They were talking about the "iSlate" on TWIT tonight. Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble were the guests. They are saying the tablet is very real and to paraphrase "there will be a lot of Kindles on eBay the day after the announcement." Scoble said he had a source other than the one referenced in the NYT article. It sounds to be more of a "next level" web-connected/cloud media device than tablet style netbook.
Forgot to listen TWIT. My main concerns with this being a cloud device:
-How powerful is it?
-Apple currently has nothing in the cloud for this device except MobileMe and the App Store (no subscription for music, movies & TV deals in place)
They were talking about the "iSlate" on TWIT tonight. Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble were the guests. They are saying the tablet is very real and to paraphrase "there will be a lot of Kindles on eBay the day after the announcement." Scoble said he had a source other than the one referenced in the NYT article. It sounds to be more of a "next level" web-connected/cloud media device than tablet style netbook.
There's no reason to believe that this new product won't have similar effects.
The chronic grumblers and naysayers are convinced that Apple's success is based upon some sort of deception or clever marketing or blind following on the part of us Kool-aid drinkers.
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Apple has proven again and again its ability to change and improve people's lives through their uses of its products.
My question was "Were they able to buy that trademark from Fujitsu, then?" and your answer was "yes". I didn't ask "has Apple stolen the trademark from Fujitsu yet?", in which case your answer should have been "not yet".
True, although it's certainly possible a deal has already been secretly made.
This is the Internet.Lot of belief in secret deals and complicated answers around here. No one's heard of Occam's Razor?
There's a dissonance between these two sentences.
Groups like Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red Cross/Red Crescent, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others think of something more than an MP3 player with more memory when they try to "improve people's lives". Food. Clean water. Medical treatment. Education. Things like that.
Apple is superb at convincing people that they need to show their credit cards to buy new shiny things on the Internetz. "Improving people's lives" - oh, puh-leaze!
uhmm... I just want to point out the failure of G4 Cube, the Macintosh TV, The Flower and dalmatian iMac versions, the firewire iPod, and so on... (Apple TV anyone?) there are products that doesn't work. it just that Apple doesn't shout it on stage. but a lot of products simply didn't make it. maybe it's time that think twice with this iSlate/failure/controled tablet as the iPhone is now/soon jailbreaked by nerds/new shiny toy. don't you think?
This matches what I think it's going to be. All the people wanting an MB/MBP replacement in a tablet are going to be disappointed. Look at how many Kindles/Nooks sold over the holiday season and they have a ton of shortcomings. Apple wants in on that growing market.
And I just want to point out that failures accompany any enterprise. It is what is done about them that counts. Recent failures? I can't think of any.
If this is an e-reader or a non-standalone device it will be a flop or very niche product. There is no way a lot of people are going to pay for an oversized iPhone that replaces nothing.
There's a dissonance between these two sentences.
Groups like Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red Cross/Red Crescent, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others think of something more than an MP3 player with more memory when they try to "improve people's lives". Food. Clean water. Medical treatment. Education. Things like that.
Apple is superb at convincing people that they need to show their credit cards to buy new shiny things on the Internetz. "Improving people's lives" - oh, puh-leaze!
There is no way a lot of people are going to pay for an oversized iPhone that replaces nothing. Like I said if it doesn't have iTunes, iLife and a way to backup it is a meaningless device. A majority of Mac users for years have been buying laptops and won't be satisfied.
Whatever the tablet turns out to be you can bet it's a preview to what tech will be in the 4th gen iPhone.
Mobile Me? Current iPod Shuffle? Apple TV? App store review policies?
There is no way that you can say that these products are failures.
MobileMe: obviously this is still a growing product that Apple keeps investing time and resources in. To judge whether this is a failure you need a lot more info. Is it less successful than competing services by Google? Maybe, because others are free, but MobileMe is for me a fuss free useful addition that costs me some money but saves me annoying configuration and installation of third party programs.
iPod Shuffle: no way to say that this is a failure without sales data and development cost data. Granted I don't see a lot of people with these around, but then again I can imagine that this thing didn't take the same kind of money to develop as a unibody MBP.
Apple TV: definitely a product with limitations that are more determined by software than hardware. In features and flexibility it can't compete with other products within the same market. But as with MobileMe, it is a great product for those people that want fuss-free, no configuration and easy movie watching. Again, no judgement possible on failure or success without sales data. I think it is save to say that the product at the moment does not eat a lot of Apple's resources, so cost is quite low.
Store review policy: not a product, and it is obvious that this is still evolving. In addition, remember that Apple was/is the first real company with a successful app store. They are learning.. Slowly but surely. In addition, not only because of these policies, the app store is the most successful one around, with no app store even in the process of catching up.