Jobs "Extremely Happy" with Upcoming Apple Tablet and a Surprise?

[aibar8]

These predictions, as far as this table goes, are a bit off I think. I mean, I don't think this is JUST going to be a touch-screen computer, nor is it going to be an over-sized iPod Touch. Something else, but I can't quite put my finger on it . . .

It's hard to know what Steve Jobs is going after. But I think it will be made for magazines and tv and it might look like an iPod touch. What do you think?

 

[iObject]

NO WAY will it be called a tablet of any kind...

i say iBook...

 

[MorphingDragon]

Like I said before: it will be round!

You saw it here first!

Thats a terrible idea.

 

[flopticalcube]

I still vote testicular input.

Woohoo! IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE! ... or maybe not.

 

[*LTD*]

Do you think it will be bigger than when the iPhone came out? Or in terms of how it changed the industry, with the app store?

This will be the device that in time (give it about 5 years) will replace notebooks completely.

Now imagine if you can call someone from your tablet. Speakerphone functionality. Screen Sharing with other (Apple) Tablets. Conferencing. For some reason I see this making it into the enterprise.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Woohoo! IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE! ... or maybe not.

I wouldn't say stuff like that with your avatar!

This will be the device that in time (give it about 5-7 years) will replace notebooks completely.

Now imagine if you can call someone from your tablet. Speakerphone functionality. Screen Sharing with other (Apple) Tablets. Conferencing. For some reason I see this making it into the enterprise.

No, it wont replace notebooks, unless it adopts a DS spin on things. The adjustable screen angle is a must for portable devices!

 

[techfreak85]

YayYayYayYayYayYay! I Just pray it dosn't have contract. Too much money. But if it does, I hope it is for something like WiMax or something, which we have here in Portland.

 

[bagelche]

If Steve is so happy, I wonder if that's because he's confident in their ability to monetize it through revenue streams based on control of focused distribution. In other words, the device has a purpose. The iPhone has a purpose, the TV has a purpose, the iPod has a purpose. I think the zinger with this will be the content distribution financials.

The hardware will be fascinatingly evolutionary and sexy (for those of us who fetishize such things), but the content will be key.

 

[Flowbee]

stevie boy was also "extremely happy" about the segway... and that didn't exactly set the world on fire.

Steve Jobs was actually very critical of the Segway.

Although Jobs was quoted in Time magazine as saying that the Segway would be "as big a deal as the PC," his reaction at this meeting is almost unprintable.

"I think it sucks!" said Jobs.

His vehemence made [Segway's] Tim [Adams] pause. "Why?" he asked, a bit stiffly.

"It just does."

"In what sense?" said Tim, getting his feet back under him. "Give me a clue."

"Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant, it doesn't feel anthropomorphic," said Jobs, ticking off three of his design mantras.

"You have this incredibly innovative machine but it looks very traditional." The last word delivered like a stab. Doug Field and Scott Waters would have felt the wound; they admired Apple's design sense. Dean's intuition not to bring Doug had been right. "There are design firms out there that could come up with things we've never thought of," Jobs continued, "things that would make you s–t in your pants."

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune...ehind-the-scenes-steve-jobs-meets-the-segway/

 

[LagunaSol]

For some reason I see this making it into the enterprise.

No way. Apple will never overcome 30 years of Microsoft brainwashing of IT personnel.

Cover the Apple logo with a piece of duct tape and give it some bogus nerd-esque name (Future Technologies Inc. Tablet 3000) and maybe it will have a chance.

 

[MorphingDragon]

No way. Apple will never overcome 30 years of Microsoft brainwashing of IT personnel.

Cover the Apple logo with a piece of duct tape and give it some bogus nerd-esque name (Future Technologies Inc. Tablet 3000) and maybe it will have a chance.

Ah, trying to communicate with windows engineers. "Terminal Services? What terminal services?" *-_-... Redhat need to improve their Clustering Suite.

 

[bunty]

If it doesn't have a touch-sensitive back as shown in some Apple patents, I'm not buying it.

