“Additionally, Apple points to a two handed virtual keyboard, numerous virtual controls, floating menus, a new way to interact with their iTunes Store and even introduces us to an all new GarageBand application that may debut with the tablet or be reserved as part of an iLife suite upgrade in time for Christmas 2010,” Purcher writes.
Purcher writes, “More importantly, perhaps for many, is that Apple’s tablet also gets down to business. On paper at least, it appears that the tablet will run word processing and spreadsheet applications and in some recent patents, Apple has shown us that they’re still thinking of ways of reinventing, or at least reintroducing, the stylus for Apple’s tablet. And though the jury is still out on that contentious point, you can’t fight the fact that Apple’s engineers are still working on this project according to a number of recent patents. Time will tell on that one, but for now, let’s dig right in and cut to the chase.”
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A new era in computing and Apple leads the way as usual
I think the stylus will be for graphics work (ie. app specific) and your finger(s) will always be the primary means of interaction.
THANK YOU… THANK YOU… MDN… For getting rid of that creepy smile on Al Gore!!! Gotta love the replacement… sort of the Mona Lisa of computer icons…
I love all of it except the alien hands in figure 25B….
yikes! Alien thumbs
Ballmer must be just a gloating seeing all his predictions coming to fruition.
Al Gore: The man who invented the internet.
We’ll only see about 10% of this stuff in the first iSlate on January 27th. The rest of the ideas will be slowly dragged out over the course of a decade as Apple upgrades the tablet annually and manufactures sweeteners for us to buy the new model.
I hope it has fold-out legs so it can double as a breakfast tray in bed. Imagine reading MDN over coffee and toast in bed.
@ Buster,
What, no bacon and eggs?
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R2,
Sweet-n-Low or Equal?
Hey MDN, what’s with the video advertisements that automatically play with sound?? Very annoying. Especially when you have several tabs open and the video ads on each tab start playing.
MDN Magic Word — “either”, as in “Either stop the auto-sound on your pages, or I switch to MacSurfer as my main Mac news source.”
No webcam, no sale!
I think the slogan will be, “The Apple <insert product name here> Paper – Reinvented”
George Walker Bush: the man who coined “The Google.”
All I can say is… I am going to buy it!!!
To Arnold Z.:
“I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that we’re going to have a draft.” — GWB, presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
I don’t see any ads or video?! Oh wait… I’m using [the superior] Firefox with AdBlock! Anyone coming to this site and using Safari is a glutton for punishment.