Sony by making sexy, affordable consumer gadgets, with an OS tailor made for that, which is iPhone OS, not OS X desktop.

Like the floppy disc, I don't think desktop OS X is going to disappear overnight, it'll take years, but make no mistake, it's on its way out.
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Apple only really need to put the final nail in the pre-X Mac OS and kill carbon for good. Then OS X Pure Cocoa will scale from iPod Touch to Mac Pro and Xserve, developer will just need a few extra Nib (interface files) to suit different devices.
 
What exactly do I do with a tablet Mac? Touch and drag along pulldown menus? Tap on tiny little radio buttons?

Windows tablets aren't popular because those interactions work better with a mouse. Old Windows Mobile smart phones didn't work well either, because they used shrunken desktop widgets that you pecked at with a little stylus.

The iPad may not have the openness and broad range of capability of a Mac, but at least it is designed to work with touch input.
 
Doesn't make sense to me

I'm not very enthusiastic about owning an IPad. I'd be a whole lot more interested in owning a tablet version of a Mac.

But this idea seems like it would confuse the heck out of the market. Apple puts all this energy into saying "This is the One True Way," and then they come back and say "oops... maybe not!"
 
I love tech rumors. Something to read when you're passing the times.
 
Did not vote as of yet.....

I want to love the iPad... I really do... it meets what I need as an eBook, newspaper reader, and a web browser...

On the web front I have to say that that no Adobe Flash is a major downside to me - yes, I would like to visit Hulu - but after using Hulu - including a decent burn on my leg while falling asleep watching a movie bare legged a month ago - I don't see Adobe Flash as being ready to handle video.... the heat of the processor requirements maybe be too much - as well as the battery drain....

IMHO Adobe needs a subset of Flash that can at least handle slide shows at least.... at lower CPU usage (lower heat) and lower battery drain...

Any larger iPads will have to wait... I would prefer a 10" Macbook Air with the new iBooks library....
 
My guess: Apple has developed a Mac OS X emulator that runs as an iPad application. Now we can run all of our Mac apps within a safe environment.

Hmmm.... I guess that means that you can now use your iPad to run the iPhone SDK and develop more iPad applications.
 
Eric5h5 said:
And what, exactly, are people going to develop iPhone/iPad apps on, then? Windows? Yeah, right....
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Just today, Apple is rumored to be working on a new touchscreen iMac, something pretty easy to believe. How long before Apple's "desktop" multitouch computers are running on the iPhone OS? So the answer is, iPhone OS apps will be developed on iPhone OS. Not today, not next year, but in the not too distant future.
 
HiRez said:
Just today, Apple is rumored to be working on a new touchscreen iMac, something pretty easy to believe. How long before Apple's "desktop" multitouch computers are running on the iPhone OS? So the answer is, iPhone OS apps will be developed on iPhone OS. Not today, not next year, but in the not too distant future.
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I wanted to believe this was impossible - touch screen desktops have the exact same painful ergonomics of the long extinct light pen.

But then I saw the iPad keyboard dock... :(

I'm still skeptical, however. At least the iPad-keyboard combo can be seen as a casual use kiosk configuration - something for checking email in the kitchen, or making iWork more practical. The touchscreen iMac is essentially the tablet Mac, and I can't believe Apple would ever go there. A WIMP interface doesn't work with a finger the same way it doesn't work with a stylus. It needs new application interfaces and widgets. Multitouch on the desktop belongs in the trackpad, not the screen.
 
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