McGraw-Hill CEO spills details on iPhone OS-based Apple tablet - Page 5

Originally Posted by Hellbound

Thanks. I thought she was attractive but from that photo, she looks remarkably like a transexual from Argentina.

As for the CEO, he has an ego...and may have wanted to annoy Steve by mentioning a few tasty details without going too far. God knows what goes on in the minds of such idiots.

Anyway, something you can be sure of regarding the tablet; it understandably won't outsell the iphone or ipod. And I'm guessing it may not even outsell their notebooks (especially if Apple develop macbooks with touch screens somewhere down the line complete with app store).

So, how ground breaking can this thing possibly be? I'm wary of phrases like 'game changer' being banded about.

I do have this awful feeling it may be slightly disappointing after the dust has settled. The sort of 'bigging themselves up' claptrap when they come out with "...and it's got a 3.2mp camera..."!

Anyway, I have an Apple Store Gift Card waiting to be used....so fingers crossed this thing's gonna be damn good!

Originally Posted by rbonner

Na, thinking this was intentional. Any publishers that were on the fence are calling Steve tonight.

Originally Posted by wizard69

If they think that standard Mac OS/X apps will have a chance in hell then yeah they have lost touch. However we are likely to see far more useful Touch apps than are currently seen. For example they might have a Touch based iPhoto that has capabilities from Aperture. Likewise a touch based photo editor is not impossible. Either way direct ports won't cut it, each app will need to be configured/ refactored or otherwise rethought for the Touch environment.

In any event what ultimately can be done with the new device depends upon it's hardware more than anything. RAM is key for many of these functionalities, but RAM also impacts size and heat. It will be interesting to see where the trade offs are made. A happy spot would be around 2GB of RAM.

The problem is that is a lot of board space, heat/power and expense. Apple will likely have 1GB or less on board. If so that greatly reduces the capability of the device to run memory hog apps if there is no paging.

Originally Posted by talksense101

Chubby?! Is that what it is called these days?

Originally Posted by talksense101

Chubby?! Is that what it is called these days?

Originally Posted by Mazda 3s

I'm just laughing at the image of Steve Jobs yelling obscenities in some back room on the Cupertino campus after this

Originally Posted by CoolHandPete

I'm surprised anyone felt it was okay to discuss this unannounced product the day before the launch. I feel sorry for anyone who may have been complicit, particularly if they work for Apple. Clearly, McGraw-Hill doesn't understand Apple's showmanship and mystique when they announce new "creations." It's part of the fun of the company's style and it's one of the reasons they're so successful.

Originally Posted by isaidso

What does a "transexual from Argentina" look like; and how come you know?

Originally Posted by nvidia2008

This guy frakked up big time.

Originally Posted by Stormchild

People who use this word should be banned from posting on the Internet.

Originally Posted by Carmissimo

Many have complained that if the Tablet is a Touch with a larger screen, they'll be disappointed. Prepare to be disappointed. But it should be noted that the good news is that being as the tablet will not be designed to replace a full-feature laptop, it will be priced accordingly, i.e. below $700.

My guess is a 7-inch screen to achieve the desired price point, as opposed to the rumoured 10-inch screen. $500 would be a good long-term price target with a price a little higher likely to start.

Originally Posted by alexfischer

if it doesn't run osx it's most likely a deal-breaker for me. \

Originally Posted by Eluard

wrong, wrong, wrong. Apple would not do that because then it would establish a precedent for other CEO-nitwits to talk about upcoming products. When Apple say don't disclose they mean it. No exceptions. The problem here is that CEO's think of themselves as a special breed for whom rules on non-disclosure do not apply.

Have we all forgotten the CEO of Sun and his premature comment about ZFS? Frozen out of the keynote, with no mention at all.

Originally Posted by applebook

Based on all reports that I have seen, a 10" screen is more likely, although a 7" version is certainly possible.

I highly doubt that Apple would sell the 10" for under $700.

Should most reasonable and not filthily rich consumers be disappointed with a glorified 10" iTouch for around $1,000? Definitely. Most of us who might want a tablet were hoping for a real computer that could replace our MacBook Pro, not this in-between device that is yet another semi-computer for our collection.

Originally Posted by BertP

Agree. McGraw thinks a non-disclosure agreement doesn't apply to him, and/or he doesn't get how he could make a transgression. CNBC and FOX pulled his interview, and I bet McGraw is surprised about those pulls.

