“Laura DiDio, an analyst at Information Technology Intelligence, has predicted the Apple tablet will be ‘the next big thing,’ complete with 10- to 12-inch high-res screen, Web connection, and a video cam,” Kunz reports. “Other manufacturers such as Dell are preparing tablets, too, but Apple is the one to watch—because Apple is best at making radical new hardware formats undeniably cool.”
MacDailyNews Take: Dell. Puleeze. What a joke.
Kunz reports, “So yes, the Jesus Tablet will appear. And yes, you’ll buy one with an artificially high price of, say, $800 as penance for being an early adopter. Within two years the price will fall to $199 until everyone including your 6-year-old has a gleaming, do-anything, interactive pane of glass on his or her desk.”
Apple’s iPad will change the world in at least five ways:
• Magazine and newspaper publishing will bounce back
• Television and radio ratings will continue to fall: Unlike print, TV and radio won’t fit easily into the Apple tablet’s format. Sure, U.S. consumers still watch 5 hours and 9 minutes of live television a day, but the problem is ratings don’t hold when commercials actually air. Certainly, Apple will try to push TV shows and movies through the tablet via iTunes, but we’re betting they don’t sit well in your hand. Rather than being a device to watch television, the Apple tablet is more likely to be an interactive distraction when real TV ads come on your basement set.
MacDailyNews Take: We disagree with Kunz’s prediction. There are too many possibilities, from iTunes subscriptions to how devices and software will interact with bigger screens and your stereo system, to pronounce continued doom for TV and radio. TV shows don’t necessarily need traditional commercial breaks to thrive. See HBO.
• Augmented-reality views of the world will increase
• Two-way video on tablets will push communication costs even lower
• Telecommuting may finally take off
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Could the Apple tablet/pad/slate take the place of Apple TV in a home environment?
“• Augmented-reality views of the world will increase
• Two-way video on tablets will push communication costs even lower
• Telecommuting may finally take off”
Sheesh, why don’t you add Global Warming will be reduced, time can stop and yes, pigs fly and a snowball has a chance in hell!
Then you’ll be talking about hyperbole!
First, let us see the tablet. Yes, actually see the thing. If good and priced right, go for it. But, no one knows for sure and this blind predictions only make the expectations for it beyond the realm of reality.
Build and they will come? Maybe Apple is using ALIEN technology or MAYBE Steve is an ALIEN! No one has used this yet in any article. So there are still angles to he had!!!
I am not sure why writers have to try and make some religious reference… why don’t they try “Buddha Tablet” Sometimes these people have about enough brains to fill a thimble…
@siverhawk
I am thinking the same thing, watch content on your tablet. And/or stream it to your flat screen,
Yes, but still here where we live, a 500mb download takes a few hours here, streaming is impossibly on our connection. How are we going to get this service to work for us who have an impossibly slow internet connection, and I am talking DSL connection?
I disagree about TV shows on a tablet. When I go to the doctor, I take my plug-in headset and watch a TV show in the waiting room. It’s a lot more pleasant that reading last April’s issue of Better Homes Than Yours, and it makes the time fly. (It also makes them call my name three times!)
Apple TV is quickly becoming the only way I watch TV and movies. Much better picture, and unlike a DVR, I can watch all the episodes from 2003 if I like.
Left something out: in the doctor’s office, I watch TV on my iPhone.
“See HBO.”
There’s been no need to see HBO since The Sopranos, The Wire, Rome and Deadwood ended.
I haven’t seen a reference like this since the Beatles claimed they were more popular than Jesus Christ. And that was a long, long time ago.
Yes, I’m that old.
Watching a movie on a tablet… PLEEZE give my arm a break!
@bioness
Okay, we’ll let you put your feet up and put the iThingy on your lap. All better.
<yAWn> Wake me when Jim calls in his review of his brand-spankin’-new Apple tablet. I’ll want an excuse to wander down to the Apple Store to see for myself. And to pick up a Family Pack of Tibetan Tiger, iWork ‘1X and iLife ‘1X. It’s good to have … um, 5, yeah, that’s the number … several current Macs in my extended Family.
silverhawk … yeah, should it ever arrive, it could easily hold – among other things – your day’s (week’s?) viewing of TV shows, Movies and ‘Pod’casts. Still, <u>my shows</u> (and my wife’s site) will continue to cater to the lowest common denominator in their classes – dial-up – because Starving Artists and Students often have nothing better to use.
apple products as the jesus “insert product” are retarded tools.
