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nothing to scale it against, it looks big enough to be used as a coffee table in a living room :O
Is it just a fluke that they put it over a keyboard like that or is this a major clue?
Because this is exactly what I think the tablet will do -- replace our keyboard and mouse -- a super FingerWorks keyboard/ Cintiq drawing pad combo that can double as a tablet around the house and on the go.
Because this is exactly what I think the tablet will do -- replace our keyboard and mouse -- a super FingerWorks keyboard/ Cintiq drawing pad combo that can double as a tablet around the house and on the go.
I'm pretty convinced it's real. The screen size is correct. You can see the very thin piece of clear plastic that's on top of it that all touchscreen devices have when you buy them new. It's obviously resting on a soft surface, like a pillow or bed, which accounts for the shadow.
Whether it's from a prototype or what will be announced next week, who knows, but looks real to me.
Whether it's from a prototype or what will be announced next week, who knows, but looks real to me.
Good! The iPhone is mono! The only time stereo would matter would be with headphones.
+1 (Except rather than "replace", maybe this will just supplement the keyboard and mouse.)
Well considering it's laying on a curved pillow of sorts, you are correct and the shadow analysis is ridiculous.
But it brings up the question... "Why the hell is is laying on a doily pillow?" What, is that at Ive's grandma's house or something?
Correct. A speaker you have to put your ear up to to hear. If a speaker is meant to resound through the open air any distance at all, it shoudldn't be impeded like that. A grouping of holes would be a better choice, no?
It's very possible that this would be like a peripheral.. But I think the direction all this stuff Apple is doing is to revolutionize how we interact with our computers. The keyboard and mouse combo sure seems archaic these days. It boggles my mind we haven't come up with something drastically better by now.
If this is in fact the tablet glass here the size being almost identical to the keyboard size of the laptop seems like a big sign that could be the intent here.
I think you might be onto something. Considering the paint splatter in the invite, the stylus patents, the type recognition, and the rumor that it's going to be unexpected. Everyone knows that the smaller size computer/tablet hasn't either been that acceptable or profitable in the past and that Apple doesn't want to cannibalize it's macbook line, they must want to do some sort of additional appliance that will be an addition to ANY computer user. If for $700 it can be a on screen stylus painting device (like Wacom), and notepad to text recognition device, a device with the 4.0 type OS of the iphone (rumored to be more like a computer) and running iphone apps for portability as well as a reworked ilife/iwork suite complete with tablet versions and a drawing app, an on screen keyboard, and more we haven't figured out then this would be an amazing little device nobody knew they needed. The artist with the laptop and the iphone and the tower might want it for the drawing. A family without a laptop might find it's great to lie around the house for paying bills and games. And the business user might find it a lighter option to their laptop (but as it won't be a full computer it won't really replace it). That's what Apple wants. A new category that doesn't eat into other sales. But supplements them. Just some speculation of course.
That's exactly it, bretm. The way I look at it is that this is the keyboard FingerWorks always dreamed of making.. but no one could possibly afford it if it was JUST a revolutionary keyboard/mouse/drawing pad.. BUT because Apple can use their resources to make this incredible luxury keyboard into a portable computer with a killer OS that works perfectly with it.. the incredible luxury item turns into an incredible value because it kills so many birds with one stone. It's a low power laptop and revolutionary keyboard input device all in one.
The way I really view it is as the future version of the book and paper. Your primary PC and monitor is the book and the tablet is the drawing paper.. but they are the future version of both and each can interact with the other. And not only that but they also provide additional computing power.
This article shows the value too.. you could have a custom keyboard and interface for every application you could imagine..
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/01/apple-the-tablet-prophecies.html
Also, because of the portability it unchains you from your primary PC. You can roam around the house at will and it can even go on the road. But I view it as almost a "medium".. in a scifi sense. I don't mean to sound silly. But having such a portable and handy PC that works so well for interfacing with your PC could almost make us cyborgs in a way. This tablet PC/interface becomes a part of us because we use it when working on our primary PC AND take it with us. Light Peak ties into this perfectly too.. I have a hunch Apple pushed for light peak just for this device/application. Because it allows one connection and turns the tablet into a input device and monitor and allows both the PC and tablet to communicate and exchange info at an incredible rate.
As you said.. this also creates a new category of devices that was untapped. But I think the financial potential is even greater than that... because I could see each person wanting multiples of these devices. Think of it as modular computing. You could use several of these in combination for different applications. You could customize your workstation using these things as custom keyboard.. or even making music or art etc. Think of them as palettes... -- digital palettes.
