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McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet, iPhone OS Based, Going to Be "Terrific"
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OK, there will be full OS X IF...
With a purchase price of $900 and with no multitouch support on OS X, what would be the point of a tablet? Then just buy a used MacBook Air!
I hope that the tablet will be in the region of $500-600 and it will feature a lightweight OS, something between the iPhone OS and OS X. That would be more than enough for most of us. In fact, for reading magazines, books, surfing the web, basic text-edit; an iPhone OS with a turbocharger should be fine. If I can access my MacBook Pro from my iPhone, I think I will manage that from a larger device too.
But God, I still hate iTunes. Please, Apple, a simple drag-and-drop device would be nice! Syncing an iPhone is just the most annoying thing that I have ever done with a phone and a computer.
Nope, it will be mail order only through invitations. That's how they can manage the early demand.
With a purchase price of $900 and with no multitouch support on OS X, what would be the point of a tablet? Then just buy a used MacBook Air!
I hope that the tablet will be in the region of $500-600 and it will feature a lightweight OS, something between the iPhone OS and OS X. That would be more than enough for most of us. In fact, for reading magazines, books, surfing the web, basic text-edit; an iPhone OS with a turbocharger should be fine. If I can access my MacBook Pro from my iPhone, I think I will manage that from a larger device too.
But God, I still hate iTunes. Please, Apple, a simple drag-and-drop device would be nice! Syncing an iPhone is just the most annoying thing that I have ever done with a phone and a computer.
Nope, it will be mail order only through invitations. That's how they can manage the early demand.
I guess chances are that the Apple Tablet will be iPhone OS based. In that case I am not at all interested. All it will be is an over-sized iPhone/iPod Touch which I already own.
Shame they couldn't have it run OSX Snow Leopard as using Reason 4 and Logic through touch would of been awesome. Oh well
Art
Shame they couldn't have it run OSX Snow Leopard as using Reason 4 and Logic through touch would of been awesome. Oh well
Art
Well, might i translate?
"I feel that iTunes is to hard to use to manage which files from my computer shall be synced with a device. Could there be a simpler and preferably a drag and drop solution?"
Here I agree as it is sometimes just too complicated or say "complex" to even manage, which apps shall be present, which PodCasts, iTunesU etc.
So you want iTunes as it synchronizes versioned files, so you get updates to those files that are present. Believe me, you want that.
Further I get it, that you want to add files that do not originate from iTunes (read, not have been loaded into iTunes previously). But i don't see how that could be accomplished except for enabling the iPhone as a storage device and then waiting for the ability of a finder on the device itself to access these files from the device. Did I understand you well? Because then you must live without it, because that would be a backdoor to execute any and most probably "dangerous" code on your IPhone and you don't want that either.
If you want then go for another solution but be aware that you might loose any warranty
I guess chances are that the Apple Tablet will be iPhone OS based. In that case I am not at all interested. All it will be is an over-sized iPhone/iPod Touch which I already own.
Shame they couldn't have it run OSX Snow Leopard as using Reason 4 and Logic through touch would of been awesome. Oh well
Art
It would be good if you could use the tablet as a touch screen controller for Reason and Logic running on your Mac.
You think only geeks use folders? In fact it's the geeks that use spotlight the most. My mom doesn't even know what the heck to do with spotlight even though I've showed her - she puts her stuff in folders. Basically - I want a folder on a desktop for my games, a folder for my navigation and a folder for my utilities so the entire screen isn't muddled with dozens and dozens of apps all over the freakin' screen.
And, responding to another post, Flash is a big deal, the tablet is going to be the size of a netbook so that really shouldn't be a problem and it's geeks who don't care about Flash - the average consumer just says "WTH - half the sites I go to don't work." Vimeo JUST started doing HTML5 to join YouTube but I can't tell you how many times I've tried to watch a YouTube video and it hasn't been changed over to H.264 yet. On a phone it's tolerable for the reasons you mentioned - mainly battery life - but if Apple is incapable of making something with a, likely, 11" diagonal foot print that's incapable of running flash then I really give them way too much credit. Over in the Windows world there have been tablets for over 5 years (in the computing world that's a long time, Vista wasn't even out yet) and they ran flash just fine.
Just make it an optional add-on then and please, for the Love of God, don't make me have to sync it to my freakin' computer - it's supposed to be a COMPUTER not an iPod.
I actually think that Google's tablet should be called the Tabloid
tabloid is a known name for a format of print media 235 x 315 mm.
Due to the common usage of that name for that format it should be impossible to register a brand name or trade mark for the word "tabloid", so thats a no go then anyway
Flash is a security risk. Period.
If a website wants visitors using a device that conforms to standards it might be the easiest way for that website to conform to those standards.
I hate even the memory to the days where a website was working in IE but broke in any other browser for some morons not seeing that their audience was not only using one specific browser.
