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- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26A little curious as to why A.I. are referring to this as Newton 2.0, when clearly (to me anyway) the iPhone fits that role. This is a tablet we're talking about here, I'm thinking 8 or 10" screen, and more like a multi-touch Mac than an iPhone. $999 or there abouts and I would buy it in a heartbeat.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28Jeez, if AppleInsider is reporting something, why the hell did you link to a completely unrelated website which offers no news over the original story? Buried as spam.
- monospaced, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Tablet PCs have been great ideas for a long time, but nobody's done it right yet, and we weren't ready for the Newton. Are we ready for Newton 2.0? If it's running a pared down version of OS X, it had better be capable of a lot more than the iPhone.
- vault, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15You can get something similar in the form of a heavily-modded MacBook http://www.axiotron.com/
I love the tablet form factor, hope this rumor is true. - Oakes, on 10/10/2007, -8/+17God, why do people keep insisting this will happen? A device with no keyboard and too small to do serious work on, yet too big to fit in my pocket, would serve no use whatsoever. A subnotebook makes infinitely more sense.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Or a Mac tablet ;)
- sakuraz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7well, I LOVE my iPhone, but it certainly lacks the features to replace my laptop.
If this can do that, my credit card details will once again be accessed by Apple. - kodachrome22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8The Apple category needs a sub-category for "Rumors Passed Off As News".
Buried as inaccurate. - rickbauls, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6This has been rumored for years.
- Oakes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You guys are forgetting the obvious fact that Apple does not make hardware for the medical or inventory industry. It makes consumer products. Unless you can show how the average user would benefit from this over a laptop, it's a terrible idea.
- bradspry, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The iPhone screen is obviously too small. I can think of a better reason however... which market has yet to take off in the Internet age? Books.
- ruded0g, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I was just going to post this same thing. On top of that, the poster actually states in the Digg description that it's from Appleinsider but still links to cnet???????
- Zippo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It's going to be a busy Christmas season in Cupertino methinks.
- Oakes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ramble, unless Apple included a stylus with it (not likely), it would be incredibly sucky for taking notes.
- phoomp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Medical is about the only field where tablet PCs have found any success, and it's a bit of a small market on its own.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yeah, but it's not multi-touch and it's price, weight and software and hardware design leave a lot to be desired as a fully-fledged OS X tablet.
- iSharQ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"AppleInsider is reporting"... So why is this Digg pointing at an article on CNET? Wouldn't it be more polite to link directly to the source article: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/09/26/up_n ... ?
- invisiblerobots, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This seems a bit too niche for Apple. What users are they trying to win over?
- KevenM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3A tablet on its own would probably be a mistake, but combined with some sort of keyboard you might have something useful.
- bkemper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I know that no one uses wells any more, but what does that have to do with wells as buyers of Macs?
Unless, maybe, you meant to say "selling too well". - ChzPlz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I can give you one market that is crying for this kind of thing - the medical field. There are all kinds of applications that doctors use to replace script pads and paper charts. They've been squeezing them onto PDA's (which are disappearing from the market).
If Apple can make a good mid-sized device that is easy to use, the application developers in this field will follow. - Oakes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It makes no sense because it combines the iPhone's disadvantage (software keyboard and inability to run normal Mac apps) with the Macbook's disadvantage (can't fit in your pocket). It's the worst of both worlds. Why would a low-cost subnotebook running the full Mac OS X not serve well as a "portable-extension of your computer life"?
- Kazbaeden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The medical field already has tablets specifically designed for them. It's made by Motion Computing and called the C5.
- mstrebe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Real work requires a real keyboard. I'm not going to talk to it in a public place, and it won't be able to interpret the handwriting I haven't used since I learned to type at age 12. And no, I'm not going to carry a separate bluetooth keyboard around with me. If it doesn't have a keyboard I can type on, it will not succeed. Perhaps Mr. Jobs will pull some sort of multi-touch on-screen keyboard that doesn't suck out of his magical butt, but I cannot imagine it working well for people who type 50+ wpm.
Just let me legally run OS X on a Sony UX-390N and I'll be happy. - 1iProd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I used this at ComicCon '07. They are really really well done.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2And then as soon as you come across a chart or equation your WPM drops to near zero because you have to spend so much time inserting something as simple as a free-body diagram.
