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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 spent some time looking at phones in Seoul on a business trip a year ago, and there was stuff going on I couldn't even figure out. I think one of them had a squirrel feeder built into it. It seemed the more buttons and the more random colors that could be squished onto the screen, the better.
Here's some brilliant spin on the tablet:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/24/829152/-The-Web-and-the-Orchard
Compares "The Great Dying" at the end of the Permian to the cataclysm of the internet ecosystem to be brought about by Apple's tablet.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/24/829152/-The-Web-and-the-Orchard
Compares "The Great Dying" at the end of the Permian to the cataclysm of the internet ecosystem to be brought about by Apple's tablet.
Wow!!
This makes the build up to the iPhone look pretty mild.
P.S. Sorry for the understatement.
This makes the build up to the iPhone look pretty mild.
P.S. Sorry for the understatement.
That's caveman talk! I bet people said that years ago of the big box that shows talking and moving pictures. Where else can technology go? For da luv of.....
See, this is why Jobs is such an ogre to his people sometimes. He has to scream and shout to keep all the primitive thinking at bay.
does anyone else have a feeling that there will be no macbook pro updates on the 27th??
I think a refreshed i5 MBP could be a "warm up" act for the tablet. When the iPhone was announced AppleTV was the "warm up. The iPhone wasn't brought out until about 25 min. into the keynote.
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Ya if you passed on the iphone then i wouldnt get your hopes up that was the bigest jump in tec this decade (yes there is arguments )
AudiA4 said:
Ya if you passed on the iphone then i wouldnt get your hopes up that was the bigest jump in tec this decade (yes there is arguments )
I've been watching Apple for a pretty long time, and I'd say I'm about 60% certain that this is Apple's big move. Windows has reigned on the desktop for a couple of decades and has been essentially unassailable since the mid-90s... and the tablet is Apple's attempt to finally do something about this by shifting the center of computing away from the desktop. (See much more detailed analysis here.)
Of course Apple tends to be very coy about this sort of thing, and as we saw with the iPod, tends to have multi-year plans that nobody quite realizes exist until after their goals have been achieved and the whole thing looks too neat to have been an accident. So Apple might not make what they're up to obvious, and might even explicitly deny it. The key early indicator will be whether they've got a tablet version of iWork. If so, this thing is obviously intended as a next-generation general purpose computing platform, regardless of what they say.
Of course Apple tends to be very coy about this sort of thing, and as we saw with the iPod, tends to have multi-year plans that nobody quite realizes exist until after their goals have been achieved and the whole thing looks too neat to have been an accident. So Apple might not make what they're up to obvious, and might even explicitly deny it. The key early indicator will be whether they've got a tablet version of iWork. If so, this thing is obviously intended as a next-generation general purpose computing platform, regardless of what they say.
um where have you been? everyone has been talking about this for a while now and a lot of ppl have beem waiting for one....it was excpected that there would be macbook pro updates, and its at the end of the cycle so what makes YOU think there WONT be an update? common sense....im just asking because we dont hear about macbook pros anymore, its all about the damn tablet
What if the Tablet is as good as it is, if not better, and Mr. Jobs decides to put the iPhone 4G (if there is one) as the warm up act and the MBP updates get announced quietly...
I hadn't thought of this before but if the UI has some sort of facial expression recognition (and voice recognition) in the UI this could begin a new chapter in consumer electronics.
Totally apart from the practical aspects if a machine can recognize your expression and react to it, if it could look at your eyes and determine where you are looking, that will change the way people think about machines emotionally. I don't know if it is good or bad or how it will play out. Subtle things happen when emotions are in play. The main issue is that many may not be aware of the depth of the reaction because it is emotional, not intellectual. If the relationship is friendly this could be huge for Apple. If people already love their Macs, think how it will be when their Macs can react to their facial expressions, even in a simple way.
I recall feeling this a little bit the first time I used the facial recognition feature in iPhoto. It wasn't like searching on a name which I understand is a text search. The software was finding faces that I knew and I noticed a minor emotional reaction to that.
There is a story of the most successful car salesman in history. One thing he did was every month he'd send every past customer a card that included the phrase "I like you." Even though this might seem insincere people responded to it, kind of the way people respond to canned laugh tracks. We know they what they are but they change our mood.
What if your computer could recognize your face and respond to you?
"Good morning Susan. Nice to see you this morning. Your looking very pretty today." You know it is false flattery but it feels good anyway.
Totally apart from the practical aspects if a machine can recognize your expression and react to it, if it could look at your eyes and determine where you are looking, that will change the way people think about machines emotionally. I don't know if it is good or bad or how it will play out. Subtle things happen when emotions are in play. The main issue is that many may not be aware of the depth of the reaction because it is emotional, not intellectual. If the relationship is friendly this could be huge for Apple. If people already love their Macs, think how it will be when their Macs can react to their facial expressions, even in a simple way.
I recall feeling this a little bit the first time I used the facial recognition feature in iPhoto. It wasn't like searching on a name which I understand is a text search. The software was finding faces that I knew and I noticed a minor emotional reaction to that.
There is a story of the most successful car salesman in history. One thing he did was every month he'd send every past customer a card that included the phrase "I like you." Even though this might seem insincere people responded to it, kind of the way people respond to canned laugh tracks. We know they what they are but they change our mood.
What if your computer could recognize your face and respond to you?
"Good morning Susan. Nice to see you this morning. Your looking very pretty today." You know it is false flattery but it feels good anyway.
Well then, here's wishing you the best success!
Better than the Mac Cube or Hockey Puck mouse...
Why do people keep bashing the Cube? It was an engineering marvel, an awesome little machine. Those that owned one echo that sentiment. Just because it was high-priced and didn't get high marketplace adoption doesn't make it a failed product on many other levels.
This is only as good as your gullibility. After all, I could have written a cronjob that uttered the same words of flattery ten years ago. I would have found it amusing for a week or two, but sadly lacking and pathetic thereafter.
In any case, facial recognition isn't the same as emotional identification. Whether or not your computer recognizes you or your dog and wishes you a nice day is largely immaterial.
As an AAPL stockholder, the Cube was a failure.
If you would like to enumerate the Cube's various pros, that's fine. Just show me the money.
(P.S. I thought it was a cute device too.)
Are you suggesting the Newton was a failed product? Just because Steve killed it doesn't mean that it was worthy of being killed.