Only an apple product could create this hype and leave us constantly bombarded with random speculation and rumors. When I heard about the hp tablet ... Meh 
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Apple Tablet Operating System Claims: 'A Good Bit of New Sexy'
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It will clearly run something like the pictures and videos (yes videos!), shown in this thread.
PS - If any link to the videos are dead, PM me, I'll be happy to re upload them. Megaupload doesn't keep everything for ever.
PS - If any link to the videos are dead, PM me, I'll be happy to re upload them. Megaupload doesn't keep everything for ever.
I'm realy surprised that at ces almost everybody is coming out with a tablet,and they all basicly look the same and do the same, im looking forward to the xtra the apple version will bring.
After reading about those tablets i still dont feel the ed to buy on do, lets see if apple can change my mind, i like sexy so thats a goo start ;-).
After reading about those tablets i still dont feel the ed to buy on do, lets see if apple can change my mind, i like sexy so thats a goo start ;-).
Trust me, you want an app store for the tablet, even better if it was optional but it encourages the next generation of software being developed specifically for the tablet's capability. Think of the huge difference between iPhone and Windows Mobile Phone. If iPhone was running full OS X, it wouldn't success like it did with iPhone's custom GUI and multitouch way of interacting.
Why do people think a tablet running a beefed up iPhone OS with a new UI wouldn't have multitasking? There are two semi valid concerns with multitasking:
1) Strain on mobile processors means that things get laggy from running two many programs
2) Reduced battery life
What will a tablet have that the iPhone doesn't?
1) beefier hardware, likely a variant of the dual core arm cortex A9 and more ram
2) A bigger battery
I think it is inevitable that the iPhone will get multitasking as hardware advances, and it seems likely that the beefed up tablet will start with it. There is no reason not to.
1) Strain on mobile processors means that things get laggy from running two many programs
2) Reduced battery life
What will a tablet have that the iPhone doesn't?
1) beefier hardware, likely a variant of the dual core arm cortex A9 and more ram
2) A bigger battery
I think it is inevitable that the iPhone will get multitasking as hardware advances, and it seems likely that the beefed up tablet will start with it. There is no reason not to.
I, personally, think that's the actual OS. If not, it's a close concept of what I'm imagining.
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I have a source that's telling me that it's made out of satan BUT ALSO that it's made out of god. It's also made out of... candy!!!!
Don't confuse OS with interfaces. If a tablet used the iPhone OS, it does not mean no multitasking. The iPhone OS quite obviously supports it, Apple just doesn't provide any interface for it through official channels. I have a hard time believing a tablet would NOT have multitasking as it may have to do it to fill a role beyond just a big iPod Touch/iPhone. Only time will tell though.
I love this rumor. It's odd this guy didn't get more specific and say, "Well, the iSlate is bigger than nothing and smaller than a building."
Wow. That a really unique, new, sexy look with a really unique, new, steep learning curve method of input.
4 letters.
Begin with F.
Wow. That a really unique, new, sexy look with a really unique, new, steep learning curve method of input.
4 letters.
Begin with F.
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My neighbour claims that he will have a slate coming out before Apple. It's gonna be called 'The Slate'.
I also have information about the Apple Tablet's OS. It's gonna be Windows 7, supporting multitouch. But it will have Bootcamp, so you can also run Linux on it.
Sexy in this context means more porn in the Appstore and safer Private browsing mode in Safari. It's gonna be so private that they will rename it to Africa.
It's gonna be game-changer in the ecosystem with its user experience stuff. More cliches follow.
Oh, one more thing... IT WILL HAVE A SCREEN!!! It will also have a back.
My neighbour claims that he will have a slate coming out before Apple. It's gonna be called 'The Slate'.
I also have information about the Apple Tablet's OS. It's gonna be Windows 7, supporting multitouch. But it will have Bootcamp, so you can also run Linux on it.
Sexy in this context means more porn in the Appstore and safer Private browsing mode in Safari. It's gonna be so private that they will rename it to Africa.
It's gonna be game-changer in the ecosystem with its user experience stuff. More cliches follow.
Oh, one more thing... IT WILL HAVE A SCREEN!!! It will also have a back.
Thanks. Interesting videos / fakes / whatever.
Especially the one with the notepad demo, where the keyboard stayed within its tiny window.
The idea that popup keyboards would stay individually locked to each virtual iPhone window instead of using a larger one, is a bit of a surprising concept, but possible.
I see your point and it makes some sense.
I'm all for having an App store, but why can't there be both an App store, and the freedom to load your own apps or scripts that you find useful that aren't in the App store.
Apple being the gatekeeper for EVERYthing I want to do on my device just seems wrong somehow.
Agreed. Appstore has nothing to do with the fact that it's a dedicated OS. The OS can be specialized for the tablet and not use an appstore (or make the appstore optional).
Especially so if you could use multitouch to make that notepad window larger and also scale the virtual keyboard up in size along with the associated app.
My guess is that programming for the iTablet/iSlate/iWhatever this will be an extension or expansion of Cocoa Touch. So not a different OS per se, but one that anyone programming for the iPhone should already be fairly competent in -- with the exception of new iTablet/iSlate/iWhatever specific classes. Probably the iPhone OS 4.x or 5.x will eventually become a specific version of the same basic OS, like Eduardo suggests:
That is why I won't be buying it. I'll get by with my iMac, Macbook (soon to be Arrandale Macbook Pro) & iPhone. I can live with the iPhone being locked down because it is a phone but not a $1000 semi-computer that is geared towards reading magazines & newspapers. If they pull this with OSX, I will leave the Mac.
Yeah. Apple's computers aren't restricted in the software area. You can hack it up all you want... you can load extensions, plugins or customize anything you want. This is how I think the tablet should be. It should be a smaller MacBook Pro without a keyboard and trackpad.
I too would like to run any App I want. I also would like it to run Mac OS X apps like iChat for example.
The iPhone is different because some people need their phone to always be working because it's the only thing they communicate with. So I think that's why the iPhone is locked down.
The people who hack and jailbreak their iPhone probably don't need it to work 100% of the time, and they're okay with fiddling with it when it breaks.