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Apple Tablet Speculation Continuing to Gain Attention

Who cares anymore!

I personally couldn't give a toss! I like Apple products, but they'll do whatever they're gonna do it just whenever they like, regardless of procrastination from this site.

Also knowing Apple, no longer the innovator they once were, it'll probably have loads of missing opportunities and be priced way too hard ... but of course people will still buy so why not; its a great way to sell products by getting people to upgrade products every year by implementing something that should have been there in the first place. I note: add a Blueray player to the new iMac and people who have already purchased are sure to do it again.

Dont you just love to hate Apple these days!
 
cmaier said:
flexible oled mainstream in 1-3 years? not so much.
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Ok maybe 2-4 years. By mainstream, I mean that it won't cost you $1000 for a 7-10 inch screen. I can see OLED's being a premium in that period. Maybe they could be in an "iTablet Pro", if you will.
 
reallynotnick said:
And how do I type my papers on it? As much as I love my iPhone, I'm not going to want to give up having a keyboard on my main computer, this is my biggest concern about the Tablet.
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Luckily for you, the tablet will most likely be a companion device, i.e. not a main computer. You would still type papers on your main computer. One of Apples major sources of mac sales are students. Apple doesn't benefit if students buy a tablet instead of a macbook, clearly they want you to have a tablet and a macbook.

A tablet for taking notes, recording lectures, reading and annotating textbooks, and reducing the number of times you have to bring your laptop to school. The laptop/main computer would still be used for typing up reports, backing up the tablet, and using any processor/memory intensive or keyboard dependent program.
 
cababah said:
As someone with an iPhone and MacBook Pro, I will have a hard time seeing a place for this. iPhone fits in my pocket and is for doing things on the go, MBP for at my desk or stationary places....tablet for...???? Anyone?
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Two words.... MAN PURSE ;)

girlpurse.jpg


Apple may come out with a leather one that is 'real nice' and cost only 300.00 USD.
 
mossme89 said:
Ok maybe 2-4 years. By mainstream, I mean that it won't cost you $1000 for a 7-10 inch screen. I can see OLED's being a premium in that period. Maybe they could be in an "iTablet Pro", if you will.
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The problem with OLEDS, as far as I understand, is out door performance. This may have changed, however, this was a major ding in the reviews of the Zune HD. If they are targeting this as an eBook reader, I do not see them making it near useless in outdoor situations.
 
The speculators all sound like politicians. Since they have no clue, they’re assuming it will be an end-all and be a do-all device. Steve just loves this simple minded thinking. No doubt, it will be innovative in the manner in which it works, rather than what it actually does.
Regards, :rolleyes:
Dan
 
It will be what it is...it will be amazing but will miss something key that you would expect it to have (typical Apple). However...you, me, everyone will flock to it and hand a friendly Apple Store employee our credit card for this shiny new iToy.

Here is an interesting thought...do you think that Apple will create a 3rd developement platform for it? I am sure that it will run some version of Mac OS X but will it have its own specialized Apps (outside of iPhone OS Apps, which it will run just fine).
 
possible future pc/microsoft ads

>>>$600 to $1000, multiple models with and without 3G connectivity


A $600 Apple Tablet with without 3G connectivity could be a joke Microsoft and PC tablet makers quite happy put in their ads.


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Others are not so sanguine about the prospects of an Apple tablet being able to serve as an all-in-one device capable of replacing users' computers, media players, and e-Book readers.
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"What we've found in the past with these multi-function devices is that they're better for ad-hoc purposes, like quick and dirty tasks," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with Yankee Group. "They're not for any prolonged, high-performance use."
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Who is this guy Zeus? Yeah, those multipurpose devices like the iPhone are definitely worse than having a separate phone, iPod, gameboy, GPS device, etc...

And this guy gets paid to analyze tech companies?!

(I use a blackberry: I don't have a dog in this race, but this is laughable analysis. Or did I dream up the last 10 years and it's 1999?)
 
