Apple iSlate coming Jan 26th? (or 27th?)

You do realize that image is not the actual iSlate and not from Apple, right? It's simply an artist's rendition of what it might look like.

 

LOL! I have no clue what it will be/useful for.....but I already know I want one......!

(take that wingfeather!)

 

No worries, Ian. The web site name is listed in the bottom right corner of each picture.

 

Thanks for validating the common belief that Apple fanboys are zombies & would buy Job's poop in a bag (or in this case, ancient technology).

 

Or make blind assumptions about a product that has not been released yet. Pretty silly either way, huh?

 

Well, he said it - not me.

So Apple is going to revolutionize the computing industry with this slate?

 

I don't have a clue what Apple is going to unveil, but I'd bet everything I own that it's not seven-year-old technology.

 

Tablet form factor is old technology.

 

Apple doesn't come in late to an old technology and simply copy what is out there and certainly isn't going to start now. Why not stop the foolishness and just wait to see what the iSlate really is before going on a bashing parade? Your claims are as ridiculous as those of the lustful Apple lovers that you loathe.

 

LOL, fanboi yes, zombie, not yet.......and hey, I designed and marketed (and carried) Steves' poop for 8 years, so I trust that he'll do right by me.....I haven't been disappointed yet.....and if I needed safety in numbers, lots of people agree with me......how much Apple stuff is "ancient technology"?....that needs some citations......

Tritone

 

I'll withold final judgement on this until I see what it actually is.

However I am having a hard time seeing where this fits in.

An iPod Touch 64gb is $400.

This device as shown/described doesn't have a keyboard, so it's not going to be useful as a laptop (i.e. image editing, word processing, excel).

You can buy tablet PC's for the $1000 price range all day long, and they ain't selling. I think it's because their usefulness is very limited. For Apple to pull it off, they would have to have a killer app for this device, but I don't see what it would be.

It's not eBooks, because an LCD screen device will have shortcomings vs. an eInk device like the kindle - mostly battery life which is a MAJOR concern on an e-reader, and the iPod is already horrendously bad for battery life.

Until we know what the hook is we can't say if it will be worthwhile but it will be interesting to see what they come up with.

 

If they can make it useful as a laptop even though it won't have a real keyboard, it will sell like hot cakes. A beautiful display to watch things on, and a slate computer to do computing tasks on, from editing to photoshopping to email and web-surfing. All in an elegantly designed package at $799.

That's what I am hoping for. Knowing Apple, it will do half that, and cost twice as much.

And yes, it's 7 years old conceptually, and I have bought and used a couple of tablet PCs. I have one by RIM that I use daily, and it's great to travel with...I watch media on it, use it to move pictures off my camera and back them up, and to surf the web with. It's thin and small, and does everything I need on the road. At a pinch, I could use my phone, but it gets old to scroll up and down and sideways and not be able to do more than just email and simple browsing. The tablet gives me the ability to do a lot more, without having to lug a laptop around.

 

Ian, a 3d bar graph, or any other 3d data visualization, is hardly earth shattering. The whole concept of data visualization is usually overdone. You either get it, or you don't, and if you don't, no amount of fancy colorful pictures will make you understand it more, or give it any more meaning. That's the very essence of what the rest of the world hates about fanboys. They crow on and on about the most trivial things, as if it's going to revolutionize how the world works. In reality, it makes idiots who don't know how to use something like a navigation app finally start using a navigation app. Not everybody is that dumb.

 

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Tit for tat, Ian. That was his perception of the unexplainable hype that surrounds Apple stuff. You are no better for stating that PC tablets failed because of Microsoft.

In reality, it is the lack of keyboard & extra expense of the screen that fail. I know this because I owned a Motion Computing tablet from day one - yes, the sleek metal design that Apple soon copied. The main issue was *no keyboard*. It just gets old after a while... any typing of great expanse requires a keyboard. The tablets with swing-out keyboards solved this issue later on, but again the screen just adds extra expense when price comparing to a conventional laptop. Over time the touch screen becomes a pricey novelty, and tablet buyers go back to laptops.

I don't mind the emotions in this thread (computers are close to our hearts) but let's get the facts straight at least

 

Ian, I wasn't calling you dumb. I wrote:

In reality, it makes idiots who don't know how to use something like a navigation app finally start using a navigation app. Not everybody is that dumb.

That is the context of the statement, why would you think it applied to you? Did you not use a navigation app before it came out on the iphone? Or are you actually dumb, and the comment hit too close to home?

I didn't call you dumb then, but since you insist on being lumped in with the dumb people, well, I guess that does make you dumb.

Don't be a dumbass.

 

Probably wise to back off on this one before you get some vacation time. In my opinion, you're going over the line with this post.

 

I'd probably get a normal Samsung or something like that and just have a data plan for the tablet.

 

The last line in my previous post applies to everyone, not just Ian. ;-)