Well, I can't wait for it to come out. Steve has been working really hard on this project for a couple years now, just like the article states. This project has been trashed and recycled a numeous amount of times during the past decade. This has to be one of Steve's most difficult projects yet. Never worked over there in Cupertino, but when working on a project with Steve, everything has to be exactly how he envisions it. It could be the littlest thing, like toughness of a design of a product, if it's not tough enough, Steve will go right back to the drawing board to see what he could do. If there's no solution, time to put the project on hold and wait. Steve that precise. I don't think he will disappoint with this project. He hardly ever does.
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Apple Tablet Rumors Revived: February 2010 Launch? P.A. Semi Processor?
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has jobs ever created a real dud?? i can't think of one.
he has either produced or backed winners every time. he turned an 80 million dollar investment in a struggling company, pixar, into a giant. what did disney pay to acquire it? 8 billion i think. now jobs is on the board of disney and owns a nice chunk. they just bought marvel comics, which i would imagine means marvel studios. o they have the rights to most of the movie franchises except spiderman.
jobs is the real king midas!! everything he touches turns to gold!!
he has either produced or backed winners every time. he turned an 80 million dollar investment in a struggling company, pixar, into a giant. what did disney pay to acquire it? 8 billion i think. now jobs is on the board of disney and owns a nice chunk. they just bought marvel comics, which i would imagine means marvel studios. o they have the rights to most of the movie franchises except spiderman.
jobs is the real king midas!! everything he touches turns to gold!!
Comics.. interesting, considering Jobs is a Disney director and they bought Marvel.
The Device itself is not in Question, its the Software
The software for this has to be either OSX Snow leopard or something that is custom build from the iPhone/iPod touch. Can you imagine what kind of user interface you would have on a device this large and your still using the iPhone software? Its going to suck! they must be developing a new version of software that is between the iphone os and OSX 10.6.1.
The software for this has to be either OSX Snow leopard or something that is custom build from the iPhone/iPod touch. Can you imagine what kind of user interface you would have on a device this large and your still using the iPhone software? Its going to suck! they must be developing a new version of software that is between the iphone os and OSX 10.6.1.
Right. I hope the tablet has Mac Draw too.
Really. MacDraw was a truly convenient and simple way to do very useful things.Apple has been "working" on a tablet now since before the Newton. Technology has finally caught up with several of the "killer apps" of the device. True multi-homing internet access, big dense displays, low power components and chips, price concessions by suppliers from adequate volumes and market share.
Then we have the form factor studies. We had Newton, the Duo. the iPhone, the PowerBook. This device is likely to have "accessories" (handtop, desktop, laptop, couchtop, headtop) to provide functionality beyond a mere mobile full HD handtop experience.
ATNN, here we come!
Please just throw MacDraw on there too. It really is useful. What comes around, goes around.
Jerry
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=PA6T-1682M&aq=f&aqi=g-m1&oq=&fp=ee36edbd3c16a1c5
The tablet will feature a rubberized enclosure containing an air bladder that automatically inflates, creating a stand that allows for easy viewing and typing on desks and airline tray tables.
Motorola Rokr, but that was designed by Moto
in the last year i read an article about all the duds that Apple ever produced including when Jobs was there and it was a lengthy list. Like a lot of successful companies, Apple kills off the dud products right away.
the original iPhone was close to being a dud until Apple and AT&T lowered the price and they added all the features in iPhone OS 2 that other phones already had. but i remember reading the sales reports in late 2007 and it was selling below expectations.
I'm sure this will be a lovely device, but the $799 to $999 pricepoint is too high ... at least to me. I'll stick with my MBA and lug the extra pound or two.
they will then have to write a virtual machine like JVM or .NET for people to port the code easily. no one is going to spend a lot of time writing code unless they are sure to make money
the hi-fi is an accessory. i'll buy the cube as a fail. and the apple tv isn't huge but not really a dud. it's a pretty good tivo.
