Do you have some facts to back that up, or is that just coming from anecdote and heresay?
Who said it was going to cost that much? Who said it was going to have OLED?
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Do you have some facts to back that up, or is that just coming from anecdote and heresay?
Who said it was going to cost that much? Who said it was going to have OLED?
please GOD, Let it be a Touch Mac and not a Touch iPhone-like tablet... I need portability and touch in my Mac I don't want a bigger iPhone. Please GOD, PLEASE 
please GOD, Let it be a Touch Mac and not a Touch iPhone-like tablet... I need portability and touch in my Mac I don't want a bigger iPhone. Please GOD, PLEASE
i'm guessing if the tablet actually exists, it will be a cross between both... hopefully im guessing Mac OS X would be incredibly annoying, yet would be next to pointless to have a large iPhone based OS
None of your points are valid. None of us have seen it, and none of us know what it's going to cost, and your multi-touch argument is irrelevant.
The points that are most likely facts are that Apple has been talking to publishers. How could an electronic version of a newspaper be viably published on anything BUT a tablet-like device? Can you envision newspaper readers on a train or subway suddenly all toting laptops or even netbooks? Nope. Talk about uncomfortable! And phones are way too small. So the only thing that makes any kind of sense would be a tablet.
You can't assume, either, that a tablet will be a one-piece plank. I'm thinking they found a way to make a two-piece FOLDING form factor which could lock open if desired.
All this stupid flack over Adobe and PDF is tiring. PDF/AIR is the obvious choice for a ubiquitous format. It supports all static and dynamic content, page flipping, etc.
All this whining about the big bad Apple and the big bad Adobe is also really stupid, as we're about to witness yet another publishing revolution which will eclipse even the famous "desktop publishing" revolution of the '80s/'90s which was brought to us by the virtual Adobe/Apple partnership.
But this one won't affect just the "creatives" of the publishing world. It will reach virtually every man on the street. And once again, Apple will lead the way.
This time, everything is in place: the online store, the retail stores, the channel partners, the overall "digital hub" infrastructure, the internet.
Jaws will drop everywhere, and the "enemy" will fall like Sauron and all his hordes.
Just my .02 cents...
While I'm no stranger to being vocal against Apple for their App Store policy... It may come as a shock to some that I really AM an Apple FAN and perhaps that's why I'm so hard at them about behaving the way they have been...
Anyway... My thoughts on this are as follows...
- It's black (okay)
- It's widescreen (okay)
- It's has pleasing image (okay)
- It's presumably think (okay)
However it lacks what we'd all come to expect from an Apple product. I mean yea it's a PDF viewer... somehow I'd be extremely shocked if Apple's table only did what that thing was displayed doing.
While I'm no stranger to being vocal against Apple for their App Store policy... It may come as a shock to some that I really AM an Apple FAN and perhaps that's why I'm so hard at them about behaving the way they have been...
Anyway... My thoughts on this are as follows...
- It's black (okay)
- It's widescreen (okay)
- It's has pleasing image (okay)
- It's presumably think (okay)
However it lacks what we'd all come to expect from an Apple product. I mean yea it's a PDF viewer... somehow I'd be extremely shocked if Apple's table only did what that thing was displayed doing.
no one suggested this is ALL it does. The article is talking about one and only one rumored application of the device. There have been many other rumor suggesting that it performs many other functions.
Will it be any good?
If they follow the yuck factor trend of adding movement, sound and flash to everything it will be junk. I want to read pages, not have them dance in front of me. Way too many web sites violate good design by flashing text, printing red on green, scrolling, flipping images, etc. Go static.
Thankfully there is PithHelmet on the Mac for Safari which kills ads and motion on a site by site basis. We need that on the iPodTouch/iPhone and we'll need it for the tablet too to kill the invariable bad design.
If they follow the yuck factor trend of adding movement, sound and flash to everything it will be junk. I want to read pages, not have them dance in front of me. Way too many web sites violate good design by flashing text, printing red on green, scrolling, flipping images, etc. Go static.
