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Apple Issues Invitations for January 27th Media Event

So wrong

mAc-warrior said:
I read through this thread before posting to check if someone had already thought of my theory on this invite and was shocked to see nobody had.

It's totally obvious, and the product has nothing to do with art or drawing or painting or anything like that, although it could possibly be used to draw/paint on if it is a tablet.

Notice all the different colors. Red, yellow, blue, pink, green, grey and a little purple. If you mix all these together, you get the orange color in the middle. Notice how the orange only appears surrounding the Apple logo. Therefore, what the invitation is implying is that Apple has taken different aspects from many different products, and mixed them together into a single product. Just like they took all the surrounding paint colors and mixed them together to form the orange color around the Apple logo. Examples: touchscreen from iPhone, battery from MBP, software from Mac OS X and iPhone OS X, etc. etc.

The speculation now should focus on which technologies they're bringing together from which products. Simple invite to solve, really. The "creation" bit of it plays right along with the solution. They "create" things by taking a number of different parts and putting them together to form something better than the parts by themselves.

--mAc
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Dude, mixing those colors do not get you orange. They'll get you some murky dark color.
 
Eidorian said:
Now that is interesting. I have a feeling they're going to push the GPU power on a portable device at this showing.
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Could it be that Apple is finally starting to understand the power of gaming? How it can drive a market... maybe, just maybe this is a new trend in their computers? Please!
 
cmaier said:
Riiiight. And the extra "T" is for "Savings."
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perhaps, if we are looking for those hidden messages, it comes down to 'latest' -> 'lattes'. SJ is going to pull another prank call to starbucks during the keynote.
 
Paint splatters?

Hmm could the itablet have pressure sensitivity and double as a drawing tablet ala the cintiq but with touch as well????

Well guess we'll wait and see! :D

MacRumors said:


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Engadget reports that Apple has issued invitations for a media event scheduled on January 27th. The invitation's tag line reads "Come see our latest creation."

Apple had been rumored earlier this month to have scheduled a media event for that date at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Apple is widely expected to introduce its highly-anticipated tablet device at the event.

Article Link: Apple Issues Invitations for January 27th Media Event
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I will make my prediction now...

It will be an addition to their laptop lineup and be called the MacBook Touch. It will have BOTH a regular keyboard and an on screen keyboard. The screen will swivel and fold to reveal it's 'Tablet' form. The onscreen keyboard will have tactile feedback. It will run good old regular OS X Snow Leopard.
 
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iSlate?
iTablet?
iNewton?
Canvas?
iPallet?
iTab?
MacTouch?

Interesting names, but did anyone think that it could be something completely original to the device?

I mean who would have come up with the name iPod for an MP3/AAC player BEFORE it came out?

Just a thought.
 
Bistroengine said:
It will be an addition to their laptop lineup and be called the MacBook Touch. It will have BOTH a regular keyboard and an on screen keyboard. The screen will swivel and fold to reveal it's 'Tablet' form. The onscreen keyboard will have tactile feedback. It will run good old regular OS X Snow Leopard.
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I really really really hope you're right!
 
ivdig said:
Totally with you on that one lol, I remember using that generic spray paint tool.

BUT, I am soo excited. Literally I have been following this website for about five years now solely for the announcement of a tablet. I know others are excited about more innovative features this product might have, but I have been wanting to just be able to draw in photoshop on the move forever. It would make my life soo much easier. My only fear is that the OS may be too far diluted to support users with a more professional agenda. But we'll just have to wait and see.

Oh and did I mention the 27th is my Bday... Sounds like a match made in heaven to me...
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Me too! :D I have been anticipating a tablet from all the rumors for about 4-5 years. WOW lol!

As far as Photoshop goes, I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. iSlate will run a hybrid version of the iPhone OS. Now I would bet that Adobe will release a version of Photoshop for it, but knowing Adobe, it will be a while, and I would NOT expect Mac OS X or the Mac version of Photoshop! With the App Store though, I'm sure there will be several drawing apps akin to Photoshop as well!
 
QEII Student IT said:
I see, I don't own one myself. While I haven't heard any rumours about a new Apple TV, what is there that Apple could improve upon?
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They could improve margins by switching to different hardware (perhaps a dual-core ARM).

They could improve performance to allow something better than just 720p H.264 HD.

They could actually offer developers an real SDK because right now the Apple TV is really just a closed embedded device using a customized version of 10.4.
 
Bistroengine said:
It will be an addition to their laptop lineup and be called the MacBook Touch. It will have BOTH a regular keyboard and an on screen keyboard. The screen will swivel and fold to reveal it's 'Tablet' form. The onscreen keyboard will have tactile feedback. It will run good old regular OS X Snow Leopard.
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This will be something I buy! I hope you prediction is right... But I also hope they throw a new iPhone in there and iPhone OS 4.0

But how do you explain Apple asking developers to make full screen versions of their iPhone apps?
 
Bistroengine said:
It will be an addition to their laptop lineup and be called the MacBook Touch. It will have BOTH a regular keyboard and an on screen keyboard. The screen will swivel and fold to reveal it's 'Tablet' form. The onscreen keyboard will have tactile feedback. It will run good old regular OS X Snow Leopard.
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I would bet my life you are WRONG! I will quote you next Wednesday when you are whining about it running a hybrid iPhone OS and being a slate and I am right (which is 95% of the time)! :rolleyes:
 
MacFly123 said:
Me too! :D I have been anticipating a tablet from all the rumors for about 4-5 years. WOW lol!

As far as Photoshop goes, I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. iSlate will run a hybrid version of the iPhone OS. Now I would bet that Adobe will release a version of Photoshop for it, but knowing Adobe, it will be a while, and I would NOT expect Mac OS X or the Mac version of Photoshop! With the App Store though, I'm sure there will be several drawing apps akin to Photoshop as well!
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I agree.

Personally, whether I buy this thing or not hinges on whether it's a MacBook Touch or just a big iPhone.
 
All this talk of graffiti actually made me think of something...

It'd be interesting if Apple created a big freakin white "wall" you could go onto, and just graffiti whatever you want, and see everybody elses work wherever they put it too... a huge, permanent, worldwide graffiti wall.
 
braveheart655 said:
Definitely gonna buy one:D

BTW I hope at the beginning of his presentation, Steve introduces new i5 MBP with all black unibody design. (If he does, I need to break into my big *ss piggy bank;))
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i have been fantasizing about this ever since the unibody line came out. it's not gonna happen, but if it did, i would sell everything i own to be first in line for it. i think it might happen down the road? we'll see. apple seems pretty in lust with sleek silverness.
 
Detlev_73 said:
Here's a name that I haven't seen tossed around for the tablet:

Canvas

The Apple announcement looks like an artist painting on a 'canvas', and artists are usually 'creating' things, so maybe extrapolating both it would be an interesting name? Anyone else agree? :confused:

If so, I wonder how I could lock myself in as the first one who suggested that 'Canvas' would be the name of the Apple tablet?
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like it! a LOT.:D
 
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