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Apple Tablet Hints: Virtual Keyboard, Camera, eBooks, More

....Again - Battery Life will Be the Determinant Factor for iPad

If the battery life sucks... the device wont really do itself the just it would deserve.

....and another point. :cool:

Apple are pushing themselves as 'green'. :rolleyes:

Then if people are plugging in their phones every day to recharge... how green is it really? Having to chew up juice every day burns coal at the power station.
So all the recyclables in the world.... and it chews up more juice than other phones... The back casing could have been a bit thinner in exchange for at least another juice without charging...
;)
 
I wonder if...

Prometheus2000 said:
To me all the Multimedia capabilities sound amazing, but to be honest, the core functionality of a tablet is that it replaces pen and paper for your notes and sketches. I am a engineer and I wished I had a tablet where I can do all my notes on. I used a HP TC1100 for a while with Microsoft OneNote.

If Apple could comes up with an App on their Tablet (part of the iWorks family) that surpasses what OneNote can do, that's where the real need for a Tablet lies. And by such an App I mean not just a scratch paper programm like Windows Journal... but with organisation, cross referenceing, media linking, webaccess and everything.

I also learnt that a tablet is great for presenting data to a meeting where all people sit around the table and can watch the flat down display, otherwise with a laptop you always need to rush people to one side of the table...

Watching media, reading newspaper, all very nice, but most of these things are possible on existing devices.

But let us surprise by Apple next week. They always have this nice way of thinking "function first, hardware second", while most hardware manufacturs seem to take pride in the engineering of their new products without clear application purpose which can only come from a software development...
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Maybe apple has found a way to write with finger over screen that you see then once your done writing it turns to either a sticky note shrunk down or embedded with regular text your choice... ahhhh 5 days... now I know what Cartman felt like wanting to freeze himself so would go to sleep and wake up the day of the wii launch :p

Catrik007
 
Facial recognition isn't practical enough for apple to use. It has one big flaw, I want to use my tablet in the dark...

So I have to turn the light on to get my tablet to recognise me...
In which case they'd have to build in a seperate system to combat this (IE a password) Making it useless.

I think that come the 27th 'IF' Apple release a tablet it will be a good looking version of current tablets on the market, but it will have one knock-out feature which will make it stand out from the crowd (probably something that we haven't thought of). Some of the rumours flying around really make me laugh, I can't remember people getting excited so long before an event! :rolleyes:
 
PeteSky said:
Has anyone heard if these first gen tablets will have LightPeak - the compact (and very fast) optical connection? There was some talk early on but none recently.

LightPeak was targetted to make it to market in 2010 - or at least that was the hope in 2009.
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So what would you connect it to with LightPeak?

Now one HDMI and one DisplayPort 1.2, that would be great.
 
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In the UK a 32gb iPhone sim free is around £550 so surely this thing is going to be about the £800 mark. That takes it well above $1000!
 
Damn... I've been as pro-tablet as anyone and assumed I'd get this thing day 1 since the very start of the rumours.

But I've just realised the one thing that will prevent me from buying this: a $1000 price tag.

I dismissed it for weeks as being madness, and thought all the initial rumours of it being "cheaper than you'd expect" a sign that Apple had realised that it's worth shaving a few % off it's profit margins in order to really sell masses of a product.

But all we've heard recently is 1k, 1k, 1k and I just don't know how I could justify spending so much on anything that isn't a desktop/laptop replacement...

Apple stock is going to come crassssshing down if Jobs utters the words "one thousand dollars" on wednesday.
 
I believe that Apple will release a really great new device next Wednesday. Whether it will be for me or not remains to be seen.

I also believe that a LOT of people in this thread are going to be sorely disappointed. We've taken the rumors for the new device and used them to construct in our heads many potential über-tablets (most of) which will not be technologically feasible for at least another 20 years.

Can we try to be a bit more realistic with our expectations?
 
digitalbiker said:
It was a huge hit. Why would anyone buy a white macbook once the tablet is released?
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It would need two features to replace _my_ MacBook: External keyboard/mouse and output on at least a 24 inch monitor, with its own display turned off.
 
catrik007 said:
If Apple rises the market share to 80%...
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what of any Apple products have 80% market share now? (hint not even iPods got that high)
Why is that going to change for the ones that are not?
As I said, there is no rational justification for why this would happen.
 
Everthing

ricriley said:
Facial recognition isn't practical enough for apple to use. It has one big flaw, I want to use my tablet in the dark...

So I have to turn the light on to get my tablet to recognise me...
In which case they'd have to build in a seperate system to combat this (IE a password) Making it useless.

I think that come the 27th 'IF' Apple release a tablet it will be a good looking version of current tablets on the market, but it will have one knock-out feature which will make it stand out from the crowd (probably something that we haven't thought of). Some of the rumours flying around really make me laugh, I can't remember people getting excited so long before an event! :rolleyes:
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Everthing I said we can do on the iphone now, except videochating.

I expect we will get a
- long life battery
- Great ebook reader
- excellent web browser
- 64 GB
- excellent HD ipod
- magazine, newspaper viewer
- textbooks by years end
- isight camera (only 1 in front like imac)
maybe portable iwork
- ilife and iphoto combo

Quote me on these, on the 27th

Catrik007
 
Goodfella83 said:
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In the UK a 32gb iPhone sim free is around £550 so surely this thing is going to be about the £800 mark. That takes it well above $1000!
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1. As people have groaned much about here the exchange rates into the UK market aren't so great.

