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Apple Tablet Media Event Today: 'Come See Our Latest Creation'
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Normal people: "I bigger iPod touch? Cool!"
Online message-board people: "A bigger iPod touch! Steve sucks!"
Good thing there are more normal people walking into Apple stores these days than message-board people.
Online message-board people: "A bigger iPod touch! Steve sucks!"
Good thing there are more normal people walking into Apple stores these days than message-board people.
It's the same "experts" who predicted the failure of the iPhone and Touch. Never did Apple claim they were producing a netbook or mini-laptop. This is all about content delivery, and now with a little creation thrown in with iWork.
This will be extremely popular once people see it live. 90% of consumers use their computers to surf/play music/movies/game. This does it well, cheap and with long battery life.
Exactly my thoughts as well.
The power to control what you're allowed to run on your iPhone has gone to their heads. Soon they'll release a Macbook that can only run things from the Apple store where they only get 30%.
Hopefully they'll adjust and recover. The success of the iPhone and app store has gone to their heads. Maybe the iPhone was the one hit.
This thing is on the road to iAwesome.
Now if this meeting goes on another hour about lots more stuff, it will be the promised Pad.
Now if this meeting goes on another hour about lots more stuff, it will be the promised Pad.
Did I miss the part where you can make calls, send and receive txt messages and take pictures and movies?
armh is going up i'm happy
And AAPL down. Surprised they didn't halt AAPL for this.
If you really think this will bomb, arbitrage it. Apple is already committed to build a bunch. ARMH will get the royalty income from the initial bunch whether it's a long-term success or not. ARMH excitement might be over-done, as they will just get royalties on it, since it's AAPL's chip which presumably they have contracted with somebody other than ARMH to produce. So, I'd get out of the arb before too long.
Reading any serious book on this device should be as uncomfortable as on any e-book reader available today, or possibly worse.
Actual book vs. e-book is totally different from MP3 vs. CD or those other arguments. Unlike when you listen to MP3 files, you can't fool yourself into thinking that you are doing fine since it's actual physical discomfort instead of some subtle quality drop.
Actual book vs. e-book is totally different from MP3 vs. CD or those other arguments. Unlike when you listen to MP3 files, you can't fool yourself into thinking that you are doing fine since it's actual physical discomfort instead of some subtle quality drop.
iWork was all I needed to hear to get this!!
Being able to make and edit keynote presentations and edit docs on the go is all I wanted out of this device and they are giving it to me. As long as it's 799 or under, I'll be first in line
Seriously? What makes this any better than carrying round a MacBook or Air? You'll still need to put it in a bag...with a damn good case to stop that screen getting killed...and you won't have access to ALL of your files.
Tablet was never a win IMO
This is MacRumors.
If you take away the spoiled moaning, whining, bitching, the forums would be empty.
Yes. Exactly. It's called taking a successful product and making it better. Mercedes does it all the time.
Is this the same iWork as on Macs? The box looks like iWork 09. I guess they are not releasing iWork 10 (X) yet.
EDIT: To clarify, I did not mean to say it is exactly like the current iWork.
EDIT: To clarify, I did not mean to say it is exactly like the current iWork.
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