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Steve Jobs Almost Entirely Focused on Tablet Project?

The Apple love-fest comments here make me want to vomit.

Guys, it's just going to be a tablet. It's going to be a big iphone with a big screen. That's it. It isn't going to change the world, it isn't going to be perfect, and it isn't another Steve Jobs creation that is going to blow your mind. It might have by default voice recognition or something lame like that, but that's really it.

If it actually does something revolutionary or amazing, like it can read your thoughts and enter a google search without the need for typing, I will eat a crow baked in shoe leather and make a video for you all to watch.

But seriously, get over it.
 
MrBean said:
All I know, is that all 4 of my inside sources that actually work at Apple, there is no project for a tablet.

They can't think of a way to get away from having 10" of exposed glass ready to be shattered on the first drop.
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The same way they do it with the iPhone? Charge an arm and a leg to replace it.
 
you can read the article on your iphone

if you have the wall street journal app. No need for the subscription.
 
Heffer said:
Completely agree. Its funny hearing these posters talk about "holiday season". This is Apple we're talking about here. They almost never release anything before the "holiday season".

Some fanboys act as if they were born yesterday.

Wiki "Timeline of Apple Products". For the last 5 years not a single consumer product was released from Oct - Dec.

Some notables: iPhone was released in June; Nano in Sept; Macbooks in May; MacAir in Jan.

Apple has built a strong brand that fans will stand in line in sub-zero weather, to get their hands on the latest product.
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Of the 13 releases of the Macbook six were during the holiday season.


The iPod Touch was introduced in Feb. 2008 and was refreshed in Sept. 2008
As was the Nano,the shuffle and other iPod consumer devices.

The important thing here is the Alum. Macbooks were transitioned over to the Macbook Pro line leaving the Macbook line open to anything..

The natural evolution from the iPod Touch and the Macbook would be the Macbook Touch.

A lot could come out this holiday season.More likely September.
 
Logic pretty much dictated such items such as an iPod, iPhone, low priced desktop which is my Mac Mini I love, and now, a tablet. I would be totally shocked if Apple didn't have at least one tablet product by the end of this year.

I think it will be great but many Macrumors folk may have unrealistic expectations as to what it can do, how small it can be, and for how cheap.

OS X, some apps, an OK flash hard drive .. sure, but big touchscreen in an ultra thin, almost non existent body, and selling for close to $500 at release? I see it initially going for a grand or more, and then later for a more reasonable price. It may lack some apps and/or features at release, but then only test the waters to see what "we" want and then add those in V2 at a reduced price.
 
Jobs focus

This is an entirely worthless article. Its a regurgitation of all previous rumors with the added tidbit that Jobs is paying attention to details.

DUH!!

Why bother, other than to drive hits?
 
63dot said:
Logic pretty much dictated such items such as an iPod, iPhone, low priced desktop which is my Mac Mini I love, and now, a tablet. I would be totally shocked if Apple didn't have at least one tablet product by the end of this year.

I think it will be great but many Macrumors folk may have unrealistic expectations as to what it can do, how small it can be, and for how cheap.

OS X, some apps, an OK flash hard drive .. sure, but big touchscreen in an ultra thin, almost non existent body, and selling for close to $500 at release? I see it initially going for a grand or more, and then later for a more reasonable price. It may lack some apps and/or features at release, but then only test the waters to see what "we" want and then add those in V2 at a reduced price.
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I think over a grand would be unrealistic as a price point. They'd have to really sell the heck out of that thing. I can see it hitting $900 though. I wouldn't be surprised if the OS is some kind of hybrid of OS X and Mobile OS X (hybrid is a bad description actually). It probably isn't going to be just a larger iPod Touch and it can't do as much as a Macbook without essentially being the size of a Macbook (and cost more).
 
I never understood what the big deal about this was unless you work in a profession where this was extremely useful or you are a student. For the other 90% it is gluttonous to purchase it. Do you really need anything more than a laptop/desktop and a smartphone?
 
oban14 said:
The Apple love-fest comments here make me want to vomit.

Guys, it's just going to be a tablet. It's going to be a big iphone with a big screen. That's it. It isn't going to change the world, it isn't going to be perfect, and it isn't another Steve Jobs creation that is going to blow your mind. It might have by default voice recognition or something lame like that, but that's really it.

If it actually does something revolutionary or amazing, like it can read your thoughts and enter a google search without the need for typing, I will eat a crow baked in shoe leather and make a video for you all to watch.

But seriously, get over it.
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That's what they said about the iPod... (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.500/)
 
macerroneous said:
I hope it lasts.
--Willie Wonka (who, by the way, bears a striking resemblance to SJ)

Willie Wonka and the Chocoalate Factory actually seems to be a perfect metaphor for Steve and the Gadget Factory, secrecy and all. That makes the Tablet the Everlasting Gobstopper. And, what's Ballmer's character?
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No, that makes the Tablet that "failed experiment" Wonka tells the others not to touch.

Ballmer = The Joker.
 
Bigger iPhone or smaller Mac?

the-oz-man said:
It's got to at least have OS X for it to even be an option for me. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone OS is great for a small mobile device, a giant iPhone requires a step up.
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I agree. My desire is not to have a bigger iPhone, but a smaller Mac. Perhaps they have learned enough from the iPhone to create something in between. I might be okay with that.
 
