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Steve Jobs on Apple Tablet: 'This will be the most important thing I've ever done."
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I totally agree with his ego on this one, and I wrote an article about how Disney's Phineas and Ferb are exactly like Steve Jobs in this case: http://bit.ly/4E9md0
I totally agree with his ego on this one, and I wrote an article about how Disney's Phineas and Ferb are exactly like Steve Jobs in this case: http://bit.ly/4E9md0
I'm sure they were upset until they stepped back into their Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG beast of a car.
I pointed this out a few pages back. No way anyone with kids, and who seems to be an involved parent (he attends school functions, etc.) is going to make that statement - workaholic or not.
On the upside, the iPhone 3Gs is as powerful as my first computer in 1995, so if anything we can all expect something hand-held but more powerful than a Packard Bell with a Pentium (1).
Man, looking at computers from years ago and realizing that equal power can be obtained today in a pocket-sized device without fans or drives...it's just thought provoking.
The most powerful Mac Mini right now scores a higher Geekbench score than the lowest-scoring Mac Pro. Now that doesn't mean they have equal power, but it gives us a good indication. So all of that power that requires massive heat sinks and a giant case could likely be purchased in the form of a Mac Mini in 2 or 3 years. As well in 10 years it may be pocket-sized! Editing HD video and massive multitasking on a pocket-sized device...greatness.
I have a feeling the tablet will MAINLY be one of the following.
1. Ad-infested to save on cost and use "free" software
2. A cloud and Mobile-Me centric computer
3. An *sigh* e-reader -.-'
Man, looking at computers from years ago and realizing that equal power can be obtained today in a pocket-sized device without fans or drives...it's just thought provoking.
The most powerful Mac Mini right now scores a higher Geekbench score than the lowest-scoring Mac Pro. Now that doesn't mean they have equal power, but it gives us a good indication. So all of that power that requires massive heat sinks and a giant case could likely be purchased in the form of a Mac Mini in 2 or 3 years. As well in 10 years it may be pocket-sized! Editing HD video and massive multitasking on a pocket-sized device...greatness.
I have a feeling the tablet will MAINLY be one of the following.
1. Ad-infested to save on cost and use "free" software
2. A cloud and Mobile-Me centric computer
3. An *sigh* e-reader -.-'
Meh... I'm more looking forward to the next iPhone than I am to the iSlate/iTable or whatever...
I bought me a new MBP 13" last summer and I'm quite content with that, plus the new 5G Nano.... so I ask myself what on earth would I need with the tablet
... so far reading all the rumors, everything you can do on the tablet I can already do on my MBP!
Jobs will have to pull out all the stops this Wednesday for me to get all excited about his new mysterious super product...
I bought me a new MBP 13" last summer and I'm quite content with that, plus the new 5G Nano.... so I ask myself what on earth would I need with the tablet
... so far reading all the rumors, everything you can do on the tablet I can already do on my MBP!Jobs will have to pull out all the stops this Wednesday for me to get all excited about his new mysterious super product...
Gonna save the newspapers (and make the "paper" part obsolete)
That's my theory and hope, anyway. Apologies if this has been said before. I'm hoping that I can wake up, have the newspaper already downloaded to my Tablet, and ditch all paper subscriptions. And yes, I am willing to pay for my news habit, provided the comics are included...
That's my theory and hope, anyway. Apologies if this has been said before. I'm hoping that I can wake up, have the newspaper already downloaded to my Tablet, and ditch all paper subscriptions. And yes, I am willing to pay for my news habit, provided the comics are included...
I agree with Jobs.
I believe the tablet will be the beginning of the end of print media. Not only books and textbooks, but also magazines, newspapers, and everything distributed/sold that is printed on paper.
I believe the tablet will be the beginning of the end of print media. Not only books and textbooks, but also magazines, newspapers, and everything distributed/sold that is printed on paper.
The iPhone faced the same situation and more than proved its worth...it simply REINVENTED the whole smartphone market. As for the tablet, I just hope it's not a bigger iPhone...it's gonna be a total smash hit if its functionalities go way beyond those of its smaller sibling...we'll see
LOL
They probably only chose it for it's iPod connection.
