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What is the Ultimate Role of the Apple Tablet?
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Maybe Apple will also invent a sort of portable speaker. Something you put in your ears directly, so as not to annoy people around you.
Gah, you beat me to it.
As for this whole eBook thing..... I read my (printed on paper) books in bed or in the bathtub or at the pool. NO way I am enthusiastic about an electronic eBook reader!!!
HobeSoundDarryl
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Ummm... what about headphones? Like every other portable media consumption device.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Lol, you guys are funny.
Wait till we start talking about magnums to protect our devices? At least those of us with the big hands and big pockets.
It's not just those. Plenty of other top smartphones have had WVGA for a year now.
And Windows Mobile devices like the HTC HD2. Don't worry, 480x320 is in the past where it should be. Of course, being a Apple diehard you'll find every excuse why this "Means nothing".
Yet I bet you'll say Apple innovates again with their "gorgeous" new hi-res display when they introduce their new 854x480 iPhone for the 4th generation and tout iPhone OS 4.0's new resolution independance as something "the industry needs to follow!" when it already has been for the last year and a half.
Why do folks want to put a device that emits radiation in very close proximity to their external private parts is beyond me. Yeah it is low level radiation but over the course of 20-30 years what are you doing???
Becoming sterile so I never have to share my hard earned cash with some runts and can instead give it all to Apple for new and shiny toys. Is there any other reasons ?
Sterile is OK - but what if it starts growing bumps and has to be cut off?
Still, it's probably worth it to have shiny new things that you found on the internetz.
HobeSoundDarryl
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If the Tablet is so good I'll still be using it 20-30 years from now, then it will be a bargain at even the $1000 price point.
While I was answering a question about can it fit in a pocket, that's not necessarily where I would store it. Apparently, this is something I'll be carrying around in one hand, consuming all this fantastic print media I don't buy now converted to digital print (that it will make me feel compelled to buy because it is so much more convenient, or it unclutters my home, and so on).
In reality though, I would probably carry it around in my travel bag... with my laptop... as I don't have any needs to have a wireless phone with me everywhere I go... just very occasionally when other options are unavailable to me. In that case, I would retire the tiny iPod and add this 7" iPhone/iPod replacement (that will also have all these fantastic new features beyond the iPhone/iPod that we just could not live without). Personally, I'm just hoping for a bigger iPhone at a good price (because the current iPhone is just too small for my tastes). If it does some other great stuff, that's bonus.
Wow, have another glass of haterade.
Don't like it - don't buy it. One more for the rest of us (if the tablet does in fact exist, and if it is in fact worth buying).
What's with all these x86/Core 2 slides around lately? Are we looking at an ARM super Touch or a x86 slablet? I kept saying $799 as a joke but is that what people are expecting?
x86 doesn't fit with any of the other (iphone os'ish) rumors. No point in taking the power/battery hit given that ARM is fast enough to run an iphone'ish OS.
The iphone, unsubsidized, isn't much less than that. (Yeah, I know we're going in circles here).
I don't have a cellphone. So paying these prices for portable hardware is a bit outrageous. I do have an understanding about subsidizing hardware with rebates and the service fees.
I'm quite fond of computers and a technophile in general but these gadgets just don't make sense to me.
But ARM can't run any OSX applications.
A tablet with ARM is a giant Ipod touch running app store phone apps. A tablet with x64 could run the OSX apps that you already have.
Yeah, I know. That was my point - all the rumors say this runs iPhone OS+, not Mac OS.
I've mentioned the gray area (uncanny valley for the lack of a better term that I can think of) that this tablet inhabits. I know we won't have a better understanding of it until it is released but it's fighting it out between the iPod Touch/iPhone, netbooks, ultraportable notebooks, and the standard 13.3" set.
There really has to be something to make this stand out from other products. I still don't see what it is.
The consensus as of today is 10.1" diagonally. In other words, I would get a nice leather sleeve and keep it in my Timbuk2 bag.