really, these issues should be addressed for a fully functioning iphone. and damn straight those should be in a tablet since the tablet is supposed to be a fully functioning computer, just with a touch screen.
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really, these issues should be addressed for a fully functioning iphone. and damn straight those should be in a tablet since the tablet is supposed to be a fully functioning computer, just with a touch screen.
George Costanza is that you!!
Remember the Seinfeld episode where George become a hand model.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9e/250px-GeorgeCostanza.jpg
I hope with a device like this, that the keyboard would have several layout options, including one that would be more or less the same size/resolution as the iPhone. I've become quite adept at typing quickly on the iPhone (especially once I started trusting the error correction). That skill would translate immediately to a larger tablet, and also not have to cover half the screen. The larger "virtual keyboards" are not especially conducive to either touch-typing or hunt-and-peck.
Have a little iPhone-style keyboard that pops up out of the corner when needed, and 10 million people already know how to use it!
Damn, damn straight?
Of course they will be. And more than likely this research into a better solution will trickle down to the iPhone. But if you purchase something that you know is limited in certain ways, than you have to accept those limitations until a fix or a new version is provided. Otherwise, just don't buy the thing, and go find a phone that does suit your needs. No one phone is likely going to do everything that you want, and certainly not what everyone wants. So you decide which features are important to you, and which you can compromise on.
FYI, the iPhone doesn't suit my needs. And I haven't bought one.
Of course they will be. And more than likely this research into a better solution will trickle down to the iPhone. But if you purchase something that you know is limited in certain ways, than you have to accept those limitations until a fix or a new version is provided. Otherwise, just don't buy the thing, and go find a phone that does suit your needs. No one phone is likely going to do everything that you want, and certainly not what everyone wants. So you decide which features are important to you, and which you can compromise on.
FYI, the iPhone doesn't suit my needs. And I haven't bought one.
As stated by Apple:
Apples secret product is MacBook touch
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/rumor_apples_secret_product_is_macbook_touch/P100
To be like this:
MacBook Touch tipped to be Apples secret development
http://www.slashgear.com/macbook-touch-tipped-to-be-apples-secret-development-2212825.php
MacBook Touch mockups from a fan
http://www.slashgear.com/macbook-touch-mockups-from-a-fan-059379.php
With full Mac OS X inside, Firewire, Ethernet, full-quality video out port, 5 to 7-inch screen and a weight like this will be perfect:
OQO model e2
http://www.oqo.com
We need a Mac like that for our University. And we need thousands of units now. For full blown presentations from NATIVE Keynote and PowerPoint files (ie., transitions, animations, video, etc).
Apples secret product is MacBook touch
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/rumor_apples_secret_product_is_macbook_touch/P100
To be like this:
MacBook Touch tipped to be Apples secret development
http://www.slashgear.com/macbook-touch-tipped-to-be-apples-secret-development-2212825.php
MacBook Touch mockups from a fan
http://www.slashgear.com/macbook-touch-mockups-from-a-fan-059379.php
With full Mac OS X inside, Firewire, Ethernet, full-quality video out port, 5 to 7-inch screen and a weight like this will be perfect:
OQO model e2
http://www.oqo.com
We need a Mac like that for our University. And we need thousands of units now. For full blown presentations from NATIVE Keynote and PowerPoint files (ie., transitions, animations, video, etc).
Personaly believe this is just occuping patent space, what the hell are you going to do with a tablet PC?
Can't use it as a laptop without a keyboard, to large to cary everywhere, to small to be a proper PC, Apple's product's of recent years are somthing, A portable Music player, a Phone, the trouble with this type of device its no good at anything, In busness you would stilll need a phone and a notebook,
the only "what does it do" angle that I think it could cover is electronic book reader, tied in with itunes,
Can't use it as a laptop without a keyboard, to large to cary everywhere, to small to be a proper PC, Apple's product's of recent years are somthing, A portable Music player, a Phone, the trouble with this type of device its no good at anything, In busness you would stilll need a phone and a notebook,
the only "what does it do" angle that I think it could cover is electronic book reader, tied in with itunes,
These would be perfect in a medical/hospital environment. While many clinics and hospitals have moved to electronic documentation over the past decade, nothing from the Windows world has really provided a device that fits within a doctor's workflow. See patients all day, sit at a desktop through lunch and all evening finishing up typing.
I could carry this with me room to room and actually enter and look up information on the fly, something that I have yet to do successfully with any of the goofy gadgets our hospital IT department floats by us each year. Put one of these in every doctor's hands, and you've got a huge enterprise revolution in the Mac world.
Seriously...typing on a virtual QWERTY keyboard with a stylus...scribbling into a "scratchpad" application, flipping the screen up and around, and retyping the notes afterwards because the OCR software is too buggy...this is what they think we should be doing.