..or its iSlate enabled steering wheel!
... but then again, you're not Apple, Ive or Jobs, and neither you nor I have the slightest clue what they are thinking... planning... creating... so how do you know?. They don't like to be predictable, and how many of their products have been outright failures?. Not many.
The world would be a very dull place if we could predict the next best thing coming from X manufacturer, especially Apple!.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
"Everything that could have been invented has been patented." said Oscar Burke, administrator of the U.S. Patent Office, who said this as justification why his Office should close. Note he said this in the middle of the 19th century.
I'm pretty confident that there is still a whole lot of things left to be invented, including quite a new bundle of completely new products and ideas after this one that could come from Apple. As long as someone can imagine anything being done smarter, better, etc, there is room of them or someone else to invent a way to realize that vision. Is there NOTHING you can imagine being done smarter, better, cheaper, etc?... that could also come from Apple?
This is crazy.
No one denies that college textbooks are expensive. There are a number of causes, but the price of the paper is miniscule and the actual printing costs aren't much more.
Textbooks are expensive because they are revised very frequently, resulting in low sales per version combined with a fixed demand (publishers can charge a lot because students HAVE to have them and previous versions are outdated quickly).
Selling them in electronic format isn't going to change that. In fact, it may get worse because you may not be allowed to sell your used copy at all.
Jeez...You fanboys are certainly somewhat nutty!
This is 2010, not 1990. What revolutionary innovation could a tablet, or mini-computer POSSIBLY HAVE? Everything's pretty much been played out. It CAN'T be more than a multimedia player that has some cool gestures to run things. It''ll obviously be an eReader with some embedded multimedia functionality - so what, that's already on most internet sites. It can play music, novies, etc - ho hum. What the heck else could it POSSIBLY do? We already have a slew of 10" computers of all kinds - with or without keyboards. Many have graphic accelerators, can run a bunch of apps, etc.
This will NOT be revolutionary no matter how good Apple is in making everyone think it is. That said, it may be a cool device that's worth buying, like a lot of other cool devices. But it better to hell have some CAPACITY - like 128 GB. Otherwise it's pointless to buy.
Tony
This is 2010, not 1990. What revolutionary innovation could a tablet, or mini-computer POSSIBLY HAVE? Everything's pretty much been played out. It CAN'T be more than a multimedia player that has some cool gestures to run things. It''ll obviously be an eReader with some embedded multimedia functionality - so what, that's already on most internet sites. It can play music, novies, etc - ho hum. What the heck else could it POSSIBLY do? We already have a slew of 10" computers of all kinds - with or without keyboards. Many have graphic accelerators, can run a bunch of apps, etc.
This will NOT be revolutionary no matter how good Apple is in making everyone think it is.
That said, it may be a cool device that's worth buying, like a lot of other cool devices. But it better to hell have some CAPACITY - like 128 GB. Otherwise it's pointless to buy.Tony
HobeSoundDarryl
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Textbooks are mostly expensive because the buying audience is captive and forced to buy the book selected by the school/teacher (who then gets a nice share of the sale). I've often noticed that a cheap book mass marketed covers the topics just as good as the $100+ book for the class, yet the school decides that I need the $100+ book. Why? Profit.
When you have a scenario in which your buyer pretty much HAS TO BUY FROM YOU, you have the opportunity to charge whatever you want. Sure, a little bit of the revenues gets reallocated to cover the regular changes to the text, but I would offer that the changes are much more about mitigating the used book market vs. benefitting the education of the student.
It's just about the money. And what they might save by switching to e-version/e-delivery won't be passed on to students in the form of lower prices. It's just a bigger profit margin for the publisher... just like all the other media already for sale in the iTunes store.