I’m not even religious but it still seems the height of moronic.
@MacInfo
I agree about the religious reference. It makes no sense to me.
Any, in answer to your suggestion, a Buddha tablet wouldn’t be very interesting, since it would work best when it is completely blank.
I resent using “Jesus” to describe technology, but alas, we live in an increasingly Godless world! Thank u liberals! I agree the tablet, as long as it isn’t named “iSlate,” will be a game changer!
@Jim
How were you fooled the first time? Surely, not by Apple? I could be wrong, but if that’s a jab at the initial pricing of the iPhone, well, how do you know what the real cost of producing such a device and the market for it, that didn’t exist before? Apple did offer a $100 gift certificates back to honour the early buyers, btw. But Apple tried to break the consumers free of the so called Telco subsidies (with less upfront price but more than double on average by the end of the contract w/o even the revised extra SMS charges).
But the whiners just base their ‘analyses’ on those silly websites that take apart a gadget and try to guesstimate the cost of the parts only and not the cost of the software development, integration and QA etc.? How about promotional costs? Maintenance? Warehouse and shipping charges, lawyer fees, IP defense and so on and so on. Do you know that a product life doesn’t end with just manufacturing and shipping, but also future R&D;costs have to be incorporated? The fact that my first gen iPhone gets most the newer features with the latest iteration of the OS is a testament to that. The immensely talented designers and developers of both the hardware and the software teams need to be retained so they can produce cutting edge non-derivative products and that too costs a bit of money. Most of the incentives for these people are paid in shares, and Apple is in a business also to provide the best value for their shareholders as well to their customers. A fine balance, and the company maintains that quite enviably.
And so, when someone like you, makes a reckless comment like, hey I was duped by Apple as a first time buyer (like how it is now almost a given according to the all knowing blog-buzzers), therefore this time, I’ll let other suckers buy into it first and then I’ll catch it on its 2nd iteration—what it really means is, if there are enough people acted that way, no product could ever get off the launch pad and guess who would be the ultimate loser?
Because not many people bought the AppleTV, its’ a hobby, and so the artificially priced cable is still the standard bearer. Same thing would have happened if the original iPod never took off, we’d still be buying music at $15 average per album CD, or maybe upgrade to $20 SACD etc.
Eh, I digress…
Chris, sorry to have left out the <u>link</u> to my wife’s site. Folks used to zippy Flash and Web 2.0 sites may find it boring, static, and <ugh> inFORmative, but theater and speech students find it … often.
I don’t see how this new device niche is going to improve our (mine, my wife’s) ability to communicate. Sure, her scripts may well be easier to read on a (much) wider screen, but my show – at Spoken Podcast compression – is going to sound the same on an iPod nano or 17″ MacBook Pro (assuming ‘bud use). The extra load on the network may slow down the feed, but we have already worked to minimize our bandwidth requirements so even the slowest feed should be able to keep pace.
No early adopting for me either.
They will have to take the reins from my cold dead hands.
@Harvey… How much time do spend at the doctor’s office?
@Maki… Substitute “liberals” for “thinkers”. Oh, wait, same thing.
On that note (thanks for the inspiration, Maki)
The MARYPad, yep, PMS, blood and all, may finally kill off…
Mr. Reeee, I missed that! Thanks!
iMaki, it is quite interesting that you “resent” the use of the Jesus moniker applied to a technological item (but not your gardener?), mumbling something about living “…in an increasingly Godless world!”. Right up to that point, you and I are pretty much on the same page.
Then you say: “Thank u liberals!” … as if Christ wasn’t one of, if not THE, leading “liberal” of His Day. And many days since. Read the words attributed directly to Him, ignoring the later mumblings of His Followers and the preachings of those apostates who cynically preach FEAR and HATE in His Name in order to fill their coffers. Christ taught us to Share The Wealth. Read It.
I heard the tablet will be called iSchlong. It will be cylinder shaped and you will roll it as you go to read. The bigger ones will be more in demand. Just heard it.
@Rot’nApple
Could it take my Jenny back?
Just hope…
I could get on board with a Flying Spaghetti Monster tablet.
Laura Dildo should have called it the ‘Obama’ tablet. He’s the new chosen one. Will it come in brown?