“Developers polled by Wired said they expected additions to Apple’s software-development kit that would help make iPhone apps work at any resolution, for full-screen support on the rumored device,” Chen reports. “But how will that work? The tablet will likely support all iPhone apps out of the box in their current 480-by-320 resolution. These apps will probably be able to run in the background, perhaps in separate windows. It’s unlikely they’re going to automatically maximize to fill up the tablet’s screen, which is rumored to be 10 inches diagonally, developers polled by Wired.com agreed, because that would result in a blurry, pixelated mess — not Apple’s style.”
Chen reports, “Therefore, it’s likely that Apple will offer a quick workaround for developers to rescale their apps for full-screen tablet support.”
Full article here.
Brad Stone and Stephanie Clifford report for The New York Times, “It will run all the applications of the iPhone and iPod Touch, have a persistent wireless connection over 3G cellphone networks and Wi-Fi, and will be built with a 10-inch color display, allowing newspapers, magazines and book publishers to deliver their products with an eye to the design that had grabbed readers in print.”
“The New York Times Company, for example, is developing a version of its newspaper for the tablet, according to a person briefed on the effort, although executives declined to say what sort of deal had been struck,” Stone and Clifford report. “At least three publishers, Hearst, Condé Nast and Time, have also created mockups of their magazines for tablets, even before such devices have hit the market. ‘Apple upended the smartphone market with the introduction of the iPhone, and it’s likely that they will, if they enter the tablet market, lead the pace there,’ said Thomas J. Wallace, editorial director of Condé Nast. He said that ‘2010 is going to be the year of the tablet, and we feel we are in a very good position for it.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Bring it on already!
i’m happy if there is indeed a tablet. it is troubling to hear traditional print media betting the ranch on one paradigm that will purportedly save their bacon, when they themselves lacked the cojones to fix their own wagon. and now they want to monetize their precious prettified repurposed slanted reporting. fail.
mw: directly, as in, go directly to hell Google / Facebook / monkeyboy
The ability to run existing apps at their iPhone size makes sense. The question will be if tablet owners will have to pay again to download resized versions.
@ iSteve,
Those $0.99 Apps taking a big bite out of your budget, are they?
@iSteve
I very seriously doubt you would have to repurchase your apps. If you currently have an app, you can run in on as many iPhone/iPod touches you want.
From what I read months ago, Apple added the ability to (and requested that developers) use scalable screen resolution to the last iOS SDK.
So, if developers have been following Apple’s guidelines (and requests), then, hopefully, recently updated apps should be able to scale to a higher resolution. I hope the iPad has a Full-HD screen, so I can plug my Blu-ray player into it.
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I want to be able to run iOS apps on my Mac!
A persistent, always on 3G connection means no tablet in Canada, for the time being.
I would *LOVE* to be proved wrong (and have my credit card in hand) but given Rogers’ and Bell’s cosy monopoly and their mid-20th century thinking about how people should access data (and $60/2GB data plans) unlimited data plans seem highly unlikely, or far too expensive.
Prove me wrong, Steve.
It’s gonna be the year of Linux on the tablet!
Hope there’s some way to view the websites built exclusively for IE.
All my employer’s internal sites, including the one used to enter my hours, REQUIRE IE and won’t work on any other browser.
Heck, I even tried IE under Crossover and they don’t work.
I can neither receive my work nor complete it (or get paid!) unless I use IE
🙁
Today is a big day for two leaders. One will pull out the future of tech while wearing his turtle-neck, and the other will try to pull the wool over our eyes by wearing his sheep’s clothing.
One will succeed using tech. terms, the other will fail and have only one term.
I didn’t use ‘black’ turtle-neck because some MND-ers would say I’m racist.
@Moo
Yup have the same thing with the Fidelity website. I can’t use Safari or Firefox on the mac with it. Even with parallels in window FF won’t work. So I have to use insecure IE to look at my investments.
I wonder if it will sync with a Mac or PC or if it will run as a computer entirely in it’s own right.
The new iSlate will run iOS 4 to start but also the Mac OS later.
Forget the new iPad! Check out these new iGlasses! They are hot!
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