Those that feel that this supposed comment from Jobs is a little self-serving or over-the-top aren't really looking at the whole picture. It's not just a tablet computer. That's been done (and done poorly, I might add). The naysayers are looking at the device as just another consumer electronics product of metal, silicone, glass and 0s & 1s. And from most other companies, it would be just that. Hardware and software. I can't imagine the deals that had to be made over the content for books, magazines and newspapers (if the rumors are believed [and I do]). The number of prototypes over the years. OMG. I believe the "thumbscoop" on the new Macbook Pros took hundreds of versions to get right. And this was to design the absence of something. Most CEOs wouldn't have even been involved in the evolution of a product. Most products do not have the evolution cycle that Apple's products do. Most products ship before they should.
Without Jobs at Apple, the Tablet would've been made years ago and now would probably be forgotten. At any other company the the Tablet would've shipped years ago and would've been underwhelming. Why? Because no one but Jobs would've said NO. The money would've been the reason to ship, not the product being right or the customer coming first. "We've GOT to recoup R&D costs! Ship it, just ship it!" Steve Jobs wouldn't and didn't do this. I'm sure he said "We've got to shelve this great idea until the time is right: the technology, the ecosystem of buyers, sellers and developers, everything" -- stones of steel.
Steve Jobs is the ultimate Art Director. He has great taste and while he has allowed certain questionable design choices to be made (3rd Genderation iPod comes to mind), most of the time he knows exactly to keep and what to discard.
Without Jobs at Apple, the Tablet would've been made years ago and now would probably be forgotten. At any other company the the Tablet would've shipped years ago and would've been underwhelming. Why? Because no one but Jobs would've said NO. The money would've been the reason to ship, not the product being right or the customer coming first. "We've GOT to recoup R&D costs! Ship it, just ship it!" Steve Jobs wouldn't and didn't do this. I'm sure he said "We've got to shelve this great idea until the time is right: the technology, the ecosystem of buyers, sellers and developers, everything" -- stones of steel.
Steve Jobs is the ultimate Art Director. He has great taste and while he has allowed certain questionable design choices to be made (3rd Genderation iPod comes to mind), most of the time he knows exactly to keep and what to discard.
Gutenberg
We need to look at the greater scale of history.
The iPod killed the CD, Tape and Vinyl - all mediums younger than 150 years old.
The Mac killed the standard office workflow of redundant papers, filing cabinets, snail mail and rolodexes. Again, a legacy not older than the industrial revolution.
But if the iTablet/ iPad kills the printed word, then this is momentous.
The printed word liberated the world from under-education. It brought the average man in grasp of the written word of their Gods, spawning the reformation in Europe, and hence the colonizing of the United States. The printed word allowed for higher learning and literature to enter the homes of the poor, allowing intellectual equality among the classes. This is a legacy as old as the mid 15th century, and the printing press is perhaps the most important invention to date.
Will the iTablet/ iPad be as important as the printing press? No. But it does do away with a critical chapter of our history as mankind. If true, this will be the most important thing Steve has ever done.
We need to look at the greater scale of history.
The iPod killed the CD, Tape and Vinyl - all mediums younger than 150 years old.
The Mac killed the standard office workflow of redundant papers, filing cabinets, snail mail and rolodexes. Again, a legacy not older than the industrial revolution.
But if the iTablet/ iPad kills the printed word, then this is momentous.
The printed word liberated the world from under-education. It brought the average man in grasp of the written word of their Gods, spawning the reformation in Europe, and hence the colonizing of the United States. The printed word allowed for higher learning and literature to enter the homes of the poor, allowing intellectual equality among the classes. This is a legacy as old as the mid 15th century, and the printing press is perhaps the most important invention to date.
Will the iTablet/ iPad be as important as the printing press? No. But it does do away with a critical chapter of our history as mankind. If true, this will be the most important thing Steve has ever done.
The printed word in terms of the news / entertainment media has been already dead for years. Fictional printed books with continue to be relevant for decades, since these are hung onto by techno-phobes like they were spiritual. The tablet won't initialize these trends - they have ALREADY been triiggered and would play out there course with or without it. Although I'm sure that Apple will try to take credit for it.
Tony
Yeah, right. It was the MAC ands not the PC that did this. Boy oh boy........
Tony
That's right, the PC introduced the GUI and mouse to mainstream buyers and then . . . oh wait.