“Following prompting from Digg founder Kevin Rose, who insisted his co-host ‘heard about something’ related to the device, fellow presenter Alex Albrecht reluctantly claimed shortly before the halfway point of the show to know that the tablet would be less expensive than he and likely others would expect,” Electronista reports. “‘I was shocked at how cheap the price point was going to be,’ he said, only half-teasing that he may or may not be serious.”
Electronista reports, “The podcast also provides a few minor revelations from guest John Hodgman about his role as ‘PC’ in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ ads, [including] that it’s rare for him to receive free products. Early into the campaign, he did receive a free iPod and MacBook Pro, but has paid for everything else since.
MacDailyNews Note: He also states, “I have been a Mac user since 1984.”
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Bring it on Apple
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I’ve been a Mac user since 1984 too. Yay me and John Hodgman!
Of course will be very inexpensive, it will be supported by paid by Ads and subscription to magazines and news papers.
It will have a special 3g radio so you can read your news paper or magazine anywhere any time. Also, the hardware will not work as a computer (you can’t replace the OS, but may be hacked like the apple TV).
Ok, I just woke up, it was just a dream
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Food for thought from Edible Apple, October 19, 2009:
“Digg co-founder Kevin Rose’s track record regarding Apple rumors is spotty. Sometimes he’s way off base and sometimes he’s right on the money (i.e re: cut, copy, and paste on the iPhone). That being the case, take this with a huge grain of salt.”
Wait – did PC just admit he’s been a Mac user since 1984? Priceless.
Well of course he’s a mac user. He wouldn’t do commercials for Apple if he wasn’t.
Got mine yesterday, it’s OK but I don’t like the glossy screen.
That being the case, take this with a huge grain of salt.”
so huge I couldn’t throw a grain over my shoulder.
How many people talk as though they’re getting their information from the man himself? It’s just their egos talking, wanting to seem connected, or precient, and it’s high time these people have their feet held to the fire in a very public way, especially when they are so wrong you could drive a bus through their logic held apart by specious talking points.
Kevin Rose is a tart who is titilated by backyard gossip and would feel right at home with the likes of other Valley wags, or dare I say, wogs.
Anyone who has bought a first-release product from Apple, especially in the first few months of its introduction will pay a hefty premium for having the pleasure and bragging rights.
Having said all that, I see an entry-level tablet right at the thousand-dollar mark and higher, not lower.
Has Kevin Rose ever owned up to his often hilariously inaccurate predictions?
Has he learned to be more discerning about whose word he accepts when talking about Apple rumors?
Forget “grain of salt” – take this with an entire salt mine.
iTablet = Epic Fail!!!!!!!! since what makes it different from a Tablet PC that’s out there? Oh that’s right they copied it from the Tablet’s that’s out there and slap a logo on top to make it their own. LOL
http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide
Macuser since 1988 – the first year I could afford to buy one.
“it’s rare for him to receive free products. Early into the campaign, he did receive a free iPod and MacBook Pro, but has paid for everything else since.”
Well, that must make all you guys carping for Apple NOT to lower prices happy: Getting every dollar back they can from their employees. Who said the company store was dead.
I can’t believe I just wasted an hour of my life watching a flaming liberal…but it was cool conversation.
Hmm. What if, big IF, the price you pay is based on magazine subscriptions you buy! Two year commitment for several magazines, you pay $199. Based on the iPhone concept, this may be possible. Could also explain why some magazines are apparently eagerly adapting their product for interactivity.
@I’m a PC…
You’re sad, really. Just sad.
@Handsome Smitty
Liberal is not a pejorative.
It merely means that you actually think about things before deciding instead of blindly following, like conservatives do. Look it up & figure it out for yourself.
Loved the interview. Unfortunately, I didn’t become a Mac user until 1990.
inexpensive! Maybe not OS X 10.6 based then? Perhaps more like a iPhone OS.
I’m a PC = epic failure
Liberal is a perjorative! The classic victim class! Illegal immigrants, prisoners, criminals and even terrorists love liberal ideology, so before shooting your mouth off again dissing conservative, God fearing, traditional family values people, pull your head of your ass first! Apple wouldn’t exist w/o capitalism, and many liberals hate it to the core!
Now back on topic: I can’t wait for the tablet!!!
Rose is such a loser douche-bag.
I’d love to smack him over the head with an MacTablet.
Assuming Hodgman pays for it.
@ BotonCandy,
ROFLMAO!
You mean like:
Global Warming, er, climate change?
Electing a community organizer that says he will do ABCDEF and does none of the above?
Switching corn-farming to Ethanol production, causing many 2nd and 3rd world countries to have severe food shortages?
Producing a health-care bill that none of the supporters have read?
I could go on an on, but you lib’s are a freakin’ laugh a minute!
“BotonCandy
@Handsome Smitty
Liberal is not a pejorative.