So please don't lets get into that war about standards vs. lazyness or coolness at the cost of usability. Face it. A Flash most often resembles a bunch of images and no robot can see that content nor the blind. I hate Flash for what it is - not what they use it for.
Yes, very likely.
Expectations for this product were rising to ridiculous heights, and this controlled leak allowed a reset of those expectations to something more reasonable.
We're just now getting to the point where places are just thinking about moving to HTML5 video. Sure having YouTube and Vimeo going that route is good but it's still a beta program and it the standard version of their sites will likely still be using flash for at least a couple/few more years.
I'm more shocked that you say "memory" when talking about days when stuff works in IE only - it's still going on today. My company (a fortune 500 who employs over 250,000 people) won't allow FireFox or anything other than IE due to "security risk" and intentionally blocks all other browsers from using half their systems and we're a company that's a leader in technology! (no, seriously...) So, we're still a LONG way being at the point you think we're at today.
I'm not arguing that Flash doesn't suck - it does and it eats the battery, I know that. However, if Apple seems to think it's ok to run on your laptop despite all the negatives why can't it run on your small form factor laptop? Unless of course they aren't going to market it as that. If they market it as a giant Touch then I suppose they can get around that but the general consensus amongst consumers is that tablets are just another form of a notebook - not a fatty version of a smart phone.
ERIN BURNETT is soooooooooo amazing!!! She can interview me any day....IM STILL SHOCKED SHE HASN'T MARRIED YET anyway....
The CEO divulged the iPhone OS tablet use, as part of innocence.
The CEO divulged the iPhone OS tablet use, as part of innocence.
LOL! "We use IE exclusively for security reasons." You just can't make this stuff up. My organization is stuck in IE 6 too. Corporate IT = morons. (Sorry corporate IT dudes, but you know it's true - blame the bureaucracy.)
Microsoft realized browser/shell integration was a mistake. IE6 is the last version to be integrated into explorer shell. IE7/8 basically runs the same as other browsers, or the pre-IE4 versions.
You can't always blame IT though. Our IT division wants to upgrade the company to IE7 or 8, but it is the other divisions and developers that are the hold up. It is quite easy for IT to upgrade IE these days. If they are the hold up, then yes, they are morons.
I say memory as it was a real pain back then to ship around all the special cases in n browsers. Nowadays you can easily write markup that renders well in all browsers (When you allow the browser to render and do not insist on any single pixel because thats nonsense anyway. If your layout must not vary bay a single pixel ever then you should stick to images. If you don't want your layout to match best than you got the principle of (X)HTML / CSS wrong.)
I have had the honor to wrap a new design onto an intranet site (could have been your employer
where the designer had no idea of the difference between print and web and where in the end i only needed one file with special css rules for one browser to make it work in almost all browsers (ok, i will never test for opera without explicit demand).So in the end it comes down to that, that Safari on IPhone / IPod touch does support SVG (to my knowledge).
But anyway, if HTML5 solves those problems for a lot of mobile clients - wouldn't you think it might be worth being evaluated to move the entire site to HTML5 ? I mean talk about the age of XHTML1.1 now
I use that one for web sites since 2003.But come to speak of it: i still don't get why the IPod Touch doesn't have a camera allowing everyone to directly upload to youtube etc.
I wish it was someone else but I talked to the IT guys and they said they were still having problems getting IE7 (never mind 8) to render all their pages correctly so we're still using 6 and they block Firefox for "security reasons."
*bang head on desk*
not really, no?
forcing IE7 into quirks mode will cause it to render the same way as it would be an IE6. Thats a workaround, but keeps things goin
Move, i need some space on that table - for me head. Dang!
;-)
I bet they are not but do maintain an web app where there is no inhouse support anymore and that thingy is up and running (dont touch it, you get killed if you break it) and they are no developers, so of course they are having a hard time trying to change its presentation (layer).
Please tell me i am wrong
Microsoft screwed us all by twisting Web standards with IE 6.
Web developers screwed us all by yelling "Uncle!" to the IE 6 twisting.
IE = scourge.
That's not translation, that's just being anal.
I don't believe you and I don't want that. I don't want iTunes and I don't care about updates. I want a simple solution to putting a few music files, pictures, podcasts and applications on my iPhone. Apple's current solution is NOT simple. It would be, if they didn't want you to use iTunes for everything.
Sir, I am truly sorry that not all my files originate from iTunes and I don't listen to music or manage my music library the 'iTunes way'.
Patronising, arrogant and I am starting to think that you are Steve Jobs. With this mentality, who else would try to tell me what I cannot do with my device? If I mess it up, then I just recover the device.
If you want then go for another solution but be aware that you might loose any warranty
Let ME translate... What you probably wanted to write was "If you want, then go for another solution, but beware that you might lose the warranty."