New Apple Lust Objects

on the tablet, have there been credible rumours (from employees that have seen it and know jobs has approved) before? I refused to follow them because the idea of a tablet is so dumbheaded imo

I think these are the most credible yet. The previous believable ones ("they made a tablet, Jobs said he didn't see the point beyond reading the web on the bog and killed it") seemed otm to me as well.

Forgot about the 11" Macbook. Still want one pls

There's a bunch of patents, a bunch of talk from manufacturers etc. But nothing sure. This big announcement in january may just be an iPhone with a screen that can compete w/ the Droid and the new HTC phones. They could pull off a tablet though...i love my iPod touch...and sometimes wouldn't mind it a bit larger.

iPhones are refreshed in June normally

this is just going to be an announcement for something that's not coming out for a while, says the blogs.

if they had a tablet w/ACTUAL FUNCTIONAL handwriting recognition and some kinda killer note-taking app right out of the box, then i would be v v interested

just in time for me to be done with the academic portion of my training, ha

Onenote is a pretty killer notetaking app imo. Thing about writing is you don't want to rest yr hand on the screen, so it's weird and difficult. Newton had this prob too

i'm on a mac, tho. onenote = parallels + windows + onenote itself

its been clear the tablet is real for a while - and yeah people are totally going to fuck w/it and its gonna be a huge success casue a lot of people who have computers dont really need computers - they just need to get online watch movies download their digital photos and maybe play some simple games - witness the rise of the netbook - this is a netbook that because of its quality and simplicity is prob for most people better than any full featured computer

the biggest story imo isnt new devices but apples ongoing push to be a major media distributor w/the app store/itunes/iphone os platform - tv movies music books magazines software textbooks whatever - apple is trying to become the new cable/video store/book store etc

w/the tablet theyve got another device where they totally control the content distrobution - app store/iphone os is a mind boggling innovation - and w/the tablet theyll have yons more devices running it causing a virtuous feedback loop where people want to buy them cause they have the most apps and developers want to make apps cause they have the biggest installed base

so you'll be able to watch movies ON TABLET

could it maybe be a tv-subscription-service announcement?

feel like i should buy apple stock right now cuz i get the feeling itll jump a lot after the announcement no matter what

decent idea

it costs $200 a share

could it maybe be a tv-subscription-service announcement?

― max, Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703344704574610491399388448.html

About 6 months before the first bondi blue imac was rolled out, my wife was awakened one morning by a clear voice saying "buy Apple stock." It was weird and freaky enough that we actually talked to a stockbroker about what it would cost to set up an account and buy individual stocks and not just mutual funds. Apple was at about $13 when that happened. We never bought any. ;_;

ha woow

it costs $200 a share
--max

n/m

feel like i should buy apple stock right now cuz i get the feeling itll jump a lot after the announcement no matter what

― max, Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:37 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the prob w/this strategy is a lot of people are doing it so the market will react to whether or not the announcement lived up to investors expectations rather than just pricing the value of the new info - iirc correctly the stock has often dropped after these v special events

tbh buying apple is stock is probably not a bad idea, in general, but maybe someday a voice will wake me up and tell me a stock to buy that is not 200 bucks a pop

i like the prospect of apple and google long term as companies - i dont really know anything abt buying stock tho

other than that its a bad idea

so what should we do

buy the tablet, watch a movie

buy a real apple, eat it

if they had a tablet w/ACTUAL FUNCTIONAL handwriting recognition and some kinda killer note-taking app right out of the box, then i would be v v interested

― deej--nuts, butthurt, and yelly (gbx), Thursday, 24 December 2009 16:14 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes but QED u r a fkn doctor innit

buy a real apple, eat it

― max, Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

should i buy them before the announcement?

"You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet"

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/12/apple-exec-jobs-happy-with-unannounced-apple-tablet.ars

u eat it

stock pretty much always drops after announcements. dropped after the iphone iirc

bought apple stock at $48 /braggin

all this new set of tablet stuff boils down to

i) that one guy on the NYT blog has a quote, and a couple of asshat financial services analysts have piled on
ii) they don't know what else it could be and we have to write about something

i.e. i will believe it when i see it

o come on u know u believe

little bit

yes but QED u r a fkn doctor innit

― I am banman (cozwn), Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a handwriting joke :(

Tablet + all those oddball iPhone synth/generative music apps = me first in line to buy one.

Bebot on tablet = Awesome

http://gizmodo.com/5433988/apple-patent-application-reveals-a-bumpy-tablet

internet is ridiculous http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/25/apple-islate

some real private eye work there

the irony of calling item expected a year ago 'islate'

it occurred to me the other day that iPhone OS is far, far, far, far superior to desktop operating systems for about 90% of the population. compare installing an app. updating an app. starting an app. quitting it. buying something. it's no contest.

It's much more like the appliance vision they had for the Mac

yeah the appstore/iphone os is a GAME CHANGER

i mean, re: the tablet, or subnotebooks or whatever, i would imagine that a very large number of people would actually welcome a wholesale shift to iPhone OS, multitasking or no multitasking.

So tablet is actually abt replacing the Mac

i think they need to get some multitasking going. Not neccessarily every app but some way to make it more useful.

But I'm kinda an OSX hater right now. It just doesn't work the way it's supposed to work. Thank god for appzapper.

they do; instapaper, for example, wd be 1,000,000,000x better if it could update its feeds in the background. but that eats into memory, and as a tightly-controlled appliance how does the os regulate that?

but yes I see os x becoming the 'pro' or 'developer' os.

finally with iphone os we have dispensed with the concept of files and folders - and the need to find the fucking things. we've almost gotten rid of the whole concept of 'saving' which should have been obolete years ago imo