There's an easy way to keep the cost down, namely make this an incremental, evolutionary device in the iPod family. Instead of a 10-inch screen and assorted other costly enhancements over the Touch, how about something with a smaller screen, maybe 5-7 inches, which would enhance the Touch experience yet remain true to the notion of a portable, affordable, convenient device. The Touch is already quite a versatile little beast with really only one significant flaw, namely not enough screen real estate. Up the screen size and you enhance the user experience on many levels. Up it just the right amount and you get a shockingly inexpensive tablet-like device, better suited as an e-reader, gaming platform, video viewer, etc. than the current Touch. Up past that point and the cost goes up, the gains are minimal and the device has a great deal less appeal.
Then again, the insistence that the new device will have a 10-inch screen has been such that it's hard to imagine the unit not coming with a 10-inch screen. Soon enough we'll know the answer.
Well then it should be iTunesMega or something else then but the current name is inadequate as the poster suggested. And I hardly think "iTunes" ranks with either Coca-Copla or Pepsi as a name brand enough to be dropped or completely changed.
iTunesPlus?... No, wait... The Social?... No??? How about The MarketPlace?... No?...
iTunesPlus?... No, wait... The Social?... No??? How about The MarketPlace?... No?...
And we'll need to rename Apple whirl we're at because they don't sell apples, I've checked. Microsoft needs to changed, too, as there is nothing "micro" about their bloatware.
When he says shockingly cheap (or whatever he said) I hope he means free. An iTablet/Netbork sold through Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile with a contract should be as near to free as possible (sub-$300 would be respectable).
We don't have Walmarts over here in Australia, is that where you Americans buy walls?
Judging by their size you must buy a lot of them.
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You fail all the time and never admit it. Who refers to their videos bought on iTunes as "tunes". Or books, or podcasts or etc. Only a fool would do that.
Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose are a couple of douche bags. They don't know anything. These idiots said the iphone would have two batteries, they have inaccurately predicted dozens of other things. And they let it out all slyly to their "fans." It's pathetic.
The Slate will be so f'ing cheap because you slide a iphone or iPod touch in to the back of it to power it. You will buy apps, publications and periodicals through the same app store but they will look a heck of a lot better on the larger higher resolution screen of the Slate.
Slate's just a display with all the multitouch touch screen tech. No guts.
There... now shut-up Alex and Kevin. go hang out with Cliff Blezinski...
HELLO, PEOPLE - is this for real??!! Who is this alex albrecht clown? a lowly podcast / internet TV show "actor"?? Who the hell thinks he knows ANYTHING about apple's tablet plans? Are you joking? PUBLICITY STUNT - plain and simple. It got posted on AI, and i'm sure his crap internet show will get a few more hits thanks to that.
I have been around long enough to remember when the original Mac 128k was rumored to debut at $999 to compete with the IBM Peanut (PCjr) but when it did hit the stores, it was priced at $2495!
Of course that depends upon what you call nice. If we take it as a given that the tablet will be ARM based we might be talking about a PC board that isn't much bigger than the one in the Touch. The actual SoC might actually be smaller than some of the kitchen sink approaches on the market now as Apple can tailor I/O very neatly.
My Prediction: $650 for the basic and $799 for the high end (if the tablet is a mac nano and not kindle pro that is). It will have a PA Semi chip and some nvidea 9400M or some equivalent that would work with PA semi's custom chip. It will have full featured OSX on something like a 10.1 inch screen.
If it is just kindle pro and can only read books and maybe do some youtube, I would say $350 to 499 range, but I for one would not be interested.
THE MOST IMPORTANT thing is that the Apple iTablet runs Mac applications. That the iTablet is a Mac; a touch Mac.
Apple just obtained the "TabletMac" trademark. Based on Apple latest products naming convention the name of the tablet will most likely be MacTablet not iTablet if it uses full Mac OS X.
I'll take a good old hardback book any day over anyone of these e-readers.
