US book giant confirms Apple tablet If there's anyone with an ounce of tech inquisitiveness who doesn't yet believe that Apple will announce a tablet Wednesday morning in San Francisco, take heed: it's just been preannounced by no lesser light than chairman, president, and CEO of publishing giant McGraw-Hill, Terry McGraw. Appearing Tuesday morning on CNBC's …
Tabloid won't work in the UK, far too many negative connetations. Page three. Gutter press. Lies, damn lies and journalism... (sorry El Reg).
Also - Apple are busy registering iPad everywhere. As well as contesting the only pre-existing trademark application for iPad which is in the US.
Shame about the iPhone OS. I don't want a nailed-down device. I want OS X with touch capabilities. The other thing I'd like to see is a Mac dock so that I can use it as a second display.
"If it will only display hysterical shriekings about how we're all going to die tomorrow and pics of some non-celeb flashing her tits, then?"
Yes, but it will be done on a kompuuuter so then it's true*.
(*) Not sure if the tits will be real, but that gives me another idea: maybe it comes with 3D support. That way, porn could *really* hurt your eyesight :-)
"publishing giant McGraw-Hill" have pre-announced an apple delivery, so they'll be on steve's blacklist for a year or two.
i honestly think this will be a niche product amongst apple's stuff. will look nice but, like the g4 cube, will not be a mass consumer device unless there is a secret killer feature.
The media hype is beyond ridiculousness. The new thing from Apple looks as if its going to be an iPhone with a bigger screen FFS. What a fucking bore. And as for running the same OS as the iPhone, is this supposed to be news? It would be news if Steve's new toy *didn't* run Mac OSX.
If this thing is going to be called Tabloid, I hope one of the models gets called Sun. Because the reporters and editors responsible for this hype think the sun shines out Steve's arse.
CD stacks
Record collections
And now bookracks?
All sitting nicely within a tiny bit of electronically managed, designed and effective bit of hardware.
Space saver or what?
Now, to the home user that is probably a deal maker for sure but to enterprises with remit to store records for up to 7 years or health records for umpteen years might the Apple text book management system be rolled out to third party solution providers? Adobe are you listening?
PDF with content management?
I'm totally sick of the fact that in 2010 in the Word Wide Web still the majority of publications doesn't care for the fact that there are, like, time-zones and not all readers sit in the same one as you. Come on, is it that hard to have a tiny piece of code you throw a exact time specification and which returns dynamically a time delta instead? As in "in five hours from now"?
This is one of these things that show that all that fine technology is wasted if you don't use it in a way that makes things simpler instead of more complex. I mean, hardly any page in the web now is created as static HTML and having a function to use that adds a relative time count to such things shouldn't be harder than writing one line of code.
If it is labeled "tabloid" does this mean they will go about hunting down everyone with an "-oid" at the end of their name? They have made a good go at taking down "i"-anything so perhaps the android folks should start popping steroids and looking over their shoulders. Frankly, all this hype is a bit of a hemorrh-ipad.
If it's good enough for IBM ("Thinkpad") it should be good enough for Apple...
And I have no doubt that Apple will come with something really great that is lightyears ahead of the competition. And I also have no doubt that all the Apple haters will come out of the woodwork and tell the world that tap-water is totally fine to drink and no one needs that new thing "tea", which is basically just water anyway and much too expensive and will be an epic fail.
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