The iPhone runs Mac OS X, scaled down, but still at core, Mac OS X, with the libraries it needs for.

The Tablet will run Mac OS X, may be not full desktop/laptop Mac OS X, I would image some where in between.

I hope for the tablet has a iPhone type app environment, beefed up, with the ability also to run regular Mac OS X apps, also have lite version apps for iPhoto, iMovies, iWorks

What I do not want to see is a small version of a Mac, trying to cram regular apps into a small resolution, with slower performance, that would just suck.

It needs it own scaled apps, that is the only way to make it cool. What it will not be is a MacBook Touch.

I like the idea of a running iPhone OS type apps scaled up, there are some great apps that would be even better with more resolution, and performance.
 
It always interests me when people have the discussion about a tablet running iPhone OSX or Full OSX, when it seems that the obvious solution would be to run both.

A simple, easy to use touch interface for accessing movies, games, and maybe specific touch applications (I'm thinking something similar to a touch version of Front Row) which can then be quit to reveal full OSX running behind it (maybe using that doorway transition in keynote!)

This would seem like the best of both worlds for being on the move, and then when you're at a desk with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Of course there could also be the option of an on-screen keyboard to use full OSX on the move, but the whole interface is designed for using a mouse and might be a bit fiddly to navigate using a finger.

It certainly seems a decent solution if the tablet is to be anything more than an oversized iPod, which I hope it isn't. If this thing is really going to take off it needs to be the next step in mobile computing, not the next step in portable media line... In my opinion anyway.
 
inkswamp said:
I just don't get the whole tablet concept. I imagine this product about twice the size of an iPhone (width and height) and I imagine trying to use something like that. It would be awkward. You would have to hold/balance it in one hand while manipulating with the other... or set it on your lap. Neither of those scenarios sound particularly appealing. It's going to be too big to be worthwhile as a portable and too underpowered to be a laptop replacement.

Apple is going to have to do something really unexpected to convince me that such a product is worth my time.
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badboomer73 said:
I just don't know what is going to make this tablet sooo amazing. Won't it just be a big iPhone that can run photoshop? A portable iMac with a built in GPS and phone? What digital technology is out there that hasn't already been fused into a swiss army computer? I'm sure all laptops are soon going to come with 3G. That's not a WOW feature to me.

Ummm satellite TV reception? - not with iTunes. I don't know what else is digital? Scanner, printer - that would be lame.

It's can only be a iPhone / MacBook morphed into one. Cool but not WOW.

retinal scanner? Lazer beam canon? transporter? can opener? beer can holder with straw? glory hole?

I'm sure it'll be cool but I'm just not seeing it.

maybe it'll be made entirely of water bottles, old cell phones and Oprah magazines. Definately too much of all those lying around.
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I think it will be what Apple imagined the MacBook Air would be.

My wife and I love our Air. We use it all over the house. We fight over it at the kitchen table, want it on our family room couch, bring it upstairs while lying in bed, it is so convenient. It wouldn't work well as our main computer, but we have two others for when we want to sit at a desk and do work. However when just wanting to browse the web, check e-mails or update facebook pages, it is perfect.

The problem is that most people won't want to spend $1500 for a 2nd or 3rd computer, but the convenience is undeniable. Enter the tablet, it can be transported throughout the house for basic functions, put in a backpack etc. and at a price-point of $500-700, more people would consider having it and would love it.
 
oban14 said:
The Apple love-fest comments here make me want to vomit.

Guys, it's just going to be a tablet. It's going to be a big iphone with a big screen. That's it. It isn't going to change the world, it isn't going to be perfect, and it isn't another Steve Jobs creation that is going to blow your mind. It might have by default voice recognition or something lame like that, but that's really it.

If it actually does something revolutionary or amazing, like it can read your thoughts and enter a google search without the need for typing, I will eat a crow baked in shoe leather and make a video for you all to watch.

But seriously, get over it.
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You're talking like Nokia. Or Sony. Or MS.

This is APPLE. What they touch usually turns to gold. There is absolutely no reason to believe this won't, either.

Then again, the iPhone is just another phone, right? And the iPod just another mp3 player. And a Macbook just another notebook, and OS X just another operating system, and . . . . do you kinda get where this is going?? :rolleyes:
 
andrew0122 said:
It's good to hear that Apple's Employee 0 is that focused of getting the project done right. It will be with his attention to detail that I know that the tablet will be a success.

I still think that we won't see it until early next year though.
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Actually, Woz is employee 1 and Jobs is employee 2-- SJ asked to be employee 0, but was refused.
 
Needs A LITTLE More work.

Look at the battery level.

giant_iphone_640.jpg


Does this look good to anyone?
 
Stevenote

I've been saying for months now: Steve's next & last keynote will be to introduce the tablet. Period. He wants to go out big (as he should). It's very obvious that the iPhone announcement was HUGE for Steve, personally. The only thing that could equal (or eclipse) that is doing the same with a tablet.

I don't care when it comes out. I just want it done right.
Early 2010. Latest.
 
oban14 said:
It isn't going to change the world, it isn't going to be perfect, and it isn't another Steve Jobs creation that is going to blow your mind.
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If this is the case, then there will be no product release. Pretty rare for Apple to release something as uninspired as you describe. So, your point must be "no tablet at all."
 
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