Many would need to be recompiled anyway because of the different screen size. Of course it is entirely possible to write an iPhone app to work correctly whatever the screen size is, but many developers won't.
Not at all. Nobody writes code for an ARM processor. People write code for C, or C++, or Objective-C. Compile it and it works. The iPhone simulator is actually running plain x86 code and using MacOS X libraries. I bet most iPhone developers have not even checked personally whether there is really an ARM processor in the iPhone or not. Programmers don't even care whether their code runs on a CPU or a GPU, why should they care which kind of CPU it is? Nobody is rewriting any code.
It's been at least two days since a major Apple announcement, so crank up the tablet rumors again! I'll believe it when I see it. (And how many times have I said that?)
Newton
I don't think Steve has been working hardly on this project for two or three years, only to make a gigantic iPhone / iPod Touch.
Consider also that a virtual touch keyboard on a 8~9" screen is easy to use ony when the device is on a table, because otherwise you can't use fingers of both hands.
So I guess we'll see the rebirth of most, if not all, revolutionary features of the Newton:
1) Handwirting recognition. User will be able to choose between a virtual touch keyboard, or handwriting with some kind of electronic stylus/pen (as the screen, I presume, will be glass-covered, like the iPhone/iPod Touch).
2) Recognition and resolution of handwritten formulas and equations (was in develop process for the Newton).
3) Assisted drawing, with recognition and cleaning up into perfect vector representations (with modifiable control points and defined vertices) of what the user is attempting to draw by hand with the electronic stylus.
4) Creating and archiving of "Tablet" documents, and the possibility to attach them to a contact / calendar event / to-do item.
5) printing and faxing.
I hope that the "Tablet" will be also a voice cellphone, using the iPhone earbuds with microphone. If you are out with your tablet, why carry also your iPhone?
Of course, if the "Tablet" will have all these features, I think it will be a huge success.
I don't think Steve has been working hardly on this project for two or three years, only to make a gigantic iPhone / iPod Touch.
Consider also that a virtual touch keyboard on a 8~9" screen is easy to use ony when the device is on a table, because otherwise you can't use fingers of both hands.
So I guess we'll see the rebirth of most, if not all, revolutionary features of the Newton:
1) Handwirting recognition. User will be able to choose between a virtual touch keyboard, or handwriting with some kind of electronic stylus/pen (as the screen, I presume, will be glass-covered, like the iPhone/iPod Touch).
2) Recognition and resolution of handwritten formulas and equations (was in develop process for the Newton).
3) Assisted drawing, with recognition and cleaning up into perfect vector representations (with modifiable control points and defined vertices) of what the user is attempting to draw by hand with the electronic stylus.
4) Creating and archiving of "Tablet" documents, and the possibility to attach them to a contact / calendar event / to-do item.
5) printing and faxing.
I hope that the "Tablet" will be also a voice cellphone, using the iPhone earbuds with microphone. If you are out with your tablet, why carry also your iPhone?
Of course, if the "Tablet" will have all these features, I think it will be a huge success.
When .mp3 players were in their infancy, and the choice was between a crappy solid-state player that could hold a handful of songs at a low bit-rate or a hard-drive based player that could double as a boat anchor, people said the exact same thing about the iPod. Thousands of people. They all said it first, and they were all wrong.
By my rough estimate (using MacDraw
) That is about 8.75 x 4.92" at HD 16:9 aspect ratio. If you put a passport in your front LEVIS (industry standard) jeans pocket sideways, that is about 5", and it fits.We'll see.
Rocketman
even with DirectX and only 2 major GPU makers, devs have to code for different GPU's. once in a while i read the change logs of nvidia and ATI driver updates and they are always fixing problems with specific games on some GPU models. same thing intel and AMD where intel has MMX or whatever they call it and AMD has SSE. developers have to code for the capabilities of the CPU in their apps
That's not new. The on-screenn keyboard has been in OS X for some time now. It's used for accessibility purposes for those with special needs.