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Apple Talking to Australian Media Companies About Tablet?
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Well i disagree, the iPhone OS will allow it a magnitude larger battery life and the thinnest possible profile by the simple virtue of using an ARM processor.
I do not want a slate device, thick and heavy with a fan blowing hot air in my face/lap.
Where i will give you a little benefit of the doubt is, that i hope some of the restrictions of the iPhone 'version' will be lifted for the tablet. ie. multitasking.
The multitasking limitation will eventually be lifted on the iphone. I see no reason for it to exist at all on a tablet.
That is great, but hopefully Apple will release also a second (better and more expensive) model:
- As light as possible (400 to 600 g would rock!). The MacBook Air is too heavy.
- As small as possible (5-inch screen would rock!). The MacBook Air is too large.
- Full Mac OS X (touch) inside to run NATIVE Keynote and NATIVE PowerPoint files.
- Video-out to connect to videoprojectors.
- USB 2 ports for USB-pendrive support and for presentations using USB-based remote controls.
- Ethernet port.
- Firewire port.
Hint: OQO, Sony Vaio P, etc.
- As light as possible (400 to 600 g would rock!). The MacBook Air is too heavy.
- As small as possible (5-inch screen would rock!). The MacBook Air is too large.
- Full Mac OS X (touch) inside to run NATIVE Keynote and NATIVE PowerPoint files.
- Video-out to connect to videoprojectors.
- USB 2 ports for USB-pendrive support and for presentations using USB-based remote controls.
- Ethernet port.
- Firewire port.
Hint: OQO, Sony Vaio P, etc.
Starting from US$499 according to the apple store image in the other thread.
With a 13" screen though it's going to need a MacBook Air type battery to keep it going for any useful length of time.
Tablet, what tablet? A paper tablet!
If its an Apple tablet that we are all waiting for it must mean that the Apple tablet will be a paper table. That means instead of newspapers either in print or online will now be done in a paper table format.
Until an Apple table is in the hands of Users I will continue to treat these rumors as only wishful thinking & continue to only giving them a brief skimming look.
If its an Apple tablet that we are all waiting for it must mean that the Apple tablet will be a paper table. That means instead of newspapers either in print or online will now be done in a paper table format.
Until an Apple table is in the hands of Users I will continue to treat these rumors as only wishful thinking & continue to only giving them a brief skimming look.
Wishful Thinking
You mentioned a Firewire port. That on new products means that this is not a Mac or an Apple product you are talking about.
You mentioned a Firewire port. That on new products means that this is not a Mac or an Apple product you are talking about.
imacslate.com was registered in 2008:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/imacslate.com
iSlate sounds a lot more appealing than iMac Slate. Apple would call it the MacBook Slate before it would call it an iMac Slate.
I still say it will be called the iSlate. Short, to the point, and continues the "i" tradition.
Mark
Using your logic you would have Apple making a product that competes against two of the products it already sells, the iPhone and iPod/Touch. The only additional features the tablet would have is periodicals and larger screen. You can already read books on the iPhone/Touch. Albeit as you mention with a much smaller screen. But that smaller screen makes those devices truly portable, unlike a tablet which is about the same size as netbook.
Additionally, Amazon's Kindle has not been a big seller, nor has any of the available eBook readers. Yes, that device is only for reading books, newspapers, and periodicals but it sells for only $249. A fraction of the rumored Apple device cost.
Simple concepts seem to slip by you. Of course the Kindle doesn't sell well. It is a dedicated reader at a high price point. Even Apple has stated that dedicated devices are dead. E-reader functionality would be a mere feature of a tablet, and would likely leave a lot of dead kindles in its wake (no need for a dedicated e-reader if the tablet can do that and more). A couple people who value e-ink above all else would of course remain, but they would be in the minority. As for competition. It wouldn't replace an iPhone (no phone) and it wouldn't replace an iPod touch for most (too big), but instead fill its own market. Many new apps would be developed to make use of the larger screen and increased performance. Even if it did poach sales from the iPod touch, that is better than the alternative (taking sales from the macbook).
From a business stance you are correct, they should get a job elsewhere.
Given the current unemployment rates Apple should have no problem finding and maintaining staff.
To lose 16% of your profit hurts more stockholders then it will help part-timmers.
You may not recall that only few years ago Apple was not a profitable company with a stock price around $10.
It doesn't take much to ruin a company. Spending money where you don't need to, when you don't have to makes no sense.
This is the same "newspaper" that recently ran a front page main story about the world ending in 2012 (which displaced their usual love of scantily clad large breasted women in a sex scandals). Best to take anything they say with a grain of salt. They're in a downward spiral and are desperate for readers. Hence they'll print any speculative bollocks irrespective of the source.
Going along with your line of rational, you would have a person lugging around a device that cannot be carried in a pocket, that is too big to type with two hands if carried, that cannot print (if equipped with the iPhone OS) on its own, a device that is too large to listen to your music on the go.
You even state it would be to big. So in essence you make the point that it is a glorified e-reader. To big for a phone, to cumbersome for a music player, no advantage over a netbook for portable computing.
As a matter or reality it would not be nearly as functional as a netbook for portable computing. Could you imagine sitting in a hotel room trying to type a report or work on a spreadsheet with a tablet computer?
Nope, 'From $499'. Less than a Mac Mini. Based on this image, if it's true or not. That price would probably mean a very stripped down computer with no external ports etc, like the iPhone. Screen, processor, battery and just wifi/3G and thats it.
Also new - Apple TV with the new remote, I assume a quad core MacBook Pro, and updated Mac Pro as well.
You have a different concept of 'portable' computing. Having to sit down at a desk to actually type on it is not portable.
A doctor walking around a hospital with it in his left hand as he inputs patient data on it with his right hand to a central server is portable.
Portable as in carrying it around while you're actually using it, not carrying it around between using it.
Maybe to avoid confusion with existing so-called 'portable' computing laptops, the iMac Slate should be called mobile computing or something else.
Why would you presume anyone would buy this thing just to read newspapers? This is looking more and more like a next generation e-Reader. Think about it: it's not meant as a desktop computing device, but a reading device for newspapers, books and magazines, and may even change the face of all three by introducing the video element to it.
For me, it's exciting enough. But...I'll wait to see what it has and what it can do before plunking my $800 (or whatever) down.
Sounds great, as long as I'm not tied to some exorbitant plan with a stingy telco.
As for the name, I doubt that it would be anything related to "tablet" or "slate". Both of these words evoke the Stone Age.
The people who registered those domain names are probably enterprising ones who would sell the domain names to Apple.
As for the name, I doubt that it would be anything related to "tablet" or "slate". Both of these words evoke the Stone Age.
The people who registered those domain names are probably enterprising ones who would sell the domain names to Apple.