2. The MacBook price level is also higher. As long as this lands substantively below the MacBook it won't have a problem. Priced at the same level of a MacBook is dumb. All the confusion here about "why would I want to buy...." is going to get magnified if they do that. Priced more than a MacBook is more than dumb. This device isn't going to "out function" a MacBook if it is leveraging iPhone OS.


3. There isn't necessarily a huge mark up for the jump from the 32GB iPhone. For example, one driver of the iPhone is packing 32GB into one flash chip. There is more physical volume in a bigger device and so can use last generation flash chips, which are substantially cheaper. The screen is going to be more expensive but not all of the components have to drive the cost up by large amounts.
 
There really has been noting really exciting since iPhone. Sure the new iMacs are great, but... And have you noticed that nobody has seemed to have been cheering at any events in the past few years, every event has been like groundhogs day - boring.

gnasher729 said:
It would need two features to replace _my_ MacBook: External keyboard/mouse and output on at least a 24 inch monitor, with its own display turned off.
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Not to mention a FULL operating system....
 
I'm only expecting a giant iPod Touch so I might be pleasantly surprised on the 27th, but won't be disappointed whatever it turns out to actually be.

I do need a device for travel which fits in between my iPhone and MBP, but I'm increasingly thinking this isn't going to be it.
 
Yixian said:
Damn... I've been as pro-tablet as anyone and assumed I'd get this thing day 1 since the very start of the rumours.

But I've just realised the one thing that will prevent me from buying this: a $1000 price tag.

I dismissed it for weeks as being madness, and thought all the initial rumours of it being "cheaper than you'd expect" a sign that Apple had realised that it's worth shaving a few % off it's profit margins in order to really sell masses of a product.

But all we've heard recently is 1k, 1k, 1k and I just don't know how I could justify spending so much on anything that isn't a desktop/laptop replacement...

Apple stock is going to come crassssshing down if Jobs utters the words "one thousand dollars" on wednesday.
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Yup. If it's just a large iPod Touch SJ will get laughed off the stage if he says it's $1K and not joking. I think (hope, pray, double cross fingers) that Apple isn't that arrogant to price it anywhere near $1K.

Assuming this thing is flawless I think the highest legit price is $649. Not even SJ's Reality Distortion Field isn't powerful enough to convince people to shed $1K on a toy.
 
You were asking what would it take....

deconstruct60 said:
what of any Apple products have 80% market share now? (hint not even iPods got that high)
Why is that going to change for the ones that are not?
As I said, there is no rational justification for why this would happen.
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I thought you were asking what would it take to raise stock from 219 share to 1,000 share and i said 80% market share would do it, and I see this could happen in 1-3 maybe five years as prices go down more and more.

I would not be surprised if apple sells 7,000,000 apple tablets by end of 2010. I've see the excitement in peoples eyes who dont even understand computers. It could have a interface thats that simple.

Catrik007
 
catrik007 said:
I would not be surprised if apple sells 7,000,000 apple tablets by end of 2010. I've see the excitement in peoples eyes who dont even understand computers. It could have a interface thats that simple.
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Depends. If Apple overprices people's excitement will not translate to sales. I get excited when I see a new Ferrari, but I'd never buy one. So it will be interesting to see what kind of economies of scale Apple can put together to attractively price it. I think $650 is the sweet spot and anything more than 2x a Kindle will be offputing. Priced under $600 (highly doubtful), and the iPhone launch will be more mobbed than the Bada Bing.
 
The more I read, the more it makes sense that this is aimed at the incoming college student. Let's say that Apple has made deals with every publisher of college text books. Now how does $1000 sound? If the etexts are 50% cheaper you would pay for it in 4 years of school.
A Silent keyboard would be nice in many situations.
Also a device that doubles as gaming and media delivery? College student once again. There is an annual stream of students entering college who need a computer. It is just like apple to create a device that fits a market rather than just making a device and hoping a market appears.
 
I agree but....

Chupa Chupa said:
Depends. If Apple overprices people's excitement will not translate to sales. I get excited when I see a new Ferrari, but I'd never buy one. So it will be interesting to see what kind of economies of scale Apple can put together to attractively price it. I think $650 is the sweet spot and anything more than 2x a Kindle will be offputing. Priced under $600 (highly doubtful), and the iPhone launch will be more mobbed than the Bada Bing.
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I think they know they need to get this into as many hands as possible, they know the content (ahem...app store) is VERY lucrative. so selling it at a less profit is VERY beneficial. So I think it will be priced to its value. Im thinking $699 and $799 I wonder if theirs a apps anonymous ;)

Listen to Macbreak weekly the newest podcast, great predictions and discusion.

Catrik007
 
Thex1138 said:
If the battery life sucks... the device wont really do itself the just it would deserve.

....and another point. :cool:

Apple are pushing themselves as 'green'. :rolleyes:

Then if people are plugging in their phones every day to recharge... how green is it really? Having to chew up juice every day burns coal at the power station.
So all the recyclables in the world.... and it chews up more juice than other phones... The back casing could have been a bit thinner in exchange for at least another juice without charging...
;)
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Greener than killing 2 trees every time you buy a book;)
 
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