Granted Safari on an iPhone is significantly better than browsers are on other phones but the size of the page (so you don't have to pinch/zoom/scroll) and can actually spend the majority of your time reading/consuming is significant.
If 3" screens were so great why don't all computers have them??????
It is trade off. Smaller than really want screen for being able to take it more places. However, some folks don't need to take it everywhere. Folks managed to get by on this planet without being connected to the internet 24/7/365.
Spot on.
I think it's quite possible that the product Apple ultimately delivers will be so completely outside the box that ALL of us will look foolish.
I can't imagine that would be the case, but well, I guess that's my point. Not all of us enjoy the intellect of Apple's high-level product engineers and theorists and marketing strategists.
On top of that, groups with that brilliance regularly get together and put all their brainpower to work. Talk about brainpower. Synergy. Awesome.
It makes my toes tingle, just thinking about it.
I wish I could understand why so many people are averse to the idea of something akin to the iPhone OS on the tablet. It boggles my mind. I mean, why introduce product that does virtually everything that a MB or MBP can already do?
I mean seriously, at this point, do you think Apple has a suite of software ready to go that will reduce the mouse to complete obsolescence? A physical keyboard to obsolescence?
Absolutely not. Not yet, at least.
And why would Apple cannibalize their laptop sales? Makes no sense.
Productivity = iMacs, Mac Pros, MB and MBP
Consumption = iPods and iPhone
Light Productivity/Heavy Consumption = Tablet
It's the only positioning that makes sense. I want my apps, movies, music and books.
And as others have pointed out, email, photos, iCal, etc.
That's all this thing will be able to do and still bring it in under 800 bucks.
That doesn't mean there won't be something outlandishly, incredulously forward-thinking that makes my post completely wrong -- but my feeling, my strong feeling, is that there is no way Apple will release a product that is as uniformly based on productivity as many here seem to require.
That's not where the money is. And that's the bottom line.
This device will be big because it will be a BIG media consumption device. I'd much rather read Shakespeare on 10 inches than on an iPhone. Everyone that says otherwise (insert your own favorite writer or movie or musician) is, in my opinion, fooling themselves.
No one wants to think that their 200+ iPhone and at&t contract could become outdated so quickly. But it could happen.
Although one thing the tablet won't be is a phone, so there's that.
While it's true people won't drag around a tablet AND a laptop, I think given the choice, the average consumer of this product will buy it precisely because it won't be introduced with tons of software and hardware bulk.
And then of course, there's the thinking: The tablet will be LIGHT. For those with the money to burn, tucked in with a laptop, is the extra weight really going to be noticed by the average user?
Consumption. Not productivity. And consumption on a bigger screen is going to sell ... if the end product is as elegant and forward-thinking as the iPod line.