I agree with you, but carrying even a single book with me all the time is hardly comfortable. Not to mention carrying half a dozen.
I like running through a few pages while waiting my wife to do her shopping. Or while waiting some process to finish before I can proceed with work (like backup). Or during the lunch break. Or...
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Then again, the insistence that the new device will have a 10-inch screen has been such that it's hard to imagine the unit not coming with a 10-inch screen. Soon enough we'll know the answer.
No - it should simply be call iStore as it's really called the iTunes Store- iTunes is the application not the name of the store.
yea its a waste of time trying to speak logic or common sense to Teckstud...
Well then it should be iTunesMega or something else then but the current name is inadequate as the poster suggested. And I hardly think "iTunes" ranks with either Coca-Copla or Pepsi as a name brand enough to be dropped or completely changed.
iTunesPlus?...
iTunesPlus?...
And we'll need to rename Apple whirl we're at because they don't sell apples, I've checked. Microsoft needs to changed, too, as there is nothing "micro" about their bloatware.
Judging by their size you must buy a lot of them.
You fail all the time and never admit it. Who refers to their videos bought on iTunes as "tunes". Or books, or podcasts or etc. Only a fool would do that.
The Slate will be so f'ing cheap because you slide a iphone or iPod touch in to the back of it to power it. You will buy apps, publications and periodicals through the same app store but they will look a heck of a lot better on the larger higher resolution screen of the Slate.
Slate's just a display with all the multitouch touch screen tech. No guts.
There... now shut-up Alex and Kevin. go hang out with Cliff Blezinski...
HELLO, PEOPLE - is this for real??!! Who is this alex albrecht clown? a lowly podcast / internet TV show "actor"?? Who the hell thinks he knows ANYTHING about apple's tablet plans? Are you joking? PUBLICITY STUNT - plain and simple. It got posted on AI, and i'm sure his crap internet show will get a few more hits thanks to that.
MOVE ALONG!
Well put!
I have been around long enough to remember when the original Mac 128k was rumored to debut at $999 to compete with the IBM Peanut (PCjr) but when it did hit the stores, it was priced at $2495!
Watch out, history repeats itself!
Dave
Only the other Steve can pull something like that off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
Nah, that other Steve missed one "9" in his stunt...
If it is just kindle pro and can only read books and maybe do some youtube, I would say $350 to 499 range, but I for one would not be interested.
Right- and that's why Apple Computer Inc changed their name to Apple Inc.
They were so failing two years ago.
Again, your know-it-all logic fails.
I think you are going too far on this one.
From that point of view, Microsoft should have changed their name long ago, to something like:
Globalsoft
Monopolsoft
Billsoft
Bigbadassoft
Balmersoft?
...
I mean, they are too big to have word "Micro" in their name, right? Was appropriate when releasing first DOS, but not any more. Same as iTunes.
And DOS doesn't operate only disks. It should have been COS (Computer Operating System). Or CYC (Control Your Computer). Or...
How about iStore or iWhore? You decide.
iChing
THE MOST IMPORTANT thing is that the Apple iTablet runs Mac applications. That the iTablet is a Mac; a touch Mac.
Apple just obtained the "TabletMac" trademark. Based on Apple latest products naming convention the name of the tablet will most likely be MacTablet not iTablet if it uses full Mac OS X.
I'll take a good old hardback book any day over anyone of these e-readers.
I agree with you, but carrying even a single book with me all the time is hardly comfortable. Not to mention carrying half a dozen.
I like running through a few pages while waiting my wife to do her shopping. Or while waiting some process to finish before I can proceed with work (like backup). Or during the lunch break. Or...
TeckStud = Locke
The two are in cahoots! Don't be persuaded by their wicked plan.
Solipsism = Demosthenes
TeckStud = Locke
The two are in cahoots! Don't be persuaded by their wicked plan.
I see myself as more of an Ender than a Peter or a Valentine. That would make Teckstud Bonzo, but I?d rather just refer to him as a bugger.