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The Apple Tablet Rumor Roundup
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Personally, I find reading far more enjoyable on an e-ink screen than on a back-lit screen, so that's all the "proof" I need. YMMV.
Oh, you're probably right. I've often wished they WOULD buy Adobe, to kill freakin' Flash, if nothing else, but it'd probably be like chewing their paw off to escape a trap. I just want Adobe to get their just dessertsafter graphic design and desktop publishing on the Mac MADE them, the level of ingratitude displayed by their anti-Apple vendetta HAS to rate some kind of payback!
While I don't own an e-ink reader (you will need to pull my books from my cold dead hands), I imagine that if there were no physical media with pages anymore, I'd much rather go with the reader. I've used one briefly, and I can see where it'd be much nicer than anything lit.
I haven't been as excited for a product unveiling since the iPhone, this is going to be epic. I will only buy on in the 600 range though so hopefully the price is low.
I've searched around and noone seems to have mentioned these 2 videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZG5ytY-Rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8z4UVgI7Qs
They are more than likely fakes, but are certainly impressive enough to deserve a mention.
Which is to say, I'd totally buy that
They've been mentioned and dissected a million times
Such a difficult question. I paid $600 for my iPhone, which obviously came with a contract. I got the $100 credit from Apple. I would prefer not to have yet another data fee in my life. My non-contract high-point is probably $800ish - if it does 1/3 of the things the rumors say it will. I'm an early-adopter, aware of all risks, and enchanted by the excitement of owning the latest and greatest.
I'm still hoping for a something capable of running photoshop and painter with a wacom-like pressure sensitive stylus.
I guess I'm not the only one My 10 year old PC can do that, so I thought nowadays these capabilities might fit in some device like this.
I guess I'm not the only one
My 10 year old PC can do that, so I thought nowadays these capabilities might fit in some device like this.Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16)
The iPhone cost that much on launch, and I'd think the manufacturing costs for the iPad would be substantially higher.
~NeonFire372~ said:
The iPhone cost that much on launch, and I'd think the manufacturing costs for the iPad would be substantially higher.
Couple of things...
#1. I am so glad that I have not seen the ridiculous rumors surface in this thread that the device will have a touch sensitive back, just dumb imo.
#2. EDUCATION. This was linked from another site,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS1DMlzz0M
it is Apple's vision of computing in education back in 97 and includes some tablet dreams. It is really cool and I think that there will be a focus during the keynote on how this device will be used in education, the publishing industry is not the only one that needs a refresh. The iPod was a hit at Universities with at least one I remember giving incoming students their own iPod. Unfortunately the iPod never really took off in schools, I believe this will. If 10" it will be big enough for small groups 2-4 to use it together, pass it around etc. I think it very plausible for Steve to announce a partnership with a textbook company and even a small test program at a University
#3. I think there has to be more launched tomorrow than just a device. The iPod had going for it the industry shift toward digital music, so in my mind I "needed" one because soon my CD player would be obsolete. And Apple had a solution for me, the iPod AND the iTunes Store. Without the iTunes Store I think the iPod would have just been another mp3 player, it wasn't the first, the iTunes Store was the kicker.
The iPhone fulfilled the need for a true mobile computing experience with a persistent internet connection and converged multiple seperate devices, phone, music player, address book, calculator etc. For some time before the iPhone launch I was looking for a device to give me what the iPhone did.
Now pre Tablet launch I am excited as I was pre iPod and iPhone yet I do not have a computing need like I did before the other products were announced. So unless Steve has a very very convincing argument to me that I need this I wont be getting one. I cant think of a single thing that I want to or would be able to do on a tablet that I can't do on my iPod Touch or my MBP.
I'll take the money I would have spent on this (I have a terrible early adopter track record), buy stock and sell it right in time to use the principal and profits to buy what I really want, a 32" Touchscreen Mac! I imagine a drafting table like desk where I can work with high res images in a touch version of Photoshop or Illustrator or Painter. Eventually this is where the iMac will go.
#1. I am so glad that I have not seen the ridiculous rumors surface in this thread that the device will have a touch sensitive back, just dumb imo.
