Foo - iHype

Uh-oh. (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/steve_jobs_apple_tablet_the_most_importing_thing_ive_ever_done.html)

Hold on to your effing hats.

What? Is the Mac guy engaged to the AT&T guy now?

Hold on to your effing hats.

my hats don't eff....they are dead.

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”

How freaking arrogant and egotistical is Jobs?!? Like he did it all personally. :notamused:

i just want them to get it over with so i can see if there's any effect on iphone prices.

How freaking arrogant and egotistical is Jobs?!?

Oh well.

^^^

Possibly NSFW
(http://makeuseof.com/tech-fun/images/iproduct-feel-special.jpg)

Meh.

A lemon zester? Really? I wonder if Williams and Sonoma will carry them?

"The tablet" hmmm....not to sure that's really revolutionary. I mean, even cunieform was written on tablets.

"The tablet" hmmm....not to sure that's really revolutionary. I mean, even cunieform was written on tablets.

shut your stinkin' papyrus!

shut your stinkin' papyrus!

Don't make me whip you with this reed.

I'll break your stylus in two, you mangy Hittite!

I'm telling Allen on you. :p


I'll break your stylus in two, you mangy Hittite!

"Clearly it will have a hat organization system, native support for AmigaOS applications, and a lemon zester."

More likely it only be a hat organization system. And only support red baseball caps. But it will be the best damn hat organization system ever invented and you'll buy lots of red baseball caps just so you can use it.

I'm telling Allen on you. :p

Meh, I'm waiting on the 17 inch version.

I'm telling Allen on you. :p

Meh, I'm waiting on the 17 inch version.

^sasasaweeeet!

The keyboard is Industrial Revolution era technology.

Maybe they'll also announce a fix for the iTunes 9 release that rendered (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151907&start=0&tstart=0) countless iPod Classics -- new and old -- useless for months now. Hell, even an acknowledgment of the issue would be awesome.

Meh, I'm waiting on the 17 inch version.

You changed from your Hittite avatar. :o

Uh-oh. (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/steve_jobs_apple_tablet_the_most_importing_thing_ive_ever_done.html)
Does it come with a "10 Commandments" app. :)

I miss the IBM model M and the Omnikey equivalents. I used to throw those out as I got new computers without that type of keyboard port. If I had realized at the time what crap newer keyboards would become I would have held on to those.

For some perspective, the last time Apple talked that big ("COUNT THE DAYS. COUNT THE MINUTES. COUNT ON BEING BLOWN AWAY."), Jobs unveiled the G4 "Luxo" iMac to cries of "Oh, that's nice."

I'm sure the iPhoneXL will be a perfectly fine product that has features of no interest to me but will make Apple several billion dollars. But at this point, I just want the damn thing out already, to cull the endless, baseless speculation and feature guesses.

"Clearly it will have a hat organization system, native support for AmigaOS applications, and a lemon zester."

The iPhone went from not existing to a $10 billion + annual revenue generator within 2.5 years.

Know a lot of other business enterprises that have pulled that off with a new product do you?

The iPhone went from not existing to a $10 billion + annual revenue generator within 2.5 years.

Know a lot of other business enterprises that have pulled that off with a new product do you?

"A sucker is born every minute" - PT Barnum

"A sucker is born every minute" - PT Barnum

incorrect (http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html).

"A sucker is born every minute" - PT Barnum

That parlays nicely into the old profession that I was going to mention.

incorrect (http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html).

meh...close enough...and it gets the point across.

My Apple store will be crazy the next couple days being the busiest store in our market....Glad I have a couple days of to go for a ride!

meh...close enough...and it gets the point across.

that you don't know what you're talking about? yes.

i already have a tablet - it runs Maemo and sports 64GB SSD storage w/WiFi, USB, Bluetooth, etc. - and cost $199

can Apple do better? we'll see tomorrow!

that you don't know what you're talking about? yes.

like that ever mattered.

My Apple store will be crazy the next couple days being the busiest store in our market....Glad I have a couple days of to go for a ride!

