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McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet, iPhone OS Based, Going to Be "Terrific"

To everyone bitching about it running iPhone OS, we've been over this a hundred times: It's not iPhone OS, it's iPhone OS "on steroids!"

On a more serious note, I find it hard to believe that this guy doesn't know exactly what he's doing. He's a pretty important guy and knows all about the legal issues involved here. There's also no way he goes on there without knowing each and every one of the questions that's going to be asked; he probably even came up with the questions himself. He's clearly flustered and stutters a bunch at the end, leading me to believe that he knows the thin line that he can't cross in his statements about Apple and is trying his best to spit out his pre-written response that was approved by Apple. Of course I could be wrong...
 
lol, a tablet obviously should be capable of more, running a real OS and can do all the tasks a real OS can do.

a limited OS will only fit a limited market.
 
Did anyone catch the other leak on engadget they posted? "Need to update for 27th launch" haha.

I wouldn't mind a iPhone 4.0 OS-based tablet. It would be kind of awkward using full Mac OS X on a small screen with a finger. They need to come up with a Pages app, though, for content creating.
 
clevin said:
lol, a tablet obviously should be capable of more, running a real OS and can do all the tasks a real OS can do.

a limited OS will only fit a limited market.
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That's the whole point. They want to sell you a tablet as well as a MacBook Pro or Mac Pro. Not just the tablet.
 
F*ck it. Give me the clamshell iBook. =P

No, seriously...of course this thing was going to have an iPhone-like OS on it. Did anyone really have any doubts about this? When you think of a consumer-level product, it would have been stupid to put OS X on it. Everyone would be bitching about how OSX ran slow on it (because it's an ARM processor instead of an Intel chip) and there would be all these comparisons made with the lower-end laptop models. That's a comparison Apple never wanted you to make. This device was never meant to be a 'computer' in the traditional sense. Why's everyone so butt-hurt that their 'Mac HD' icon isn't in the upper-righthand side of the screen?
 
splashnader said:
I don't understand why so many of you are so upset. As others have said we basically knew or heavily suspected that Apple was going to in fact announce the creation of a tablet device tomorrow. The only really new information that was given away in the interview is that the device will operate on a iphone like UI/OS. Some of you are acting like the man brought the device with him and started demonstrating on live television.
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Yeah I some what agree but I like to hear new products and announcements from STEVE himself. . . It doesn't take away the joy I have for tomorrow but I do believe it was a very unprofessional move on McGraw.

It's like once Steve tell us about the tablet running iPhone OS we're going to be like " -_- We've heard this Steve now what's the one more thing. . ." Lol I'm still excited because HONESTLY I want new MacBook Pro's!!! Forget this tablet right now.
 
If this was NOT an organized leak on the part of Apple, and I don't think it was, SJ has got to be just steaming about this. A lot of effort to keep things quiet and this guy goes on CNBC and blabs about the whole thing?

I wish she would have asked him about Verizon :)
 
Just give me my f*cking MacBook Pros, please! The tablet is a cool idea. Not for me right now. Maybe in six months. But in the meantime, we desperately need upgraded MBPs! When it's tough to make a decision between the MB and the MBP 13-inch, you KNOW there's a problem!
 
2 possibilities:

a) he is old school guy who have been selling books for few generations so does not know the rules of collaboration. Doubt it because as pointed out, the ticker was displayed even before the question was asked/answered.

b) with all the speculations that tablet will be based on OS X vs iPhone OS (not a big difference considering core is the same and only UI form factor is different), SJ wanted to kill OS X speculation so that people dying for "OS X on tablet" will have a day to calm their nerves down before actual announcement.

2nd theory makes sense otherwise why would McGraw specifically mention that tablet will be based on iPhone OS. That's none of his expertise or business.