It merely means that you actually think about things before deciding instead of blindly following, like conservatives do. Look it up & figure it out for yourself.”
There you go, thinking that what a word means is actually how it’s used. Liberal thinking is thinking without thinking, letting no belief system intrude (supposedly) on a posited position.
Gobbely-gook!
Liberals, as the word is used in the political arena, denotes not a liberal THINKER, but a liberal BELIEVER. IE: Liberals believe in nothing so as not to offend another person. Which is total horseshit, since liberals are the first to impose their liberal thinking – and I agree with others who say liberal thinking is a disease, because it is, just like bad behavioral tendencies brought about by corrupted thinking processes – on everyone else. Liberals – in the political sense – are open to nothing but their own deluded ideas. Ref: Google “Republicans shut out of health care debate legislation” or “job summit not open to dissenters.”
Liberal my a**! A commie’s a commie no matter what computer it uses!
You know, I could see Apple replacing the white Mac Book with a tablet.
Those who need a Mac Book Pro wouldn’t necessarily be interested in a tablet would they, especially one on par with the power of the entry-level Mac Book?
A tablet’s target market is the consumer, not the prosumer. That’s not to say prosumer’s couldn’t find a way to make the tablet work with their mobile needs and schedules.
But the everyday consumer might consider a TabletMac over their next desktop PC purchase, especially if TabletMac had the same feature set as Apple’s entry-level Mac Book.
The TabletMac would be the mobile hub for our living room, capable of controlling any Mac in the house, especially the Mac mini Server. The TabletMac would sync with iTunes, Mail, news-feeds, etc., using AT&T’s wi-fi hotspots which have been totally ignored for too long.
That’s how I see the TabletMac being introduced. But, I could be wrong.
This device holds so much promise for the future of mobile computing that it seems only right, Apple would begin cannibalizing the entry-level Mac Books to find a place in the line-up. I also see the day when the power of the Mac Book Pro eclipses that of the iMac, after which Apple would drop the iMac altogether, replaced by a smart monitor/docking station for the laptop.
As the eco-system surrounding this device grows, much as it has for the iPhone, Apple will have officially arrived at the zenith of Jobs’ endeavor to usher in an era of hand-held mobile computing done right.
The TabletMac, coupled with the NC data center, will be the threshold of a dream come true.
I believe the TabletMac ( or whatever its ultimately called) will be Steve Jobs’ swan song and once it has taken hold of the world, he will bow out gracefully knowing Apple is on a course befitting the “Twenty-First Century” and our grandchildren will come to know him like Edison, et. al., as a visionary who saw the future in 1975 and never wavered to see his way through.
He’s been vilified and idolized, called an egomaniac and a taskmaster, and ninety-percent of the world bet against him and his vision for the future. I, and the other ten-percent of the world never took our eyes of him or the prize, because so much of what he said resonated within.
As a creative, who needs plenty of elbow room for his imagination, Apple products removed so much of the difficulty that has undermined the PC computing experience and has kept the Winsheeple in their pens for the last thirty-years, that we’re lightyears ahead of our contemporaries. We don’t even speak the same language and we may as well be strangers in a foreign land.
Life is too short to settle for a life uninspired. Get a Mac and it will change your life in ways you can’t even imagine. Instead of acting cool, as in ice-cube-square, get a Mac and chill.
And by the way:
Prediction – the MacReader will be market as an all-in-one reading device…read the web, read a book, read a magazine. A reader like no other. I’m not sure it will mirror the iPhone because Apple might want to distance this product from being a video/game machine. Suicide if it does that. So they will say: Then watch the film version, or play the game.
I dunno, but someone said what Apple actually puts out will be a surprise, not what they think. In fact, they could do a reader now, and make the thing into another, more entertainment (flim/tv/games) oriented version.
Some will be disappointed. But those of us that read, if we can get a book or mag at half, or quarter of the price, and cheap, I’d have to consider it.
@IMaki
You are so 17th Century!
Liberal made its way into our everyday lexicon via Europe, just as the word Karee Okee was taken from the Japanese Karaoke.
If we’re Liberals then you’re Nationalists.
From the Wiki
Liberalism fundamentally meant consent of the governed and the restriction of church and state power, republican government, freedom of the press and the individual.
Nationalism believed in uniting people bound by (some mix of) common languages, culture, religion, shared history, and of course immediate geography.
A fascist is a neocon is a replublican is a conservative is a sociopathic chickenhawk war monger who likes war deficits compared to actually providing care for it’s own countries citizens, who is an ankle grabbing Limbaugh corporatists that would sell out his own mother if it makes him a few more bucks or lowers taxes for billionaires who don’t care about him anyways.
I want the tablet if it has great handwriting recognition, which the Newton did at the end. I move around a lot, and even a laptop like my Macbook can be very inconvenient compared to what I could do with a tablet.