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No Apple Tablet Introduction at September Keynote Event?
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Still to this day after reading many many threads I have not figured out the 'market' for this Apple Tablet if it ever arrives.
Who is going to buy it and why?
I have no idea what they will produce, but what I think would have the largest market is something 10" that you can use a stylus with. in my opinion, this would be great for students because the professor no longer has to speak to the backs of student's laptops. Not to mention more privacy for the people sitting behind and beside you. This would also work great for artists (like the wacom tablet screen) and many professional fields i am sure. I've spoken with a psychologist who thought such a device would be great in their and the medical field. Finally, it's be great for all the apple fans out their who will buy anything steve jobs puts his stamp of approval upon.
edit: just to be clear, I mean macbook air specs, and an aluminum shell constructed in their new factories. and yes, i'm probably dreaming, but i'll go so far to say they'll start at 15 hundred dollars. look at the price of the 32 gb iphone- it's 7 hundred. why make a tablet mac and have it cost the same? apple won't make a tablet for less than 12 hundred- no ****ing way. and i'm glad, this giant iphone business is foolishness. This product will be much closer to a computer than a telephone.
Not sure I would go as far as saying it's a "stupid" product. It's just not the time to release that kind of extravagant device.
There's no doubt that Apple can find a way to market a tablet to the masses, but it will need a killer feature that is truly useful. It will also need to be priced high enough to recover R&D costs and still make a fat profit while selling millions of the device. The current economic conditions aren't favorable, therefore Apple will wait until the time is right and the technology gets cheaper to produce.
Stock is already adjusted for Steve not being the main person anymore (Not saying complete absense). Apple has proved themselves during his absense. It fell when the 'Steve is ill' comments started, but went up during his absense steadily. Larger stockholders have become very comfortable with current management team and Steve more participating in the background.
But analysts also have influenced the tablet expectations dramatically.
So you better hope there will be a tablet... The 20 percent drop will be real if not, and you will have to wait till the Q1 2010 results (Apple's fiscal calendar) for it to be corrected.
The fact is that all the tablets (fail) out there are running an OS designed for a keyboard and mouse. Apple's tablet will succeed because of its OS optimized for two handed multitouch.
Could it be that Apple is waiting until we recover from the recession, as in the current climate nobody can afford a fancy $700 remote control?
I think this is make or break because if this is used as a peripheral I could see it requiring a lot of "bandwidth".. it could allow a high resolution webcam, too.
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If a tablet is to be announced, I'd go with 2010 as well. They used to make big annoucements at Macworld, which is early in the year. I expect them to do something on thier own around the same time.
If a tablet is to be announced, I'd go with 2010 as well. They used to make big annoucements at Macworld, which is early in the year. I expect them to do something on thier own around the same time.
Wow.. I honestly forgot I originally saw that name here before I bit it. Think of it as a homage or "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". Now I feel like a tool.
if the tablet is an oversized iPod touch, wouldn't it break like an iPod touch?
that's what I love about laptops and netbooks they have a durable casing so they can be resistant to falls unlike a one inch thick touchscreen
btw are all the members of the beatles still alive?, could they possibly maybe be this years live music performance?. or atleast have one member come and talk about the band?
and what's been stopping the beatles from hitting iTunes so long?, what makes everyone think that problem will go away with the new album?
that's what I love about laptops and netbooks they have a durable casing so they can be resistant to falls unlike a one inch thick touchscreen
btw are all the members of the beatles still alive?, could they possibly maybe be this years live music performance?. or atleast have one member come and talk about the band?
and what's been stopping the beatles from hitting iTunes so long?, what makes everyone think that problem will go away with the new album?
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Record profits have nothing to do with waiting for better market conditions to release a product.
I am not saying the economy is why the tablet isn't going to be released this year, but to imply record profits mean that Apple doesn't have to consider the market when they release a product is just silly
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Record profits have nothing to do with waiting for better market conditions to release a product.
I am not saying the economy is why the tablet isn't going to be released this year, but to imply record profits mean that Apple doesn't have to consider the market when they release a product is just silly
Probably because it'll be just a giant iPod Touch, with an extension of the iPhone OS. So what better time to release it than with the iPod touch revisions?
Why bother?
The endless rants about Rev A products
The endless fights about PCtablets and MacTablets
The post about Palm Folio revisited that will generate most comments about comparing Obama and Bush Devil and it will get closed by mods
The rants of frustrated MacTablet app devs that get rejection for secretly allowing porn/filesharing
Wow, that's a lot of traffic!
The endless rants about Rev A products
The endless fights about PCtablets and MacTablets
The post about Palm Folio revisited that will generate most comments about comparing Obama and Bush Devil and it will get closed by mods
The rants of frustrated MacTablet app devs that get rejection for secretly allowing porn/filesharing
Wow, that's a lot of traffic!
Well I understand your frustration with rumors.
But this "tablet PC" from Apple will not just be any tablet PC. Apple has a habit of redefining markets and creating new ones - almost overnight.
A tablet from Apple has a good chance of being a another game-changer. Apple has a habit of popularizing and completely redefining products that weren't really going anywhere in the past.
This is Apple, after all, not one of the also-ran box makers.
What about the mbm?
Maybe the "tablet" isn't the big news. Maybe those 10" screens are for something completely different. Something that people actually want. Something between the atoms and the c2ds. Something for 499. Something called the MacBook mini.
Maybe the "tablet" isn't the big news. Maybe those 10" screens are for something completely different. Something that people actually want. Something between the atoms and the c2ds. Something for 499. Something called the MacBook mini.
YES! come on people, how blind are you all! How could you compare whatever apple has up their sleeve to some windows xp laptop with a pivoting display and stylus.
They will merge the hardware and software together into a package that will redefine mobile computing