Originally Posted by iGenius

IMO, a big expensive iTouch is a blunder. Unless it is cheap enough to be an impulse buy, I don't see folks snapping them up.

Originally Posted by Ronbo

People said almost the exact same thing about the original iPod.

Then they said almost the exact same thing about the original iPhone.

And now, thank God, someone has said it about the tablet (sight unseen... which is the best way to make a declaration like this, no doubt).

Originally Posted by nvidia2008

In Soviet Russia they send you to the Gulag for this kind of stuff. Pity.

Originally Posted by Ronbo

If it did run OS X then it would suck. It's been understood from the beginning of the iPhone OS that the old Mac OS X--beautiful as it is for the way humans interact with it--is not appropriate for a touch interface. The iPhone OS interface (and all the extraordinary architecture beneath it) wasn't mainly about how to make an interface for a PHONE. It's about how to make an interface for TOUCH. And after having made something that amazing, they'd just forget the whole point of it and go make the same mistake Windows did with its tablets? No. That won't happen.

I'm sorry you've gotten yourself so set on something that was never, ever in the cards. But it was never in the cards. Ever.

Let it go an look at the tablet tomorrow for whatever it turns out to be. Maybe you won't have a use for it. But don't damn the thing for not being something it was never going to be.

Originally Posted by BertP

Well, yes. It helps a lot to live where the rule of law has the upper hand.

Originally Posted by Raltenbach

"If this wasn't an Apple sanctioned leak, I'd already be dead."
I assume that's probably true.
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100126/qotd-244/

Originally Posted by Mr. K

You have to read between the lines here. While it's possible that this was just a major screwup, I think it's more likely that this was a play to get a few more publishers onboard at the last minute.

Originally Posted by Raltenbach

"If this wasn't an Apple sanctioned leak, I'd already be dead."
I assume that's probably true.
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100126/qotd-244/

Originally Posted by BertP

Agree. McGraw thinks a non-disclosure agreement doesn't apply to him, and/or he doesn't get how he could make a transgression. CNBC and FOX pulled his interview, and I bet McGraw is surprised about those pulls.

Originally Posted by John.B

All the same, he might want to have someone else start his car in the morning!

Originally Posted by nvidia2008

The Whining has already begun !!! w00t

Originally Posted by nvidia2008

Yeah, I'm just going temporarily INSANE here.

Upon further thought, I think Apple PR has got a schedule of who and where to leak what. The only thing is that it is hard to control when and where things come out exactly.

Like McGraw could say certain things about Tablet and textbook content, but maybe he wasn't supposed to say iPhone OS.

I'm sure Apple, Inc. must be buzzing like a hive on fire.

It is traditional for Apple to be very tight lipped months in advance, but a few days before the actual unveiling usually that's when all the controlled and non-controlled leaks start to come really hard and fast.

There will probably be, a few hours before the event, a Wall Street Journal article describing more about the Tablet, WSJ has as I understand, been the usual controlled leak releaser a few hours before the events.

Originally Posted by AppleInsider

Appearing on financial network CNBC Tuesday afternoon, the CEO of publisher McGraw-Hill confirmed that Apple will announce its tablet Wednesday, and that the device will run the iPhone mobile operating system.

In an interview with Erin Burnett on the program "Street Signs," Terry McGraw was asked about Apple's forthcoming tablet, expected to be announced at an event Wednesday. Burnett asked if textbooks would be available on the unannounced device, and McGraw said yes.

"Very exciting," he said. "You know, they will make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite awhile, and the tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system, and so it will be transferable.

"So what you're going to be able to do now -- we have a consortium of e-books, you know, and we have 95 percent of all of our materials that are in e-book formats on that one. So now, with the tablet, you're going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific."

McGraw's confirmation of the tablet reaffirms rumors that have persisted for months that the company was in negotiations with Apple to provide comment on the tablet. Last week, one report alleged that McGraw-Hll officials were discussing how their software developers and Apple's could collaborate to create dynamic e-books. It was said those negotiations were just as focused on marketing as they are on software development.

McGraw's full interview is embedded below:

Originally Posted by Bergermeister

Yababadabadoo!

The CEO, no less. Bet Apple gets a little PO'd at the leak...

Originally Posted by alexfischer

if it doesn't run osx it's most likely a deal-breaker for me. \

Originally Posted by Lukeskymac

Me too. No OS X, NO SALE.

Unless of course we are talking about a VERY, VERY modified iPhone OS... but then it wouldn't be called iPhone OS anymore.