Anyway waiting for the new dawn when SJ will change the world ;)
 
Balooba said:
This stupid CEO's company is so going to be excluded from any content deals that well ever be made for the new Tablet, or for the iPhone, or for Mac, or for anything Apple ever makes from today and until the end of the world.


I would sell all stock in that company now if I had any.
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Shows how much you know. Publishing is a tiny part of this company. It's equivalent to light bulbs over at GE. Second, even IF he spoke out of school, SJ needs him more than McGraw needs SJ. They are one of the largest publishers of textbooks, and Apple wants to sell the tablet to schools. Well, you need e-textbooks to do that, so punishing McGraw, not smart.
 
sesnir said:
Wow... way to steal Apple's thunder, McGraw-Hill.



Yeah I agree.
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What! There's a tablet device coming out or something?!? This is the first time I've heard about this. Thanks a lot McGraw-Hill!!! You ruined it for me. I had no idea about this until now. LOL.
 
I would be happier if the tablet dual booted iPhone OS and Mac OS X. Best of both worlds but very unlikely it will happen.
 
hmm....could it be a controlled leak?

A leak to throw people off track? Get you thinking iPhone Tablet when in fact it is something completely different?

We will know tomorrow...finally!!!! :rolleyes:
 
kernkraft said:
Besides, the simpler the OS, the less hardware it requires, meaning that the cheaper that the device will be (to a certain point, don't expect $200 Apple Tablet). That is good news, isn't it? Most people do email, video, web-browsing and some basic functions on the computer. For most people, a netbook-type tablet would be more than enough.
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For those who want a "real" OS" what about remote access to your Mac OS X based iMac or Mac Pro? It wuld be very easy to uy a VNC client on the tablet and with to always on Internet you can take your desktop with you. I'd make a pun about "thin client" but it's not even a pun, it's true.

Put another way.. In an ideal world how many general purpose computers wuld you like to own? My answer "One" but I want to be able to use it any place I happen to be and I don't ant to have to carry anything with me.

Those of use working in the UNIX world have has this fromthe 1980's on those computers the display screens are not so tightly coupled to the computer so any screen can hook up to any computer. So to get to my files any machine in the lab is as good as any other. I routinly just pick one based on which has the best chair or it it is near the door or not. Yes I've been working that wat for 30 years now. It is time the genral public got this feature. Same for the Internet. It took many years. I first saw and used it mid 70's at UCLA.

I think what Apple has built is a one screen window into anything you might like to look at, video chat, you computer back home, yu buddies computer. the local newspaper, Hold it over your head at night and see a star chart, watch a move. read a physics text book.

So you do NOT need Mac OS X on the tablet. Your Mac is just one kind of content that you can show on your tablet.
 
nawk said:
Man, it has been a while since of I have posted. But I had to log in again and slap a little reality into some folks

"Flash-iphone-debacable" Thank god you are no where near being employed by Apple. The iPhone was the killer mobile phone of the last 3 years. All without flash.

As for the "iPhone OS = NO BUY" Again, are you high! Do you know why all the PC tablets failed .. because they ran a desktop OS on a tablet. The iPhone OS is perfect foundation for a touch-tablet interface.

Not to flame, but comments like these are really short sighted. I feel like I'm reading posts from when the iPod was first announced. "NO way that POS will ever succeed".

Dumb.
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thank you for saying this so idont have to!
 
Winni said:
There's no need. Using the iPhone OS means that the device will be completely locked into iTunes and the AppStore. It won't be an open or free platform. It will be a DRM-infested, fancy looking control mechanism, nothing else.

Unless somebody brings an Open Source operating system - or even Windows - to this gadget, it won't be worth buying or using. I don't need Steve Jobs to tell me what applications or content I want to use or consume - or create - on a device that I have purchased.

So it's awfully simple: If this thing uses a closed operating system like the iPhone OS, it will be a complete waste of time and money.
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I agree. Until Android and/or some other OS fills in the gap of a platform that isn't locked into a single-source App Store, everyone gets screwed.
 
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