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I was hoping for something x86. It's a big iPod Touch otherwise.

Every rumor related to software for the tablet has been about Apple talking to iPhone developers about their apps and NOT Mac developers.

Now, those are only rumors of course but pretty much all of the rumors are going that way.

I think that should tell us something.
 
I was hoping for something x86. It's a big iPod Touch otherwise.

Well, there are some pretty decent high-end dual core ARM chips, and it's possible the PA Semi guys have been working on an even better ARM implementation (though I doubt they'd be ready with it yet).

So it comes down to software.
 
Every rumor related to software for the tablet has been about Apple talking to iPhone developers about their apps and NOT Mac developers.

Now, those are only rumors of course but pretty much all of the rumors are going that way.

I think that should tell us something.
I mention that fact on other boards as well. There are still quite a few x86 hold outs that want to run Windows on the iTablet until I break the news that it's more than likely ARM based.

Well, there are some pretty decent high-end dual core ARM chips, and it's possible the PA Semi guys have been working on an even better ARM implementation (though I doubt they'd be ready with it yet).

So it comes down to software.
Scaled up iPhone apps, goodie.
 
I mention that fact on other boards as well. There are still quite a few x86 hold outs that want to run Windows on the iTablet until I break the news that it's more than likely ARM based.

Scaled up iPhone apps, goodie.

As an iphone developer, i think pretty much anything you can do on a mac you can do on a "scaled up iphone," as long as they give us some sort of shared filesystem and enough RAM.
 
I can't say "islate" without hearing "isolate"

what do they have to leverage? mac and ipod (iphone is already too derivative to derivate something from it)

i think it should either be a derivative of mac or ipod or have a completely new name like ipod did

they could use the name of an apple fruit again, like sundance or telstar

there's even an apple called transparent!

with the way it will be so ubiquitous and transparent in our lives, transparent would be a good name

or how about novamac! it's an apple and includes mac in the name


i'm falling asleep and am kind of punchy so i will include this list of apples and see if you all can glean anymore good names from it:
http://www.allaboutapples.com/varieties/
 
Oh, and another failed product?

hotclubsexxxx.com
Yes it redirects to Apple.com but how exactly does that mean Apple owns it? Couldn't I easily buy sexytimewithgoats.com and just redirect it to MacRumors?

PS: Don't try that link... I didn't test it, nor do I want to. However, if you have a weird thing for goats, by all means...

EDIT: I had to try that site, curiosity won in the end. Sexytimewithgoats.com doesn't exist, so if anyone wants to buy it... first come first serve!
 
apple doesn't own it.

You can make a domain point to anything you want. It doesn't imply ownership.

arn

Code:
Metang:~ Jason$ whois hotclubsexxxx.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

   Domain Name: HOTCLUBSEXXXX.COM
   Registrar: PLANETDOMAIN PTY LTD.
   Whois Server: whois.planetdomain.com
   Referral URL: http://www.planetdomain.com
   Name Server: NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
   Name Server: NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
   Name Server: NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
   Name Server: NS4.EVERYDNS.NET
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 17-dec-2008
   Creation Date: 16-dec-2008
   Expiration Date: 16-dec-2013

>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:10:36 UTC <<<

NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
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registrar.  Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.

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   Domain Name: HOTCLUBSEXXXX.COM
      Reseller..............: CheapDomains UK
      Created on............: 17 Dec 2008 10:37:39 EST
      Expires on............: 17 Dec 2013 10:37:39 EST
      Record last updated on: 17 Dec 2008 10:37:39 EST
      Status................: ON LOCK


   Owner, Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
      Sean Deviney (ID00396883)
      3901 South Ocean Drive
      Hollywood, FL 33019
      United States
      Phone: +1.9544785372
      Email: seandeviney@hotmail.com


   Domain servers in listed order:

      NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
      NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
      NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
      NS4.EVERYDNS.NET
 
I would like to now inject a wee-bit of PPC fanboyism, and mention that PA-Semi built a Power Architecture product with fairly low power use, once upon a time. OMG WHAT IF THIS IS A SCALED UP VERSION OF THAT.


Anybody with more programming knowledge (esp about the iPhone SDK) want to chime in on how much work porting an app to PPC would be?
 
Can't help you there. Of course that problem is OS-neutral and processor architecture-neutral.
In before external keyboard add-ons?

Seriously, beyond a case to protect the tablet I don't want to have stuff plugged in or wirelessly tethered. They're treading a gray area between a pocketable PMP and a netbook/notebook without the benefits of either.
 
What about a keyboard? I'm not typing on a touch keyboard.

Then the macbook would be perfect for you, or any of the hackinstosh netbook.

The tablet using iPhone OS suggests it'll probably be more of an information consumption device than an information creation device.

Think of how iPhone has changed the way mobile web sites looked and feel on the mobile devices as well as the iphone applications. Now imagine with App Store for the tablet, every developer will be developing customized software that's designed specifically for the tablet's screen and multitouch capability. It can change the way we interact with our information at once, granted many developers will just be porting their iPhone to the Tablet but they'll be including much more interactive data to fit the screen since the tablet will be far more powerful and bigger screen.
 
Doubtful that this is the name. Normally these things would redirect to their home page but it does nothing.

Read the d*mn story. It says: "iSlate.com currently points to no website."

Apple can own a DNS name without lighting it up.
 
Then the macbook would be perfect for you, or any of the hackinstosh netbook.
I already have a MacBook. I'm still have some interest in a MID device though.

The tablet using iPhone OS suggests it'll probably be more of an information consumption device than an information creation device.
I think we're concerned about the price tag now.

Think of how iPhone has changed the way mobile web sites looked and feel on the mobile devices as well as the iphone applications. Now imagine with App Store for the tablet, every developer will be developing customized software that's designed specifically for the tablet's screen and multitouch capability. It can change the way we interact with our information at once, granted many developers will just be porting their iPhone to the Tablet but they'll be including much more interactive data to fit the screen since the tablet will be far more powerful and bigger screen.
Like I said before, it's a bigger iPod Touch.
 
Everyone calls iPod Touch as iTouch. hence, iSlate = iPod Slate

It won't be an 'iPod' anything.
Any more than the iPhone is an 'iPod phone'.

This is new territory and markets, and they're not going to saddle themselves to the constrained image of a 10 year old music player.

There is NO WAY this thing will have "Mac" anywhere in the name.

The genius of 'iPhone' is that PC users will just buy it and plug it into their Windows machine without even thinking twice. If it'd been called "Mac-Phone" I can promise you that sales would be hurt by all the people thinking you had to own a Mac to use the Apple cell phone.

Apple avoided that issue perfectly with the phone. There's zero chance they'd make a boneheaded mistake like that once the tablet gets here. It won't be a Mac, period. They'll want everyone to own one.

Most sensible post I've seen in weeks.

Slate.com would ( and could ) have issues with this name.

They don't make electronic devices.
Actually, I didn't even know they made anything any more.
 
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