RE: "the story of how it became cool to own half a laptop"You're thinking of a PC Tablet.If the Apple Tablet is just cramming an existing OS without adding any useful Tablet UI then Apple's Tablet deserves to fail (just as the PC Tablet has failed).
@ zeiben, RE: " .. flash is a dying technology? Wow. Youtube and Hulu are gonna be in trouble then."Wow, you're not keeping up are you?Both youtube and vimeo are moving towards HTML5 :<a class="user" href="http://www.tomsguide.com/us/HTML5-YouTube-Vimeo-Adobe-Flash,news-5623.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tomsguide.com/us/HTML5-YouTube-Vimeo-Ad ...</a>" .. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it's no surprise that media giants such as YouTube are jumping ship. What makes HTML5 special is that the new Web standard doesn't require Adobe's software to stream content to viewers."Yes, Flash is dying." .. divx? have you heard of torrents?"Wow, the industry is definitely going to keep divx going as a commercial concern then, thanks for your input./s: .. And yes, the tablet UI will fail to surpass the KB as a useful method of entering text. why? because NOTHING has surpassed the KB since its invention .. "Wow, you can make this judgement call without even taking a look at over 5 years of UI research?Why don't you wait until you've seen the damn thing first?Close minded much?
Holding onto $1000 of my money isn't exactly "digging a hole". If it works even almost as well as the keyboard, I'll gladly spring for it.And if you think this device will support HTML 5 AND that you'll see a hulu html5 client in the next 2 years, then you may want to save your $1000 to buy more of whatever it is you've been smoking, cause that s**t prolly ain't cheap...
the vimeo implementation of html 5 video is just an embed that kicks over to an h.264 video. Flash allows a place like hulu to control the stream (ads, etc.) and provide additional controls over the video. I will gladly eat these words, but:"No f**king way will you see embeddable network programming a la hulu in the apple tablet"
We still don't know what they're going to present, but even if it is just a portable version of Surface at 1/10th the cost (remember, surface costs $10k), then wouldn't that be significant?But, you're still comparing tablets to laptops -- if they are their own niche, then there's no direct comparison. For example, my smartphone and my laptop both edit text documents and pdfs, but neither is in danger of replacing the other. Of course, this leaves the question (a la Folio) if there is room for something between a laptop and a phone.p.s. Besides the vertu, the iphone was the first cell phone that I know of that had a scratch-resistant glass screen.
Yeah, I use the hulu desktop app. under the hood, it's flash. You fail to comprehend the business forces at work here. Hulu on the tablet is a threat to Apple's content partners, who happen to be the same people who own hulu and all the network web players. To say nothing of the 3g providers who don't want streaming video on their networks in the near future.But, if there ends up being an approved hulu app for the apple tablet, I will gladly send you a video of myself eating, digesting, and s**tting out the box my tablet came in.
mrbitchJan 25, 2010
RE: "the story of how it became cool to own half a laptop"You're thinking of a PC Tablet.If the Apple Tablet is just cramming an existing OS without adding any useful Tablet UI then Apple's Tablet deserves to fail (just as the PC Tablet has failed).
mrbitchJan 25, 2010
@ zeiben, RE: " .. flash is a dying technology? Wow. Youtube and Hulu are gonna be in trouble then."Wow, you're not keeping up are you?Both youtube and vimeo are moving towards HTML5 :<a class="user" href="http://www.tomsguide.com/us/HTML5-YouTube-Vimeo-Adobe-Flash,news-5623.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tomsguide.com/us/HTML5-YouTube-Vimeo-Ad ...</a>" .. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it's no surprise that media giants such as YouTube are jumping ship. What makes HTML5 special is that the new Web standard doesn't require Adobe's software to stream content to viewers."Yes, Flash is dying." .. divx? have you heard of torrents?"Wow, the industry is definitely going to keep divx going as a commercial concern then, thanks for your input./s: .. And yes, the tablet UI will fail to surpass the KB as a useful method of entering text. why? because NOTHING has surpassed the KB since its invention .. "Wow, you can make this judgement call without even taking a look at over 5 years of UI research?Why don't you wait until you've seen the damn thing first?Close minded much?
zeibenJan 25, 2010
Holding onto $1000 of my money isn't exactly "digging a hole". If it works even almost as well as the keyboard, I'll gladly spring for it.And if you think this device will support HTML 5 AND that you'll see a hulu html5 client in the next 2 years, then you may want to save your $1000 to buy more of whatever it is you've been smoking, cause that s**t prolly ain't cheap...
mrbitchJan 25, 2010
As an aside, the rumours and "what if" scenarios on a device that no one has even SEEN yet is getting a little on the crazy side :<a class="user" href="http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/770509271_mUGL4-L.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/770509271_mUGL4 ...</a>
zeibenJan 25, 2010
the vimeo implementation of html 5 video is just an embed that kicks over to an h.264 video. Flash allows a place like hulu to control the stream (ads, etc.) and provide additional controls over the video. I will gladly eat these words, but:"No f**king way will you see embeddable network programming a la hulu in the apple tablet"
wizardo55Jan 25, 2010
needs a /s at the end, or else diggers don't get it.
morcheebaJan 25, 2010
We still don't know what they're going to present, but even if it is just a portable version of Surface at 1/10th the cost (remember, surface costs $10k), then wouldn't that be significant?But, you're still comparing tablets to laptops -- if they are their own niche, then there's no direct comparison. For example, my smartphone and my laptop both edit text documents and pdfs, but neither is in danger of replacing the other. Of course, this leaves the question (a la Folio) if there is room for something between a laptop and a phone.p.s. Besides the vertu, the iphone was the first cell phone that I know of that had a scratch-resistant glass screen.
zeibenJan 25, 2010
Yeah, I use the hulu desktop app. under the hood, it's flash. You fail to comprehend the business forces at work here. Hulu on the tablet is a threat to Apple's content partners, who happen to be the same people who own hulu and all the network web players. To say nothing of the 3g providers who don't want streaming video on their networks in the near future.But, if there ends up being an approved hulu app for the apple tablet, I will gladly send you a video of myself eating, digesting, and s**tting out the box my tablet came in.
ronintetsuroJan 26, 2010
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