“Let’s put all the rumors aside for a moment and look at the facts. There’s the endless chain of patents, as Brad Stone reported in The New York Times in late September on the rehiring of Michael Tchao, who worked on the Apple Newton. I’ve had many discussions with publishers and content creators that sustain my suspicions,” Biltin reports.
“But the icing on the cake comes from a current senior employee inside Apple,” Biltin reports. “When one of my colleagues here asked if the rumors of the Apple tablet were true, and when we could expect such a device, the response from his source was, ‘I can’t really say anything, but, let’s just say Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet.'”
Biltin reports, “Yet another recently departed Apple employee tipped me: ‘You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.'”
Full article here.
[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
Yes!
Finally!
I hope it is a simultaneous global release.
Extremely happy means it’s close to perfect, but I suspect the tablet is just the tip of the iceberg.
If Steve is really happy, it must be good.
Sure, another nail in the coffin of the competitors, but I want it for me! Bring it on. Can’t wait.
Say hello to the “Moses” tablet, with the “Finger Of God” OS.
No one will be able to compete!
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
Seeing is believing…
When will we be able to run iPhone/iPod touch Apps on our Macs?
I won’t realize I need one till Steve tells me
Made my comment without seeing 9 to 5 Mac’s picture and article: http://www.9to5mac.com/nytimes-jobs-tablet-596960
Hilarious!
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
Originally there were 4 tablets but Jobs was so incensed when he saw the first two he hurled them to the ground shattering them into thousands of little pieces.
The impact was so violent, a nearby bush caught fire.
Tantalizing.. thirsty, the Apple-flavored Kool-Aid is out there.. in the dark
Cheerz and merry xmas fellow addicts.
Below is something that man will never be confronted with, just the rest of us.
The one true flaw:
If you believe your goal in life is to be what you are or what you were meant to be. If you do not believe as a human being that you can be perfect in all things I believe you to be foolishly flawed. I also would suggest that “good enough” represents who you have become, not what you should be. At some point you decided to just give up on finishing (whatever) and just stop. Your inability to be perfect or more importantly wanting to be perfect, has made you content in life. It can be proven by your lifes rewards. Look around, do you live where you dreamed of living? Are you sitting in a furnished room, furnished the way you actually want? My guess is you don’t. Somewhere you gave up on perfection and accepted you in it’s place. Your parents did the same and taught you no different. Breaking the mold is hard, I still haven’t but I will. I believe perfection is attainable, not in a book though and not in the clouds. You have to seek it out in this life. Maybe this is/was the actual message the king of kings wanted us to understand? I can not concede that God exists nor can I refute it. What I can say is this. If you are content on you, your work ethic and your beliefs then you will not be one of “the five people you meet in heaven”. For plenty of you reading you will have some drinks this holiday season, maybe some smokes, maybe even some drug use, but at any given time are you ever going to let go of your nagging insecurities of an earlier life and put forth the seventy year effort to become the crowned jewel of creation that you are entirely expected to become?
Don’t know why, but I imagine interaction will involve reach-around keyboard on the back with dual thumb-gizmos on the front.
Or maybe a controller based on the user’s eye movement?
That would be so cool!
What a crock!!!
The Jarrettdailynews diatribe, I mean.
To understand the desire for the tablet you have to understand that it is not meant to replace a computer (desktop or laptop), any more than an iPhone is. It is really meant to replace the paper in your hand. More like the newspapers and magazines you see in Harry Potter movies. Much more handy for working on documents. Just like a piece of paper would lie on your desk as you read and write on it. People have worked on documents that lie flat on a desk for centuries. This tablet experience will be no different. We’re all mostly used to using a flat keyboard on a laptop. The tablets virtual keyboard will be little different. It will be a content consumption device that allows access to all media in one device and will tuck under your arm.
“‘You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.'”
On the toilet?
“You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.”
No doubt you swallow it with a cup of Kool Aid. At least that’s the way all the other rumors appear to go down.
“Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet”, as he hovers in his floating chair, in outer space, without the aid of a space suit or breathing apparatus.
And if wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.
‘I can’t really say anything, but, let’s just say Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet.’
Yeah… In other words, he isn’t supposed to say anything, but although he will acknowledge that fact, he is going to say something anyway.
