Steve Jobs Locked on iTablet
Since returning to work following a 6-month leave of absence and a liver-transplant, Apple CEO has been locked on delivering the long-rumored, hugely-anticipated (by the blogsphere at least) Apple iTablet, or so says the Wall Street Journal.
Similar to the months before the January 2007 unveiling of the iPhone, Jobs is said to be relentlessly micro-managing away with his typical utter focus on usability and design, making engineers cry and developers miserable in hopes of delighting consumers with a tablet concept that “just works”.
Making it worse, apparently, for Apple employees this time around is that aforementioned leave of absence Jobs took gave them all a brief respite of freedom, and now they’re left to lament what they previously never knew. Or something like that. Really, melodramatic much?
What’s clear, however, is that Jobs takes introducing whole new product categories very seriously:
Mr. Jobs killed the project twice in recent years, the first time because the battery life was too short, and the second time because there was insufficient memory, said one of the people familiar with the matter.
Asked for comment, however, Steve Jobs proved he’s still on top of his game, at least when it comes to curt responses:
“much of your information is incorrect,”
You go Steve!
Update: Fake Steve chimes in with Do not get in my way when I am on a mission, or I swear to God you will get hurt
[via MacRumors]
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I’m still not sold on the usefulness of a product like this, but I sure am excited to see it!
“making engineers cry and developers miserable…”
What is the difference between an engineer and a developer?
Steve Jobs has the vision to make a great product (I.e. iPhone). I hope he micro manages this new product as much as he did with the iPhone. I am excited to see if there is really going to be an Apple television in the future (not appleTV). Video will soon be all digital (no more DVD’s) and having a TV/computer will be a handy item.
Even if it doesn’t have a huge following, I’m sure it’ll have it’s hardcore fans like the Apple TV.
Tim, I’d imagine there are engineers working on the hardware who are doing nothing with software, and application developers making custom apps for the device that aren’t designing the hardware.
Grant and Tim: that said, I think it gets blurry where User Experience engineers could be part of the development team and–never mind, it makes my head hurt!
If Jobs is driving it the chances of coming out with just another me too device declines exponentially.
The probability of comming up with a disruptive technology (in a good way) device that will make all the “in the box” thinkers eat crow and stand in line to buy it increases greatly.
This is what Jobs does best.
But I gotta ask, killing a product because it had too little memory?!? How stupid is that?
Icebike, i think apple will make you the new CEO when they read your comment.
Completely agree with Al
@Dmys:
Seriously, do you think Apple would bother releasing something that is nothing but an extension of Apple TV or a second remote screen for your Mac, and then hang 3G into it?
My iPhone can be an X Window server for my Linux or Unix machine from anywhere. If that story was leaked pre-release would you have thought there would be just a few hard core fans?
The stories that are leaking out just make no sense at all. I still predict the tablet will be big, open new horizons, and start a new product rush.
There is simply no point in wasting R&D manpower on another laptop. Or a remote screen.
The days of splashing iPods with a fresh coat of paint and drinking in thunderous applause (of paid shills) at the Apple Music event are over. That level of cheese-factor just won’t sell in this economy.
So don’t expect this tablet to be a MacBook Air minus the bottom half, or an iPhone super-sized with fries.
If thats all it is it will be the the clearest signal to the world that Apple has lost its edge and is on a downward spiral.
Ok, ww will look forward and wait for what will come
GO STEVE ! IT´S THE RIGHT TIME.
After seeing this concept it will be very interesting to see what comes out.
Check it out!
http://bluemintstudios.com/concepts.htm
It’s a kindle, Sony reader, no no it’s an iTablet…. Some people will buy it cause it will control all you devices from the toilet.
Please dont call it the iPad. That would be a very poor choice for a name. Sounds just like iPod. The name if iTablet is really perfect for this device.