Those same people will probably be driving distracted by their new iToy....so be careful riding !!

Aw man, now I need to come up with even more disposable income!!

that you don't know what you're talking about? yes.

This.

My Apple store will be crazy the next couple days being the busiest store in our market....Glad I have a couple days of to go for a ride!

This device probably won't ship until Q2.

What do you mean 'the busiest store in our market'? You're in Nevada. How many Apple stores are there in the desert?

^LOL We have 3 in the Las Vegas valley and 1 more in Reno. The 3 Las Vegas stores are what make up my market. We see the majority of "locals" here in my store, the other 2 are located on the strip so they see a lot of tourists.

iFad

...Which was perfected somewhere around 1984.

http://www.dansdata.com/images/ibmboard/ibmboard320.jpg

Why fix what isn't broken?

Can you STILL get those classic IBM keyboards? I hate the newer stuff.

^LOL We have 3 in the Las Vegas valley and 1 more in Reno. The 3 Las Vegas stores are what make up my market. We see the majority of "locals" here in my store, the other 2 are located on the strip so they see a lot of tourists.

The one in the Arden mall here is usually insanely full from the first minute it opens every day. The mall could be littered with stinky dead corpses and people would crawl over them to get to the Apple Store even if the rest of the mall was permanently closed.

^Made me think that they should call it the iZombie.

Probably on eBay.

They're still made, just not by IBM or Lexmark. Unicomp (http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/keyboards.html) has the patent now. They'll even sell you one with Windows keys and a USB connection if you want.

I've never used a post-Lexmark model, so I don't know what the quality's like.

My god I hated that store. So small, cramped, and full, and it's never pleasant having to go into Arden Fair.

The only reason we went in there was to replace my GF's nano that had gone to crap before it was a year old. They gave her a new one no questions asked. But yeah, Arden Fair and that entire area just sucks. Every since they closed the mall down in South Sac, all the bangers and hoodlums have moved up to Arden Fair to hang out.

And thanks for the link.

iFad

Like those iPods.

Good call. Insightful.

Before the Mac was introduced in 1984, there were personal computers. PC's with text based OS interfaces that sucked. Within a few years, all consumer computers had graphical user interfaces. In other words, Apple's product changed the game, everybody now wanted a PC.

Before the iPod was introduced in 2001, there were MP3 players. The iPod made them user friendly, and within a few years we all had iPods. Apple's product changed the game, everybody now wanted a digital music player.

Before the iPhone was introduced in 2007, there were 'smart phones'. But they weren't so smart. They certainly didn't behave like micro laptops in your pocket. Apple's product changed the game, everybody now wants a real smart phone (iPhone, Android, etc.).

Apple's products don't always dominate (like the iPod) but they often CHANGE THE GAME.

The Apple tax ... A Fool and his Money are soon parted ... :thumb:

The Apple tax ... A Fool and his Money are soon parted ... :thumb:

Try not to hurt yourself kid.

While I don't have a huge interest in tablet computing myself, the tablet computer market feels very similar to the early MP3 player market, so Apple has a huge opportunity to step in and call the shots if they play their cards right.

I don't think this gizmo will be a tablet computer as much as a Super Kindle. I also think that within 5 years lots of people who didn't ever dream they'd want or need such a device will be using one every day. This may signal the real beginning of the end of print publishing.

When you think back to 1995, nobody would have really dreamed Kodak would be out of the film business within 10-12 years, or in 2001 that CD's would be essentially going the way of 8 track tapes within a decade. Whoever gets this media player/tablet computer thing right (and maybe it won't be Apple) will accelerate the same trend in print.

iYawn
http://www.apple.com/ipad/

and I'm a fanboi. Nothing revolutionary, nothing endearing, nothing to make you imagine the "paradigm shifting possibilities". A big iPhone without telecommunication capabilities. It's cool and all, but I ain't gotta have it.

I think this is going to be an amazing device. I just want to know if the screen will be able to be calibrated (for accuracy in sharing my photos) and if there is an ability to expand the memory. Looks like neither, but I'm still terribly intrigued.