Anyone else excited about the ipad/itabet/islate?

MeterPig · 01-26-2010, 04:49 PM

Game changer?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

FXRocket · 01-26-2010, 05:16 PM

I am going to go out on a limb and say it will be locked down really tight...All of the apps will cost money and you will need to pay just to turn it on...

But yes, I cant wait.

spagthorpe · 01-26-2010, 05:27 PM

Newton v.2? I guess we'll see. I remember when the iPhone came out, thinking that something larger, not laptop sized, but larger would be pretty cool. I guess we'll see how cool tomorrow?

summerinmaine · 01-26-2010, 05:30 PM

I thought it was supposed to be called the iJesus Miracle Tablet? I'm so confused!

CA Stu · 01-26-2010, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by summerinmaine

I thought it was supposed to be called the iJesus Miracle Tablet? I'm so confused!

I thought that was Viagra?

Thanks
CA Stu

Anorak · 01-26-2010, 05:33 PM

I've read that it will be serious competition for the various e-book tablets. I don't think it's a threat if it doesn't use an e-paper display.

summerinmaine · 01-26-2010, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CA Stu

I thought that was Viagra?

Thanks
CA Stu

Remember the New Yorker cartoon of the guy standing in front of his Hummer H1 and saying to his friend:

"You think I would have bought this $70,000 penis substitute if I'd known they were coming out with a $12 boner pill?"

Andrew · 01-26-2010, 05:40 PM

The Apple fan-boys are already camped out on Mission and Howard streets, hoping to get front-row seats, and maybe a glimpse of Steve's shoes.

summerinmaine · 01-26-2010, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew

The Apple fan-boys are already camped out on Mission and Howard streets, hoping to get front-row seats, and maybe a glimpse of Steve's shoes.

Yelling "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!" and confirming that the economy is the #1 issue even for nerds and Apple geeks!*

*Shamelessly borrowed from Doonesberry

Garp · 01-26-2010, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Anorak

I've read that it will be serious competition for the various e-book tablets. I don't think it's a threat if it doesn't use an e-paper display.

I've got a Kindle, but there's a pretty good chance it will be on eBay tomorrow, as I suspect will be 100's of others.

The Kindle is okay, but it only does one thing. I can now read Kindle books on my PC and iPhone, so rarely even touch the Kindle itself anymore. If I can have one device that is easy to carry, and does music, movies, browsing email and books, with a bigger display than the iPhone then sign me up.

Chopperman · 01-26-2010, 06:30 PM

I dont see it happening. I could be wrong. But unless apple pulls an ipod or iphone here, it will just be another doodad for the fanboys to collect like pokemon. In order to do serious work, you really got to have a physical keyboard. In which case it is just another laptop. If there is no keyboard, its gonna just be a big iphone.

Anorak · 01-26-2010, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Garp

I've got a Kindle, but there's a pretty good chance it will be on eBay tomorrow, as I suspect will be 100's of others.

The Kindle is okay, but it only does one thing. I can now read Kindle books on my PC and iPhone, so rarely even touch the Kindle itself anymore. If I can have one device that is easy to carry, and does music, movies, browsing email and books, with a bigger display than the iPhone then sign me up.

The display is what I am curious about. It seems like the e-paper is easier to read for pages of text only. I just had to read a 13 page contract on legal size paper. Even though I have a 24 inch monitor, I printed it because it was easier for me to read.

MeterPig · 01-26-2010, 07:07 PM

http://islateapple.org/

Meltdown · 01-26-2010, 07:11 PM

I'll confess to being curious...as I sit here typing on a MacBook Pro over wireless internet provided by an AirPort base station which is updating my iPhone 3GS.

Oh, forgot to mention the 2 Mac Minis for the kids and the MacBook Air for the wife.

knary · 01-26-2010, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Chopperman

I dont see it happening. I could be wrong. But unless apple pulls an ipod or iphone here, it will just be another doodad for the fanboys to collect like pokemon. In order to do serious work, you really got to have a physical keyboard. In which case it is just another laptop. If there is no keyboard, its gonna just be a big iphone.

What serious work do you do with an ipod or equivalent? or roku box? or kindle? or ? They are indeed toys and that's ok.

01-26-2010, 05:16 PM	#2
FXRocket Phoneticide Squad Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Hoosier Oddometer: 5,303	I am going to go out on a limb and say it will be locked down really tight...All of the apps will cost money and you will need to pay just to turn it on... But yes, I cant wait. __________________ If you say "Gullible" slowly it sounds like "Oranges".

01-26-2010, 05:30 PM	#4
summerinmaine Hells Atheists MC Joined: Sep 2003 Location: Humboldt Bay & San Felipe BCN Oddometer: 33,502	I thought it was supposed to be called the iJesus Miracle Tablet? I'm so confused! __________________ . Science has proof without any certainty. Religion has certainty without any proof. Derived from Ashley Montagu

01-26-2010, 05:33 PM	#6
Anorak Woolf Barnato Joined: Jul 2004 Location: OAK Oddometer: 29,134	I've read that it will be serious competition for the various e-book tablets. I don't think it's a threat if it doesn't use an e-paper display. __________________ 'Gonna get me a six pack...push people off the highway!' "they live off the carrion of our mutual distrust and bribe us with symbols that equate hatred with manhood." "I mean at the end of the day, I was addicted to Starting Fluid for Christ's sake!" "Yeah, that guy sure is terrible at touching moms"

01-26-2010, 05:40 PM	#8
Andrew Optimus Primer Joined: Sep 2001 Location: Eastbania Oddometer: 13,934	The Apple fan-boys are already camped out on Mission and Howard streets, hoping to get front-row seats, and maybe a glimpse of Steve's shoes. __________________ Splitting lanes, and splitting hairs.

01-26-2010, 06:30 PM	#11
Chopperman I am dead Joined: Sep 2001 Oddometer: 27,033	I dont see it happening. I could be wrong. But unless apple pulls an ipod or iphone here, it will just be another doodad for the fanboys to collect like pokemon. In order to do serious work, you really got to have a physical keyboard. In which case it is just another laptop. If there is no keyboard, its gonna just be a big iphone. __________________ dead

01-26-2010, 04:49 PM	#1
MeterPig ^OP Meh Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Parker, Colorado... Oddometer: 15,769	Anyone else excited about the ipad/itabet/islate? Game changer? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj __________________ COHVCO Member and Blue Ribbon Coalition Member I have a DR problem

01-26-2010, 05:27 PM	#3
spagthorpe Beastly Adventurer Joined: Aug 2002 Location: homeless Oddometer: 13,678	Newton v.2? I guess we'll see. I remember when the iPhone came out, thinking that something larger, not laptop sized, but larger would be pretty cool. I guess we'll see how cool tomorrow?

01-26-2010, 07:07 PM	#13
MeterPig ^OP Meh Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Parker, Colorado... Oddometer: 15,769	http://islateapple.org/ __________________ COHVCO Member and Blue Ribbon Coalition Member I have a DR problem

01-26-2010, 07:11 PM	#14
Meltdown Abort, Retry, Fail? Joined: Mar 2006 Location: Brevard county, Florida Oddometer: 1,738	I'll confess to being curious...as I sit here typing on a MacBook Pro over wireless internet provided by an AirPort base station which is updating my iPhone 3GS. Oh, forgot to mention the 2 Mac Minis for the kids and the MacBook Air for the wife. __________________ Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends. Join us! The Central Florida Tag-o-Rama

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