Awesome for business travelers. If it's priced right, then anyone who would consider a kindle or nook would have to consider the apple tablet instead. etc.
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Apple Issues Invitations for January 27th Media Event
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Awesome for business travelers. If it's priced right, then anyone who would consider a kindle or nook would have to consider the apple tablet instead. etc.
to compete with the kindle it'll be a sub $500 thingy, unless it's subsidized by all the media-giants vying for subscriptions, or not
If they have a sub-$600 model that can do way more than the kindle, I think you'll see a big hit to kindle (assuming, of course, that iTunes adds a book store).
I'm sticking with my iPaint theory, but now I'm thinking they're coming out with a revolutionary iPaintball Gun It's an untapped market as only a few companies make them and they're not that great.
I'm sticking with my iPaint theory, but now I'm thinking they're coming out with a revolutionary iPaintball Gun It's an untapped market as only a few companies make them and they're not that great.
Hmmm....looks like "graffiti", which was text input used on the Newton.
There is an oft-repeated rumor that we have not seen any iPhone OS updates lately because it would give away Tablet details buried in the code. If that holds true, then the tablet runs a version of iPhone OS, not OSX.
This is further supported by the recent developer seed of OSX 10.6.3 10D522, which does not appear to contain any tablet specific code.
In the long run, I don't think it's going to matter to Apple. When the device finally ships, hardly anyone is going to remember the fact that the product was announced half a day before the presidential State of the Union address.
I doubt that's the case. More likely, all available engineering resources were diverted to work on the tablet software.
Updates to the iPhone software would probably be bugfixes working on a fork of the software tree. In terms of new functionality nothing would be revealed because the rest of the supporting libraries, toolkits, etc. would not be present. The only "revealing" thing might be the presence of a new device. Apple has occasionally let references of unreleased product IDs show up in its codes, but nothing that really described in detail what the capabilities of those devices were.
All of the tablet code would be in the iPhone OS 4.0 tree; bugfixes to the 3.1.x tree would not include any of the new code.
The fact that a rumor is oft-repeated doesn't make it correct. It most certainly isn't the case here at MacRumors.
I disagree. Existing libraries probably received heavy modification - for example, multi-column support in UITableView, etc. These things would be apparent to anyone who poked around.
Do you really think those changes would be visible in the 3.1.x software tree?
Certainly, I could expect those major changes in 4.x, but not in anything like 3.x. If Apple wanted to patch the current software (3.1.2 on my iPod touch), I don't see how anything would be revealed.
My guess is that iPhone OS 4.0 would be released on the tablet first (assuming it ships in March) followed by a release in June for iPhones (it would be the base software on the next-gen iPhone; previous versions of the iPhone OS would not run on the new phone).
Of course not in 3.x. But the speculation has been that 4.0 hasn't appeared on iPhone sooner, and the rumor is that the reason is that it contains code that would render tablet features obvous.
Well then, we are on the same page.
Indeed, release of the 4.0 software to current iPhone/iPod touch users would most likely give clues to the future direction of the software, particularly to iPhone developers. I never expected 4.0 to show up on my iPod touch. I figured it would be tied to a new product release.
I believe iPhone OS 4.0 will show up on the tablet first, then a new iPhone. I also believe that there's a chance that Apple will also release a new Apple TV device based on ARM architecture and running the new OS.
Fox gets money for all those placements. Orange tablet? They didn't get money from that, because there is no product. Yet.
has anybody else noticed that the shape of the ad looks like a tablet device?
Look at the rounded edges...
Then again...I could be looking too much into it
Look at the rounded edges...
Then again...I could be looking too much into it