Redmond and Mountain View, start your photocopiers!…
Notice it’s the New York Times reporting… Hello?! Don’t you remember when Bill Keller, Executive Editor for the New York Times said, “I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate…”
So of course the hype begins and especially with the NYT… They are going downhill fast with that liberal rag paper spewing Ivy League tripe causing them to loose subscriptions and therefore ad revenue causing them to layoff employees. They gotta do something to get them into the black and what better way then to have their content on an Apple item that isn’t iPhone related but might be better suited for the print (newspaper/magazine) world!
Wow! here comes the hype!! i mean, we’re talking mega-hype!!! i mean, Steve the God is “extremely happy.”!!!! i mean OMG, the second coming of Christ!!!! get ready!!!!
The new tablet will recognize gestures as input without your fingers actually touching anything. The internal camera will “see” your gestures by looking between the pixels on the screen.
Ballmer may get confused and use his tablet as a suppository…Providing of course he can get his enormo-melon head out first.
Maybe he’s happy with his new tablet for stool softening?
Just a thought.
“Yet another recently departed Apple employee tipped me”
Getting info from the deceased, wow! What did he perform, a seance?
‘You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.’
What Zeke said. There was a story about an Apple patent on controlling what happens on the screen by tilting your head etc. The wow starts soon. But not when MS says it will.
It will be made out of modeling clay and you have to carve words into it using your iphone.
That would surprise just about everyone, I’d bet.
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If Apple really are working on a Tablet I trust it’s more substantial than the Microsoft Courier. The only thing I’ve seen of the Microsoft Courier is an animated demonstration i.e. “Vapourware”.
I dare way Apple would at least show us a physical model if they are working on a Tablet.
The new tablet comes with a STYLUS! That would surprise me. Of course, an Apple stylus will have an accelerometer, GPS, camera, Bluetooth, remote functions, and be programmable. And it won’t have to touch anything to draw/write, etc. Just point and say the write words. And it can make a Patronus, if you become sufficiently adept with it. And they won’t call it a stylus, of course. Let’s see, it’s going to be called a..
Oh, and the Company Who Shall Not Be Named will have an interactive control device too, soon enough. And just to cross the streams here, they will call it the Hammer. And in fact you already have one, but they’ll give you a M… sticker to put on it. You see, the Hammer is your…
And it will be …
snappy!
Joyeux Noël a tous.
I’m not going to make the same mistake twice. When tis is released, I will wait a year before i buy. No more early adopter here.
Is anyone else worried about the space constraints? If I’m going to be watching movies on this thing I want it to be HD quality, HD movies are easily 4GB a pop…. How much space are they going to put on something like a tablet? Also a tablet couldn’t use a traditional hard drive with moving parts it would have to be either SSD or use NAND chips… how is the storage really going to work on this thing?
It’s been tested as an organ replacement? SWEET ! !
With all the buzz here already “simultaneous global release” just about sums it up.
It will have touch AND a stylus. That is why everyone is going to be surprised. But really, a decent sized tablet isn’t going to be effective without some stylus abilities. Typing will be clumsy because of the size and the flatness of it. And how many of us still pick up a pen and napkins to sketch or take quick notes? It will support touch too, just like the iPhone, but the stylus will take make the tablet actually useful.
Otherwise, I’m still looking for a reason for an iPhone and MacBook owner to ever need a Tablet. Please give me ideas – I want to want one, I just don’t know why! (Don’t say ebook reader, because battery life and the screen will not make it the Kindle killer.)
What a Merry Christmas title to this page! Wheeeeeeee!
@Michael Perry
On a screen that size, there isn’t any use for HD resolution. It’s too small for the human eye to appreciate the difference, and the pixel size is too large anyways.
And regardless of the file size, you don’t need to have ALL your movies on the tablet. It will sync with iTunes the way the iPhone does. Just pick the 4 or 5 movies you want at any one time.
@Essence
This isn’t a replacement for either an iPhone or a laptop. It’s somewhere in between, but you’re right. I can’t think of a reason to buy such a thing, either. Most people can’t, which is probably partly why it has taken so long to come to reality. I’m sure they’ve carefully thought out the design factor, but I have real doubts about the purpose or usefulness (particularly for iPhone and laptop owners, as you say).
I call BS.
I find it very hard to believe a “senior employee inside Apple” would actually connect Steve Jobs by name to an unannounced device. He might be happy with it (whatever it may be), but I doubt his name was actually used.
