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Apple Issues Invitations for January 27th Media Event

jb1280 said:
A compulsory, expensive data plan will also be really inimical to this device.
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Very few people are going to sign up to a data plan for a tablet, especially if they have an iPhone already.

Apple's best bet is an especially large educational discount for students and a good selection of textbooks on the store - that'd be a good boost to the membership base whilst allowing them to charging the public more usual Apple profit margins.
 
ChocoTaco said:
The question is.. if this ad is meant to foreshadow a Apple Tablet with some awesome art abilities, did they actually make the ad with the tablet itself? I could imagine using 2 fingers and a spray paint tool to make different sized spray patterns - small and large.

Is there also a "drip" tool that works the same way? some look like sprays and some look like big drips/splatters.
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I reckon they did. I observed about 10 pages back the gravity drips in the paint could be from the angle of the tablet being vertical so the paint drips as in real life, and the round splatters are with the tablet laying flat.

The invite graphic definitely confirms 'tablet' in my mind because basically the motion and angle sensitivity of this thing (and likely even multi-touch) is going to be a big feature of it, probably more so than already on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
 
Nothing special

awmazz said:
I reckon they did. I observed about 10 pages back the gravity drips in the paint could be from the angle of the tablet being vertical so the paint drips as in real life, and the round splatters are with the tablet laying flat.

The invite graphic definitely confirms 'tablet' in my mind because basically the motion and angle sensitivity of this thing (and likely even multi-touch) is going to be a big feature of it, probably more so than already on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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But that is something that the iPhone could do, isn't it? On its own, it's not revolutionary stuff.

Personally, I think the graphic is pretty poor. It might have rocked in 1999, but not in this century.
 
awmazz said:
I reckon they did. I observed about 10 pages back the gravity drips in the paint could be from the angle of the tablet being vertical so the paint drips as in real life, and the round splatters are with the tablet laying flat.

The invite graphic definitely confirms 'tablet' in my mind because basically the motion and angle sensitivity of this thing (and likely even multi-touch) is going to be a big feature of it, probably more so than already on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Kenrkraft -

I'd agree, youve got effects from vertical, and horizontal positions of the canvas. But more than that - these effects aren't blobs from a paintbrush touching the canvas - they seem more like blobs of paint coming from "flicking" paint onto , or dropping paint onto a canvas.
i.e. at a distance, without having to physically touch the canvas (if we're thinking this symbolises the touchscreen). Which would suggest gestures at a distance, i.e. control without contacting the screen with a finger.

Maybe it's just pretty art work ;)

I could see Apple exploring the z dimension in the OS, using iTunes LP style formatting for apps, it's own Tablet store section...
 
awmazz said:
I reckon they did. I observed about 10 pages back the gravity drips in the paint could be from the angle of the tablet being vertical so the paint drips as in real life, and the round splatters are with the tablet laying flat.

The invite graphic definitely confirms 'tablet' in my mind because basically the motion and angle sensitivity of this thing (and likely even multi-touch) is going to be a big feature of it, probably more so than already on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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I second that emotion, Awmazz.

If this was in fact done with the tablet it is VERY slick and very realistic looking. I wonder now -- if it was created on the tablet -- was it created in conjunction with a desktop?

So the tablet was used as a peripheral/input device like a Cintiq? Or do Apple laptops have the power to do something this slick? Or did it take a LONG time to craft this image with the tablet and it wouldn't be realistically feasible to make a piece of art this slick with the tablet itself?
 
29 pages... finished!

The tablet is coming. The ad is just an ad.

abijnk said:
Oh geez, I guess I'll have to clean up this little mess now...

*goes off to clean pants*
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:eek:

Coming from a Demi-Goddess, I don't think this exactly conveys the excitement you were intending...
 
t0mat0 said:
Kenrkraft -

I'd agree, youve got effects from vertical, and horizontal positions of the canvas. But more than that - these effects aren't blobs from a paintbrush touching the canvas - they seem more like blobs of paint coming from "flicking" paint onto , or dropping paint onto a canvas.
i.e. at a distance, without having to physically touch the canvas (if we're thinking this symbolises the touchscreen). Which would suggest gestures at a distance, i.e. control without contacting the screen with a finger.

