The Apple Tablet

[demonAfro]

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a new app to do what the kindle does

What? Give you the ability to read it in bright sunlight

[floridaorange]

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i think at this point apple didn't go all out with this is because they're not ready to give up on the macbook, which is a huge portion of their sales. if you could get a ipad well under 1k, that supported flash, multitasking, hdmi, etc etc...that basically merged the iphone and the macbook into one awesome machine...then the macbook becomes less relevant.

i also read about a lot of companies with new tablet style pcs on the horizon, and i'm sure jobs wanted to be the first out with his, whether it had 100% of the features it needed to have anyway. look how long it took iphone to get copy and paste. introduce the base model, people will buy it anyway because it's new, then slowly improve on it making each additional release worth buying for new features. seems to be apples m.o.

i won't buy one now, but i could see buying one of these in the future. at the moment it's not doing anything my iphone doesn't do.

spot on

[res0nat0r]

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What? Give you the ability to read it in bright sunlight

apparently the backlit display type that the kindle is using (dont remember exactly what everyone calls it) is much better on the eyes for long term reading than normal laptop/netbook setups.

[res0nat0r]

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iPad - The uncomputer for the masses

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0015-ipad-an-apple-for-mom.html

I think this article nails it on how this is going to make money, and who it is geared for.

[feather]

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I guess my disappointment stems from the hardware and interface. Not sure what I was expecting but ... more/different multi-touch gestures I suppose, a front camera for video calls? A different way of typing, a sliding hardware keyboard maybe, dual screen like some non-Apple prototypes, something, that differentiates it as the Next Thing.

You have to admit, the way Jobs did his introduction with the first notebook, the iPod, and the iPhone, all revolutionary products in their category, when he whipped out the iPad, it's like, yeah right, it's a big iPhone.

Right now all I see are apps, which is software based, and those same apps could conceivably run on an iTouch or iPhone if you can sacrifice the bigger screen estate.

And seriously what's with the wide bezel? It's fugly.

[feather]

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iPad - The uncomputer for the masses

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0015-ipad-an-apple-for-mom.html

I think this article nails it on how this is going to make money, and who it is geared for.

More than likely that the iPad will make money from ebooks and whatever form of reading material, text books, and industries that currently use clipboards, eg. medicine. You can imagine hospitals furnishing doctors and staff with them, all patient reports displayed and dynamically updated on the fly as any new test results come in, architects with blueprints, trainers in the army or personal trainers, etc.

[fyrestarter]

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all the mac fanboys will be all over it.

[floridaorange]

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"First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is universally accepted."

[toasty]

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There are a lot of things that this thing isn't, but for the right user, it could totally be a boon. Would be awesome as a netbook if you don't need productivity apps, or for non-business travel. Don't really have a need for it right now, but depending upon what developers do with apps for it, I could see myself adding one to the fold at some point down the road.

[CircleGuy]

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iPad, with wings? must be for those heavy days

[Kamal]

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i think at this point apple didn't go all out with this is because they're not ready to give up on the macbook, which is a huge portion of their sales. if you could get a ipad well under 1k, that supported flash, multitasking, hdmi, etc etc...that basically merged the iphone and the macbook into one awesome machine...then the macbook becomes less relevant.

I'd disagree with this, that would be like comparing a Hybrid and a sports car. Made for entirely different purposes with entirely different functionality. even the OS isn't the same so applications designed to run on either device are independent of each other.

This was an interesting round up from Molly Wood - http://cnettv.cnet.com/buzz-report-s...-50082923.html

She covers well all of the things that aren't in the device - primarily, Flash Support. As Jobs said in his keynote speech "The best browsing experience ever"......not. Even usability perspective for eBooks isn't too hot. I don't know a lot of the eBook technology just yet but from the video, eInk conversion to color, even though possible, isn't available on the maxipad.

Unless a lot of the things are added / fixed with the tablet, Apple fans and people with $$ will likely make up the purchasing segment.

[Jenks]

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She covers well all of the things that aren't in the device - primarily, Flash Support. .

flash sucks, and as soon as companies stop supporting it, the better off we'll be. the best browsing experience = no flash.

i wasn't talking about the entire macbook line, just the entry level macbook. no tablet will ever (well at least not at this point) compete with what my macbookpro does, which is completely replace a desktop computer. but a ipad merging the features of an iphone with a macbook = damaging to the low end macbook. my wife has a macbook, and uses it for music, photos, web surfing, email and photoshop. when she bought it if the ipad could do all of that for less $$, with 3G, etc...you get the point.

[feather]

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As Jobs said in his keynote speech "The best browsing experience ever"......not.

Did you notice during the keynote, Jobs was surfing NYT or Time and there was an empty square on the page missing a plugin. That might've been a Flash video. You could hear the crowd snickering and Jobs avoided anything that might've looked like Flash video subsequently.

[Jenks]

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Did you notice during the keynote, Jobs was surfing NYT or Time and there was an empty square on the page missing a plugin. That might've been a Flash video. You could hear the crowd snickering and Jobs avoided anything that might've looked like Flash video subsequently.

Instead of skirting the issue, he should have just come out and said, "Look guys, we believe Flash ruins the browsing experience because it just flat out fucking sucks, and it kills puppies, so we will not be supporting it from this day forward," and he probably would have gotten a standing ovation.

[res0nat0r]

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Like the red U2 iPod, Apple has partnered with Sir Paul McCartney and they are releasing the special iPad with Wings.