Comments on: The Tech Industry and the Tablet: A Sick Love Story

By: 4/7/10:iPad drops…well, dropped « Nerdify Yourself.

4/7/10:iPad drops…well, dropped « Nerdify Yourself. — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:36:33 +0000

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By: patrickaievoli

patrickaievoli — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:29:57 +0000

Gates got there first?
Do you remember the Newton?
Basically it was the first tablet.
Portable, readable, hand-writing recognition.
Gates ( although I admire him greatly) never gets there first. Jobs and Apple always lead the way.
Then Gates sees the future and spends his money to make up for his lack of vision. Jobs is a true designer – problem – solution. Gates is an engineer – take two things that work and put them together to work better.
Love them both – but Jobs and Wozniak have always been the innovators. Don’t ever forget about Woz.
WebTv – do you remember Pippin? or the Mac 20th Anniversary edition that played television on it?
Maybe if we do some more research and we’ll see what we can find? Would make an interesting article.

By: usa8000

usa8000 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:35:33 +0000

What happened to Microsofts Computer TV.. In the coming months they may even integrate a software controlled popcorn machine into the pc as a snack during entrainment. Who knows they may even integrate a multi colored rubber vending machine in the pc.

They try to integrate every thing into a box. A Tv should be only a tv,this would shun good companies like Sanyo, because of this Tv companies are losing business.

By: Getting through all the hype on Apple’s Tablet computer… - Prof. Boerner's Explorations

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:58:37 +0000

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By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:33:04 +0000

I wonder if Apple will finally let you use a pen with it. I don’t relish the idea of having to put it down to type on an on-screen keyboard… But that’s what I have to do with a laptop.

By: anon76

anon76 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:51:04 +0000

I’d say that even counting the Mac Cubes and Apple TVs of the past, Stevo’s batting average is still pretty high. Not that I necessarily own Apple stock or anything, but you should all go out and buy Macs. In bulk.

Incidentally, is this post an indication that a mac tablet is imminent and I missed the announcement, or is it just the same background rumors that have been going on for ~5 years?

By: tyrantking

tyrantking — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:55:31 +0000

“He knows when demand for a product has matured, so it probably has.”

Mac Cube anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

By: Ffred

Ffred — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:49:41 +0000

Comdex! That brings back memories.
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Ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-Comdex…
They do not come here to gamble…
They put nickels in the dollar slots…
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Actually, in our shop we have field techs using ruggedized tablets with Bluetooth GPS units to edit facility GIS data. Kind of hard to do that on foot with with laptops.

By: alaskanturkey

alaskanturkey — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:41:57 +0000

Exactly. The ipod touch is a tablet. A small tablet that is better than a large tablet. People like big things that can wow them, like flat screen tvs, and small things that are portable and multipurpose, like an ipod or iphone. Who wants a medium sized thing that is just large enough to be annoying to carry, but not large enough to be interesting to watch.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:55:46 +0000

My boss got sucked in and bought a tablet, then he tried to sucker me in and have me use it, so he could buy something, you know… useful. Here’s the tablet’s fatal flaw: you need to be completely functional using one hand as an input device. Will multi-touch make that possible? Maybe if the screen were the size of a pda (man, Apple should make some phone or screened iPod device like that…), but I’m skeptical that we’re going to see something that magically makes us want to inhibit our computing capabilities. Maybe a tablet netbook? Like a super iPod Touch or something? I’d still have no interest in buying it, but Apple fanboys have some strange compulsion with Steve Jobs and buying sleek, shiny things with the Apple logo.