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Apple Tablet Announcement As Early as January?

I'm hoping for a device with a screen 2x as large as the iPhone that runs an iPhone-like OS.
 
It might be four am in the morning here, but is the grammar police wrong here?

Financial Times echos much of what was reported on the Wall Street Journal about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.
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Shouldn't it be:
A. Financial Times echos much of what was reported in the Wall Street Journal about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.
B. Financial Times echos much of what was reported by the Wall Street Journal about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.
C. Financial Times echos much of what was reported on the Wall Street Journal website about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.​

That just bugged me for some reason...
 
thegoldenmackid said:
It might be four am in the morning here, but is the grammar police wrong here?



Shouldn't it be:
A. Financial Times echos much of what was reported in the Wall Street Journal about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.
B. Financial Times echos much of what was reported by the Wall Street Journal about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.
C. Financial Times echos much of what was reported on the Wall Street Journal website about Apple hoping to launch a subscription television service in 2010.​

That just bugged me for some reason...
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Ah, a fellow grammar Nazi.

I'm assuming the use of the word "on" implies the source is a Website but you're correct that it's unclear. The writer should have been specific.

I'm amused however that you've focused on that and overlooked the misspelling of "echoes." :D (Kidding!)
 
Names for it...

iTablet
iMac Thin
iTab
MacBook Tab
MacFlat
iVapour
iFlap
MacBook Tiny
iSlate
MacSlate Pro
FlatMac
 
Prediction: The Apple Tablet will not run Mac OSX or the iPhone OS or at least in the ways you think. Steve Jobs made the argument that the iPhone is running OSX because it has all the core stuff from Mac OSX (you can watch his conference with Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD 2007 where he discusses it).

So my prediction is the Tablet will run OSX but not in the way you think. It won't be the iPhone OS blown up to a 7-10 inch screen. It will be a completely new and different UI but under the hood it will be OSX (like the iPhone).
 
Awesome! Sign me up on the waiting list! I want one!

(I heard a rumor that every Tablet will come with a complimentary Steve Jobs bobble-head. Is that true?)
 
I cant imagine Apple would want to release a new iPhone and tablet at the same time in WWDC, so i would wager that if this rumour has any truth, it would be released upon or soon after announcement.

Wasn't the lead time for the original iPhone so that it wasn’t leaked by the FCC? and while a tablet is big news, its not quite such a massive departure from the status quo as the iPhone was.
 
iPlate (because its thin)
AppleFrame (because its rectangular)
iBar (because its sweet like a bar of chocolate)
iBuy (because you should so that they sell)
iShouldnt (because... well, you know)
iPlus (because its just a companion product to a real computer)
...

It's remarkable. Six months ago, nobody said a tablet could be used for anything. Now everybody wants one. Did everybody drop their expectations? Still the same question: An apple tablet, for what?
 
This is really getting interesting. Almost can taste it.

Yet, it's been a long time in coming. So I will believe it when I see it.

Although, I must admit that I feel it is really coming this time. :eek:
 
Manderby said:
It's remarkable. Six months ago, nobody said a tablet could be used for anything. Now everybody wants one. Did everybody drop their expectations? Still the same question: An apple tablet, for what?
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Sounds more like, six months ago you didn't listen when we said what a tablet could be used for. Now, some of us still want one, others are merely curious, and you're still in the dark.

Glad Apple has some vision. If it were up to people like you, we'd still be on typewriters.
 
Does anyone know who has the iPad copyright?

My guess right now is that the device--using a 10" touchpad side-LED backlit LCD panel with an ARM11 CPU built from PA Semi technology--is shown for the first time around January 19, 2010, with a scheduled release date about a month before WWDC. It will use iPhone OS 4.0, which is developed not only to take advantage of the larger 10" screen but will become the OS for the next-generation iPhone due in July 2010.

I expect the device to sport two ports: the standard iPod dock connector port (for connection to external computers via USB 2.0/3.0 connections) and a Mini DisplayPort (with an available adapter for Mini DisplayPort to HDMI port). It will of course support 802.11b/g/n WiFi, but it may have an option to support GSM HSDPA/HSUPA cellphone network connections.

A question we need to ask is what will be the on-device mass storage. Don't laugh, but this is very possible: a dual-platter 240 to 320 GB hard drive. Why? Because 1.8" hard drives consume very little power (and are very compact in size), and given the amount of interior space for a big battery pack, Apple's new tablet could run 10-12 hours on a single charge even with that little drive inside. Yes, we'd like to see large-capacity SSD storage, but current SSD prices may mitigate against that idea.
 
Anything goes!

Apple would like the announcement to have secured and included rich media content prior to the big day out.
Now that it appears two media giants are in on the play then that's the clincher for an announcement, then after it won't really matter on a product release date within 6 months, but it may not impact iPhone because that's an established cycle, this is totally new.
My money (and I definately will buy…) is on two variants initially. Spec' well anything goes…
 
Fragmentation

MikhailT said:
The tablet isn't going to be running the iPhone OS build. That's for sure. iPhone OS is built on the core of OS X, it's just a custom slimmed down build of it. Apple will develop a custom build of OSX 10.6 for the tablet, the Dock Expose makes a nice way of using the fingers to navigate, including the Expose/Dashboard to act as the Home Screen. There has to be a Finder for the Tablet, something that iPhone still lacks. The tablet should be more multitasking capable than the iPhone OS.
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Funny how you guys don't whine about the "Fragmentation" of OSX. Mac OSX, iPhone OS, Apple TV OS, and now you're predicting a new version for the tablet.
 
i hope it looks like this? and has its own app store.
504x_apple-tablet-contest.jpg
 
queshy said:
I'm hoping for a device with a screen 2x as large as the iPhone that runs an iPhone-like OS.
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Who wants that crippled, overly restrictive DRM infestation as an operating system? Then again, a tablet is a good-for-nothing device by definition, so it doesn't really matter what operating system runs on it.

But well, let's wait and see what Apple's marketing machinery is telling us why exactly we need to buy another designer toy from them and how it will totally change they way we do -- well what now? I'm not a painter, so I can't think of any killer applications for a tablet machine.
 
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