Apple iSlate is upon us?
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It's a giant iPod Touch, and at less than a grand for the biggest bestest with 3G model, I wants it. Bad. I'd be able to comfortably watch a movie or surf the web while doing cardio at the gym. The paint application looks awesome, so I could see using this thing as a sketchbook tool as well. I think these, could conceivably replace the laptop for a lot of casual computer users.
Apparently it still doesn't support flash, though.
Other than that, I'm in.
Apparently it still doesn't support flash, though.
Other than that, I'm in.
There's a promotional video for it out now.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video
Okay, honestly, the shiney-eyed fanaticism these execs give off reminds me of some kind of cult.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video
Okay, honestly, the shiney-eyed fanaticism these execs give off reminds me of some kind of cult.
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All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EO_Personal_Communicator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EO_Personal_Communicator
Look at what Jobs did with the iPod, mp3 players were nothing new. In fact, there were larger and more feature providing ones when the iPod came out, and yet....
With apple, they have the next two models designed and testing before this announcement was even planned.
I see the camera, the multi-tasking, the flash, ect all to come in the next year to two in the form of new models and software updates. The set the base now, and the market will follow just slow enough for their next models and software updates to make them look like big advancements when they've been sitting on the shelves of apples engineering and design offices for months if not longer.
I see the camera, the multi-tasking, the flash, ect all to come in the next year to two in the form of new models and software updates. The set the base now, and the market will follow just slow enough for their next models and software updates to make them look like big advancements when they've been sitting on the shelves of apples engineering and design offices for months if not longer.
In other words, wait for the second generation one to come out?
I'd love it if there could be a case with a screen protector on it, so you don't ruin the slate's actual screen with fingerprints and smudges and stuff. Don't they have things like that for the iPhone and iPod Touch?
There is a case, they showed it at the presentation (I was watching a live stream) It will also allow you to reverse the flap and use it as a stand for the iPad.
It's an ingenious marketing strategy, really. Its a built in market life span, but not by limiting operating life of the tech itself (the tv that is built to break in five years) but which retards the fully functional tech to a level just enough to start the market drive for a product. A technological buffer, if you will. And since the market is always following apple, they are always building to the yesterday tech level apple is already forgetting about.
I'd say six months to a year from release will see flash introduced. with a few month buffer before it's folded into iPhone and iPod touch os's.
Yeah. you can get the protector for less than 10 dollars at monoprice
Stand
I like the keyboard option
In other words, wait for the second generation one to come out?
no just wait until the next major relase of the iPhone OS comes out. The inability to multitaks and lack of flash support are two issue with the current software.
Yeah. you can get the protector for less than 10 dollars at monoprice
Stand
I like the keyboard option
I love their use of Star Trek in that image... Between that and the name... Apple has to be infested with trek fans. And that stand is the case with the cover flipped back.
It's only a matter of time before Stargate uses these while walking and talking down a corridor.
Was anyone really expecting this first generation product to be the be all and end all of tablet PCs? The reason I was so excited about the IPad, and still am, is because I'm looking towards the future. Man, now that Apple has the ball rolling Tablet PCs are going to be awesome around 2015.
I'd say more like 2012/2013 really, with the rate tech is exploding of late.
Kind of like Sandra Bullock's character in Demolition Man when she was talking to the prison warden. And that was supposed to be 2036...
Similar things were being used by the crew of the Discovery in 2001. They were watching TV news broad casts on it while eating.
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