Comments on: From Safari Pad to iPhone and Back Again

By: LupeValenz

LupeValenz — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:58:42 +0000

Well if this iTablet rumors are true, wouldn't that basically kill off any hope for an HD iPhone. Apple likes to keep things simply. They want you to buy devices. If you want a portable HD apple experience, get the iTablet, for your quick on the go device, get the iPhone. Developers won't have to worry about making an HD iPhone app and make a seperate one for the regular iPhone, they just make iPhone apps, then the tablet apps.

By: Kamal

Kamal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:56:21 +0000

Ok i agrée

By: Omari James

Omari James — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:41:30 +0000

Jhonny ... you make a good point.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:02:45 +0000

Exactly. Beutifully designed, but lacking core features. It's the Apple way.

By: Jhonny

Jhonny — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:49:15 +0000

Ofcourse there won't be a camera in the iSlate. That's half the reason we are going to get the second generation iSlate.

By: OmariJames

OmariJames — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:43:46 +0000

Icebike what did I say ?

By: dev

dev — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:34:11 +0000

Where has all the speculation been on the eye tracking technologies that Apple acquired in 2007, and which are the conspicuously not-yet-implemented technologies in their 30 page UI patent from 2008?

http://bit.ly/5J0F9Q

Not that I think this will be the bombshell on January 27th, but, if we are going to have months of fanboy drooling on the tablet, we might as well change subtopics every now and then

By: ruben

ruben — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:41:19 +0000

there is a leaked video of the apple tablet os 2 somanyphones.com

By: Waidt

Waidt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:48:20 +0000

Ok, once and for all, there WILL be a camera for the iTablet. Remember that there would have been a camera for the iPod Touch, before it was pulled in the 11th hour. A camera is in all iMacs and MacBooks and iPhones. It is accommodated in iPhone OS 4.0, and would be unthinkable not to have one. Why Gruber is saying this is beyond me.

By: frog

frog — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:47:25 +0000

Well if the iPhone is only the sideshow, were in for something pretty special!

By: StanTheMan

StanTheMan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:43:51 +0000

Safari Pad? Gay, iSlate? Bor-ing (you might as well call it the ichalk board or iAbacus). My money is on iPad. Follow the progression... iPod, iPhone, iPad (maybe iPad Touch)? Nah...

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:17:50 +0000

So, based on rumors, either Steve Jobs never really cared for the tablet because he couldn't figure out what someone would want to do with one, until some unknown event took place, or he wanted a tablet all along.

By: uhuznaa

uhuznaa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:38:33 +0000

My god, this fscking blog censored s-e-x-y in my post above...

By: uhuznaa

uhuznaa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:37:12 +0000

I've been following many Apple product launches in the past and the speculations piling up before them and I've learned that Apple is quite conservative actually. There will be no magic and no really new technology, believe me. I expect two devices: A supersized iPod touch (no GPS, no camera, WiFi only) and a supersized iPhone (3G, camera, GPS). Add "one more thing" and something fresh and sexy (useful or not) in the UI and that's it. The real added value will be the store, which may get newspapers, magazines and books in addition to music, movies and apps. Quite enough for me...

By: Luis Alejandro Masanti

Luis Alejandro Masanti — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:19:13 +0000

quote: "Funny how a side project came the biggest hit of 07-09"

Well, the Macintosh was also "a side project" at Apple in the early '80s. The Apple /// and the Lisa were the main projects while the Apple // was the cash cow. It became bold when Steve took over it but Sculley always was almost against it.

By: icebike

icebike — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:55:13 +0000

Omari James:

Did you mean to say it won't live up to all the third party hype? (Because that's not what you said).

I am beginning to suspect it will be sort of a mildly more powerfull eReader with Apps and wifi.

Apple isn't going to release anything that doesn't have ipod and iTunes capability built in (including Video playback). Its going to be tied tightly to the iTunes store.

A souped up iPod/Touch is looking more and more like the model to expect.

By: Omari James

Omari James — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:43:16 +0000

I have a feeling that the amount we speculate will not equate to what is actually in the Tablet.

By: fastlane

fastlane — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:36:20 +0000

@Rene:

Is that iSlate concept's screen size an actual 10" relative to the iPhone in front of it?

It looks a little large to me.

By: HungWell

HungWell — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:19:41 +0000

Ok. Tell us something new. This is the same stuff you've been feeding us for weeks now.

By: tweger01

tweger01 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:14:41 +0000

Funny how a side project came the biggest hit of 07-09