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Apple Tablet to Run iPhone OS and Launch in May or June 2010?

The thing that excites me most about this particular rumor is the idea that it might be available without 3G.
I have 'always on' with my iPhone... I don't need another recurring cost going to AT&T every month.

I can already see using it for
- artwork (Autodesk's new SketchBook will be great on a 10" screen)
- music (live performance controller or actual instrument)
- bedroom streamer (wifi or from Slingbox)
- eBook reader

Those 4 apps alone will make it worthwhile for me.
 
str1f3 said:
Agreed and I think that iLounge and many others missed that common sense point. While it's perfect for the iPhone, the tablet wouldn't look right with a 100 apps on the home screen. It'll run App Store apps but I expect this to be a revolution. The only thing is that it concerns me that the only way to install apps may be through the App Store.
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Darkroom said:
iPhone apps on a 10" 720p screen? that's going to be some pretty damn ugly upscaling from 480 x 320...
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But the iPhone would look sweet in HD 720p right? Think iPhone apps upscaling, then actually increasing their power and resolution.

Using at least Snow Leopard, you can simulate in part using the iPhone already (Safari mobile browser for example)- The tablet could easily use iPhone sized windows that were manageable as one way of doing things.

With HD video, iTunes LP, Apple TV, the potential for the iPhone 3GS - it's all very slowly moving towards 720p. Snow Leopard's settings for output to HD resolutions is another example. Apple might be behind the game in this respect, but when they do update things, they raise the bar for the whole field with them.

There's a whole crux of things Apple can do in the next 2-3 years around the Tablet, MBAir, ATV, Mac mini etc.

Dont't know why people keep fixating on the iPhone OS 3.x of today, rather than what could be for the iPhone 4.x or 5.x and what the related version would be for a larger form factor.
 
Sounds good! Honestly I see no biggie with the iPhone OS.*

Been looking for a table notebook for a while now, specially for school. Can either wait for this or for the MS Courier (I just don't see that in the near future), or just get a plain HP Tx2 which are great imho.

How feasible is this? I might as well just get a nice Core i5 build in December and wait for this to come out next year.

*ohh, the only thing I wouldn't like is how locked-in the current iPhone OS is.... (with no jailbreak I mean)
 
If they push the release date for the tablet farther and farther away, eventually they will be right!
 
The funny thing is: ALL those complaining about the use of iPhone OS in Apple's Tablet will be the first in line to buy it...this thing is gonna sell like bananas...EVERYONE in the market is waiting for Apple to redefine a market, AGAIN.
 
IF this is true this is the stupidest move Apple has made Since the Newton. Oh wait... Didn't they just rehire that guy? By making an oversized iPhone you are excluding most of the 50 MILLION consumers who are clearly quick adapters of new technology. I have always wanted all the new stuff that Apple has put out over the years but this, I do not want. I already have an iPhone Apple, I like it's small form factor, I like the fact that it can make telephone calls, I don't need a giant, oversized iPod touch that offers fewer features than my phone.
 
iPhone OS = no sale for me.

Apple controlling what I can and cannot do on my phone is bad enough, not acceptable for a tablet computer.
 
If the low end is $499, I'll probably buy it and use it as my wi-fi internet solution for travel. If it's more than $500 for a large iPod Touch, forget it. I'll just put up with what I have.

There is probably an excellent chance this is an expanded iPhone OS with an out reach to higher programming companies to write useful apps that aren't just "How much do I tip?" or "Dookie Doggy Poopy Scoopy" games.
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
Anyway you slice it, iPhone OS = Big iPod Touch.
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Doesn't mean it will be the same. Do you think they hope to sell millions with just bigger screen and some kind of iPhone OS and nothing else? What about games? What about better Text Editors and Spreadsheets? Better web browsing. I would like to see an iSight, microphone and usable bluetooth for file transfer A2DP, WIFI as well. I guess some should stop calling OS iPhone OS and it will start to make sense. I see a lot of things you could to with it. I could use one for sure for my studies.
 
This is exactly what I would always have assumed.

Mac OS and Mac OS X apps make no sense on a touchscreen--they would be a very poor experience most of the time. Like Windows-based tablet-only PCs.

But an OS designed for touch is another matter--and something the world needs. Apple created that, so of course they will use it.

iPhone OS will continue to grow of course, and will always have a lot in common with mac OS X. I hope they standardize on just two screen sizes (iPhone and tablet) for now, to keep things simpler for developers. And I hope apps can be sold that intelligently target either screen size, rather than needing two versions.
 
This news item is bunk. First of all, why would you give a tablet computer a curved back? Makes no sense -- you want it to lay flat. Why would you give a tablet computer the highly limited iPhone OS? You would want the ability to run real OS X productivity applications and multitask. Makes no sense. If this is all the tablet is going to be, it will fail.
 
Wake up, everyone.

ATTENTION: Contributors and lurkers alike, this forum caters to only the tiniest fraction of Apple product consumers. Repeat the following:

I am not Apple’s target demographic.

I am not Apple’s target demographic.

I am not Apple’s target demographic.

Keep saying this, over and over again, until it sinks in.

The wah wah I want this and I want that or I won't buy and this is stupid and epic FAIL and Apple is going down the tubes...

... is really oh so tiring.

Step outside your little worlds and realize that your itty bitty personal universe means zip/nada/zero.

Jobs doesn't care about you.

Nor should he.