Personally, I'm not sure I'd find a tablet computer that useful. I'm sure for some industries and applications it would be great, but, for the general consumer? I already have an iMac, MacBook and iPhone. For me, that's all I need to be portable and productive. Not sure how a tablet Mac would fit into their product line without a lot of overlap on other products.
LOL!! Those images were great.
LOL!! Those images were great.
THe OQO is a little thick and again typing with thumbs. there are similar models out there. But I do like the docking option, hdd space and it has some ports on board. Your #1 is good. I like the mockups I posted better (they are not mine, I just googled them). I still say a laptop like this is cool:
Functions as a dual touch screen/tablet each screen is independant, eac screen works together (ie all your tools on one and the drawing on the other, and one part can be used as a virtual keyboard while having a still full laptop sized screen. opens flat (from some of the concepts I seen). Give it 3 screens (top lid as a tablet, so you would not have to open it) and you would be golden. Also enough room for a good CPU, removable battery (like Dell laptops have just snap it out and snap in a new one), and still all the rooom for all your ports (and more than 2 USB's). Also has the room for a CD drive.
the concept is called a Canova-dual screen laptop. I say make is a tri-screen laptop.
For a touch-based tablet I think the ideal would be to find a way to comfortably type with one hand while holding the unit with the other.
Now THIS is what I'm looking for. A tablet with regular unmodified Mac OS X, as the article states, would not match well with multi-touch displays. Also, the modifications would allow a smaller display than otherwise, leading into smaller screened tablets.
So I don't think we will see a tablet until the appropriate modifications are made. After that though, I can see a well-designed Apple tablet that could sell much better than Windows-based tablets for the (G)UI modifications alone.
What I'm also concerned about is that Mac OS X Touch would be yet another environment from Mac OS X and iPhone OS. I wonder if applications would just be able to be moved from one Mac OS X to another with little or no changes. I suppose the multi-touch display-specific functions would just be inactive when the application is on Mac OS X, and active when it is on Mac OS X Touch.
This could also explain why Snow Leopard has "0 new features" (although I know there are low-level developments).
Is that a recap of existing rumors or has MacRumors heard additional rumors from their own source(s)? And can't there be both a Mac OS X Touch tablet and an iPhone OS mini-tablet? Maybe the tablet will be announced/released soon, as rumored, and the mini-tablet will be released at MWSF 2009 (as the last rumor about it stated a delay to an undeterminable timeframe).
Also, AppleInsider stated that the mini-tablet's development was delayed by the iPhone. They assumed, since initial iPhone development is over, that the mini-tablet would go full forward in development. If that was true, then I think it would be out by now. But no. Maybe the same team that is developing the mini-tablet is also helping development of the tablet? And the tablet is likely to come out sooner than the mini-tablet... Either that, or the tablet has actually been in (more secret) development, in some form or another, for longer than the mini-tablet.
Not only that, they could also be addressed in a mini-tablet as well.
Apple has not stated that, and your first link clearly says it's still a rumor.
One of the main reasons the Microsoft UMPC concept has not taken off is the sheer price of the components compared to what else is available that can do similar functions, just in a large form factor.
However, something like this, while likely expensive in it's initial form, could appeal to vertical markets like medical where price is not so much an object and functionality is of more value.
Maybe those aliens are helping Apple with the tablet.Is Apple using Aliens from space for these mock-up sketches?
Completely agreed. The question is: when?
Either "One more thing" at September 9th Event or "One more thing" at MWSF 2009.
My personal guess is that the Mac OS X Touch tablet is coming at the September 9 "One More Thing" for a later release (like the
tv), and the iPhone OS mini-tablet is coming in MWSF 2009.My personal guess is that the Mac OS X Touch tablet is coming at the September 9 "One More Thing" for a later release (like the
That sounds right, but I bet it'll be more drawn out.
It's always more drawn out than expected.
Two tablets???My personal guess is that the Mac OS X Touch tablet is coming at the September 9 "One More Thing" for a later release (like the
I love how many people were saying for the past months that Apple will NEVER do a tablet, yada yada, Laptops are FOREVER, yada yada...
All total BS.
It's obvious the tablet is next.
One thing the tablet might never replace properly is the keyboard with its ability to have bumps to keep the fingers registered for ultra fast typing. For tooling around and simple stuff the tablet is fine! And the tablet can do handwriting recog, so using some Gregg shorthand you can rocket through data entry.
All total BS.
It's obvious the tablet is next.
One thing the tablet might never replace properly is the keyboard with its ability to have bumps to keep the fingers registered for ultra fast typing. For tooling around and simple stuff the tablet is fine! And the tablet can do handwriting recog, so using some Gregg shorthand you can rocket through data entry.
Words of gold, man. Words of gold. And I don't just say this because the anticipation makes the wait seem longer than what it is...
The obvious way to reconcile the two different types of rumors. I don't think any of the rumors explicitly support or deny the possibility of another type of tablet.Two tablets???