MacDailyNews Take: According to AT&T, online sales were temporarily halted inthe New York City area due to fraud concerns, not in order to “slow sales down because its network couldn’t handle it.” That lattr theory was a blogger’s rather specious concoction.
White continues, “So what happens when Apple releases the next, best thing? …If an Apple tablet is announced in January and released shortly thereafter, are the wireless networks the device will run on be overwhelmed?”
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Who says this will run on one exclusive network? Maybe go to market with two or three carriers to disperse the load.
Wimax for get weak cell phone companies…. Wimax is gonna open the flood gates and we won’t have to worry bout bogging down Att nor verizon and we will have one flat rate lik 40 bux unlimited everything… That’s what google is headed for… Apple knows what’s up they need bigger unrestricted pipes u don’t think apple is looking at wimax compatible as an option?
Who says it even has 3G?
This guy sounds like an idiot, so I can’t bring myself to read the rest of his drivel.
@ Tony who r u talking about here
@Tony
This is all you missed
“If an Apple tablet really is the device to end all devices (don’t put this past Apple’s marketing geniuses),”
I believe this device will be available to everyone and will not have telecommunications, unless of course you want to tether it to your existing phone and service.
As for its impact on wireless networks, overblown is the operative word here, not overwhelmed. If tethering is possible, it will have an incremental impact as sales increase but otherwise I see a device like this cannibalizing laptop and netbook sales.
Verizon is my guess. They have a map for it.
@g4gublie would u teather A NETBOOK to a laptop? That’s what apple is probably gonna dominate and xceede where netbooks failed ofcourse it wouldn’t be a book it would b a tablet.
There will be a DVB-T receiver in the tablet and broadcasting stations will broadcast most information. The tablet will only filter the info to show what the user wants to see.
@jafo I hope sooo!!!! The tablet would blow up!!!!! I reall want one now… U mean we will be able to watch real shows and tv u think ?
The horrible dial-up speed 10 years ago didn’t exactly stop people buying computers and using the Internet more, nor did the often-jammed cell networks halt the explosion of cellphone purchase. The only thing that seems shorter today is patience.
I remember complaining about the bandwidth of a 14.4 Apple Geoport Telecom Adapter. I think Apple is hoping to see sales more similar to the iPod touch rather than similar to the iPhone. I think it will have Wifi, but it will not be a phone.
If the tablet is ever released, a device like it will have enough internal space to support more than one cell radio, so that Apple can still manufacture one device, but make it available on both GSM and CDMA networks as well as Wi-Fi and anything else they can think of.
@ G4Dualie:
I have to disagree. The “killer application” with mobile devices is the ability to always be connected. Apple knows this and will always develop and utilize ways to make it as easy as possible for their customers to get connected… tethering is not one of those ways.
Will it be backwards compatible with my phone line ? Like have a phone Jack ? Cuz I’m still on dial up
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Holy crap MDN! That friggin’ flashing GIF ad for ‘Parallels’ is enough to trigger an epileptic seizure.
@XJM
Still on dial up?
What, won’t your parents spring for high speed?
They’re probably waiting for you to grow up, graduate, and move out of their house.
@XJM “still on dial up”
So THAT’s why you feel compelled to abbreviate words.
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@HughB
Their map is huge but unfortunately slow. If I had to use Verizons slow network I’d gouge out my eyes. It’s unbearably slow. I live in an area where AT&T;is fine and AT&T;speeds just slaughters Verizon. I’ve done speed tests with the iPhone 3Gs and the Droid and the iPhone consistently gets over twice the speed. I wouldn’t want a tablet on any connection slower than AT&T;’s.
Good thing I won’t be buying it since I’m a PC user.
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@ qka
You did know that the US ranks 17th in “Percentage of Households with Broadband Access” with roughly only 50% penetration? The US is just ahead of Spain (18) and Ireland (19) and just behind Australia (16). Even Belgium (11) is over 60%. Sigh.
@qka and “theThirdshoe” I live in my moms basement so I don’t get the bed wifi reciption From my neighbors in Im 19 but bout two more years I should be ready for my GED test… I’m studying on the net it’s jus the fact I have dial up it’s takin so long.
@ XJMPasadena CA.,
How long do you figure to get your Masters Degree?
I really hope this tablet isn’t subsidized and comes with a built-in 3g connection to a carrier. The last thing I need is another contract. Let me use it with my mifi. Just like my iPod Touch.
Hell, data plans shouldn’t be tied to your phone either. A data plan should allow me to connect to their network with whatever device I want, whether it is a built-in connection in a phone or mifi or some connector from home.
I have two wireless card because I live in a suburb of dc and we only have dial up as of now so don’t think broadband is everywhere