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Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet
waderoush writes "The deafening roar of anticipation around Apple's expected 'iSlate' announcement on January 27 is strange, to say the least, given the public's utter apathy about tablet computers to date. What's going on? Xconomy's analysis makes three points. 1) Previous tablet makers have shown little imagination around UIs and how a touchscreen changes things. 2) With the iPhone, Apple has shown what's possible in this regard. 3) There's latent demand for a mobile computing device that's smaller and lighter than a laptop but has more screen real estate than a smartphone — something reminiscent of a Star Trek tricorder or PADD. Hence the hopes for the iSlate — which are so high that it may be difficult for even Apple to meet them."
same goes for Apple's tablet
So will it come with a warning to not wear a red shirt while using one?
Squirrel!
I want voice operated wearable wi-fi enabled computer whose semi-transparent color 3D display is worn as contact lenses.
Anything else is stone age.
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Since it's smaller than a laptop, but bigger than a smartphone, maybe we need to give it a new name. I propose the term "netbook."
Who *wouldn't* pay $1000 for something like that?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I could go to school with one single item.
If I'm going to choose one single item to go to school with, I'm choosing pants.
Choose pants. It's the right thing to do.
They do have an integrated spell check....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Have you tried Ebay?
This is blinging
Obviously, "The deafening roar of anticipation" is so deafening we can't hear it!
I am officially gone from
Of course staring at you staring at a screen entitles the boss to get paid a higher salary for doing the important work of "management."
"Voice operated"? "Wearable"? You're still in the stone age, buddy.
Give me an implanted (without surgery, though - like some kind of pill), thought-operated organic quantum computer that automatically grows to match the absolute latest/best connection/processing/storage/display technology. Also, it can't be more than $199.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
*wavy screen*
1) Apple can't beat nomad
2) iPod is too expensive
3) If it doesn't play open format, it's in no way competing with nomad/creative.
*wavy screen*
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I'm still converting it from scientific notation.
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