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Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the price-point-will-be-everything dept.

All the whispers of an Apple tablet PC seem to be culminating in a flurry of rumors suggesting we may see one as soon as next month. Sources inside Apple are saying that Jobs is finally "happy" with the device after being involved in every detail of bringing it into the light of day. As a side result of these rumors, it seems that Apple stockholders are also getting a bit of Christmas cheer with a significant bump in stock price.

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  1. Jobs is happy with it? by mattcsn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It came out last summer that Jobs was intimately involved with every detail of bringing the tablet to market. It seems that the device has finally gotten Jobs's seal of approval: when asked if the tablet rumors were true, a senior Apple executive gave The New York Times a rather coy reply. "I can't really say anything," he said, "but, let's just say Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet."

    Translation: the only button is a power button, it has a battery-sucking colour screen as opposed to an e-ink display, it requires itunes on a mac or PC to use, the only Apple-approved way to run programs is via an app store, it has a non-user-replaceable battery, and it will cost upwards of $1000.

    1. Re:Jobs is happy with it? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Translation: the only button is a power button, it has a battery-sucking colour screen as opposed to an e-ink display, it requires itunes on a mac or PC to use, the only Apple-approved way to run programs is via an app store, it has a non-user-replaceable battery, and it will cost upwards of $1000.

      The scary part? Despite all that, it'll probably still embarrass all of the other companies that have tablet products.

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    2. Re:Jobs is happy with it? by mariox19 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Apple tends to take other peoples' ideas and make them look nice.

      With all due respect, I'm not even sure how to characterize that statement -- "oversimplification" itself seems to be an oversimplification.

      If anything, what the iPhone, iPod, and even Mac OS itself demonstrates is that it is a long way from some skunkworks lab at a buttoned-up company to designing and implementing a game-changing product. How is it that even after Apple comes out with its products that its competitors' ripoff copies often look so second-rate by comparison?

      But, you go ahead and believe what you want.

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  2. Re:And the price... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, I can do that, but my point is that you have to position yourself in a certain way to use it properly.

    The same holds true for a book. Or a cellphone. Or your dick. Hopefully you can figure all these out.