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Report Claims Tablet is 'iPhone on Steroids', Runs on iPhone OS Kernel
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You thought, or you wished? All common sense and rumors point to a version of iPhone OS and not full OS X.
This report is actually probably dead on! Not that it reveals anything too enlightening.
I have thought for a while that it is odd that Apple has gone so long without and incremental iPhone update. I also figured it was because they were working on the iPhone OS for the iSlate!
Honestly, why aren't I getting paid to be an analyst? I am more accurate than the analysts most the time anyway hehe!
I can't even respond to these Mac OS X Tablet people anymore in the threads. They are completely delusional!
I have thought for a while that it is odd that Apple has gone so long without and incremental iPhone update. I also figured it was because they were working on the iPhone OS for the iSlate!
Honestly, why aren't I getting paid to be an analyst? I am more accurate than the analysts most the time anyway hehe!
I can't even respond to these Mac OS X Tablet people anymore in the threads. They are completely delusional!
Excruciating.
This is about to be the longest fortnight in the history of fortnights. For me, that is.
This is about to be the longest fortnight in the history of fortnights. For me, that is.
Yeah, I've heard that it'll require at least three people and all their fingers to flip a page on it.
*cough*
Seriously, sounds like one reason why rumors say it's got a steep learning curve. Remember the Courier concept videos? Powerful gestures, but a lot to learn.
Meanwhile, thinking about people who say these devices would be good for classrooms...
Arizona State University just got out of a lawsuit from blind groups for requiring one class's books on a Kindle, only because Amazon added voice navigation, rendering the lawsuit moot.
Will Apple have to do something similar for people with only one hand or finger, who can't do multi-touch?
Great Post!
Event goes as follows:
I personally don't think I'll use the tablet. I'm a Video/Photography Pro & I also program for the Mac Platform, so unless the Tablet has iPhone SDK installed, I see no use for it. If they do a really good job re-enhancing the MacBook Air (Which I really hope they add 4GB Ram & 160GB+SSD), I'll be more compelled to get that instead of the tablet.
Either way history will be made and Steve will forever be praised for his visions and contributions to the world we live in. In Steve we Trust
iDisk
Event goes as follows:
- Introduction of Steve looking healthier then ever (Remember he said he had to gain 20lbs )
- iWork X & iLife X (Some talk of Mobile Me & iWork.com beta)
- Notebook refresh (Maybe a return to the express card slot for high end 15" )
- New Cinema displays ( New 30" Model & 36" Model)
- Steve Exits the stage and then reappears coming down from above (the Apple heavens) with the Tablet.
I personally don't think I'll use the tablet. I'm a Video/Photography Pro & I also program for the Mac Platform, so unless the Tablet has iPhone SDK installed, I see no use for it. If they do a really good job re-enhancing the MacBook Air (Which I really hope they add 4GB Ram & 160GB+SSD), I'll be more compelled to get that instead of the tablet.
Either way history will be made and Steve will forever be praised for his visions and contributions to the world we live in. In Steve we Trust
iDisk
Um, by whom? Where? When? "more or less established" = speculated by some.
More to the point, if, as many have pointed out, it is simply a "consumption" device, with little ability to generate new material on it, it would be less attractive to me. But then, maybe that's what "steroids" would do to an iPhone. BTW, apart from the serial numbers, I could have written the original post...
Ahhh...
So the name of Apple's 'iPhone on Steroids' Tablet, coming in two versions, is going to be...
"The Mark McGwire 'Out of the Park' and 'Out of the Park - Pro' Pad!
So the name of Apple's 'iPhone on Steroids' Tablet, coming in two versions, is going to be...
"The Mark McGwire 'Out of the Park' and 'Out of the Park - Pro' Pad!
hmmmmm.... Just and FYI Axiotron maker of the modbook had a sale of $699 a regular price of $899 before christmas. To convert your owned macbook into a authorized tablet os x. The sale has been extended until March 1, 2010.
Think they know something?
^ = big iPod Touch/iPhone
Think they know something?
^ = big iPod Touch/iPhone
I think that is what Apple is going to gear it towards, but I think they may miss the mark on how many people use a Netbook.
At the minimum I need a wacom-like stylus, and a note taking app similar to MS OneNote for sketching. A tablet is only interesting to me if it completely replaces paper in my life.
Either way, I seriously doubt the Apple tablet will be able to run Photoshop. It doesn't look like I can retire my Fujitsu tablet PC anytime soon.
Either way, I seriously doubt the Apple tablet will be able to run Photoshop. It doesn't look like I can retire my Fujitsu tablet PC anytime soon.
I would still have preferred to see the tablet running a full version of Mac OS X, rather than the iPhone OS.
Not everyone wants "a giant iPhone", and the iPhone itself already does everything it sets out to do very well.
Not everyone wants "a giant iPhone", and the iPhone itself already does everything it sets out to do very well.
By common sense. Of course the tablet is going to run an OS and UI designed for multitouch and finger-contriol. And guess what? Mac OS X and Aqua is NOT it! Those are designed for mouse and keyboard. Do you SERIOUSLY expect Apple to release a product that uses an OS/UI that is designed for a whole different usage-paradigm? Hell no!
The OS will obviously be closely related to the iPhone-OS, sine that OS is designed for multitouch. But I wouldn't be one bit surprised if the UI was different and/or if the iPhone's UI was overhauled as well. And like I said: the powerful CPU and large screen makes it possible to run apps that would not work on the iPhone.
I think that the tablet will primarily be a "consumption-device", but I think that it will be way better at creating content than iPhone is. But if you expect that it will match a MacBook when it comes to ability to create stuff, you will be disappointed. Hell, netbooks are not as good at creating stuff as regural notebooks are, why would a slate be?
So how do I use it for text input? I still can't see how this will be done well. Does this mean applications from the app store only? No loading of word or other programs?
Otherwise it looks just like a glorified iphone.
Otherwise it looks just like a glorified iphone.
You know that slipped my mind completely.
I'm sure the people at apple have everything under control; until we have "juiced" up the tablet/rumors to where it will beam us to Cupertino
One locked down 100% controlled by apple consumer device is enough. I sure hope the tablet runs Mac OS X. I would not look forward to the model of having to by all my PC/Mac applications through one store where everything was filtered and sanitized by Apple... to prevent competing products, to prevent "confusion", etc.
Exactley! If the tablet runs the iPhone OS then we wont be able to put our software on it. Photoshop would be awesome on a tablet. Just doesnt make sense to me.
100%. In fact, if Apple does release one locked down with a useless iphone OS, I'll personally start the pot with a $5,000 donation to fund any hacker group that can get OS X running on it.
Just download one of the many screen sharing applications already on the App store and access your more powerful mac from anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple provided a more elegant solution too. I'll take my $5000 in cash thank you.
I would agree about the 95% of it being made up. ...with the exception being the intent, which I believe to be people boosting their megalomania.