No use for a tablet here. It's neither hot nor cold...
I do like the idea, but realistically how many people are really going to need or want one?
The only people that would probably really consider one would be digital artist. Marketing to such a small user group isn't exactly going to pull in the big bucks.
I would buy an apple tablet in a heartbeat. I want it to surf the web and read pdf books. basically I want an kindle or better thats in color with web surfing.
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I'd buy it..only if it had Mac OS X on it, or some Apple developed OS with Safari and some sort of widgets like feature.
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Originally Posted by CrimsonRequiem
I do like the idea, but realistically how many people are really going to need or want one?
The only people that would probably really consider one would be digital artist. Marketing to such a small user group isn't exactly going to pull in the big bucks.
This is how I'm starting to see it. The more I think about how I would use it every day, where I would use, and why, it all just seems to be almost pointless, I might as well carry my MacBook with me. My average day would not require a tablet, so yes, it just wouldn't be practical.
This is how I'm starting to see it. The more I think about how I would use it every day, where I would use, and why, it all just seems to be almost pointless, I might as well carry my MacBook with me. My average day would not require a tablet, so yes, it just wouldn't be practical.
Yes I agree. Not having a physical keyboard is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to have to rely on hand writing recognition software or having to push buttons on a screen.
That's way tedious and not practical for typing a paper or something longer than a paragraph.
Yes I agree. Not having a physical keyboard is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to have to rely on hand writing recognition software or having to push buttons on a screen.
That's way tedious and not practical for typing a paper or something longer than a paragraph.
The way I see it, 10" tablet would just be a glorified iPhone/iPod touch type of thing. Not particularly designed for long pieces to be written etc. Just to have a bigger screen for movies and games or browsing.
I enjoy the ease of browsing and using the touch screen of my iphone, but I doubt I would use a 10'' tablet for anything for which a 13'' macbook wouldn't be more useful. I also immagine it would be somewhat awkward to handle, so big and such. You can't place it on your lap, like a laptop, without having to bend over totally or have the screen be total horizontally. I'd also want a version of Mac OS X on it.
I can't imagine playing many games on it.
The way I see it, 10" tablet would just be a glorified iPhone/iPod touch type of thing. Not particularly designed for long pieces to be written etc. Just to have a bigger screen for movies and games or browsing.
Errr, yeah that's kind of the DEFINITION of a tablet....thanks Cap'n Obvious!!
I would prefer one over a laptop for coffee shop surfing, emails, multimedia etc - just not for true work. Also having a stylus to make pointing easier could be good...
I would prefer one over a laptop for coffee shop surfing, emails, multimedia etc - just not for true work. Also having a stylus to make pointing easier could be good...
That's what I was trying to say though. Some people think Tablet as a laptop replacement or something while it really isn't and imo it shouldn't. I just want something with rather larger screen than iPhone but able to do whatever it does, maybe a bit faster and maybe slightly better.
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I think the idea of a larger iTouch would be neat, I would embrace it but I think it would be better for a meeting or such so you can stream your data to it and have it setup facing the people your pitching to. Or have it in a meeting yet again so you can pull up contacts or the documents while your chatting to the boss and actually show him easily. However, I think it would not really catch onto this.
Actually I dent to disagree with the above self quote. I think it would really be good as a meeting organiser or PDA. And I think it would catch on as that. But people would go "But I already own an iphone/ipod touch, and it can already store messages, calandar dates, send emails, surf the web etc and it's compact and a phone too. Why do I need another bugger device to do the same thing my iphone/ipod touch can do."
And my one worry if such a tablet was to be released. How would Apple market it and sell it as something other then an iphone with a stylus? If people want a little portable message organiser and the iphone is not enough they'll get the low end macbook. Cause it's cheap enough and realible enough for all the basic tasks.
The tablet's biggest issue is not what it will do or how it will work. As I'm sure Apple will make it brilliantly. The thing is it's niché. There was no iphone in the old newton days and that's why it was a hit. With the iphone being almost a newton 2.0 . . . well you all see what I am getting at here.
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Originally Posted by the8thark
Actually I dent to disagree with the above self quote. I think it would really be good as a meeting organiser or PDA. And I think it would catch on as that. But people would go "But I already own an iphone/ipod touch, and it can already store messages, calandar dates, send emails, surf the web etc and it's compact and a phone too. Why do I need another bugger device to do the same thing my iphone/ipod touch can do."
This is basically what I think about every time someone brings up the tablet idea. Of course minus the large phone onto the left sided, but a basic idea.
Actually I dent to disagree with the above self quote. I think it would really be good as a meeting organiser or PDA. And I think it would catch on as that. But people would go "But I already own an iphone/ipod touch, and it can already store messages, calandar dates, send emails, surf the web etc and it's compact and a phone too. Why do I need another bugger device to do the same thing my iphone/ipod touch can do."
And my one worry if such a tablet was to be released. How would Apple market it and sell it as something other then an iphone with a stylus? If people want a little portable message organiser and the iphone is not enough they'll get the low end macbook. Cause it's cheap enough and realible enough for all the basic tasks.
The tablet's biggest issue is not what it will do or how it will work. As I'm sure Apple will make it brilliantly. The thing is it's niché. There was no iphone in the old newton days and that's why it was a hit. With the iphone being almost a newton 2.0 . . . well you all see what I am getting at here.
What if you are like me, you don't want to carry your laptop everywhere and find iPhone's screen waay too small for web browsing, playing games or viewing movies? That's why there are large screen PMPs for God's sake! But I don't only want a PMP. I want that tablet device to be compatible with other stuff and I want it to be powerful. So, 7-10 inch Tablet sounds just perfect. Very portable and has large screen.