Thankfully there is PithHelmet on the Mac for Safari which kills ads and motion on a site by site basis. We need that on the iPodTouch/iPhone and we'll need it for the tablet too to kill the invariable bad design.
iTablet
I absolutely love the idea and cannot wait to get my hands on one. I have a 21" iMac and do not own a laptop. This would be a good middle of the road device for me. I am also getting my MBA now and would love to have text books on it instead of lugging them around!
I absolutely love the idea and cannot wait to get my hands on one. I have a 21" iMac and do not own a laptop. This would be a good middle of the road device for me. I am also getting my MBA now and would love to have text books on it instead of lugging them around!
For an UMD, I do not believe it will run full OS X, iPhone OS X indeed. The capabilities of full OS X is not required as the iPhone OS X can handle.
did not branch OS X one for mobile and the other for desktop/laptop computing just so they can run an UMD on something other then iPhone OS X.You have to consider battery life,cpu,gpu,expandable media. And it all is not required on a device on this nature. This product stems off from the MBA only more stripped down and will have an iPhone/iPT dock connector, an SD slot, Mini DVI and possible a couple USB slots.
one word SIZE. if you are mobile then an iPhone/iPT will fit the bill. If you need a mobile workstation then a MB/MBP will fit the bill. Why would you use an
Tablet for both duties to save space, it will similar to using an overgrown iPhone/iPT.
Adobe's CS5 version of Flash allows you to build native iPhone apps. So the claim of this zine running on multiple tablets could be that for an Apple device it runs as a native app, all other platforms are Flash-based.
Music was so awful I missed the first 20 seconds of the video while I fumbled to get my volume down.
Still building? How long do they have to build before they explode?
For all those dying for a Mac tablet, how well does the Modbook sell?
The Modbook is nothing like the tablet. Why:
1. No multitouch or using your fingers at all. It is completely stylus-based.
2. The Modbook is a Frankenstein product that literrally is a half MacBook/half tablet.
3. The Modbook is far more expensive than what the tablet is supposed to be and probably will offer far more battery life.
I won't be getting one as soon as it comes out but I think it could be the beginning of what Apple's next generation of computers will be. The only concern is that it will be tied to iTunes and the App Store.
A tablet is precisely what I want. I will dump my MBP and buy an i7 iMac and a tablet as soon as it is available. If not, then it will be an MBA, but I would prefer a tablet.
That was music?! I thought someone had gotten hold of a recording of my grandmother's old washing machine struggling through another Monday morning.
I'd buy one
if they could GUARANTEE I'd never have to hear that "MUSIC" again.
But I must say that Wired is visually as annoying as that "music." Anybody else watched this rag turn into an ADD nightmare?
As far as some of the comments "the iPhone is easy to rotate, etc, but imagine doing that with a 10" screen!"
Well, I can imagine that. Close your eyes and think of a BOOK.
And if I see the word "fanboy" again...please go back to playing Doom on your E-Machine, I'm busy scoring two movies and finishing up an album that I'm mixing in Paris on my MBPro.
Lastly: this tablet will change everything, count on it. I found myself reading the NYTimes the other day, and glanced at the upper right hand corner to check the time. It is TIME!
if they could GUARANTEE I'd never have to hear that "MUSIC" again.
But I must say that Wired is visually as annoying as that "music." Anybody else watched this rag turn into an ADD nightmare?
As far as some of the comments "the iPhone is easy to rotate, etc, but imagine doing that with a 10" screen!"
Well, I can imagine that. Close your eyes and think of a BOOK.
And if I see the word "fanboy" again...please go back to playing Doom on your E-Machine, I'm busy scoring two movies and finishing up an album that I'm mixing in Paris on my MBPro.
Lastly: this tablet will change everything, count on it. I found myself reading the NYTimes the other day, and glanced at the upper right hand corner to check the time. It is TIME!