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i need to collect my thoughts on the tablet

Ishcabittle

Ishcabittle

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so - the apple tablet - here it comes whatchout whoo!!

i'm excited, in a fervor, whatever. i'm not shitting my pants or anything, but the most logical step for apple to take is to shake the paradigm of mobile computing on it's ear.

so let's presume you're into apple products. you have an iphone, a desktop, and a macbook in various stages of pro or consumer. you've spent money to get your digital life together, and then here comes the tablet. how is apple going to create incentive enough for you to spend more money?

most people's expectations are low... it will be a media device for ebooks, video, and the web. it will be a larger ipod touch with proprietary applications and a whole new app store to support it. it will be a touch plaything, nothing else.

well i can't afford to buy a plaything. i need something that i can work on, as well as play. i don't think that the tablet will be a plaything, any more than my laptop is a plaything. in fact, i think the tablet will be something that can replace my macbook as the thing i haul around all day.

what if:

the tablet will run standard os x applications - the touch interface will be innovative enough and workable enough that you can run any standard application and not immediately become frustrated.

the tablet will run iphone os applications - iphone/ipod touch applications can run as widgets in their native resolution and be just as multitouch capable, they will run and react just as they do on the phone.

i'm on the fence on whether i would want this one, but what about a sim card tray and a 3G modem. the iphone's phone app could be the dialer, bluetooth headsets could be the, well, headsets, and i could leave my phone at home too.

that's the way apple's going to wrangle me into spending, oh, say $700-800 on a new device. the most wonderfully nerdy moment of 2007 was when i was able to take my ipod and my phone out of my pocket and consolidate those devices into an iphone. i'm hoping that i'll be able to consolidate my laptop and my iphone into a tablet.

as for the name, well, iSlate is fucking stupid, iTablet sounds dumb, i dunno. it will be simple, just like iphone, letting you immediately know what you're talking about. what do you call one half of an open book? iThat.
 
If they made it so the touch screen interface could be geared toward graphic design (as well as everyday tasks) then it'd be awesome. Devices like that already exist, but not with Apple's OS and design know-how.
 
yeah, the wacom display/tablet - those are cool. they're massive, tho, imagine if you could run illustrator on a tablet that you could hold in you lap while sitting on the couch and produce work that is indistinguishable from what you'd get on a desktop.
 
I still resist eBooks. I already spend too many hours a day staring at screens.

When I want to read a book, I READ A BOOK.

JUST LIKE JEAN LUC FUCKING PICARD!
 
aha, but what if the tablet was a hybrid display with LCD and e-ink display?!?!? wouldja read a book on it then? whouldcha?
 
I don't know what the frak that means, but I'd still bet NYET.
 
The next pooter I get, is most likely going to be a Mac.
 
I often think the same thing, but I would have to get one loaded for bear with both OS's ready to hum. And that kind of Mac costs as much as a compact car. So, I probably won't unless I win Lotto.
 
I love OSX, but I wouldn't waste good money (again) on an overpriced Mac when I could spend half as much on a PC with a similar spec.
 
GAY platform for GAY FAGGOTS who love BUTTSEX.

:clang:
 
FBI!! UH!! i installed wine on my snow leopard box, does that count for anything? I guess if I really wanted to be cool I would run Linux all day every day and have a total of, like, three applications besides my browser to play with.
 
You're just jealous of my Dwarf Fortress framerate, BITCH.
 
I got geek goosebumps from that last post! :eek:
 
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Aaaaand there goes my hardon. :(
 
Ishcabittle said:
i'm excited, in a fervor, whatever. i'm not shitting my pants or anything, but the most logical step for apple to take is to shake the paradigm of mobile computing on it's ear.
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okay so not so dramatic as shaking paradigms or anything but this will be probably the most accessible computer ever. kids and old people and everyone in between who just wants the web and email are going to love the shit out of this thing.