Also.. another idea. There is a new rumor that this device would be shared around the house.. this paints the image that it would be like a magazine people would share and pass around.. but if you think of the shared device being a keyboard it makes a lot more sense. Someone even mentioned notes being posted on it. But imagine it as a touch monitor on a shared computer that people would handwrite notes on so the next person that came to it would see it. And if people were sharing this input device it could require/provide custom user interfaces for each different person.
The way I really view it is as the future version of the book and paper. Your primary PC and monitor is the book and the tablet is the drawing paper.. but they are the future version of both and each can interact with the other. And not only that but they also provide additional computing power.
This article shows the value too.. you could have a custom keyboard and interface for every application you could imagine..
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/01/apple-the-tablet-prophecies.html
Also, because of the portability it unchains you from your primary PC. You can roam around the house at will and it can even go on the road. But I view it as almost a "medium".. in a scifi sense. I don't mean to sound silly. But having such a portable and handy PC that works so well for interfacing with your PC could almost make us cyborgs in a way. This tablet PC/interface becomes a part of us because we use it when working on our primary PC AND take it with us. Light Peak ties into this perfectly too.. I have a hunch Apple pushed for light peak just for this device/application. Because it allows one connection and turns the tablet into a input device and monitor and allows both the PC and tablet to communicate and exchange info at an incredible rate.
As you said.. this also creates a new category of devices that was untapped. But I think the financial potential is even greater than that... because I could see each person wanting multiples of these devices. Think of it as modular computing. You could use several of these in combination for different applications. You could customize your workstation using these things as custom keyboard.. or even making music or art etc. Think of them as palettes... -- digital palettes.
Also.. another idea. There is a new rumor that this device would be shared around the house.. this paints the image that it would be like a magazine people would share and pass around.. but if you think of the shared device being a keyboard it makes a lot more sense. Someone even mentioned notes being posted on it. But imagine it as a touch monitor on a shared computer that people would handwrite notes on so the next person that came to it would see it. And if people were sharing this input device it could require/provide custom user interfaces for each different person.
Or the table cloth was uneven. This most likely is fake. Why whould they have a speakerphone on a tablet and a home button on the side as it it were a horizontal iPhone? It this turns out to be real, I will have lost faith in Apple.
What if there are 2 speakers there.. but one speaker has a circular hole around the home button and the speaker on the other side is a slit. Maybe they used this configuration because visually it distinguishes one side from the other.. so you know where the home key is so you know how to hold the device?
Also, keep in mind.. any time you see something under such poor conditions it's going to appear to be a letdown. Seeing Jobs hold it on stage or photographed under ideal conditions and in complete form will be totally different. Having said all that though I am skeptical this is really it, too.
Also, keep in mind.. any time you see something under such poor conditions it's going to appear to be a letdown. Seeing Jobs hold it on stage or photographed under ideal conditions and in complete form will be totally different. Having said all that though I am skeptical this is really it, too.
If thats what it will look like. Do not want, UNLESS its really really REALLY good. 
It just looks like a big iPhone... It just looks stupid.
It just looks like a big iPhone... It just looks stupid.I think it's actually a gill because it's fully waterproof so that as well as being used for families, students, people on the train etc, divers can take it under water and write messages to each other.
Replace this big piece of paper with a tablet and the device really will be ubiquitous.
Question: Why would new images of an already-written-off-as-fake Bezel show up again a week later?
Normally, these things don't get additional attention unless there's something to it.
I'm calling...real. How many different people have described this as a giant iPhone? Now we see a possible outer Bezel that, by any reasonable assumption, looks like nothing but a 'giant iPhone'.
That and whenever this forum reaches a consensus on something being "fake" it's almost always real.
Normally, these things don't get additional attention unless there's something to it.
I'm calling...real. How many different people have described this as a giant iPhone? Now we see a possible outer Bezel that, by any reasonable assumption, looks like nothing but a 'giant iPhone'.
That and whenever this forum reaches a consensus on something being "fake" it's almost always real.
Exactly. Forum reactions are never a good way to judge what Apple is about to do, except of course, if you see an entire thread like this one agreeing on "Fake"...then its probably real. I'd put money on it at this point, just because of how confident this forum is that's not real.
That confidence really = fantasy hope.