Full of Win said:
The iphone when first released was 499/599. It did not fail in the marketplace.
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While I broadly agree with the sentiment of your Avatar, I get seriously hacked off with people of the leftwards persuasion bringing politics into what essentially are non-political threads, so I'd politely ask that you consider changing it please. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that...
 
ok... if it's going to be lke an iPod Touch it need to be priced at $350.00 without 3g. $99.00 with 2 years contract.

if it's going to be a laptop without keyboard and as thin as the MB Air, with 2 Year contract, I WILL BUY IT NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!! WILL NOT CARE ABOUT THE PRICE :-D
 
paradox00 said:
I think you are looking at the wrong type of tablet, and thus the wrong price range.

http://store.archos.com/A9.php?country=ca&language=en

I would say that there is some room for Apple to price a tablet device above the $549 for the tablet I linked, but below $1000. Although I don't think it will run full OSX, just because Apple could give a better end user experience with a tablet variant of iPhone OS.
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Oooo so it wouldn't necessarily have like a full keyboard deal ....ya i could see that.
 
midwich said:
While I broadly agree with the sentiment of your Avatar, I get seriously hacked off with people of the leftwards persuasion bringing politics into what essentially are non-political threads, so I'd politely ask that you consider changing it please. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that...
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You can't ask him to change his avatar simply because of an image that meets the rules here. As much as I don't like it, he has every right to keep it.
 
powers74 said:
I was just trying to think of the innovations since the iPhone!
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You mean the industry changing device that was only introduced 2 short years ago? You can't seriously expect revolutionary products every other year from one company, thats ridiculous.

Though I'd say that multi touch integration in their laptops is certainly ushering a new way we interact with our machines.
 
if it doesn't run full OS-X on Verizon and have Blu-Ray and Arrandale i7 (32nm), SSD, and use latest nVidia card on an OLED, 18-hours of battery and play Modern Warfare 2, and give serious discounts for educational versions with a docking bay, under $299, it'll be a bust.

Anything less and it'll be crushed by Chrome/Android because we don't want to install apps using your crazy rules that stifle innovation because I heard it now take 24-36 months to get approved, remember GV?
How are you gonna attract developers?


Besides I can build one for under $199 with off-the-shelf-components "in my mom's basement" ... the remaining $500 is just branding, right?

Hello STEVE, don't you get it??


Just my 2 cents.
 
paul4339 said:
if it doesn't run full OS-X on Verizon and have Blu-Ray and Arrandale i7 (32nm), SSD, and use latest nVidia card on an OLED, 18-hours of battery and play Modern Warfare 2, and give serious discounts for educational versions with a docking bay, under $299, it'll be a bust.

Anything less and it'll be crushed by Chrome/Android because we don't want to install apps using your crazy rules that stifle innovation because I heard it now take 24-36 months to get approved, remember GV?
How are you gonna attract developers?


Besides I can build one for under $199 with off-the-shelf-components "in my mom's basement" ... the remaining $500 is just branding, right?

Hello STEVE, don't you get it??


Just my 2 cents.
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SHOW me how you could possibly build anything close to that under 199 with off the shelf parts in a tablet form.

Please tell me you were just joking!
 
midwich said:
While I broadly agree with the sentiment of your Avatar, I get seriously hacked off with people of the leftwards persuasion bringing politics into what essentially are non-political threads, so I'd politely ask that you consider changing it please. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that...
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If it bothers you, find that gal who has Sarah Palin for her avatar.

Rightwards balances leftwards... ;)

Oh wait, the Obama joker avatar is rightwards - OMG, does that mean that Fox (can't say) "News" will be taking over MacRumours? :eek: :eek:
 
NT1440 said:
SHOW me how you could possibly build anything close to that under 199 with off the shelf parts in a tablet form.

Please tell me you were just joking!
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Please don't flame me, because I'm an unreasonable, unrealistic, idiot. :confused:
 
NT1440 said:
SHOW me how you could possibly build anything close to that under 199 with off the shelf parts in a tablet form.

Please tell me you were just joking!
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Might want to dust off the 'ole dictionary and look up "sarcasm".
 
danvdr said:
Might want to dust off the 'ole dictionary and look up "sarcasm".
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I couldn't actually tell he was being sarcastic here. I thought I was seeing the same kind of posts I see crop up alot around here sometimes.
 
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