I stopped reading after Rot’n Apple. Whenever anyone uses the word “liberal” as if it were a curse word, it’s time to go . Plus, to single out the NY Times as reason why this must be vaporware is just plain prejudiced and far too subjectively biased to be credible or interesting to warrant any further waste of time on my part. Moron. Go read the NY Post or get your Apple/politico news from Fox.. Pretty desperate attempt to connect dots, don’t you think?…
@auramac
I agree.
I also think it’s too easy to refute this kind of news because as Essence pointed out he can’t think of a single reason why a tablet makes any sense.
Half the people on this board lack any imagination whatsoever! They struggle with cognitive dissonance over matters like these.
It’s hard to think different. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
One thing Apple has always deferred to third-parties, is streaming. I can’t let go of the notion that Akamai is ubiquitous and a major player in Apple’s existence, as is Limelight Networks, but all of that is about to change.
Steve Jobs intends to close another source of leaks, after which he will begin putting the final pieces of the puzzle in place. He will finally bring streaming in-house in order to connect us with our media at anytime or place and the latest device coming out of Cupertino will act as both a hand-held server and a receiver.
The days of “split-screen” gaming in the home are coming to an end. Any Mac in the house could serve as your personal game server, like Steam or GameSpy, streaming content to your hand-held devices.
I use games as one example because half the commenters here can relate.
However, when third-parties catch up with Apple, we’ll see a plethora of in-home devices and software that will take control of our appliances. Making coffee and bagels and starting our cars at precise times in the morning.
Making jukeboxes and theaters is child’s play compared to streaming.
Streaming is a keystone to Apple’s, and our’s future.
@ R,
“It will be made out of modeling clay and you have to carve words into it …”
I believe that technology patent was awarded to the ancient Babylonians, who later sold the rights to Nokia.
“They struggle with cognitive dissonance over matters like these.”
I’m still struggling with sorites paradox.
Well folks, it’s almost here!
Will anybody here be lucky enough to watch the unveiling live at the event?
@ Ampar,
I was initially going to suggest ‘Preparation H’ for your condition, until I actually looked up Sorites paradox. There you go again, trying to edjumacate us.
Anyway, I’m wondering: If a ten foot high pile of iTunes Store gift cards (any denomination) are considered a “heap”, are they still classified as such if spread out over the surface of a football field (American, not soccer) to a height of one card?
I respectfully await your elucidation.
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“Ampar…..It’s been tested as an organ replacement? SWEET ! !”
Ampar…if it is only a 7 inch, I do not need my organ replaced
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@Jarretdailynews….been hitting the eggnog just a tad hard haven’t we?
Buster: More like sweet bread not meat.
Sir Gill: Only in the uncanny valley.
The ONLY signs that there will be a tablet are signs that people have made up. It is not going to happen.
Senior employees do not spill the beans.
It is an actual tablet. It will hold about 100 sheets of paper. the paper is something akin to the old thermal imaging paper.
This new computer is intended for students or anybody who needs to use a computer and then give the results to someone else, in the form of a sheet of paper.
Extra paper will cost 11 cents a page. This is where Apple will make the money as the table itself will only cost $200. Every kid will have to have one if he/she is to remain “Apple Cool” and that is why Steve is so happy!
It will also play all your iTunes, has WiFi and a version for $150 with data plan will have a cell phone. It will revolutionize how homework is turned in. The paper can be scanned by the teacher and all of the data go to the teacher’s computer or it can just be read like any homework on any piece of paper.
The paper will be encoded in a manner such that no third party vendor’s paper will work with it. Apple gets all the money for paper sales, not the Pystar type of riffraff. Apple’s very unique patents will guarantee that Dell et al have no chance on entering the market.
“Senior employees do not spill the beans.”
They do on Taco Day.
Maybe what Jobs means is the he’s happy with all of the publicity the RUMORED tablet has created
Hi Guy’s,
It will have touch AND a stylus. That is why everyone is going to be surprised. But really, a decent sized tablet isn’t going to be effective without some stylus abilities. Typing will be clumsy because of the size and the flatness of it. And how many of us still pick up a pen and napkins to sketch or take quick notes? It will support touch too, just like the iPhone, but the stylus will take make the tablet actually useful.
r4i