#2. EDUCATION. This was linked from another site,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS1DMlzz0M
it is Apple's vision of computing in education back in 97 and includes some tablet dreams. It is really cool and I think that there will be a focus during the keynote on how this device will be used in education, the publishing industry is not the only one that needs a refresh. The iPod was a hit at Universities with at least one I remember giving incoming students their own iPod. Unfortunately the iPod never really took off in schools, I believe this will. If 10" it will be big enough for small groups 2-4 to use it together, pass it around etc. I think it very plausible for Steve to announce a partnership with a textbook company and even a small test program at a University
#3. I think there has to be more launched tomorrow than just a device. The iPod had going for it the industry shift toward digital music, so in my mind I "needed" one because soon my CD player would be obsolete. And Apple had a solution for me, the iPod AND the iTunes Store. Without the iTunes Store I think the iPod would have just been another mp3 player, it wasn't the first, the iTunes Store was the kicker.
The iPhone fulfilled the need for a true mobile computing experience with a persistent internet connection and converged multiple seperate devices, phone, music player, address book, calculator etc. For some time before the iPhone launch I was looking for a device to give me what the iPhone did.
Now pre Tablet launch I am excited as I was pre iPod and iPhone yet I do not have a computing need like I did before the other products were announced. So unless Steve has a very very convincing argument to me that I need this I wont be getting one. I cant think of a single thing that I want to or would be able to do on a tablet that I can't do on my iPod Touch or my MBP.
I'll take the money I would have spent on this (I have a terrible early adopter track record), buy stock and sell it right in time to use the principal and profits to buy what I really want, a 32" Touchscreen Mac! I imagine a drafting table like desk where I can work with high res images in a touch version of Photoshop or Illustrator or Painter. Eventually this is where the iMac will go.
This is some awesome article writing, Arn.
Seems like the recent years have all been leading up to tomorrow; good luck everyone
Seems like the recent years have all been leading up to tomorrow; good luck everyone
Ah...now you're talking.
All this silly overgrown iPhone stuff does nothing for me.
But I'm second in line for the real MacDeal.
people reading rumors on anything, including apple, isn't as widespread as you think. we are the minority.
But this hit the mainstream media weeks ago. It's like the iPhone. It was estimated that Apple received well over $1 billion worth of free publicity when it was announced and then again when launched. Now it's the tablet's turn, let's do it all over again.
I've just sat back and watched this all go on but I have a hunch that I have to get off my chest. When the iPod came out, it was an all-conquering product - nothing like it existed. When the iPhone came out, that was an all-conquering product - phones already existed, but not in any way, shape or form, like the iPhone.
The iPad WON'T be all-conquering because it already exists - Apple saw to that themselves with the iPhone/iPod Touch, not forgetting all the other touch-screen pretenders out there - the major hardware promise is it's just a large-screen iPod Touch...
Why I think Steve Jobs is getting excited about this is not because it's a sexy product (which we all know it will be) but because he's built it around an entirely new business model (the exact shape of which will be seen tomorrow) which he seems to think will see him as the saviour of the press industry.
If publishers are losing out because people are surfing the net for free versions of the news they otherwise have to pay for in print, the press industry is just going to fall flat on its face. All it takes is for ALL the major publishers to sit down (with Steve Jobs - remember, this has already happened...) and decide between them that there will be no such thing as free online magazine content any more, and that whatever new subscription models there are have already been optimised around what the iPad offers, it's iTunes all over again...
The iPad WON'T be all-conquering because it already exists - Apple saw to that themselves with the iPhone/iPod Touch, not forgetting all the other touch-screen pretenders out there - the major hardware promise is it's just a large-screen iPod Touch...
Why I think Steve Jobs is getting excited about this is not because it's a sexy product (which we all know it will be) but because he's built it around an entirely new business model (the exact shape of which will be seen tomorrow) which he seems to think will see him as the saviour of the press industry.
If publishers are losing out because people are surfing the net for free versions of the news they otherwise have to pay for in print, the press industry is just going to fall flat on its face. All it takes is for ALL the major publishers to sit down (with Steve Jobs - remember, this has already happened...) and decide between them that there will be no such thing as free online magazine content any more, and that whatever new subscription models there are have already been optimised around what the iPad offers, it's iTunes all over again...