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- n8o8, on 05/14/2008, -3/+20Atom + Apple = Adams Apple!
- normalkid, on 05/14/2008, -1/+15Correction to the article blub: The Intel exec didn't specify 720x480 exactly, he just said larger iPhone due to it's larger display.
- KevInTx, on 05/14/2008, -3/+19So how many people think a product like the one described will actually see the light of day? Never say never BUT I'm highly skeptical.
- Aleman360, on 05/14/2008, -1/+13I'm pretty sure they did a lot more thinking about specs and price points than you have.
- dn11, on 05/14/2008, -1/+12tablet /= phone. if it is any larger than the iphone it isn't a phone IMO
- jschrab, on 05/14/2008, -2/+10Oh, man... Jobs might be fuming right now...
- nbx909, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8Oh FSM, please let the new Iphone have 3G and a can opener and fork so that we can enjoy you're noodlely goodness and comment on digg from anywhere we wish.
Ramen. - r3zonance, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6I will NEVER buy another Windows Mobile device. Every single one I've had (that's about 6-7) have had appalling stability, crap performance and the interface is really ugly.
The iPhone is the exact polar opposite. - MacParrot, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Just a guess, but maybe people who prefer something other than Windows?
- Demistate, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6besides, 720x480 doesn't really make that great of a wide screen, unless the pixels aren't square. 720x480 is the same resolution as Standard-Definition DVD.
864x480 would be a real 480P widescreen resolution. - Justice101, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Think, think! I'd sure as hell like one, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. On another note, who's using Apple products with a gambling problem, while living on a farm? :)
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4I think a real mac tablet would be great. Apple could create this without issue, touch screen, and maybe make a few decent apps to work with it = profit.
- Mossa, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6We can only hope this is right since the FSM alone knows what we'll have left to read on the internets if they drop the 3G and don't leave us any rumours to read on our new mobile internet devices.
- Calcularius, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4I'm happy with EDGE. I have to wait 10 seconds instead of 3 ... big whoop.
- Kinnkster, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Yeah, if only there was a chance they were going to release a 3G iPhone...
- Calcularius, on 05/14/2008, -2/+5Their "meat and potatoes" right now is iPod, iPhone and music sales.
- Justice101, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3sounds more like a umpc...not the ***** ones that are out now, but what was originally envisioned...i want one, as long as it doesn't cost as much as the Air, more like the Eee pc
- MegaSmack, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4I'm hoping because it would be significantly cheaper.
- techbrute, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4A tablet is designed for a niche market where people use the computer while standing up. Think medical personnel, construction foremen, census-takers, etc...
Try using a laptop while standing up some time. If you ever needed to, you'd understand the tablet. I just don't think there is that big of a market for standing-up-computing, which is why tablets have been commerical "failures". - dudefaceguyman, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6Only one way I can see them doing a tablet successfully is if they really cater to the graphic/art crowd (their meat and potatos aside from schools anyways). Pretty much everyone uses wacom tablets, and if they could implement their cintiq like sensitivity into their tablet...It could be the first actually useful portable digital art pad. (Tablet PC's today don't cut it for me) then the thing will sell like freagin hotcakes.
If it's just a big iphone screen, then it'll flop. - chromerium, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4i reckon it'll have built-in 3G technology for anywhere browsing and they'll see a bluetooth earpiece so you can use it like a phone.
Ah, you can just tell, there be loads of businessmen walking around with Apple logos stuck in their ears. - BrendanSheehan, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5The Mac touch will have a 10" or 11", 1280 by 800 screen. And it won't be an iPhone or sorts at all.
- fdavis, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2The atom chipset means it will have WiMAX right? If so, I'm gonna go buy clearwire right now ...
- DJafrodijiak, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2considering the multi touch gesture patents are having to do with the use of all fingers on both hands.. i think it might eventually see the light of day. unfortunately for me, it will keep getting delayed, because the Jobs wants it to be ridiculously perfect before it's initial release, as if to trump the iphone. i have a feeling they're holding back on us because apple is making so much money on these other products right now.
anyway, i desperately want an apple tablet, as apple is really the premier computer of the entertainment industry, and being in music myself, i would go gaga over the software potential in multitouch for music. virtual pianos, virtual consoles, mixers, fx processors, sequencers.. even the simple act of zooming into the waveform a la Jeff Han's-style gesture.. would simply be mindblowing. ***** key commands forever with the release of that.. minimal interface, and the new keyboard will be learned through hand gestures.
anyone ever see the jazzmutant lemur? imagine that being streamlined software for apple tablet music editing.. the future is absolutely unbelievable. i can even begin to comprehend the changes that will come to music. i honestly thing that multitouch could be as important to music in the future (and entertainment) as the synthesizer was in the 80's. i want to friggen record my automated binaural panning on a bunch of mono tracks with my hands. i want my monitor to be it's own midi controller. if that's not part of the future, then i don't know what is. - superkendall, on 05/14/2008, -3/+8I'm pretty doubtful about a tablet myself, the market for those has not been really good (UMPC anyone?). Why would you get a small tablet when you can just use a really thin laptop like the Air?