Oh the tears, the tears. Sad, so sad.

The "killer" app may very well be a technology similar to PixelQi.

E-books are going to be huge.

Reading newspapers on your tablet next to your morning Cheerios, swiping pages with a passing finger, is going to be HUGE.

This product is going to use digital technology to save print media. This will likely be the first device that anyone would ever use and still consider paying for content, like the old days.

In this case, that's a good thing. A very good thing.

I certainly don't mind paying for content. I might pay 50 cents a month to read Boing Boing. Or I might not.

But I'll darn well pay 50 bucks a year (or more) to read the New York Times or Wall Street Journal on this kind of elegant device.

Not on the iPhone. WAY TOO SMALL.

Knock knock, open the door. See the rest of the world out there, and understand that Apple doesn't revolve around you.

Apps. Games. Music. Books.

Apple doesn't need to include iWork or any of their products. Not for this device. They'll make money on the hardware, and then let all of those smaller companies duke it out with app content.

Content consumption. That's what the masses want. NOT more productivity software/hardware.

STOP WHINING. :)
 
BRLawyer said:
The funny thing is: ALL those complaining about the use of iPhone OS in Apple's Tablet will be the first in line to buy it...this thing is gonna sell like bananas...EVERYONE in the market is waiting for Apple to redefine a market, AGAIN.
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please... what are people going to do with an extremely expensive 10" ipod? Why get this when you can get an ipod for less that can be put in your pocket?

It is absolutely necessary for something like this to support normal OS applications. Letting Apple decide what people are allowed to use on their computers through the app store is not going to fly with people or developers. Developers have not and will not commit to anything good when it comes to the app store because of Apple's iron fist over what gets approved, not to mention Apple demands a share of the profits which is ridiculous.

Something big and expensive needs to be USEFUL it cant just be a music player with crappy apps and a crappy web browser. People will buy this if they can use it for work and a variety of things they could never do on their ipods, but with the app store and it being a niche platform thats never going to happen.
 
It never ceases to amaze me how really bright people on this list suddenly turn off their brains and think that iPhone OS today = iPhone OS a year from now.

Hint... there won't be the same app launcher forever. There won't be '100 apps on the home page'. There will be enormous strides in input. There will be leaps in battery technology and speed.
Think ahead folks... not backwards.

Oh, the coolest thing I've seen proposed recently was unfortunately raised in the context of the MS FUD device. It was for a flexible software keyboard that takes as 'home' position wherever you place you 8 fingers, puts the home keys right under those fingers, and would presumably learn where you would like to tap above or below that row for the other keys.
As stupid as QWERTY is, that would make it really usable.
 
Genghis Khan said:
On the app side, the Mac Tablet will NEED a killer app, otherwise it's just a jumped up iPod Touch.

I vote Photoshop.
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Maybe not full PS, but a limited image editing app could be a really nice app. But how do you get images onto it? Will it have a USB port or do you need to load them on your mac/pc first?


I still think web browsing can be a killer app for this device, basically it just needs to be a sit-in-front-of-the-tv pad.
 
However it runs, I can't imagine it running in a way that closely resembles the iPhone. By saying it runs 'iPhone OS' it may simply be the case that it runs a more simplified version of the operating system. It doesn't mean that we have to interface with it in the same way or with all the same constraints.

I have a hard time imagining Steve Jobs releasing a product like that. I'm not going to put too much weight into the assumptions.
 
m828s said:
Wake up, everyone.

ATTENTION: Contributors and lurkers alike, this forum caters to only the tiniest fraction of Apple product consumers. Repeat the following:

I am not Apple’s target demographic.
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BRAVO!!!
 
AZREOSpecialist said:
This news item is bunk. First of all, why would you give a tablet computer a curved back? Makes no sense -- you want it to lay flat. Why would you give a tablet computer the highly limited iPhone OS? You would want the ability to run real OS X productivity applications and multitask. Makes no sense. If this is all the tablet is going to be, it will fail.
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You should stop connecting "highly limited" to "iPhone OS". You don't know how limited it will be.
 
iPhone OS would, annoyingly, make four distinct products.

The desktop for home, the laptop for the office, the iPhone for communication and the Tablet which doesn't seem to replace any of them nor do the same job better than any of them. You need a laptop to continue using the same apps you use at home (photoshop, video editing, etc.), you need the iPhone for calls/texts/emails etc., so why the tablet?

If the tablet ran OS X, one could ditch the laptop.

Seriously, having a laptop and tablet with two OS's would be annoying. One would have to carry all three to ensure one could continue all apsect's of one's work.
 
Given Jobs once said that Apple would not offer an electronic book product because "no one reads anymore" I find that a bit strange. Also who's gonna pay that kind of money for a book viewer or movie watcher?

I'd never buy a hyperthyroid ipod touch, and I think such a device would be quite the failure, but you never know.

Do it up as a real Tablet computer with capabilities similar to the Macbook Air and I'd be interested.
 
Ahh, speculation.

It seems that these are all just guesses, based on the assumption that the rumor(s) are true. Know one really has a clue what Jobs is thinking, which is why he keeps his ideas secret. I think he said something like "Most people don't know what they want until you show it to them". In other words, whatever he's got planned, it's something unconventional and cutting edge, like the iPod was, and like the iPhone was. He'll either have a killer app for this thing, or introduce a new way to do a typical task. THAT'S what he's good at. But the speculations are entertaining...
 
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