Rob Pegoraro writes for The Washignton Post:
Here’s all that I will predict about an Apple tablet — or an Apple netbook, which would fill a demonstrated need in the market:
1. Apple will price this thing at a level that seems borderline absurd next to existing hardware.
2. It will include at least one feature that most people had never thought to ask for.
3. It will leave out at least one feature that most people had considered essential.
4. Press coverage of its launch will feature at least one skeptical quote from an executive at a competing company that the quoted party may regret later.
5. People will line up in front of Apple’s stores to buy it.
6. Buyers will be happy enough about their purchase that they will choose to overlook a missing capability or a performance issue.
7. The second version of the device will work a lot better than the first.
Read more in the full article, “Projecting Our Hopes and Dreams Onto Apple,” here.
and here we go with the original iPod Touch again.
I gota be honest with you…… that’s actually really funny !!!!!!
and true!
Hey, Rob, way to really go out on a limb on #5, 6, and 7.
And a prediction on #2–of what this feature might actually be–would have actually showed some balls. But no.
(-_-) zzzzz
That rings sooooo true, it’s scary.
Yes, it is true, and the sad fact is that Apple gets away with it — leaving out essential features (such as the matte screen, http://macmatte.wordpress.com) because it has a monopoly over OSX-capable hardware. Lack of OSX hardware competition means Apple gets either slack and arrogant.
Brilliant! He can’t possibly be wrong!
It won’t come out this year.
It will have a 10 inch screen.
It won’t have a CD or DVD disk drive.
The battery won’t be replaceable.
Connection options will be limited.
It will have a touch interface.
It will be pretty cool, but it will turn out that most people won’t have a real need for it.
Battery life will be enough, but nothing to get thrilled about.
App store applications will run on it.
It can be used for reading, but reading on it will be more tedious than the competitors’ e-Ink because of the backlighting.
It will have the same internet capability as an iPhone, but may not have an actual phone feature.
It will look cooler than it works.
I probably won’t buy one.
It’s either a giant touch, or a stripped down Air, depending on your needs and perspective.
MDN Magic Word – i “saw” it in a dream.
Hey Grrrliea!
You buys it or you don’t.
Being as Apple is WAY more successful than you EVAR will be, go ahead and bathe us in your superior plan for their products.
Ha! It’s so easy for some LAmeTard to shat on the unprecedented brilliance that is Apple Inc. but only in your dreams do your krappy prognostications mean anything.
Wait and See: Buy it or don’t
Notice Grrrilla hedged his bets by saying “I PROBABLY won’t buy one.”
ROFL
That is pretty funny. It will be the coolest looking thing you have ever seen. It will work perfectly and everyone will line up to buy them. Nokia, Dell, HP, Acer (netbook leader) will all laugh at the iTablet citing how there’s no way Apple can compete with an expensive netbook. Then 2 years from the launch, a major netbook maker will announce that they will be coming out with something that will compete with the iTablet 4Gsx. Which will be Apple’s 2nd gen iTablet.
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I’ll say it one more time – I’ll believe there is an Apple Tablet when I see it.
Freaking hilarious! And this guy gets paid to write this?!?!? I could have done better.
Man I need to get a second job in “journalism”.
Hmmm . . after seeing this concept it will be very interesting to see what comes out.
Check it out!
http://bluemintstudios.com/concepts.htm
8. Change The World™
8. I’m buying it
Those are actually very clever predictions, except #5 which is too obvious. I predict the quote for #4 comes from Steve Ballmer.
And for #1, is that priced absurdly low or absurdly high?
bluemint studios needs to take some serious training in perspective and reflection application
I’m not quite sure how they have any clients.
Hey Max at Bluemint, what’s with all the Zunelike ‘angles’ on those devices.?
Are you the Zune designer wishing you were somewhere else by any chance?
Well apart from lining up outside stores to buy it most of that is true of any mk1 device.
Prognosticating the past is real easy.
So what will be the most surprising omission of piece of hardware on the iTablet? No charger, just plain forgot that the damn device needs power? There has to be something, otherwise it wouldn’t be a real Apple product.
You can say that about just about all Apple products, and it will outclass everything on the market and sell tons!
some of the features it leaves out will be ones that whilst people say they’re essential, are ones that aren’t on other devices, or if they are, in no way work to any usable extent.
Essentially it will do some things excellently and people will use those things, their increased usage will therefore lead them to want to do other things, things they can’t do. They will then bitch that it doesn’t do everything they could ever think of and they will cite examples of other products that claim to. These other products will be the same ones these people didn’t use in the first place because they were rubbish.