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Steve Jobs on Apple Tablet: 'This will be the most important thing I've ever done."
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Nope, one month off
However, it is the birthday of the original Macintosh.
Is there anything significant in Apple's history (like a birth or death) that occurred in 1956? I'm wondering because my Bondi iMac has a bum clock battery and the year is always 1956.
Exactly. Once Jobs saw that Woz was working on the Modbook he immediately convinced Woz to secretly come back to Apple to finish the new tablet. They'll co-introduce it at the media event.**
**(Probably not, but that would be cool huh?)
The most important thing he's ever done.
He believes that because the tablet will revitalize the eagerness of learning.
Presenting information in a modern way will make modern generations to reading again.
When Steve Jobs said that people don't read anymore he was referring to classical literature, not blogs.
The concept now is to search something on the web find out things about them. In our days we took the book and read it and extracted our own ideas therefore expanding our horizon. It made us think.
Kids nowadays don't do that, they just get the ideas from someone else via a website/blog whatever and put there own spin on it and they do not even read the book.
My opinion.
Good luck Steve!
He believes that because the tablet will revitalize the eagerness of learning.
Presenting information in a modern way will make modern generations to reading again.
When Steve Jobs said that people don't read anymore he was referring to classical literature, not blogs.
The concept now is to search something on the web find out things about them. In our days we took the book and read it and extracted our own ideas therefore expanding our horizon. It made us think.
Kids nowadays don't do that, they just get the ideas from someone else via a website/blog whatever and put there own spin on it and they do not even read the book.
My opinion.
Good luck Steve!
Nope, one month off
However, it is the birthday of the original Macintosh.
oops.... lol
If the tablet is nothing more than the ultimate personal media device, with an excellent and easy delivery method for publications (both for entertaiment and education), music, and video as well as a social networking/communications device, it will be a hit.
A handheld AppleTV plus eBook/magazines, plus iPhone like apps (including 3rd party devs) and they have a winner assuming it is easy to use. If they add iLife and/or iWork apps or video chat, even better. But even without those, it is enough to be a game changer. No product exists like that yet with an easy to use content delivery system. And there are several ways for many different companies to make money.
A handheld AppleTV plus eBook/magazines, plus iPhone like apps (including 3rd party devs) and they have a winner assuming it is easy to use. If they add iLife and/or iWork apps or video chat, even better. But even without those, it is enough to be a game changer. No product exists like that yet with an easy to use content delivery system. And there are several ways for many different companies to make money.
This is all too much...
I thought I had this thing figured out, but this level of hype!? I just hope it's true. Everything's still rumours. All we know is that there's an event on Wednesday. It's gonna be a bummer when there is no tablet/slate/pad at all. New iPod Shuffles, everyone!
If, however, there is a Slate (my favourite of the names for it so far).... I'll buy one. I can even say that without seeing it. They just make awesome stuff. I will be buying one. If it's a flop, I will punch a Windows user in the face. Not really... but I'll be tempted to punch them in face. More specifically, the ones in Engadget's comment section. You'd better hope this Slate isn't a flop, Windows users!
I thought I had this thing figured out, but this level of hype!? I just hope it's true. Everything's still rumours. All we know is that there's an event on Wednesday. It's gonna be a bummer when there is no tablet/slate/pad at all. New iPod Shuffles, everyone!
If, however, there is a Slate (my favourite of the names for it so far).... I'll buy one. I can even say that without seeing it. They just make awesome stuff. I will be buying one. If it's a flop, I will punch a Windows user in the face. Not really... but I'll be tempted to punch them in face. More specifically, the ones in Engadget's comment section. You'd better hope this Slate isn't a flop, Windows users!
I'm sure the legions of people who did actually work on the thing wish Jobs used the term 'we've' instead of 'I've.'
No doubt!
That said, I'm sure it will be pretty cool. But one thing is certain - whatever it is does, some will love it, some will hate it, some will be overwhelmed with it's coolness, and others will be underwhelmed. Some will hate it just because Apple made it, and others will love it just because Apple made it, regardless of the product's actual merits.
It won't and can't be all things to all people. But what matters, in the end, is how many Apple sells!
Hey, did you know it's steve's birthday today?
No it isn't. You are one month off. His birthday is February 24.
(I'm getting him an iTunes Card.)
Next up will be the living room TV & sound system
Cell phones were confusing and clunky before the iPhone. The tablet will be whatever it is, but next after that will be a full-court press on the home tv and sound system. Home automation too, but first tv/stereo. I bet on it. Steve will have lots to do.
Cell phones were confusing and clunky before the iPhone. The tablet will be whatever it is, but next after that will be a full-court press on the home tv and sound system. Home automation too, but first tv/stereo. I bet on it. Steve will have lots to do.
This tablet (if it is a tablet... no official word from apple yet) has been so hyped up that many will feel letdown when they see the reality of what the tablet is and isn't.
It won’t sweep the computer-using masses by storm at once (any more than the mouse did in Xerox’s labs—or Fingerworks for that matter) but it might be the beginning of something that gets big in the end!
I can believe rumors that the iPhone was really an offshoot of this project, rather than vice versa. It paved the way for something that wasn’t ready three years ago.
I can believe rumors that the iPhone was really an offshoot of this project, rather than vice versa. It paved the way for something that wasn’t ready three years ago.
Well of course it's the most important thing he thinks he's ever done. And why? Because he will finally have a computing platform that is entirely locked down (as it is all but assured the Slate will run a variant of iPhone's OS). And there's nothing Steve loves more than anything than a walled garden and absolute control.
This is not meant to be a snarky post. I really think he's excited about this prospect. He's a man of duality; on one side a great creative visionary, and on the other side the ultimate capitalist. It's hard for people like us who admire his creative force to make sense of the other. If the Slate platform takes off as the iPhone platform has, people will become used to this absolute loss of control with the products they own. More and more the majority of computer users will be using a travel-size device like the Slate (internet and media viewing, that about covers what 90% of users do with a computer). Desktop machines will continue to be used for pro apps, but that will be a diminishing market. Eventually no one will remember when your average computer wasn't locked down in this fashion, and most won't care anyway.
This is not meant to be a snarky post. I really think he's excited about this prospect. He's a man of duality; on one side a great creative visionary, and on the other side the ultimate capitalist. It's hard for people like us who admire his creative force to make sense of the other. If the Slate platform takes off as the iPhone platform has, people will become used to this absolute loss of control with the products they own. More and more the majority of computer users will be using a travel-size device like the Slate (internet and media viewing, that about covers what 90% of users do with a computer). Desktop machines will continue to be used for pro apps, but that will be a diminishing market. Eventually no one will remember when your average computer wasn't locked down in this fashion, and most won't care anyway.
Or maybe it's you who should be on Page 2!
But seriously you guys... I mean... come on. You know it's going to explode your brain, put it back together in reverse order, explode it again, and then completely annihilate you.
And then bring you back to life as a half human, half Mac, all cop super... thing..... Strange, I thought I had a point to make...