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iSlate, watch and learn
« on: January 15, 2010, 03:23:51 PM »
On 27/01/10 Apple is going to release the iSlate, a tablet Mac.  Microsoft introduced tablet PCs years ago and have gone absolutely nowhere with the technology.  Apple is about to kick MS arse with their own technology.  Watch how it's done, folks.  

Hyperion or A-Eon or whatever is the name of the week need to watch and learn.  You don't introduce a product and tell people "you figure out what to do with it...." you don't introduce a produce with no price and tell people wait six months to actually have it.  And you don't introduce features that 99.99999% of the world have absolutely no use for and yet cost lots of money.

I'll order one on the 27th, I'll know what they cost and I'll be playing with it before summer (in the southern hemisphere) is over...

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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2010, 03:35:44 PM »
Blah. Not a game changer. I bet you could sit on it at a foot ball game though, toasty!
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2010, 03:47:26 PM »
I'm curious about the price and the size of this thing?. I think tablets have failed to this point beacuse they don't really fit a need?. An Iphone is a computer that fits in my pocket & its also my phone. A tablet is just a laptop?
 

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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2010, 04:15:05 PM »
Size:



Still, why? Not too much physical difference than netbooks...

Could I hang it on the wall? Home controller ? Digital picture frame ? Kinda like a Kindel too??? Only place I see table computing today in action is with UPS and Fedex at more door. They could use a upgrade...
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2010, 04:35:21 PM »
Apple has a knack for making niche products usable. Wait and see. (I think Barnes & Noble's new Nook is going to be letter or A4 sized or a bit smaller and support a pen interface. Looking forward to that, too.)
 

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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2010, 05:41:34 PM »
Fingerprints on a touch screen phone is one thing, but fingerprints on your laptop's screen? Blech.

At least the jolly green giant finally gets his iPhone.
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2010, 05:48:10 PM »
Right? - is it a phone too?! I think big phat chain adapter and this will be in the next hip hop video...

That's a big ole phone !
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2010, 07:15:20 PM »
maybe someone could make an 80's boombox skin/interface for it and I could mount it on my dash!!. It could have lots of flashing lights/VU/silly scopes going along with the music??  that would be hot!!
 

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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2010, 07:30:14 PM »
I could see a use for this in FPS gaming maybe...

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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2010, 07:32:37 PM »
"boombox skin/interface" - HEHEHE That would be cool! They sooo need to pay us for our slammin concepts!
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2010, 08:07:25 PM »
Seriously though..It seems like a tablet would be pretty awkward to use for regular computing. You have have to hold it with one hand and type with the other. You would have to set it flat on a surface to type with two hands. At least with an iphone you can hold it and one hand and use the inteface with your thumb.

It would be good for people that have "clipboard" based jobs like doctors or package delivery people were you need it just to punch in quick data..

Am I really gonna sit there on my couch and hold this thing and dedicate two hands to it. How amI gonna work the remote? Will it be a remote replacement. People really are that lazy....
 

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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2010, 08:27:36 PM »
A larger ipod touch with the mac desktop enabled how neat.. How about one of these instead and it's not based on the Windows desktop..

http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet

(note the date of this "leak")..


Here's some video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D58fxzRV5HY&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DWWRIxxzU

As far as tablets go, I personally like windows 7's touch screen controls and if you haven't used an HP touchsmart then, I'd say your view is kinda bent, Microsoft has been very successful with Windows 7 and touch especially with WPF applications and Silverlight.

 After watching this video if you think Microsoft isn't ahead of the game then I'd be really suprised.. Everything they do here I can do with UI and I develop applications like this in WPF and on the web with Silverlight all the time..

You guys are yet again behind the curve with facts/capabilities.. I own macs as well as PCs.. Unless the slate does all of this, then you guys have a lot to deal with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CStZZrkc7Ck

I use the iphone everyday (have to due to network coverage issues in my area and while I like all their cool apps and safari, yes it kills windows phones) the fact is Microsoft is ahead with touch. They have been researching and researching.. If you haven't used windows 7 with a touchscreen on either a tablet or WPF applications, then just saying this kinda thing is being "platform religious"..  

Here's a 3 year old touch screen app (it requires Windows) from japan, it'a a zoo.. This was done pre-silverlight and is a windows only application that runs in the browser. It requires no installation outside of the browser.. I have yet to see anything like this one my Mac or iPhone..

http://www.asahiyamazoo-aict.jp/asahiyamazoo.xbap

Try it out.. You guys need to get rid of your anti-windows bias and look at what's really going on and happening.. It's not about the OS or the maker it's about making cool apps that run everywhere now..
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2010, 08:39:47 PM »
Sure, Microsoft may be way ahead of the game in touch interfaces but, Microsoft should know better then anyone that a superior product does not instantly make it  successful...

Why have I never seen or used any Microsoft touch products or interfaces?




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A larger ipod touch with the mac desktop enabled how neat.. How about one of these instead and it's not based on the Windows desktop..

http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet

(note the date of this "leak")..


Here's some video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D58fxzRV5HY&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DWWRIxxzU

As far as tablets go, I personally like windows 7's touch screen controls and if you haven't used an HP touchsmart then, I'd say your view is kinda bent, Microsoft has been very successful with Windows 7 and touch especially with WPF applications and Silverlight.

 After watching this video if you think Microsoft isn't ahead of the game then I'd be really suprised.. Everything they do here I can do with UI and I develop applications like this in WPF and on the web with Silverlight all the time..

You guys are yet again behind the curve with facts/capabilities.. I own macs as well as PCs.. Unless the slate does all of this, then you guys have a lot to deal with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CStZZrkc7Ck

I use the iphone everyday (have to due to network coverage issues in my area and while I like all their cool apps and safari, yes it kills windows phones) the fact is Microsoft is ahead with touch. They have been researching and researching.. If you haven't used windows 7 with a touchscreen on either a tablet or WPF applications, then just saying this kinda thing is being "platform religious"..  

Here's a 3 year old touch screen app (it requires Windows) from japan, it'a a zoo.. This was done pre-silverlight and is a windows only application that runs in the browser. It requires no installation outside of the browser.. I have yet to see anything like this one my Mac or iPhone..

http://www.asahiyamazoo-aict.jp/asahiyamazoo.xbap

Try it out.. You guys need to get rid of your anti-windows bias and look at what's really going on and happening.. It's not about the OS or the maker it's about making cool apps that run everywhere now..
 

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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2010, 08:51:56 PM »
Whoa don't go around tellin people I know the facts or know about stuff... And don't bring that Silverfish crap in here. Can you say "10 years behind FLASH & FLEX"? It will help with your psychosis and break from reality.

"This was done pre-silverlight and is a windows only application that runs in the browser. It requires no installation outside of the browser."

LOL let mee guess - IE .
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Re: iSlate, watch and learn
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2010, 12:14:43 AM »
Needs balls. A trackball is a lot easier to use than a touchpad or touch interface.
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