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New Analyst Mockup and Sales Estimates for Apple's Tablet
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By yet another, I meant another netbook in the market. Care to show your evidence to the claim "Yes, the public does want a low priced Apple netbook"?
Netbook sales are slowing, I think we are close to the saturation point, only so many people want underpowered cramped computers.
Need for a physical kb, and the uses you mention are what are important to you.
This does not mean there aren't others, like myself, that would prefer virtual kbs (multiple languages, application specific, etc) and different uses.
How about some citations that support your conclusions that:
-- If it doesn't have a physical keyboard, then it isn't a netbook.
-- For the 1001st time, people want a low-priced Apple netook.
-- The people have made it clear what they want.
-- netbooks are for word processing, email and surfing--all of which would be made FAR slower with a touchscreen instead of a physical keyboard.
-- End of story. Anything else is just Jobs' ego (and boredom) at play.
Also, "Job's ego (and boredom)" was responsible for the Apple ][ esthetics, the Mac, OS X, TiBook, iTunes, the iPod... I, personally, have enjoyed the fruits of those particular Jobs attributes-- I am typing on one, now.
If Apple does this [tablet] device, it will define a new category, IMO.
Finally, may I remind you that nobody wanted [all that is] an iPhone until Apple defined the market.
Respectfully,
Dick Applebaum
considering there haven't been many surprises in the recent past, I would say that this is probably what we will get...unfortunately.
O well, looks like i'm not getting it, but hopefully for apple's sake more people buy it than the apple tv
O well, looks like i'm not getting it, but hopefully for apple's sake more people buy it than the apple tv
I think there will be a huge market for the tablet if Apple makes it run on OSX and gives it the ability to dock for a home station. The vast majority of people don't need it to run CS4 and Final Cut. Just let it do the basics (iTunes, Safari, iWork, iLife) and make it easy to do so. If Apple can do that, this device will most likely flourish.
I think the devices physical purpose is to "get out of the way" of the display and the <b>imaginative</b> OS.
The operating system and display are now the <b>device</b> -- their evolution and design is where imagination comes into play.
As a web and software developer, this device will be perfect for selling reviewing work with clients.
I am a buyer.
I explained some of that a number of times last year but I stopped for that reason. Plus the increasing signs towards iPhone OS in the tablet (not that they weren't there before).Ok people... SERIOUSLY, how many times do I have to point out the OBVIOUS?
1) Apple bought P.A. Semi to make chips for their mobile devices such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and this Tablet. The Tablet will have an ARM processor.
2) Mac OS X Snow Leopard is INTEL ONLY!!!
3) The Tablet will most definitely have the App Store!
4) OS X is NOT designed for Multi-Touch.
5) iPhone OS was designed specifically for Multi-Touch.
Conclusion... THE TABLET WILL NOT RUN OS X! IT WILL RUN THE IPHONE OS.
Why is this so hard to understand?
And yes, $500 to $700 is reasonable for an iPhone OS device given the price of the 32 GB (soon to be 64 GB) iPod touch—$399.
I've been predicting many of those things for quite a while too.Now... Will the Tablet possibly have new features in the iPhone OS such as file usage, multi tasking, iChat video? YES! I think it very likely will debut such features, and then those features will show up on the iPhone shortly after.
Yes. I have also predicted that on the Tablet we will finally see iWork and iLife mobile!
There hasn't been a leak of people beta testing some touchscreen Snow Leopard either. Or a distribution with iPhone apps inside.
All things that an extended version of iPhone OS could probably manage.
Sounds like something I would buy almost without question except for one thing: if this thing is Verizon only or AT&T wants to charge me a separate data fee from my iPhone, that would probably be a deal-killer. There's no way I'm going to pay for three separate data plans every month (home Comcast, iPhone AT&T, table Verizon/AT&T), and I doubt many other people would like that either.
Music playback devices didn't take off until the iPod.
Smartphones didn't take off until the iPhone.
Media downloads didn't take off until the iTunes Store.
Application downloads didn't take off until the App Store.
Thus, You = Fail
(translation: Apple will not put out the same crap everyone else has tried)And there's no way this thing will be $400 unsubsidized, that's $200 less than the iPhone. I'm guessing $700-$800.
That is the beauty of Snow Leopard, it is already touch compatible. Look at all the new features it is adding, the new features would work perfectly on a touchscreen. The touchscreen is simply a new input. There is no need for a radical difference in the code of the OS for it to work. Whereas a version of iPhone OS for a 10" screen would need some serious revamping and testing.
Logically, Apple can't release something THAT radical without intensive testing from their developer's program.
But, since you are just as likely to be correct as I am, I am prepared to eat my words once the tablet is released and admit I was wrong.
Though, it would be so much cooler if it ran OSX. =]
Well 3% times x profit margin...
50% margin is 2 Million Units @ $600, Profit of $300 = 600 Million in added profit.
If it does $6 Billion in annual profits company, that is like 10% growth.
At 25% margin, 5% growth.
Not bad. I just don't see the use of this. If I own an iphone, I have to shell out for data service on a glorified iphone with some meager additions (probably word processor, spreadsheet and powerpoint).
Should have built down from Macbook Air and Mac OS to me then built up from Iphone OS. Though at least power consumption should be low (if its LED).
It's stories like this that make me wonder about coming to MR in the first place. I just wish people would PLEASE stop tossing about rumors of a Mac Tablet around like it's going to help make it come true. Read my words: Apple are NOT going to make a tablet PC. Why would they sell something that would cannibalize their lucrative iPhone/iPod Touch market? The idea that they would is just pure, desperate idiocy.
Dell is selling laptops with multi-band worldwide combination CDMA/GSM radios that even include a GPS receiver. You choose your carrier after you get the laptop - or even switch. Is that an innovation that Apple can't match?
Search for "qualcomm gobi" to find out about the multi-band cell data radios.
noooo lol I was hoping for something Mac OSX based too but it looks like I'll go for the Wacom Intuos 3 or 4 with a new MBP in the future. I probably expected more than I realistically could have lol
Funny
Now that was funny, I liked that. LOL
Hugh
EDIT: Why do a lot of people want this so bad? I can't see a real use for it, not to mention it would be slow to type on an onscreen keyboard like the iPhone. :/
Now that was funny, I liked that. LOL
Hugh
EDIT: Why do a lot of people want this so bad? I can't see a real use for it, not to mention it would be slow to type on an onscreen keyboard like the iPhone. :/
Good to hear that someone in here has a little logic!
Now PEOPLE, I have presented my reasons that the Tablet will run iPhone OS, and I would say they are very concrete. Lets hear some LOGICAL evidence to refute my points and why the Tablet could run OS X!!! Bring it on people!