But tablets weren't cool until April 3rd, 2010.
btw- that picture of the Google Tablet above is fake. It's an iPad
Your whole response reeks of fear.
So what in my response was fearful..and of what? I stated the image was of an iPad. Is it not?
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So what in my response was fearful..and of what? I stated the image was of an iPad. Is it not?
Yeah, I've told several people that if they're the type of person that likes to tweak and hack around on a computer, this isn't that type of device.
Talking to most techies about the iPad is like talking to true photographers about getting a digital camera. They will all tell you not to get a point and click camera because you can't really set the focal length right, can't properly set the exposure, can't use different lenses on it, can't properly adjust the shutter speed etc. And in your mind, you just want to snap a couple pictures of your kids when your on vacation and to be able to put them on your computer.
If google's tablet comes out and is good, it's better for everyone.
One last thing about this multitasking argument. The tablets are going to gave 256-512mb or RAM, 1GB tops. So average user is surfing the web. Then switches to his music app. then his photo app. Then the nytimes app. Then to a game app that he was running. People are NOT going to keep going back to quit out of old apps. After about a week, they'll have 20 apps running in the background and complain that their device is slow.
The way Apple is implementing multitasking is smart I think. To just implement full on multitasking for devices like these is asking for trouble.
Now, I'll also wager that Apple is working on a multitouch MacBook as we speak that will do all the things that people are crying about now....
And the same niggas will STILL hate on it even though they can increase the memory, it has USB and FireWire ports, runs Flash, and has a camera.
Steve said out of his own mouth the iPad would replace the netbook.
...so what does that have to do with our convo about laptops?
btw- do you have the quote about the netbooks?
Again you're not reading. I never said anything in your response was fearful.
But the reason why you gave the response was out of fear.
Of some company other than Apple getting positive spotlight.
You're being disingenuous. What you said was...
You were wrong on both counts. 1. It wasn't a picture of a Google tablet. (anybody looking at the damn picture can see that.
)and therefore 2. it can't be "fake".
That's the point, nobody ever said it was. Nobody ever said that was a picture of Google tablet. Just you.
Woe Now!!! There seems to be a little confusion amongst the Apple Fanboy Ranks!!! What the hell is going on here? We need a answer to this question immediately!! Did Steve say it or not?
Sits back, grabs some popcorn, and waits...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally demonstrated the iPad today - and it's relatively cheap
Steve Jobs has finally unveiled the must-have gadget for 2010: the Apple iPad. Dressed in his uniform of turtle-neck and blue jeans, he starting by teasing his audience of journalists with marketing spiel: "Everybody uses a laptop and/or a smartphone. And the question has arisen, lately, is there room for a device in the middle? We've questioned this for years ourselves, but the bar is pretty high."
Jobs then went on to explain why this device in the middle is NOT the netbook: "They're slow, run on clunky PC software... just cheap laptops."
At that point, Jobs whipped out from behind a chair what we've all been waiting for: an iPad. It's pretty much what we expected: a jumbo iPhone. And after all the rumours, here are the facts:
Weight: 700g
Dimensions: 0.5 inches thick
Display: 9.7inches
Battery life: 10 hours (1 month on standby!)
Memory: 16-64GB flash
Processing power: 1GHz Apple A4 chip
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth
Price: $499 (£309) for a 16GB model, $599 for 32GB, $699 (£432) for 64GB. Add $130 to each of those prices for a 3G model.
Released: 60 days for Wi-Fi only models; 90 days for 3G models.
Most exciting is the fact that the iPad is comparable in price to a netbook. Other manufacturers are going to have to raise their game. So what can you do with your iPad? For a video demonstration see here, but it was widely expected that Apple would attempt to break into the lucrative emerging ebooks market - currently cornered by Amazon with its Kindle. Sure enough, owners of the iPad will be able to buy books via iBooks.
For the moment, you can use all your current iPhone apps; they will just be scaled up for the larger screen. It seems a waste of the extra space, but no doubt developers will quickly modify their apps for the iPad. "If a developer spends some time modifying their application, they can take advantage of the large touchscreen display," says Scott Forstall, head of iPhone apps. "We think it's going to be a whole other gold rush for developers."
One developer was given the opportunity to demonstrate its app built specifically for the iPad - in just three weeks. Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times demonstrated what was essentially a facsimile of the print paper. Users can save stories, resize text and change columns, skim photos and play video - but it's not exactly the revolution print journalists were hoping would save their industry.
Can't find anywhere on the net where states that the ipad replaces the netbook??
Nigga get off my nut sack. You mad cause I said the pic is fake and it's a pic of an iPad? Too bad.. get over it. Dry your eyes.
Yall niggas is too funny....
THE PIC IS FAKE AND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOGLE TABLET!!!
Dry your eyes.Yall niggas is too funny....
THE PIC IS FAKE AND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOGLE TABLET!!!
Again you're not reading. I never said anything in your response was fearful.
But the reason why you gave the response was out of fear.
Of some company other than Apple getting positive spotlight.
You're being disingenuous. What you said was... You were wrong on both counts. 1. It wasn't a picture of a Google tablet. (anybody looking at the damn picture can see that.
and therefore 2. it can't be "fake".
That's the point, nobody ever said it was. Nobody ever said that was a picture of Google tablet. Just you.
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