Maybe it's just pretty art work ;)

I could see Apple exploring the z dimension in the OS, using iTunes LP style formatting for apps, it's own Tablet store section...
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Imagine if you had a tool that was force sensitive? Maybe using the motion detector things that are in the iPhone. If you were holding the tablet up and poking at it maybe it could splatter the paint and simulate larger and smaller impacts. Also.. if you did it with 2 fingers it could control the size of the blobs.
 
color theory?

mAc-warrior said:
...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. --mAc
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If you mix red, yellow (you can stop there, lol) blue, pink, green, grey, and purple... you get a very dark, muddy black-brown... not orange.
 
plumpan said:
An orange tablet on 24, a possibly controlled leak from Orange, and orange bring the central color behind the apple logo on the invite. It would be interestingly awkward if Apple takes the old metaphor to a new level and names this thing the Orange - a completely different way of computing from the Apples you have known. :p

Steve: "One more thing...introducing the Clementine." :D:D:D
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You caught my attention ;).... I like Orange :D
 
Pretty sure that the paint theme just alludes to the "behold my latest creation!" phrase cliché of a painter and his latest work of art etc.

Rather than saying anything about the actual product haha..
 
I can picture apple execs reading all the speculation on the net on their tablets, giggling at the inaccuracies and seething at the stuff people have got right that they know they haven't leaked on purpose.

I can't wait, although I already know i'm going to be annoyed at how much more expensive it will be to purchase in the UK :mad:
 
JMax1 said:
if you look at the image and cross your eyes, you will see a silhouette image of the new product!
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Wrong,

If you join the dots (paint spatters) in a clockwise direction you get an outline image of the itouchythingamyjiglet
 
macjock said:
I can picture apple execs reading all the speculation on the net on their tablets, giggling at the inaccuracies and seething at the stuff people have got right that they know they haven't leaked on purpose.

I can't wait, although I already know i'm going to be annoyed at how much more expensive it will be to purchase in the UK :mad:
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IF we're lucky enough to even get it in the UK...

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014886o-2000331761b,00.htm

Apple is holding a launch event on 27 January in San Francisco, but it appears there will be no coinciding UK press event.

Speculation has it that the event will be used to present the Apple tablet and, according to a source quoted by Fox News, iPhone 4.0 and new iLife 2010 software.

When it launches new iPhone software and hardware, Apple tends to hold a UK press event to coincide with the US launch. Sometimes this consists only of a videolink to the US party, but there is usually still an event for UK hacks to report from.
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zub3qin said:
Anyone have links to previous Apple Invites?
Are there really "clues" in these invites, or is it just fun to speculate?

Maybe a hotdog is just a hotdog and a tunnel is just a tunnel..
why read into splotches of paint?

Here is the only link I could find to the iPhone event-- not much of a clue:
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But here is the Macbook Air:
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And the Aluminum Macbook invite:
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And the original iPod invite: a simple handwritten note on a plain white card FedEx'd to reporters simply saying "This coming Tuesday, Apple invites you to the unveiling of a breakthrough digital device- Hint: It's not a Mac"
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actually the first one except iPhone (leap to the future) was also the drop of "Cumputers" out of their name, Apple (computers) inc.
 
macjock said:
Wrong,

If you join the dots (paint spatters) in a clockwise direction you get an outline image of the itouchythingamyjiglet
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Uh-uh, nope. You must do all of what you said, plus spin around twice and THEN quickly glance near the top portion of the purple splatter on the left and then and only then will you catch, only a glimpse of the said device. :D
 
Wonder if we'll see a minor redesign of the online store with the tablet announcement. Those two rows of products are starting to look a bit cluttered and they will have to squeeze it in somewhere.
 
macjock said:
:(
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Don't worry though, I doubt it. The only way it'd happen is if it's not possible to buy the tablet without a contract, which would be a disaster and put huge numbers of people off anyway, and even then the iPhone has already trodden that path.

E-book store in the UK at launch or not there's more to this tablet than an online book store., content wouldn't be a reason.
 
maybe it is as simple as the new device so-called tablet will be available in all those colours like nanos.
 
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