“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.]
$800 to $200 in 2 years. Not going to happen.
Thanks ‘ron’, my morning isn’t complete until I read one of your retarded comments.
ron, it is interesting that you would equate ‘Obama’ with ‘Jesus’ … and imply disdain at the same time. Not a Christian, eh? That’s OK, as long as you own up to it.
Brown? Is Beige a shade of brown? Technically, ‘white’ is a shade of brown – ‘white’ contains ALL colors – but I don’t believe ‘aluminum’ qualifies. What is this obsession you have with brown, anyway?
And, why do you believe Ms DiDio requires an appliance in her personal life?
The whole Jesus thing came from British writers and tech pundits when they dubbed the original iPhone the “Jesus Phone”, as in it can perform miracles, it is so capable.
In the U.S., evangelicals have tarnished the name Jesus so much the label feels wrong.
Buddha Phone would be a more enlightened name for it. Besides which, Jesus never existed as an actual person. It was a guerilla movement and not one man. Haha, whoops—flamewar. J/k (not really)
DLMeyer, you’re a lib professor, right? The proletariat are the ones hailing the new Caesar, not me. See you in church. Black is brown.
i was hoping the iShit—er, iSheet—would replace my TV, but that doesn’t make sense. my TV is always on, and physically connected to an external drive (drobo) and a mini to stream/sync that media (via iTunes). not an elegant solution to accessing a large and constantly-growing media library. i was hoping that apple could come up with something better by now.
but a tablet is mobile device. i think it’ll be able to share in purchasing, downloading, sharing and syncing data, but i can’t see how it will streamline a system like mine (and i don’t think i’m alone in having a setup like this).
i can’t wait to see how apple cleans it all up, but i don’t think the iSheet will play a role in that.
bioness writes, “Watching a movie on a tablet… PLEEZE give my arm a break!” So what purpose are those 7″ displays in the back of so many SUVs serving? Heck, I’ve watched stuff on my iPod touch, and its display is a lot smaller than that anticipated in tablet.
“an artificially high price of, say, $800 as penance for being an early adopter. Within two years the price will fall to $199” – Three words: ain’t… gonna… happen.
Jesus, it is becoming increasingly obvious to me that I will have to buy one. That’s $800 out of my CD (I love the idea of iTunes, but until it is lossless, it is just for impulse and nostalgia buys) budget for the first quarter.
In reality, I really do not need it as I take my laptop and iPhone essentially everywhere with me. If the tablet is anywhere from 7-12″ inches, even at the low end I will need my Timbuk2 bag with me, so the laptop will be there. However, this will be a better “reader”, like the Kindle, than the iPhone. I hope it will have superior battery life to my laptop, something on the order of 8 hrs with constant WiFi use.
I used to think of the tablet as either a too small laptop or a too big for my pockets iPhone – a classic tweener. However, the more I thought about how Apple creates devices, the more I realized that Jobs and his team wouldn’t put something out that was not functionally very useful for consumers. I think the experience that Apple has gained with the iPodTouch, iPhone, and the app store has given them insight into what consumers want in a mobile platform. Browser, email, IM, “reader”, etc…those are all no-brianers that even Dell can figure out.
There are other questions that are fundamentally just as important, eg which applications have to be desktop-like and which are fine as iPhone apps. But the biggest question, one that I am hopeful Apple can answer, is how does this fit into the life of a consumer, adding things that a laptop or iPhone cannot? Apple seems to consider products in this manner, which means they have a shot at delivering something that I had no idea I needed until I saw it.
@iMaki – I was going to write a scathing comment on your blather equating “godless” with “liberal”… But your mind is fossilized, so the effort would be wasted. Please share your self-righteous attitude with others of your ilk. This is the MD friggin’ N forum, not Liberty University.
If it’s just going to be a super sized iPod then not thanks…
@ KingMel,
I also don’t understand why anyone who cares about healthcare, social issues, the environment, et cetera, are automatically condemned as Godless heathens.
People who throw those type of accusations around aren’t nearly as worthy of salvation as they believe.
@DLMeyer
First, know your history, put The Man in context (if he even existed). No, he did not preach “Share The Wealth.” The Man preached compassion, and understanding (…without sin? Throw the first stone).
Second, The Man was an Orthodox Jew. A Jew. I repeat, a Jew. He was Orthodox, which meant CONSERVATIVE. Probably an Essene (if He even existed). They had radically CONSERVATIVE ideas: Worship for the spirituality of it, not for the money: Sacrifice was meant to be pure, spiritual, hard to do with the way the Temple was run by the LIBERAL Pharisees. You know, the guys thought you could BUY forgiveness, not earn it.
Third, his CONSERVATISM was never more evident than with the adulteress: While he chastised the stoners (dude), he told her, “Go and sin no more.”
Forgiveness – but EARN it.
Fourth, he was a radical in two ways – Judaism should be strictly observed, but common sense should be applied to the traditions and myths: Are they still relevant, and if so when. The second radical view he introduced? Judaism belongs to the world, not just the Jews. GOD is the God of us all, not just The People.
The Man and his later followers (if “Christianity” is even based on historical events, which I suggest it is not) preached individuality and independence, much like the Jews, and later the Protestants. Think for yourself, find your own faith. While the poor will always be with us, you can best help them by reaching your full potential.
Love one another. Redner unto Caesar.
Contrary to The One, and his bros Marx and Mao and Che and Wright, The Man did not preach COMMUNISM.
