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Apple Tablet Media Event Today: 'Come See Our Latest Creation'
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Also, the design is not completely original because because it's just one implementation of ARM architecture.
Good for Apple.
Microcell towers and more are going to be built out across the US.
http://www.wimax.com/commentary/blog/blog-2008/femtocells-picocells-microcells-what-do-they-all-mean
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/01/25/att-3g-microcell-a-femtocell-coming-sooner-than-we-think/
I think my greatest concern right now is the hardware disparity and an additional platform for the developers.
Zooming into iPhone sized applications and getting doubled pixels just isn't very Apple. It shouldn't be that hard to update interfaces but an annoyance nonetheless.
Zooming into iPhone sized applications and getting doubled pixels just isn't very Apple. It shouldn't be that hard to update interfaces but an annoyance nonetheless.
It really feels like an extension device. Though Apple wants to call it a netbook killer. An updated iPod Touch would probably get me to open up the checkbook.
In a sick way I really hope they don't release tablet just to make all of the constant rumors, speculation, and 4th hand information false. Especially the rumors that state "The Apple table will have...", when they have no idea.
I also believe that if they do release one it will be somewhat underwhelming in relation to all of the stock-pumping rumors, but still potentially cool.
If nothing else, I hope something is released so people will stop speculating about it.
EDIT: I had this post sitting around. Got busy and finally put it up, and just got to check out some live blogs. So far, it's exactly what I thought. A giant iPod Touch, with standard features available on every other computer/tablet, and the only thing "revolutionary" about it is it's Apple designed GUI. If anyone expected anything more then you haven't been following Apple releases for very long.
Edit: Not that it's awful, but just standard. The only thing that separates this from anything else is the UI, but that's pretty much the most important thing for a touch screen computer; and is the same reason the iPhone is so popular.
I also believe that if they do release one it will be somewhat underwhelming in relation to all of the stock-pumping rumors, but still potentially cool.
If nothing else, I hope something is released so people will stop speculating about it.
EDIT: I had this post sitting around. Got busy and finally put it up, and just got to check out some live blogs. So far, it's exactly what I thought. A giant iPod Touch, with standard features available on every other computer/tablet, and the only thing "revolutionary" about it is it's Apple designed GUI. If anyone expected anything more then you haven't been following Apple releases for very long.
Edit: Not that it's awful, but just standard. The only thing that separates this from anything else is the UI, but that's pretty much the most important thing for a touch screen computer; and is the same reason the iPhone is so popular.
I completely agree. Contrast and brightness of my Dell monitor (IPS) it looks beautiful. Amazing viewing angle. If I was to pick any display for this type of device it would be this.
Yeah, why would developers be trying to sell more copies of their software? I'm sure that's not something that would be interesting to them.
So far it's an epic fail for me, it looks like they've thought about it from the perspective of making money from the user. Not even considered what the user might want, is apple becoming Microsoft? Honestly this is by far one of the worst products I've ever seen Apple release. It's a non multi tasking giant iPod Touch
Utter junk
No multitask, even with all that CPU power. Strange. On a screen that big you should be able to run different apps side by side.
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