so let's presume you're into apple products. you have an iphone, a desktop, and a macbook in various stages of pro or consumer. you've spent money to get your digital life together, and then here comes the tablet. how is apple going to create incentive enough for you to spend more money?
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well after watching the presentation mr. jobs just did, i'm incentivized. and, as skeptical as she was before she saw the video, my lady is more so than me. all she does on her laptop is email and web, that's it. it's perfect for her, and incredibly portable.

most people's expectations are low... it will be a media device for ebooks, video, and the web. it will be a larger ipod touch with proprietary applications and a whole new app store to support it. it will be a touch plaything, nothing else.
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i was wrong about the whole new app store, but right about it simply being a large ipod touch.

well i can't afford to buy a plaything. i need something that i can work on, as well as play. i don't think that the tablet will be a plaything, any more than my laptop is a plaything. in fact, i think the tablet will be something that can replace my macbook as the thing i haul around all day.
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the more i think about it, i really could work on this thing. there are awesome SSH clients for administrating my servers, the VNC viewer i have (Jaduu VNC) is actually faster when controlling my PC than any of my mac viewers, there are perfectly capable RDP clients, network utilities, the list goes on and on. i really wanna ditch my laptop's 6 lbs. and my backpack and just have a satchel with an ipad. bring along a bluetooth keyboard and you can really bang out some text if you have to.


my predictions:


the tablet will run standard os x applications - the touch interface will be innovative enough and workable enough that you can run any standard application and not immediately become frustrated.
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dead wrong - but they surprised me with iwork. the gestures in pages were unbelievable, and i seriously doubt there won't be some awesome image editors and illustrators.

the tablet will run iphone os applications - iphone/ipod touch applications can run as widgets in their native resolution and be just as multitouch capable, they will run and react just as they do on the phone.
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right here - the fact that all 140,000 apps already work is amazing, but running them in native resolution looks a little silly with that big screen. i do want to play geoDefense on that fucker, tho, super bad.

i'm on the fence on whether i would want this one, but what about a sim card tray and a 3G modem. the iphone's phone app could be the dialer, bluetooth headsets could be the, well, headsets, and i could leave my phone at home too.
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right here, and it's badass they give you the option to do either or. plus, it's unlocked and no contracts, if you don't want it that month don't pay for it that month.

that's the way apple's going to wrangle me into spending, oh, say $700-800 on a new device. the most wonderfully nerdy moment of 2007 was when i was able to take my ipod and my phone out of my pocket and consolidate those devices into an iphone. i'm hoping that i'll be able to consolidate my laptop and my iphone into a tablet.
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it doesn't do calls, so i'm not consolidating everything into one device, but that's kinda stupid anyhow. i'm not going to bust out an ipad on the subway, but i would with my phone, and it would be awkward to pull out a tablet every time you had a call. chalk this one up to me stretching a theme for poetic license.

as for the name, well, iSlate is fucking stupid, iTablet sounds dumb, i dunno. it will be simple, just like iphone, letting you immediately know what you're talking about. what do you call one half of an open book? iThat.
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ugh. that's the one thing i don't like about it. ipad. one of the top trending topics in twitter today way "iTampon". well. i'm just going to call it the apple tablet or the pad and feel good about my hygiene.
 
i'm going to bust out some screencaps from the ipad simulator here in a few, installing the new SDK now...
 
Tablet pc's have been around 9 years and Apple acts like this thingy is NEW!
 
One that DOESN'T SUCK sure is new.

So "magical" and "revolutionary" are a little bit out there -- but let's take what we saw as an example of why Apple's computers are more expensive. Everything you saw that unit do in the keynote was done -- the processing and rendering, specifically -- on a SINGLE 1Ghz CHIP.

You think there's ANY flavor of Windows that could do the same?

Fuck. No.

That's what Apple does and why the price-point to hardware spec comparisons between Apple systems and Windows PCs is meaningless. Using an Apple anything is like plunging your cock into hot, tight virgin pussy. Everything's tight and trim. Windows PCs, by comparison, are like getting sloppy second on a middle-age truck stop waitress. Sure, it'll do ya if that's all you've got, but it sure as shit ain't the best you can get.
 
They should put a REALLY BIG HANDLE on it then it would be massive iphone.

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Emperors new clothes.
 
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