gizmodo.com— Despite the rumors, I never fully believed the apple tablet was real, until I heard these words over my phone: Hey, its [redacted]. I may or may not have sat in some Apple meetings for the tablet.
Aug 13, 2009View in Crawl 4
If the insane audio apps that I have on my iPod touch like Beat Maker, RJDJ,ITM Matrix, or Jasuto could scale up to this iTablet, iPad, or whatever this thing is ultimately called then I'm in. OSC control of dozens of parameters over Bluetooth, no wifi needed? Touch control screen mirroring with my MBP? Whole new classes of apps that take advantage of the extra screen real estate i.e, 48 channel mixer surfaces with virtual KAOS Pads?! Moving the audio specs up to 24bit/96khz?!! Direct recording to a solid state HD?!! An Ableton Live App with touch editing?!!! As far as price goes the estimated price of $700 to 900 isn't cheap but in contrast-the Jazz Mutant Lemur multi-touch control surface is $1999.00 and while incredibly versatile, doesn't give you access to the multitude of developers the App store does. Let's see the specs...
True.But as someone who works in the tech business sector, I would kill for a tablet like this. Something I can take into a meeting and scribble notes on - or pull up a mockup for a client and pass it across the table to them.It's a bit of a fanboy symptom - "I have to own every piece of Mac hardware." Or, if "I" have no use for it, why would Apple make it? It's the price we pay for sticking with a company with an exponentially growing market share. They're going to make products not everyone needs.The solution? Same if you don't like how locked-down the iPhone is. Don't buy it.
Very skeptical. But maybe you'll get a 2 to 3 hundred dollar discount for signing a 2 year contarct with whatever carrier.I have an Iphone and a laptop .... where does this device fit in my life is all I can keep thinking.
As always, Apple is late to market.There are *many* multi-touch tablets in and coming to market.My favorite is the Archos 9. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos#Archos9_PCTablet" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos#Archos9_PCTabl ...</a>9 inch resistive touchscreen Windows 7Intel® ATOM™ Z510 CPU running at 1.1GHz 1GB of RAM 60GB internal hard drive Integrated 802.11b/g/n WiFi Bluetooth 2.1 Built-in 1.3 Megapixel webcam & microphone 1024 x 600 screen resolution[5] 4 hours battery life 800 grams
chrisappletonAug 15, 2009
Dugg for "f**k AT&T"
vurnt22Aug 16, 2009
If the insane audio apps that I have on my iPod touch like Beat Maker, RJDJ,ITM Matrix, or Jasuto could scale up to this iTablet, iPad, or whatever this thing is ultimately called then I'm in. OSC control of dozens of parameters over Bluetooth, no wifi needed? Touch control screen mirroring with my MBP? Whole new classes of apps that take advantage of the extra screen real estate i.e, 48 channel mixer surfaces with virtual KAOS Pads?! Moving the audio specs up to 24bit/96khz?!! Direct recording to a solid state HD?!! An Ableton Live App with touch editing?!!! As far as price goes the estimated price of $700 to 900 isn't cheap but in contrast-the Jazz Mutant Lemur multi-touch control surface is $1999.00 and while incredibly versatile, doesn't give you access to the multitude of developers the App store does. Let's see the specs...
paulneyAug 25, 2009
True.But as someone who works in the tech business sector, I would kill for a tablet like this. Something I can take into a meeting and scribble notes on - or pull up a mockup for a client and pass it across the table to them.It's a bit of a fanboy symptom - "I have to own every piece of Mac hardware." Or, if "I" have no use for it, why would Apple make it? It's the price we pay for sticking with a company with an exponentially growing market share. They're going to make products not everyone needs.The solution? Same if you don't like how locked-down the iPhone is. Don't buy it.
titsmageeeAug 25, 2009
I'm going with this.
programmerjasonAug 28, 2009
Looks great, but I smell a fail.
Closed AccountSep 2, 2009
Very skeptical. But maybe you'll get a 2 to 3 hundred dollar discount for signing a 2 year contarct with whatever carrier.I have an Iphone and a laptop .... where does this device fit in my life is all I can keep thinking.
dig1xOct 8, 2009
As always, Apple is late to market.There are *many* multi-touch tablets in and coming to market.My favorite is the Archos 9. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos#Archos9_PCTablet" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos#Archos9_PCTabl ...</a>9 inch resistive touchscreen Windows 7Intel® ATOM™ Z510 CPU running at 1.1GHz 1GB of RAM 60GB internal hard drive Integrated 802.11b/g/n WiFi Bluetooth 2.1 Built-in 1.3 Megapixel webcam & microphone 1024 x 600 screen resolution[5] 4 hours battery life 800 grams
dig1xOct 8, 2009
They *LOVE* Apple. It's a shame anyone takes anything they write seriously.