The Apple Tablet Rumor Roundup

peterdevries said:
I really don't get this.. All over this planet there are millions of people spending their entire days looking the WHOLE day at LCD screens, be it on the couch or at work..

I see the point that e-ink is better suited for reading, but I have yet to encounter someone with LCD screen fatigue or whatever. To me this whole "LCD-screens are not suitable for reading" sounds a lot like an argument that someone thought out at some point and everyone keeps repeating without thinking what they are actually saying.
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I completely agree. In the interest of not throwing out perfectly good computers, I have my old g3 iMac on my bedside table, and use it primarily as an e-book reader. I've downloaded many, many books from Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, manybooks.net, etc., etc., in HTML, PDF, and DjVu formats, and I read them on that all the time. That's not even an LCD, it's a CRT, and I have no problems with fatigue. Admittedly the HTML files are nice, because you can enlarge the type so you can lean way back and still read them. An LCD would be even nicer. I don't know where this trope comes from.
 
peterdevries said:
I really don't get this.. All over this planet there are millions of people spending their entire days looking the WHOLE day at LCD screens, be it on the couch or at work..
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I hear you on that one, I am one of those who spend the whole day staring at the screen. That's part of the reason I say this.

When I get home, I read a book because my eyes are tired from the day. The only that saves them at the computer is the fact that I'm not actively READING the whole time. I'm entering data, switching screens, moving from a document to email which has different font sizes, etc. It gives the eyes a small rest. To read a novel on a computer screen? Honestly, do you know ANYONE who has?

Add to that, what you're looking at with an LCD or OLED is a lit surface. That is, there's light coming from the source as opposed to bouncing off the source, which is what e-ink does, I believe.

It does make some logical sense. If someone put a LCD 10 inches from me and had me stare at a white screen for an hour, I'd like that a lot less than a blank e-ink screen. I dare say most people would agree.
 
read the future

iPad, iSlate, iBook or ireaderoftheworld for the world is coming.
With all the apple hype generated that machine which drives the iApple tour is about to hit is final destination. It's like the running of the torch for the olympics. We follow the precession up to the lighting of the games. Anyone trips the runner, or see's it going up to the summit of everest we hear the news and get the pictures. (photoshop or not)
Will Apple live up to the games and host the best show ever? Get ready for your news, your magazines, and your books to be feed, read and distributed to you in a new way. I don't expect apple to stop there. Apple is set to teach on it as itunes U is already in place. This is almost full circle for apple. Apple tried to cut it's chin in the education market from the start. Now I expect the schools to come to Cupertino. I expect the media to change publishing to be viewed on the iWantitreader!
Tomorrow we see!
 
sharkinfested said:
I don’t understand why people think they need e-Ink. I read on a regular computer screen ALL DAY LONG, and suddenly its supposed to make my eyes tired if I read a book on it?
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I read on a regular computer screen all day, and I hate it. Quite often it gives me a headache. Most evenings (unlike tonight) I avoid using the computer because my eyes have had enough.

Maybe you just don't know what you're missing?
 
iOrlando said:
this is somewhat sad reading it (sad as in sorrow). years and years of thoughts, ideas, talk, all coming down to tomorrow. thats sad, like a life-long friend going away forever.
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lol, yeah I totally agree. I'm happy that its finally ending though because for the last couple of months I've been incapable of thinking of anything but the apple tablet, it's always been in my mind.
 
Meh...I predict mass disappointment tomorrow when what is unveiled is simply a 10 inch iPod Touch that has a new app to read magazines and ebooks....and it will actually look exactly like a giant ipod touch, nothing original design wise.

I hope I'm wrong but that is exactly what everything points to. It would not be a revolutionary device, just a big ipod touch selling for almost $1000.
 
After talking to SJ, what I can tell you about tmr is the following:

1 - State of the Mac and the iPhone/iTMS;

2 - preview of iPhone 4.0 and release set for summer;

3 - updated MBPs (Core i5 mobile);

4 - the Tablet, launched in two models and shipping in March: one as a bigger iPhone and revamped UI, and another compatible with a dock/display à la Duo Dock that turns it into a computer close in performance to the MacBook. Assorted agreements with online press/media content.
 
iOrlando said:
this is somewhat sad reading it (sad as in sorrow). years and years of thoughts, ideas, talk, all coming down to tomorrow. thats sad, like a life-long friend going away forever.
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Don't worry, now we're going to start thinking about what's next! And there's always something next...
 
Color?

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but I bet that the upcoming tablet will be multicolored.

