Does this mean my tablet prediction is around the corner?
Alias releases SketchBook Pro for Mac OS X
I think there just might be a Tablet at WWDC.
If any of you recall I used to say that if Apple releases a convertible tablet that they should include this application if they wanted to do it right. Included or not this is a great app, and if you have a wacom intuos 2 or better I suggest you download it.
I think there just might be a Tablet at WWDC.
If any of you recall I used to say that if Apple releases a convertible tablet that they should include this application if they wanted to do it right. Included or not this is a great app, and if you have a wacom intuos 2 or better I suggest you download it.
Comments
Originally posted by Ensign Pulver
Any tablet from Apple would NEVER be based on third party software. Sketchbook Pro is a non-issue.
However, if Alias knew that apple were planning a tablet, it would make porting Sketchbook Pro a no-brainer. Sketchbook really is oriented toward use on a tablet, so this ups the probability of a Mac tablet for me... though its still less than a 50% chance, methinks...
Only about 500,000 tablet PCs have been sold thus far (per Infoworld), but they may find more acceptance in the Mac market (heavy with creative types and students...).
Blark
Originally posted by Ensign Pulver
Any tablet from Apple would NEVER be based on third party software. Sketchbook Pro is a non-issue.
Who ever said that it would be *BASED* on this?? Sheesh.
"MS would never port Office to the Mac - the idea that the Mac would be based on third party software is ridiculous."
Er, no.
But as pointed out it would make perfect sense for Alias to port it if they had information, or even good speculation, that a tablet Mac was coming.
Or heck, even if they thought that *some* technology was coming down the pipe that would make this more enticing.
Originally posted by Blark
However, if Alias knew that apple were planning a tablet, it would make porting Sketchbook Pro a no-brainer. Sketchbook really is oriented toward use on a tablet, so this ups the probability of a Mac tablet for me... though its still less than a 50% chance, methinks...
Only about 500,000 tablet PCs have been sold thus far (per Infoworld), but they may find more acceptance in the Mac market (heavy with creative types and students...).
Blark
I would imagine that the average user of this program is using it on a desktop PC (Mac/Windows/Unix) with a Wacom tablet, not on a tablet PC so I wouldn't read too much into the software release.
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
SJ has repeatedly said Apple is not interested in a tablet.
Where did you see these repeated reports of this? How many times has SJ repeated this? I have never heard him mention a tablet specifically once. I've seen that he had mentioned the PDA many times, but never a tablet, or a convertible laptop.
Could you please post some links? I need to read these statements.
Back in the early days when I tried a tablet, everything seemed to lag...my quick pen strokes on the tablet were never the same speed on the screen.\\
Then again, it could have been my lowly Macintosh IIci.
In a word, no.
As for the quotes,
J [Steve Jobs]: There are no plans to make a tablet.
First link on google of "steve jobs tablet". He said it!
Thanks Rhumgod. The article will do nothing to quell rumors that Apple will be making a tablet. It's the way of some of the Macfaithful.... think different or don't think in this case.
You think some idiots at Apple got 10 million of funding for the OS X inkwell project so you could play on your fancy wacom tablet?
Get real.
So much for that theory.
(Tens of millions my hairy tush. Jeez. Where *do* you kids come up with this stuff?)
But I could only hope.
Originally posted by Rhumgod
See the image at the top of this page:
In a word, no.
As for the quotes,
J [Steve Jobs]: There are no plans to make a tablet.
First link on google of "steve jobs tablet". He said it!
Now that I've seen it. I'm upset. I don't have tons of other Mac's. I would just like more than a Laptop to go with my PowerMac. The way I see it a Laptop offers nothing that the PowerMac does not. Other than portability which is nice, but it's not going to get me to buy another Mac.
If a Mac laptop could convert to a tablet I would have use for it, but as it is now I don't.
Nevertheless. I'll stop my Tablet posts. Although few they were I was interested.
Originally posted by Rhumgod
I agree, there is a niche market for a tablet, but it quite a small niche. All of the tablets we have tried at work just simply do not work out that well. We had them on a 30 day trial, and all of the doctors hated them. Cool technology but still not useful enough for the daily grind. Yet.
Rhumgod.. you've been using them in a workplace situation, which is definitely different than my vision of a possible tablet market, but... i'm curious.. what, specifically, was wrong with the tablets you tried? i've never tried one myself, so i don't know what my expectations would be or how it'd fail, but i'd like to know exactly what makes current tablets imperfect, and what, if anything could be changed to make it work.. or is it just the tablet form? i feel like i've heard a lot of people say there's no market in tablets, mentioning how bad they are... but with so many people talking about them, there has to be some interest in a "perfect" tablet.
Sorry guys, but a seperate tablet is still very much a necessity. What I would go for, but doubt, is a 17" powerbook with a tablet surface instead of the keyboard/trackppad, and a remote (bluetooth?) chorded keyboard. As a bonus how about we finally get a laptop screen that telescopes from it's hinge.