- herebejames, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2Well if you asked Apple, their already running OS X on the iPhone - It certainly reads that way whenever they talk about the platform. Not sure the interface I know from Leopard and the like would scale down well to 720x480 though, they will probably flex some Apple'vation to make me forget about that though. Probably something semi transparent & moving, no doubt with a subtle but catchy sound effect.
- bigbadgoat, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Yeah, ***** the technology companies for improving products, releasing new products and making more money!
They should sell them at cost, and give rebates to those who bought previous models! ***** profit! - herebejames, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2If the 3G iPhone is expected to have GPS etc, Maybe one niche this will market too is as a companion device for people who already own firt gen & wont be buying new iPhones for the added features (But might settle for a lightweight device to work alongside the iPhone). But pricing & software updates will be a deciding factor there - I half expect Apple to enable GPS over bluetooth for first gen users, plenty of people own bluetooth receivers & its another area 'every one else is doing it'.
- bigbadgoat, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3because the air has a 13" screen making to too ***** big for most people that want a UMPC-type machine. Apple got thin in the wrong direction.
- mbourgon, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Bull. That's not how Steve does things. The shortage of iPhones allows Apple to "help"
AT&T by giving them some time to sell down old stock, and keeps Apple from having to refund/exchange iPhones from people who've bought it in the month preceding the new release.
If this _is_ true, then at WWDC Steve will announce the 3g iPhone, the features of the new iPhone that'll be enabled on the 1.0 iPhones (video, better bluetooth - basically, anything they can do in firmware/software).
Then he'll have the magic "one more thing" and announce it. - aserer511, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2iTablet? I am in, this could be a VERY cool device.
- lpferris, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3How does everyone in the industry not know that you don't go blabbing stuff like this before Uncle Jobs announces it?
That said, does anyone actually believe any of this unless it's directly from the horse's mouth? - RSS14, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3There are two kinds of people in the world: The skeptics, and the hopefuls. The skeptic's role is to challenge the hopeful. The hopeful's role is to prove to the skeptic that he is an innovator. Without the skeptic, there can be no hopeful, without the hopeful, there can be no skeptic.
- bolthead88, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I've been waiting for a big iphone screen... tablet pc's today suck... I wanna pinch, slide, turn, type and all with my fingers....
- Kinnkster, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2This sounds pretty doubtful. As others mentioned there isn't much market for UMPCs because it's an in between which fails to bring you the best of both worlds.
And anyone with an iPhone wouldn't buy it, and it would use the same basic OS and interface? Sure....
Of course then a larger tablet sounds somewhat unlikely as it would probably detract from the sales of the Macbook, which already has a hard to swallow price tag against it. - bolthead88, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2that sounds about right
- wyfflemunky, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2The engineering profession would go ***** over a tablet that was light (because we're weak), powerful (because we use a lot of intensive applications), and cheap (because we want to be able to convince our companies to buy them for us.
I think the lack of a market for stand-up computing is only because of the lack of suitable devices. Current tablets are all heavy enough to be unusable for more than a few minutes at a time unless sat on a surface, or too underpowered to do anything more than take notes on. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1But what normalkid is trying to say is that it is a nonstandard widescreen resolution. Of course the tablet would be a widescreen device so it would be fitting to use a widescreen resolution that results in square pixels (864x480, say). After all, considering you will be reading text from this device you need the highest resolution you can get. Cannot compare it with the resolution an LCD TV would use.
- chromerium, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1yeah with the SDK, the Newton has :finally: been beaten!
- chromerium, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1haha, yeah.
Some people's call Apple's behaviour bad.
I think it's just "profitable".
The problem is that the devices are SO cool that when you have the latest one, you're the cool kid on the block, but when they upgrade and you can't afford it, then suddenly you're not, and thats Apple's fault. - Justice101, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1By your standards than my computer running Skype is a phone. :
- jjustice, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1That is so meta. At the same time, I am so disillusioned by Apple rumors that I think I'm a permanent skeptic. The only thing I'm more skeptical about is Hillary dropping out of the race.
- chroko, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Well... it's not just Apple. No matter what company you work for, unless it's your job to announce new products - you shut the ***** up about products that are in development. Even if you're an executive.
And it's probably true. As far as I know: if you're an executive of a public company, you are held legally accountable if you lie to stockholders. - mrBitch, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Wrong, the iPhone & Touch both run the full OS X. Only difference between an iPhone and a Mac is that the Mac runs Aqua, while the iPhone runs a touch interface GUI.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1These phones are starting to get cool enough and beefy enough to get me thinking about some applications.
But I will probably be going with the LiMo route.
That is *If* the browser is full featured, anything else is just lame.
http://www.limofoundation.org/ - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1You called?
- luchid, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2It's an internet tablet, not an LCD TV. 720*480 is fine for that.
- luchid, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Praised be his Noodly Appendage!
- floejoe, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1I think it's ***** hilarious.
- MacParrot, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2Saying something stupid twice still doesn't make it funny
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