Looking at the event invitation, each of the iPod nano colors are accounted for in the paint splatters.

Thoughts?
 
"The tablet is expected to be a multimedia device that will let people watch movies and television shows, play games, surf the Internet and read electronic books and newspapers."

:confused: Any computer can do this. An iPhone can do it, and it fits in your pocket. Not getting what is so revolutionary about this product. There had better be something else that the rumors haven't revealed.

Oh well, I guess we'll see tomorrow...
 
BRLawyer said:
After talking to SJ, what I can tell you about tmr is the following:

1 - State of the Mac and the iPhone/iTMS;

2 - preview of iPhone 4.0 and release set for summer;

3 - updated MBPs (Core i5 mobile);

4 - the Tablet, launched in two models and shipping in March: one as a bigger iPhone and revamped UI, and another compatible with a dock/display à la Duo Dock that turns it into a computer close in performance to the MacBook. Assorted agreements with online press/media content.
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There won't be "two models".
 
I hope that all these mock-ups that show the device looking like an over-sized iPhone are wrong. The iPhone design is wonderful for the size of the device, but scaled up it looks predictable, the type of unimaginative design I'd expect to see from any of the big Japanese players. Apple designs should always be as radical as the devices themselves.
 
Agree

sharkinfested said:
I don’t understand why people think they need e-Ink. I read on a regular computer screen ALL DAY LONG, and suddenly its supposed to make my eyes tired if I read a book on it?
whatever
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Agree 110%. I don't sit out side in the sun shine reading either.
 
Steve Jobs told me that it's not a tablet at all. Instead, it's actually a ridable touch-screen 60inch bigscreen 1080p HD TV. Yes, IT'S RIDABLE - IT HAS FREAKIN WHEELS AND AN ENGINE! It's called the iSurf, and you can drive it anywhere, because IT HOVERS!
 
Ms

how did you manage to compose a whole post without mentioning that Microsoft are dead and have virtually been taken over by apple?

lacking the colombian feelgood powder today, my brazilian friend?



BRLawyer said:
After talking to SJ, what I can tell you about tmr is the following:

1 - State of the Mac and the iPhone/iTMS;

2 - preview of iPhone 4.0 and release set for summer;

3 - updated MBPs (Core i5 mobile);

4 - the Tablet, launched in two models and shipping in March: one as a bigger iPhone and revamped UI, and another compatible with a dock/display à la Duo Dock that turns it into a computer close in performance to the MacBook. Assorted agreements with online press/media content.
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tibi08 said:
I read on a regular computer screen all day, and I hate it. Quite often it gives me a headache. Most evenings (unlike tonight) I avoid using the computer because my eyes have had enough.

Maybe you just don't know what you're missing?
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Well I'll admit that I did get headaches too - found out I just needed glasses.
People also seem to forget that books these days are WRITTEN on regular computer screens. A good friend of mine is a writer, I swear he stares at a regular screen for 10 hours a day - never heard him complain once.
 
MacTheSpoon said:
:confused: Any computer can do this. An iPhone can do it, and it fits in your pocket. Not getting what is so revolutionary about this product. There had better be something else that the rumors haven't revealed.

Oh well, I guess we'll see tomorrow...
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There are many cheep-o mp3 players out there. Why are 70% of mp3 players sold iPods? They might be able to do the same thing, but the tablet just does it better.
 
Gatesbasher said:
I would have the tablet act as a bluetooth input device for your Mac, where it would manipulate a new Adobe-killing Apple Creative Suite™ based on GIMP, while as a stand-alone device, a subset of that would be loaded on the tablet acting as MacPaint and iPhoto all in one—this would all be part of the new iLife '10 suite introduced at the same time.
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I was with you 100% right up until you said that one can replace the entire functionality of the creative suite with GIMP. Lets not mention the patents and technology in Photoshop that can't be replicated cheaply. It'd be cheaper to buy Adobe than create a viable CS killer.
 
comments like this: It'll be odd i guess telling stubborn PC users that the mac is now using pentiums, but hopefully in 4 years when everything has settled everyone will see this as a masterstroke (4 years is a long time though) from the PPC to Intel thread in 2005 have renewed my confidence and expectations for this tablet.
Jobs has done some unexpected things, the intel swap, killing off the iPod mini when it was their best seller, and yet years down the track they were masterstroke's. His new products have also been masterstroke's, the all in one iMac is awesome, the iPod brilliant, the iPhone unbelievable.
In 5 years time we might be reading this thread saying "wow I can't believe I was writing this before the tablet, and how different things were!
 
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