a headline i saw this morning...
Steve jobs: "the tablet is the most important thing i've ever done (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/steve_jobs_apple_tablet_the_most_importing_thing_ive_ever_done.html)"
When today?
There was no talk mentioned (at lease on the live blog feed) about whether it had USB so you can plug in a keyboard.
it has bluetooth & a 30-pin connector
BTW - isn't this thing more like a bigger Touch than iPhone?
I also haven't seen mention of whether it has a webcam.
Price?
$499+
Not that bad.
Keyboard dock:Show Image(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/apple-creation-0384-rm-eng.jpg)
You guys are all late adopters anyway. The Vintage keyboard dust has soaked into your brains.
Even Microsoft Windows has an Touch. (http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=7364&stc=1&d=1263664502) Don't see you guys accusing him of being bleeding edge.
So what did they leave on the table for the 2nd gen one?
second hand cars salesmen
the programs we use every day
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world
True. And people in general are arguably idiots.
Better to cannibalize lower-margin iPhone/iPod revenue than high-margin MacBook revenue.
Netbooks.
What I don't like about the new tablets is that they are aimed at making us passive consumers of partner products, locking us in media stores and closed apps.
aimed at making us passive consumers
Make the iphone expand out and triple in size, then compact back down to fit in your pocket... do that and you'll rule the world.
hmm, yes... i'm gonna need one ipad, and something equivalent that runs linux :)
Wow. No multitasking (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-first-hands-on/). My phone multitasks.
No Flash? Wha??
They could have come strong, but they really hamstrung this thing by making it more iPhone/iPod Touch than computer.
Apple sucks!
Boy, the display and responsiveness look good on the Official Video. (http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video)
Why would they want to rehash the Tablet PC? That's already gone nowhere several times over. I think the point is to specifically try to reposition the Tablet PC as a different class of device.
Then what are they trying to do? That's the problem with this device. It's great to surf on and maybe read a book (that sounds like torture to me on an LCD), but that's it. Since you don't have drive access, you can't stream videos, you still have an incomplete web experience w/o Flash, and you still can't multitask. On a device that powerful and big, you should be able to multitask. I can multitask on my Palm Pre. This thing is lost. It has no identity. I can't use it as a computer, I can't use it a phone, (in certain ways) it doesn't even have all the functionality of an iPod Touch or iPhone, so what are they doing here? No USB, no camera, no handwriting support, etc., and it's not even widescreen like its iPod Touch/iPhone brethren.
Then what are they trying to do? That's the problem with this device. It's great to surf on and maybe read a book (that sounds like torture to me on an LCD), but that's it. Since you don't have drive access, you can't stream videos, you still have an incomplete web experience w/o Flash, and you still can't multitask. On a device that powerful and big, you should be able to multitask. I can multitask on my Palm Pre. This thing is lost. It has no identity. I can't use it as a computer, I can't use it a phone, (in certain ways) it doesn't even have all the functionality of an iPod Touch or iPhone, so what are they doing here? No USB, no camera, no handwriting support, etc., and it's not even widescreen like its iPod Touch/iPhone brethren.
display and responsiveness look good on the Official Video.
You know how everyone who has ever done Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? always says, “It’s not the same when you’re actually here. So different from when you’re sitting at home watching.”? You know how often you’ve heard that? Well, you’ll hear the same from anyone who’s handled an iPad. The moment you experience it in your hands you know this is class. This is a different order of experience. The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it’s not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device.
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The pundits who have used an iSteve have pretty much all said you have to hold one to appreciate it. This is not new to Macintosh marketing. In 1984 they had a test drive program in which you home a mac free overnight; they had a 98% closure rate.Quote from: stephen fry
You know how everyone who has ever done Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? always says, “It’s not the same when you’re actually here. So different from when you’re sitting at home watching.”? You know how often you’ve heard that? Well, you’ll hear the same from anyone who’s handled an iPad. The moment you experience it in your hands you know this is class. This is a different order of experience. The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it’s not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device.
Ulysses is the greatest novel of the twentieth century. It is is wise, warm, witty, affirmative and beautiful. it is less pretentious than a baked bean. Read it. read it out loud to yourself. It won't bite. It wasn't written either to shock or to impress. Only pretentious barbarians believe artists set out shock: and how these philistines delight in revealing how unshocked they are. Those who attack it are afraid of it and rather than look foolish they prefer to heckle what they don't understand. Ignore all this childish, fear-filled criticism, Ulysses will be read when everything you see and touch around you has crumbled into dust.
Stephen Fry, London, UK
The big secret is that the iPad actually runs Windows CE
http://www.currentdirections.com/hardware/fujitsu/ipad100.html
Let the trademark lawsuits begin...
The pundits who have used an iSteve have pretty much all said you have to hold one to appreciate it. This is not new to Macintosh marketing. In 1984 they had a test drive program in which you home a mac free overnight; they had a 98% closure rate.
Linky (http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/)
Originally Posted by stephen fry
You know how everyone who has ever done Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? always says, “It’s not the same when you’re actually here. So different from when you’re sitting at home watching.”? You know how often you’ve heard that? Well, you’ll hear the same from anyone who’s handled an iPad. The moment you experience it in your hands you know this is class. This is a different order of experience. The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it’s not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device.