The Chicago Sun-Times’ Andy Ihnatko speculated on Apple’s tablet on The CBS Early Show.
“Apple wants a revolution in publishing,” Ihnatko says. “It could be as big as the original Macintosh.”
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Hey Andy, what’s with the hat?
@ 84 Mac Guy
He’s a rugged adventurer.
Snappy!
Wait – what!?!
Like the good Star Wars !
At least he didn’t say “…On Steroids”. >.<
Oh Andy, let’s hope
Indiana Ihnatko LOL. He’s been wearing that hat for years. It’s like his trademark I guess. Whadadouche.
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! Tomorrow’s gonna be fun.
John Popper stole that look. He’s the Windows 3.1 of rugged nerds.
I haven’t been this excited since I “ended early” in the back seat of 69 GTO on my first drive down romantic circle.
@ TheMacAdvocate
I think John’s gastric bypass was a mistake. He never looked right thin. Plays a mean harp, tho.
@ 69 GTO
A wizard never ends early. Nor does he end late. He finishes exactly when he means to.
That’s silly. If it was as big as the original Macintosh, it wouldn’t fit in my backpack!
They’re going to take the Air…make it 10″ diagonal…yank the keyboard…insert a touchscreen…and run a beefed up iPhone OS.
@ ChrissyOne
Haha. Reminds me of a couple 24 jokes.
You can lead a horse to water, but only Jack Bauer can make him drink.
In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for show and tell.
If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken – but Jack Bauer says it beef – then it’s F’n beef.
Apple sucked all the air right out of the CES sails. All the big to small companies that shows products at CES that were hoping to get a few weeks worth of promotion and media hype but, all of it got slammed by Apple’s Jan 27th event announcement. Even before all the tables were folded up and stored and all the conventioneers vomit had been hosed off of the Las Vegas Streets and sidewalks, the media had forgotten about the humdrum bore-festival that is CES. CES is like the most boring and predictable Conventions in Las Vegas, with the biggest news being 3d Televisions, that left everyone saying who in there right mind is going to set in their living room with a pair of cheap and cheesy glasses on watching TV? The answer was will no one in their right mind. Let’s face it if the most interesting keynote speaker that CES can attract is Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer then CES needs to close it’s doors and someone who can get really interesting keynote speakers and and someone who knows how to organize a large convention.
@ 69 GTO:
You wrote “Jack Bauer” when I’m sure you meant to write “Chuck Norris”. Common mistake,
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The new urban sombrero?
@ 69 GTO
You’d be high-strung too if you hadn’t slept in 8 seasons.
@ Digits McGee
When in Jack Bauers’s presence, Chuck Norris urinates sitting down.
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Anyone’s guess how much $$ apple takes in the month after this? I better get rid of my ol tube radio and upgrade.
@ 69 GTO
The warp drive on the Enterprise is actually powered by a chamber containing Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris arm-wrestling.
Okay, comic book and TV heroes are fun, but jobs. Ives, Cook, Oppemheimier, et al are real. I wish GM and GE and their ilk could live up to Apple standards.
OTOH, I’m a bit partial to Xena
As big as the original Macintosh? One hopes it does a lot better. That original was over-priced (Sculley’s call), lacked color and slots. It was a closed system. And it didn’t sell well.
Wow, three minutes speculating about the impact of a phantom device the nature of which is a big unknown. That time would have been better spent Wednesday evening or Thursday Morn.
@Rwdsyr
“Anyone’s guess how much $$ apple takes in the month after this?”
Probably nothing special if the slate doesn’t go on sale until March.
“The warp drive on the Enterprise is actually powered by a chamber containing Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris arm-wrestling.”
Because they couldn’t find a method of containment that would hold Bruce Lee in the warp core…..
@demon:
CES is really just an excuse to make the way to Vegas for AdultExpo.
If they move AdultExpo to some other date, CES will be no larger than the average garage-sale.
It already has the same significance.
Still nobody knows what the hell is being announced yet people seem to think is is the best thing and already know how to use it and the content that is on it.. This is an amazing rumor.. Watch it will be a TV with a computer built in.. LOL
@Demon,
everything you said about the CES is true. One thing I need to share with you, though:
on Saturday I performed with my band at the FIS World Cup downhill ski race in Kitzbühel, Austria. One of the sponsors of the race was Samsung, and they had on display a bunch of 3D televisions, all viewable without 3D glasses.
It was the most (literally) nauseating thing I’ve ever seen.
This thing is going to ROCK!!! \m/ (><) \m/
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I know I’ll get skewered for this, but I hope the tablet isn’t ‘as big as the original Macintosh’. The reason I say this is because, I think Apple’s products were pretty ‘ho-hum’ until around the time FCP came out.
Yeah, but….
Jack Bauer is a fictional character.
Chuck Norris is real.
A real bad a$$.
I hope it isn’t as big as the original Macintosh… that would make it way too bulky, and likely way too heavy, for practical portable use.
How about this oops!
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/01/26/publisher.may.have.spoiled.apple.plans/
Did he say ‘on the down low’? hm…
I think it might be called the iOS or io for short
@ Raymond in DC,
“As big as the original Macintosh? One hopes it does a lot better. That original was over-priced (Sculley’s call), lacked color and slots. It was a closed system. And it didn’t sell well.”
The original Macintosh changed the way the world uses computers. A Windows PC is a clone of the original Macintosh.
Besides, the original Mac was up against the entrenched Microsoft MS-DOS powered PC and it still climbed to about 17% market share while being sold at exorbitant prices.
Who’s Jack Bauer?
the hat, the hat. does somebody see him before he leaves the house?
@maclet
Wow… if real, that’s a nice scoop!
Chuck Norris is an absolute moron.
Andy is Andy, I like him, always interesting, hat or no hat. Much smarter than he looks- and cooler, too.
Really great things usually are *not* foreseen. The Mac wasn’t at it’s release, neither was the rapid consumer level uptake of Windows, not even the internet was ever envisioned where it is today. What bothers me is all the pre-hype which usually indicates a ton of money being poured out, designed to influence opinions regarding what is actually a fairly mediocre product; sort of like ads that are on TV 24hrs a day showing all the cameos to get you to view a lousy movie, when the really good movies tend to rely on word of mouth.
Andy’s a total geek, but he’s a great guy. Can’t wait to see this thing…
So is the magic tablet going to have a new type of display, somewhere between e-ink and an LCD? Seems like it would be kind of tiring for the eyes if it didn’t.
I can’t remember if the pre-show hype was at this peak for the iPhone. I hope whatever Steve brings on stage truly is amazing or the critics will attack.
@Islandgirl
“I hope whatever Steve brings on stage truly is amazing or the critics will attack.”
I hope and expect it will be amazing also.
The critics will attack in any event, so f’em.