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

One More Thing...

How about this...
There are two products launched...

The iPad

and one more thing... the iSlate.

One or the other will be the 10 inch tablet, the other will be either larger or smaller...
One will be iPhone OS, the other may end up Mac OS.
:rolleyes:
That's why I write in my tag that there appears to be a convergence of the form factors of the yet-to-be Tablet and an iMac [when you look at it on the stand]

So anyway... one more thing might be a future single touch screen form factor for all Apple computers.
:)
 
Im really excited about tomorrow.

Now to get back to the argument between my rational self and my gamer self about whether or not to buy an iMac.
 
NT1440 said:
:rolleyes:
Why do people who read iphone OS automatically assume there isn't a major overhaul with 4.0?
Can we at least wait to see the damn device?
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Well, the issue is more like a question. Is it "the" tablet if it runs iPhone OS? My personal issue is that I consider (my personal opinion) a tablet to be a form factor for your computer, the one that runs OS X. For me no OS X means that it is a large iPod, not "the" tablet that I want.

I know now that our chances of getting an OS X tablet are low but who knows...

:apple:
 
puppyflightclub said:
Yeah I would like to purchase it on apple.com....well TOMORROW! i been saving. What are your deciding factors like carrier-ties,battery life;etc?
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I would like to be able to pre-order it tomorrow (reluctantly due to the 9.75% sales tax here in Los Angeles) but I suppose some of the major determining factors for me would be that it's not just an ereader or an enlarged iPod Touch as well as if the tablet would require a contract of some sort or a mandatory data plan. I'll be around wifi always and have no desire to add on a most likely $60 a month data plan for 5GB of data. Even if it was a $30 a month data plan, that would most likely be the deal breaker for me.
 
capitanbuzo said:
I would like to be able to pre-order it tomorrow (reluctantly due to the 9.75% sales tax here in Los Angeles) but I suppose some of the major determining factors for me would be that it's not just an ereader or an enlarged iPod Touch as well as if the tablet would require a contract of some sort or a mandatory data plan. I'll be around wifi always and have no desire to add on a most likely $60 a month data plan for 5GB of data. Even if it was a $30 a month data plan, that would most likely be the deal breaker for me.
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dont forget you can, if you have an iPhone, use blacksn0w and unlock it and HOPEFULLLY tether into it, via bluetooth or USB.

yeah im in Northern California, our sales tax is like 9% or something. Do you think these will be....reselling, probably from the limitability?
 
Honestly, I would suspect that "iPad is the least likely name for the tablet. I would think it woud be called "iTablet" or possibly "iSlate" but most likely "iTablet". "iTablet" just seems more simplistic and more like Apple's naming scheme.
 
cmaier said:
Seems like it would be very hard to use the "keyboard" since it isn't tilted - it would be like trying to hold a 2x4 and type on it at the same time.
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well, whatever apple releases tomorrow will be about as 'impractical' (so whats the difference?)

what that guy posted was what i was expecting apple to release (more or less, an OS X tablet, now we find out its a handicapped version of it).
 
ungraphic said:
well, whatever apple releases tomorrow will be about as 'impractical' (so whats the difference?)

what that guy posted was what i was expecting apple to release (more or less, an OS X tablet, now we find out its a handicapped version of it).
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I'm sure it won't be as impractical.
 
puppyflightclub said:
dont forget you can, if you have an iPhone, use blacksn0w and unlock it and HOPEFULLLY tether into it, via bluetooth or USB.

yeah im in Northern California, our sales tax is like 9% or something. Do you think these will be....reselling, probably from the limitability?
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I have some doubts about resellers getting it (I wish Macconnection would carry it right away) but I have a feeling that, due to the carrier issues, it must be sold through Apple or the carrier.

On another note, Macrumors really should open up a dedicated form for this already and put all these speculation threads under it.
 
I'd like to make an interesting and thoughtful comment.

However, due to the massive amount of "fail", "iPhone OS is suck" and other general douche baggery generalities... I will not.

Hugs.
 
Yep...

carmenodie said:
This is a controlled leak. After working with Apple some time you think he would have done this by himself? Also, it is a good way to get that stock price up. Which it is as of my writing(1-26-10). This is corporate America baby.
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At first I thought this guy had committed a major screw up, but now I'm thinking early stock rise from this and then a nice extra bump for later in the day. CEO's like this do not make mistakes like that very often. It is more likely that he was supposed to do this on a business/stock news program for the benefit of Apple.
 
AppleMojo said:
Just to name a few:

Network monitoring interfaces
Intrusion detection consoles
Web browser (that supports extensions, Flash, etc)
Local / offline file storage
Development IDE's (scripting or compiled)
Word processing
More sophisticated email

Of course, these could never happen on an iPhone OS or with the speculated CPU options.
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Really?
Care to explain why you believe these couldn't run on the iPhone OS when some of them are already in the App store?
Care to explain why you believe these couldn't run on ARM when all of them already do in various forms and platforms?

Yes there are restrictions on the iPhone OS as it stands, and maybe those restrictions will stay in place for future Phone models, but we'll have to wait and see what the tablet brings in that regard.

Each version of the iPhone OS has added a major avenue for Application deployment and tomorrow we should find out if this one follows suit.
 
richthomas said:
i reckon the tablet wont have Flash support. and Apple wont care as they know HTML5 is the future and will be supported by the tablet.
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Yep. HTML 5 may be part of their announcement relating to the tie in of HTML 5 into the tablet's Safari browser.
 
capitanbuzo said:
I have some doubts about resellers getting it (I wish Macconnection would carry it right away) but I have a feeling that, due to the carrier issues, it must be sold through Apple or the carrier.

On another note, Macrumors really should open up a dedicated form for this already and put all these speculation threads under it.
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I dont know if you havent seen it, i just stumbled on it myself,

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I'm with you on this - the development community will adapt to a new form factor using the tools available with iPhone development in a hurry.

To be honest if it really does only run OS X iPhone that's fine - Citrix makes a fantastic product that just made mobile computing with a device of this size realistic for the enterprise. I'm giddy to see how we can apply this in our field, and hell, in the field itself!

Finally, who knows what Apple may be up to if they decide to do full blown OS X on an ARM platform. They've mastered the OS and processor porting mechanisms better than anyone out there: Classic and Rosetta just thinking in the OS X ages.

MattInOz said:
Really?
Care to explain why you believe these couldn't run on the iPhone OS when some of them are already in the App store?
Care to explain why you believe these couldn't run on ARM when all of them already do in various forms and platforms?

Yes there are restrictions on the iPhone OS as it stands, and maybe those restrictions will stay in place for future Phone models, but we'll have to wait and see what the tablet brings in that regard.

Each version of the iPhone OS has added a major avenue for Application deployment and tomorrow we should find out if this one follows suit.
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I guess it will be a good fit for the twilight generation.
Twilight, the story of a girl, her vampire boyfriend, and her iPad.
 
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