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Apple Tablet = iPhone OS or Mac OS X?
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Hybird - Agree, but more iPhone OS-based rather than Mac OS X-based
iTunes? - Why run iTunes when it can run an enhanced iPod.app? Simpler and easier to use.
Sync with a mac - Agree
Sync with an iPod/iPhone - Hmm... you can't have it both ways, its either going to be macs or iPod/iPhones it syncs with. My guess = Macs... but that brings up a good point, how do Windows users sync up? Wait, they'd sync just like Windows iPod owners. No problem there.
Ok, Ok, you make a decent point that I was a little irrational saying that the reason Apple wouldn't open it up is due to Word or MSFT, but think about it, would Apple really want to confuse consumers like that by allowing downloading from the internet? Risk/reward is VERY heavily weighted on the risk side, IMHO.
And again, to clarify, this isn't really going to be "another OS". Simply an enhanced version of iPhone OS, nothing crazy to change around, the OS is already pretty amazing.
The point of this was what again? I'm fairly certain you might be able to adjust the screen size?
I don't see why this would be preferable to anyone. iPhone developers would be open to a nightmare.
explained much better than the OP (which wasn't really a logical way of arguing).. BUT how about a watered down version of OSX? this tablet seems to be right in the middle of both OSX and iPhone OS - how about a mix of the two? what may be a little more telling is that what ever is used will have to go out to dev's so they can start writing apps for it - do we really think iphone/touch OS will work well on a 10" tablet at this point? once it goes out to dev's, i think all of us will know what's going on - but what if nothing goes out to dev's?? i think that would be REALLY interesting.
as well, you don't need to boot off a DVD drive for an OS - supposedly my MBP can get an install from the SD card port, i have read that somewhere, i could be wrong..
just a few things to think about..
i also need to point out is that none of us having any facts (things you can back up with real evidence).. it's amusing how some (only some) at this site speak like they know what's going to come out, none of us do.
Hey that's an awesome idea!
Perhaps they should build tablet awareness into the APPS and the INTERFACE?
C.
Possibly Answered Questions about the iTablet
Take it for what you wish.
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/27/the-apple-tablet-some-possibly-answered-questions/
Take it for what you wish.
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/27/the-apple-tablet-some-possibly-answered-questions/
I think Harry's guesses sound about right.
Although I think the iPhone UI would look a bit lost trying to fill larger format screen. If it runs more than one app at time, the UI might need a bit of re-jigging.
C.
On an unrelated note.
One problem for webcams is that people look at the image of the person they are talking to. Rather than at the lens of the camera. This means the video chat experience is poor. No eye contact!
Suddenly thought that *two* forward facing cameras on either side of the screen might solve this. Blend the left and right image - and you might be able to synthesize a mid-way image. Restoring eye contact.
Wasn't there some talk about having camera(s) directly behind the LCD? Does anyone remember those rumors? I beleive it may have been about iMacs or MacBooks, but still.
Yeah, but that's a solution from clever hardware.
But Apple don't make hardware. They buy their LCD panels from the same vendors as everyone else.
The two camera & interpolate method would be a software solution.
Sorry for taking us off topic.
C.
How could anyone believe that it'll be anything less that OSX? I have a MacBook Pro from 2006 and it runs OSX ... The Tablet MUST run OSX.
For Apple to release a Tablet that operates on a system that is anything less than the system I had back in 2006 is not like Apple at all.
If it actually does exist, the tablet will be a vastly different product to the MBP and will have a different target audience.
Trying to wedge OSX onto it doesn't make sense, especially when Apple already have a tried-and-tested multitouch-based OS ready on the shelf.
If it's not OSX in it's simplest form ... It's an adaptation that only us MacPhreeks would notice, haha.
Yup, I used Phreek ... Anyone else use a RedBox? haha
Yup, I used Phreek ... Anyone else use a RedBox? haha
hasn't it already been concluded that the iphone os is already a filtered down os x, therefore the multi-touch is there in os x somewhere? the trackpad is multi-touch, and the whole input concept of a tablet is that the screen is the trackpad.
they cannot strip out finder and file/directory handling. for this reason i see it looking more like os x than the iphone.
and i don't see why word in its current form wouldn't work on a tablet. apple have already covered 1/2 the screen with a keyboard (when needed) in the iphone. why wouldn't they cover a 1/4 or 1/3 on a tablet (again, when needed)? also, for them to "make" developers write code specifically for this device they would have to prove that a) it is popular and b) its long term. i.e they're not going to cut it from their range in a years time if it doesn't take off. that's a little bit different to the iphone, where they waited a year before the app store, and where the market is a lot bigger because so many people have a need for a mobile/cell phone.
If the new tablet is indeed that iProd1,1, then I think its quite obvious it'll be running some version of the iPhone OS.
iPhone OS is a variant of OS X. The multitouch functionality was most likely added after it was branched from the main OS X release stream. Given this, the two OS's now exist in different release streams and I think it would require a lot of work to merge them again.
In its consumer devices (i.e. iPods, iPhones etc) Apple likes to restrict how much users can do, or rather how much they can inadvertently do wrong.
The tablet screams simplistic UI to me and that ain't OS X.
os x has multi-touch for its laptop trackpads.
i'd say the imac, mac mini and macbook are consumer products. they even have those "is this your first mac?" links for people moving from PCs.
Good point!
I'd define a consumer product as being any device I can't bring up a Terminal window on (straight out of the box).
Some reasons why this tablet won't have OS X:
- Apple makes too much money from the AppStore, OS X would let you install whatever you want from wherever you want.
- There are no rumours about new tablet-friendly versions of existing OS X applications (PhotoShop, MS Word etc).
- OS X applications would need major retooling to work well in multi-touch. New copy/paste functionality is only the start...
- Mobile Safari is screaming to be used on this device!