 

[MorphingDragon]

If it doesn't have a touch-sensitive back as shown in some Apple patents, I'm not buying it.

Wat?

 

[deputy_doofy]

Steve was also happy about the Flower Power iMac.

Honestly, I'm looking forward to another game changer. If not that, I'll take a Core i5/i7 MBP, please.

 

[movieator]

Furthermore, another source told Bilton, "You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet." No other details are offered as to what this interaction might be. Apple, of course, holds many patents on multi-touch technology and has been expected to apply it to their upcoming tablet. Implementing more advanced gestures have been considered possible, though we're not sure if this would be considered a surprising interaction.

You control it with your thoughts....

 

[makkystyle]

If it doesn't have a touch-sensitive back as shown in some Apple patents, I'm not buying it.

Of course I scroll through 91 posts and the very last one is the one that beats me to the punch


I agree that the surprise interaction would be a touch sensitive back so that when held in your hands your fingers don't get in the way of seeing what's on the screen.

 

[cvaldes]

About three years ago Apple filed for a patent with "thousands of cameras behind the screen".

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/

Yes, yes, that's more like it.

A simple sensor grid that can detect something very close by. I doubt if there's technology priced for consumer electronics that could provide resolution and auto-focusing capabilities for something like video conferencing, but it might be good enough right now just to detect if a hand or finger is nearby, sort of like a motion-activated porch light.

A button or icon could be highlighted and thus indicates that it is "pre-selected" before it is actually "pressed". Right now on the iPhone/iPod touch, you only get a visual confirmation after you have pressed an icon/button (like those character popouts when you're using the keyboard).

 

[str1f3]

You control it with your thoughts....

If that happens I believe Apple has sped up the pace where we resemble the humans from Wall-E.

 

[Beric]

Some of us would rather have new notebooks instead.

Indeed. ION 2, anyone? Or maybe... *gasp* ... dedicated graphics on the 13-inch notebooks?

 

[BVeritas]

I agree that the surprise interaction would be a touch sensitive back so that when held in your hands your fingers don't get in the way of seeing what's on the screen.

That would be very interesting. I think I could learn to even type on the back, not qwerty, but perhaps a morse code style. Interesting to think about. Certainly would be interesting for games, so your fingers aren't in the way.

 

[davidwarren]

maybe you control it with your iPhone as a remote input device!

 

[aristotle]

I really hope that the tablet is actually a ground breaking device with an expanded Cocoa touch UI rather than a slightly tweaked version of Snow Leopard.

I know that some people seem to want Snow Leopard but if you want that OS, get a laptop or desktop as that is what that OS and UI is designed for.

I have not used my MBP since I got my iMac and I noticed that I was no longer taking my MBP with me on trips after I got my iPhone 3G even before I bought the iMac.

I envision a single window at a time UI possibly with an Expose interface for switching between applications. Some iPhone games/apps will work with a recompile and some full fledged OS X apps will work out of the box (redirecting controls to Cocoa Touch controls) while programs with custom controls will require a a new interface design along with minor code changes.

The multi-window, menu, icon UI does not work well with touch.

I will not buy it if it is just a rehash of windows tablets with just OS X Snow Leopard instead of windows.

 

[Eidorian]

Indeed. ION 2, anyone? Or maybe... *gasp* ... dedicated graphics on the 13-inch notebooks?

While I really want Arrandale an ION 2 based $999 Macbook, refurbished of course, might sway me to part with my money.

 

[aristokrat]

I'm throwing my hat into the ring with a texturizable multitouch surface (i.e. letters grow out of keyboard, lines rise up for buttons, etc.). That would be surprising indeed.

 

[Beric]

While I really want Arrandale an ION 2 based $999 Macbook, refurbished of course, might sway me to part with my money.

Exactly. If Apple can do that reasonably soon, I'll buy. Otherwise, I may see myself getting a comparable Windows 7 notebook (for much cheaper of course).