Arm your middle finger then. This will be just as locked down as the iPhone in terms of app/content distribution.
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Last Minute Leaked Photos of Apple Tablet?
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Arm your middle finger then. This will be just as locked down as the iPhone in terms of app/content distribution.
They've already revealed their ability to do this...When they introduced LP content into iTunes.
Everyone just go to sleep/read a book/write a check payable to "Apple Inc" for $1200 (gotta include a tip plus taxes and acessories).
It'll all be over soon. Another good rumor run, though I've only been around for the unibody macbooks, the iPhone , maybe the macbook air and everything released after that.
It'll all be over soon. Another good rumor run, though I've only been around for the unibody macbooks, the iPhone , maybe the macbook air and everything released after that.
For something obviously billed by apple as just as important as the iPhone and the iMac, I'm expecting the 'innovation company' to not be like taco bell where they come up with a recipe, make enough of it to feed china for ten years, and squirt it into different shapes.
in short, I expect surprise.
Major Edit: I don't follow Calacanis so I'll eat my words and say like a previous poster that he is drunk. This post is too stupid:
Jason "For background: apple asked me to do press tomorrow on cnbc, cnn, etc. As a pundit they gave me tablet 10 days ago. 3people dropped it off!"
19 minutes ago
i always give people the benefit of the doubt, but this is just too stupid to believe and what little respect I had for him is because he's an NYer.
You are right Arn.
Have any of these small, dark, grainy "spy shots" ever turned out to be real before?
I'm not necessarily denying the authenticity of this photo, but I don't get why, whenever one of these "spy" photos comes out, we're always supposed to believe that they managed to sneak in (say) a cell phone camera but wouldn't have been able to do the same with an only-slightly-bigger 10-megapixel digital camera that would take a much better photo.
Could be real, but I don't think there's enough evidence to convince me it is.
Maybe we'll have to wait ten hours before we find out. Oh no!
I'm not necessarily denying the authenticity of this photo, but I don't get why, whenever one of these "spy" photos comes out, we're always supposed to believe that they managed to sneak in (say) a cell phone camera but wouldn't have been able to do the same with an only-slightly-bigger 10-megapixel digital camera that would take a much better photo.
Could be real, but I don't think there's enough evidence to convince me it is.
Maybe we'll have to wait ten hours before we find out. Oh no!
how do you figure its not google maps? it has the google watermark on the bottom left corner of the screen....
So we have learnt something new here, it's so heavy it takes 3 people to carry. Interesting.. there's always a catch.
i might be seeing things, but it looks like there is some kind of writing either reflected off the screen or superimposed over the image later in the upper right quadrant of the screen. if you look at the word "Islands" and then go about halfway up to the bezel, hopefully you should see it. i'm not sure what it says, its clearer in black and white or with a sepia effect, but i still cant make out what it says. anyone else see this?
http://guides.macrumors.com/Gallery_of_Apple_Leaks_and_Prototypes
These are some/most of real leaks in Apple's history.
Get that middle finger ready.
There's no way that Apple won't attach this to the iTunes Store.
It says "Directions".
So does anyone know if you'll be able to use this tablet as a phone? Like dial and receive calls??
My money's on a new 'home page' interface, providing more of a customised desktop feel with quick access to favourite apps, content, etc.
As a MacWorld opinion piece pointed out the other day, you can't scale springboard up and sipmly have dozens of icons in a huge horiffic grid.
Also, you probably need a completely new metaphor for managing content, something that the iPhone does poorly when given the chance (exhibit A: the sprawling ebook application debacle before the issue was dodged with in-app purchasing).
It's also entirely likely that content and apps will not be separated, akin to the dashboard approach in desktop OS X.
So I bet the new home page interface, with amazing interactivity and control, will be the "ooh". Then there'll be "sub oohs" for swiping through eBook pages etc.
Maybe mistaken on this, but for me it looks like the screen is transparent!
This person appears to be working on the top portion of the device ( the actual screen ) with guts off to the left out of the photo.