i won't believe it until i see a shaky/blurry picture of the tablet taken inside an elevator or which some chick from the manufacturing line in china holding it 
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Apple Tablet Coming in 2010?
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While I would definitely buy that device... it's too bad that it doesn't fit the rumors (10" touch screens). Because I'd love to buy that one, too.
This is nice looking, but basically futurist crap.
I'm sure it got the kid a gold medal in his design class, but it's nothing even close to a real product.
I'm not trying to be a pain, but it's getting so old to see this stuff. Every time someone starts a thread about future Apple products we get these flexi, glow-in-the-dark, sentient notebooks dragged out. It's tiresome at best.
Gerard O'Neil a famous super smart Princeton physicist promised everyone in 1971 that a large portion of the Earths population would be living in orbital space stations floating at the Lagrange points by 1995, and that seemed reasonable at the time as well.
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Thats what I thought. I think WWDC will be more interesting this year than usually. But I think it might be too early for this. One way or another that will be similar to iPhone in terms of popularity.
Saving another $700
I still say new iPhone at WWDC.
The tablet announcement is not happening until some time (July?) after Steve is back. That announcement will be too big to let Schiller muck around.
Except this has fail written over it, name the number of companies who have produced successful tablets that people want.
Whoever designed that is in la la land regarding that pen interface and miraculously the Math [LaTeX/XeTeX] perfectly formatted document, inlaid is nothing but a fantasy via a Pen Interface, not to mention not remotely as efficient as a mouse and keyboard.
Secondly, I love how the flex divider suddenly becomes seemless for the pen surface, without zero bumps in the seem.
Yeah I remember the Newton, it was the expensive thingy Apple released that failed.
That's what I'm thinking. Who uses/wants a tablet? I cannot think of anyone other than Pharmaceutical Sale Reps.
Of course I am open to Apple reinventing the tablet. So for all we know whatever Apple ends up calling this thing will become synonymous with the term "tablet" (just as iPod is synonymous with MP3 player). And then we'll see a bunch of lame-ass copies being produced in the years following.
This will be interesting.
Five (to seven) years from now there will be only one Apple OS. OS 11, it will run on the phone, the tablet and the home computer. That'll be pretty neat.
Oh please do not mention the cloud and apple. Mobileme is a pile of crap. Believe me you do not want apple to offload anything to the "cloud". They have proven that is not their strong point.
The iPhone (iWalk) was long running as well.
7+ months is not that long a wait, considering this will likely be timed around the release of Windows 7, and will likely out feature and perform it on several levels.
No one believed that the iPhone would surface either.
7+ months is not that long a wait, for a game changing device, i.e. a tablet designed in such a way as to entice consumers, in addition to med labs, bio labs, etc.
We'll have to give them at least two years to catch up and attempt to imitate the new form factor.Doesn't matter when it comes or how potentially awesome it is, the haters will still scream about how a Dell is cheaper.
I'm seeing the future Microsoft Tablet Hunters ad now...
Pretty much. That's what I've also been thinking and fits in with some of my thoughts.
It did?
Well it better have a "Classic" OS X compatibility mode, or I can imagine the howls from everyone who will have to update all their apps and hacks. That's in addition to those with three year-old systems that won't run the new OS.
yes, because ultra mobile devices are all about efficient data entry. That's why we have fat-finger gui's, cramped keyboards, and thumb keyboards (virtual and physical) ... yes, those are amazingly efficient compared to mice and full size keyboards.
That's because there is no seam. It's a flexible OLED display.
Flex OLED displays are not seamless yet sadly..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtN_TkZUOt4
Seeing how devices are out now with OLED screens and we may see flex OLED screens within a year. I'm guessing a flex OLED Apple tablet will be out in 2020
HONESTLY!!! It is like every year they push it back another year. I thought for sure we would have it by the end of this year. Now in 2010 they will say 2011. You are going to miss your opportunity Apple!
In case it hasn't been said yet, iTablet Forever would seem a suitable monicker in light of recent events .
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Regurgitation..
There's nothing in that 'note' that is anything new from the the rumor mills of the past year... nice try at offical'dom for investors...
There's nothing in that 'note' that is anything new from the the rumor mills of the past year... nice try at offical'dom for investors...
I don't care how awesome this will be if/when it comes out, I'm not getting a tablet. The HP Pavilion Tablet PC forever traumatized me and I'm never again getting anything with 'tablet' in the name.
And I agree with some posters above me - I'm not in the market for one either as I simply don't use / need a tablet.
And I agree with some posters above me - I'm not in the market for one either as I simply don't use / need a tablet.
Why would it need another OS?
iPhones Apps should scale up with no drama, and I'm not talking just taking the current app layout and making it bigger.
Say take 7inch screen at the same res as the current iPhone drop of a dock bar along the bottom and you could have 3 apps of current vertical layout, running side by side. Or Apps could add 2 and 3 module layouts that adds or improves the function that can be accessed in those bigger layouts. An App could be running a number of modes depending what suits the user best. Background on dock, 1Mod Active App, 1 Mod Background with a 2 Mod Active App and 3 App Active app. Plus any number of Combinations.
iPhones Apps should scale up with no drama, and I'm not talking just taking the current app layout and making it bigger.
Say take 7inch screen at the same res as the current iPhone drop of a dock bar along the bottom and you could have 3 apps of current vertical layout, running side by side. Or Apps could add 2 and 3 module layouts that adds or improves the function that can be accessed in those bigger layouts. An App could be running a number of modes depending what suits the user best. Background on dock, 1Mod Active App, 1 Mod Background with a 2 Mod Active App and 3 App Active app. Plus any number of Combinations.
where do these comments originate about netbooks offering a poor experience? granted i would prefer my macbook, but i love using the MSI wind (with or without the mac OS on it) when traveling or outside in places where i would not risk using my macbook. it works great without any problems for the most common computing tasks that people do every day. sure i wouldn't plan on gaming or editing movies on the netbook, but it is a great portable computer.
and, regardless of the price, i would love to see what apple could bring to the market to fill the gap between the iphone and the macbook.
and, regardless of the price, i would love to see what apple could bring to the market to fill the gap between the iphone and the macbook.