Spread the word. God is Love.
And I ain’t feeling it from you, bro.
@Handsome Smitty
“Spread the word. God is Love.
And I ain’t feeling it from you, bro.”
It is distinctly missing from your post as well bro,so you clearly aren’t interested in spreading God’s Love yourself.
What isn’t missing from your post is the twisting of, and outright fabrication of, the words and deeds of Jesus to promote political propaganda. A real Christian would be ashamed to write such garbage.
BTW, DLMeyer is right about Jesus “spreading the wealth” in the sense He literally did that to feed people. Perhaps you missed the story of the miracle of the seven loaves and fishes, in which Jesus multiplied a few pieces of bread and some fish to feed thousands of followers.
Jesus ministered to the poor, the sick and the outcast. He did not preach your Republican ideology, i.e. While the poor will always be with us, you can best help them by reaching your full potential.
He wasn’t focused on amassing wealth and power. He defended the <strong>powerless,<strong> not the powerful.
Take your own advice and think for yourself. Not what Beck or Rush or Hannity told you to think. Those guys are paid, professional demagogues who make money from doing it. In other words, they’re paid to say health insurance reform = Communism, x=y and equally stupid crap.
People who can think for themselves see that.
@ron
Jesus also didn’t preach “Love thy white neighbor.” Lose the racism.
@Macinfo
Yes, that would be more appropriate being that Mr. Steve is a Buddhist.
Still waters run deep.
MAYBE Steve is an ALIEN!
So that’s why he went to Memphis, to get an alien liver? Who knew?
I came here for an interesting discussion on the presumed Tablet, but all I got was radical right wing pseudo-theology and a T-shirt. Oh wait…where the hell’s my T-shirt?!
island girl. go to Canada if you want socialism. I lived under it in England. Never again.
but alas, we live in an increasingly Godless world!
That has to be the best line I read in this whole thread!
What a maroon!
<strike>island girl</strike>. ron. go <strike>to Canada</strike> live with the Klan or a white supremacy group if you want <strike>socialism</strike> racism. I <strike>lived under it in England.</strike> saw its effects on people growing up in my hometown. Never again.
It is beyond stupid that you equate racial equality with socialism. You clearly have no concept of either.
It seems there are quite a few here – mostly on the (far) right – who have problems distinguishing fact from fiction. The sort of people who believe “Democracy” means “do what WE tell you to do”, that feeding the hungry and healing the sick are anti-Christian concepts, that … well, there’s more.
Christ was very specific in praising those who fed the hungry and tended the ill. Not so much in praise of those who would seek retribution for an injury, real or perceived. These people stick with their tribe, they tell the story their leaders want told, they never question the truth, the reality, the sense of it.
G4Dualie said it well … “What a maroon!”
THIS IS INSANE:
“Unlike print, TV and radio won’t fit easily into the Apple tablet’s format.”
WHAT FRICKIN’ FORMAT?! The damned thing doesn’t exist!
Some people have nothing better to do than live in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
B O R I N G !
I realize this is Off Topic, but a comment was made that I can easily counter.
Handsome Smitty said: “They had radically CONSERVATIVE ideas: Worship for the spirituality of it, not for the money: Sacrifice was meant to be pure, spiritual, hard to do with the way the Temple was run by the LIBERAL Pharisees.” … which raised a flag for me, but which I forgot as he argued past it.
So I looked up the word PHARISEES in my Mac’s Dictionary. Check it out. “a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity.” Although the Sadducees were even more Conservative.
This text is hardly “Gospel”, but it does reflect my own understanding of the group. It also roughly agrees with Wikipedia which includes the line: ” They were also one of several successor groups of the Hasidim (the “pious”)”.
Just because you think someone agrees with you does not mean a) they do, or b) they are in your camp. Just because you oppose something someone did or said does not mean they “are” what you abhor. Your preachers from your youth may have been raving right-wing zealots who saw all the Good in the world as “Conservative” and all the Vile in the world as “Liberal”. They were mistaken. While I am convinced there is more Good on the Liberal side, I admit that there is also Good on the Conservative side.
And I really wish people would STOP mixing their metaphors with things like “Obama is a Fascist Socialist” and the like. If they had any CLUE, they would know that the two have never been intermingled. If you want to hang a tag on someone, make sure you understand it first – and Glen Beck or Rash Limburger are hardly reliable sources for understanding. They can teach you about Fear and about Hate … not so much about Understanding.
“iMaki” – don’t thank liberals, thank Christians for being consistently self-righteous, murderous, ignorant pricks ever since Swaggart/Baker/Robertson/Falwell redefined Christianity as a wholly “American-style” Taliban.
Don’t like the world your boys have made?
STOP HELPING THEM MAKE IT.
See? Easy! It’s what Jesus would do – hell, it’s what Jesus *came here for*. Try reading your Bible instead of trying to beat the Constitution to death with it, ‘k?
Happy New Year!!!
DLMeyer: I fear that in this degenerate age, Sarah Palin really IS smarter than the people you hope will absorb your very reasonable and common-sense message; it would at least account for how lies, rumours & hysteria have so totally crowded out reason, sense – and even a nodding acquaintance w/ reality.
@DLMeyer & Ichabod Mudd
Amen. The concepts of good and bad aren’t related to party politics. It’s sad that must be pointed out to some folks here.
Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
I think he would be appalled at what passes for mainstream political discourse today.