01-27-2010, 09:17
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Apple Tablet
So, I know there are a number of Apple users here on the board. Who all is watching for the tablet today? With the hype that is out there, I am expecting it to do nothing less than create world peace and discover the cure for cancer.
Steve Jobs did nothing but downplay the iPhone before it came out, and he's called whatever they are showing off today, "the most important thing I have ever done." Should be interesting either way.
Any predictions of features?
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01-27-2010, 11:03
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Apple user all my life........  Can't wait to see it............ 
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01-27-2010, 11:06
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Apple user all my life........ Can't wait to see it............
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ALL your life, Big Teddy? Was that first Apple computer made of stone? 
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01-27-2010, 12:36
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ALL your life, Big Teddy? Was that first Apple computer made of stone?
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Their first laptop was!............
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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01-27-2010, 13:37
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Apple user all my life........ Can't wait to see it............
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Teddy was sitting next to Newton when the 1st Apple fell...
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01-27-2010, 14:33
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Teddy was sitting next to Newton when the 1st Apple fell... |
Teddy was shakin' his head and making "crazy" finger gestures; pointin' at Eve when Adam saw his first Apple.
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01-27-2010, 13:07
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Just a big iphone. That's gonna require a bigger pocket.
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01-27-2010, 13:46
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Just a big iphone. That's gonna require a bigger pocket.
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Plenty of space once all the money's taken out.
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01-27-2010, 14:27
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http://gizmodo.com/5434566/the-exhau...-tablet-rumors
I expect it to be a bigger Iphone as well. Let's not forget that the Iphone itself is supposed to be made available to Verizon and T-mobile shortly.
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01-27-2010, 20:05
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Verizon mid Febuary
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01-27-2010, 20:54
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So, I'll say I am torn. It has some pluses and some minuses for sure.
I think that the second generation will be the way to go. Hopefully by then they will add some of the things that seem to be so glaringly missing.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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01-27-2010, 14:35
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Just a big iphone. That's gonna require a bigger pocket.
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Yeah... I don't really see the point. No multi-tasking, no Flash... it's just a giant iPhone that can't make phone calls. Not sure why I'd want that. 
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01-27-2010, 14:46
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it's just a giant iPhone that can't make phone calls. Not sure why I'd want that
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Cause Steve says so.
In all seriousness, The projected low end cost of this is the same as the high end cost for the other 10 manufacturers that are or have released tablets. And it still has proprietary hardware in it, i.e., the CPU.
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01-27-2010, 14:59
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I watched as much of Mr. Jobs's show and tell as I could. Ninety seconds later, I was doing something else.
MOO, I think he should reboot his image to something other than the "I'm just one of the guys / Let me show you what we've got" blue jeans, black turtleneck, wire rimmed glasses self-caricature that he's become. The fact that he hid for so long his illness and did not announce a succession plan for his company indicates to me that he's no longer one of the guys but a shrewd capitalist looking to make every dime he can selling gee whiz technology at a premium.
(That being said, I was glad to see he's regained some of the weight he had lost. I want Jobs and Mr. Gates to live long, healthy lives so I can keep making wry--but not bitter--observations about both for decades to come.)
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01-27-2010, 15:50
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I watched as much of Mr. Jobs's show and tell as I could. Ninety seconds later, I was doing something else.
MOO, I think he should reboot his image to something other than the "I'm just one of the guys / Let me show you what we've got" blue jeans, black turtleneck, wire rimmed glasses self-caricature that he's become. The fact that he hid for so long his illness and did not announce a succession plan for his company indicates to me that he's no longer one of the guys but a shrewd capitalist looking to make every dime he can selling gee whiz technology at a premium.
(That being said, I was glad to see he's regained some of the weight he had lost. I want Jobs and Mr. Gates to live long, healthy lives so I can keep making wry--but not bitter--observations about both for decades to come.)
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I find it a little hard to bring fire to bear on someone working through the stress of a devastating illness. That you are happy Mr. Jobs is alive to remain a target for you is sad, IMOO. Your comment adds nothing to this thread!
I'm not sure the shoes you have walked in during your life. I know first hand as a person and a retired provider of health care, what it is to face a life shortening event. YMMV.
My $.02.
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