And besides, 30wpm isn't that incredible. I'd suggest handwriting speed is somewhere from the high teens. Handwriting recognition is pretty much perfect in Vista (can't say the same for inkwell.) even if you write like a chicken. - jonshipman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3no apple device ONLY plays drm musuc
- adammharvey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i use mac but man i hate fanboys
- WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2For me, I like the fact that the clamshell design protects the screen(s) when closed. Ergonomically, I like the ability to use a keyboard or other input interface on the bottom portion of the device, and have most of the information displayed on the upper half, facing me. Optionally, the design I described could be switched to a tablet configuration, and the bottom screen would be inactive, so the power profile and usability would be similar to a classic tablet. To me, classic tablets are just too much of a compromise, but something that could act as both a tablet and a laptop would be more appealing. I most likely won't spend my money on a simple tablet over a laptop, but I would buy a dual-screen touch laptop/tablet instead of a simple laptop.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2A bit like phones eh?
- MisterKen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I would like to hope Apple would spend their time and effort giving the iPhone more muscle than to create an entirely new product.
This sounds like the musings of old-school mac heads who still cannot get over the fact that Palm took Newtons thunder. - daines88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh yay... I guess this pretty much guaranties we will never see an SDK for the iPhone
- johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1is it because nobody has done it right, or is it a niche market?
honestly i am not sure if companies are screwing up tablets, but that they actually have limited uses. *most* people own one computer. if they own two, it's a laptop and a desktop. there are uses where a tablet is perfect (doctors, location managers etc), but it's not going to replace your average user's laptop.
i think Apple would not release one until they figure out a new angle to promote it. Apple is good at releasing a product that you somehow never realized you *need* until they made one. i don't mean in a fanboy way, but in a productivity/fun kind of way. tablets are not selling, but they are also not really being sold to the masses. we all know Apple can make one, they have had handwriting recognition in OS X for years now (inkwell), the iPhone is almost there. i'm 100% it's a question of marketing. - dimplemonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Already knew this because of the patents they filed several years ago. Can't wait to see what Uncle Steve and Uncle Jon have got in store.
- ChzPlz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And it costs $2199. That is not a viable price for a small practice.
- centinall, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Not sure why you're getting dugg down. I keep seeing this everywhere, people talking about a 10" screen, blah, blah, blah, but no where in any of these articles does it say anything like that.
I guess people are just talking about what THEY would want, which actually sounds pretty cool, but again, not what these rumours are about.
Getting back to this device, the one that's 1.5 times the size of the iphone. I would love one of these, especially if it came with a nav/gps system with plenty of points of interest. Something like an offline google maps/earth. I've been holding off on a tomtom, garmin, etc, bc there isn't one yet that satisfies my needs and desires. One of these would be awesome in the car, especially after seeing all the korean pmp's on engadget that we're never going to get. - zeejay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3eBooks haven't taken off at all. Why?
- form factor of devices (look at the pix of Amazon's upcoming reader device - it's dreadful)
- different standards
- fractured, disjointed distribution
With the success, and experience, behind the iPod/iTunes, they have the potential to bust it wide open, both with the reader device and the online store. And I firmly believe that the current devices with OSX Touch are just the beginning. - hazard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How many Palm Pilots do you see these days? Or how about that Microsoft Origami thing? Hows that doing?
- berfmurret, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no artists or musicians in the crowd? sheesh. i know i would buy a multitouch tablet in a heartbeat if it were around $2k.
- yodasama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Will it run Linux? (insert "Ubuntu", if desired)
- fezzasus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Can your children not use a mouse? it's hardly complicated.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+8this is straight out not going to happen.
1. "Newton" name is deader than dead - came from Non-Jobs era- his ego won't even let him say that word
2. iPhone and iPod lines are going to converge in 2008. Apple isn't into adding complications they certainly aren't going to manufacture a new line
3. PDA? dead awhile ago.
4. iPhone and iPod fill a niche. Tablets don't.
5. The iPhone/ipod may get the same resolution but increasing the size more than just slightly makes it no longer a pocket device. - najdorf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yet
- dragon76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I own a MacBook Pro and wouldn't mind something smaller than that to carry with my but with more/better features than my Sprint Mogul.
- joker3001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No money in it. Will never happen.
- cawpin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What? Apple IS a niche.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why not make it one screen, slate that is directly interact-able, and having only one screen makes it cheaper, lighter, more-portable and it would also have better battery-life too.
- kodek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And even then, I have tons of notes from school on my tablet, but I don't convert any of them to text. They're easier to read, it takes less time, and it reminds me more of the moment I wrote them down.
- mmarvin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ok I really like the touch interface but its just too expensive right now. Why in the world would you pay almost $450 with tax for an ipod with touch or the same for an iphone that has a required minimum of $60/ month plan? Seriously I like apple stuff and I buy it but it seems to me that they are putting less features into more locked down hardware. I would bet that they keep this trend going with the tablet. Seriously the touch interface is awesome and they are doing a good job with it I just think its a bit early and they are taking advantage of the "awesome newness" effect that the new tech produces.
- ispshadow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Shenanigans.
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