What will Apple iSlate Have
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It will feature 0) iCant, which turns the machine off if you lean it at too severe an angle. 1) iBall, a bastardized version of a track ball, that, when the tablet is placed upside down on a flat surface, can be spun or rolled across said flat surface, and doubles as convenient entertainment for the little ones. 2) iPuke, this application is automatically started if the tablet has been spun upside down too long on its iBall. 3) iStrain, an application that tries to predict the fatigue one would experience after carrying the iSlate around for too long of a period. 4) iCrash, another application that is triggered when you're trying to drive and use the device at the same time. It comes equipped with OnStar so they can send repair techs if they detect a lull in activity on the iSlate. 5) iDontCare, an app that runs on every device EXCEPT the iSlate, and something I think most of us already have installed.
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001thats a great set of features iOU1
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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Apple releases revolutionary laptop with no keyboard[^]. :)
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Well 1 what i am saying is they will allow free download of pdf and read unlike Kindle which limits user to buy from Amazon and use there whisper net internet service So you are also correct that
Christian Graus wrote:
It will be locked down and Apple will make a few pennies on every book uploaded, ever.
I think, locked Down for ebooks to apple store for sure but not for internet and free contents
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Quartz. wrote:
Well 1 what i am saying is they will allow free download of pdf and read unlike Kindle which limits user to buy from Amazon and use there whisper net internet service
you can download drm free (mobi and others) books to the Kindle from any site that offers them. Just navigate to the webpage and click. It doesn't have to come from Amazon. If the service doesn't offer direct download you can also transfer via usb to the device or via an email address associated to the device.
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They've already patented it, along with some other associated technologies. The product will be called the iBog and comes with two free accessories: iCrap and iPiss. Other, subscription based, accessories are planned, including iBogRoll, iBogBrush and iBogBleach. It's not on the market just yet due to an early technical problem referred to as iFloater. Apple have tried to fix this with an innovation called iDoubleFlush, however this hasn't proved successful in all cases so a more radical approach is being investigated, code named: iBogPlunger.
Nope, iCrap[^] is not available anymore. iBogPlunger[^] is. :)
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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Even if it sucks, there are enough apple fanboys who'll write about how it's the most wonderful device ever invented. Then the non-fanboys will go buy it too. Anyone who dares point out any weakness or negative aspect will get shot down.
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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What will it have? Fanboys willing to stoke the religion and overlook any flaws while ignoring the fact that similar devices have been out for years. The iWhatever will simply be "better". It will take something boring, wrap it in a coating of chic, whack a high price tag on it, and have it integrate seamlessly with all the other chic, sleek toys unwrapped from their silken boxes. It will be the same old same old, presented with a refreshing UI and a form factor that is a joy to hold. And so it goes.
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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For me : the major feature, and the reason I will not buy one, will be a very high price tag. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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For me : the major feature, and the reason I will not buy one, will be a very high price tag. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
It is supposed be < $800 according to some reports.
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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I will definitely buy one, if :- 1. It runs Snow Leopard. 2. It is priced < $800. My guess is that it will be be quite innovative in design.
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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It will have an unaffordable Price Tag. :^)
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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Quartz. wrote:
For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there
Do you have a Iphone or a Ipod?... you should try to buy a computer from apple and compare with your regular PC.
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Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device.
Its very wrong to make this implicit comparison. The biggest goal for Apple is not the computational features (USB, Wifi, HD Size, Screens - Windows Computers aways beat Apple on that stuffs), but how that are assembled. You cannot compare this products, its like compare a Bowers & Wilkins speaker and a regular JVC. Of course, both can produce 150W but the sound quality is different (probably JVC gonna have 2500W, and still sucks). This question is a speculative so its a loose of time. You gave your opinion, now i can give mine: If you don't like the Apple products, don't buy.... This tablet will rock for who enjoy apple products, but MS fans will still continue saying things like "But Microsoft's Tablet have USB 2.0 and 432432GHz and 41432143 RAM". The Apple customers don't care about this anymore, we know that "we buy. It works", just that. Best Regards PS: In 3 years my Apple computer never crashed... no blue screens or any other "unexpected behaviors"... working every day, all day long. How many times your computer have crashed this week?? Think about.
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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What will the Apple iSlate have? 1) A huge price tag 2) A range of pointless colours 3) A massive following of idiots ready to waste a couple of months wages just to buy the thing so that they can then start preaching to everyone else on the planet just why its the best product and why no-one elses opinion matters despite a lot of evidence to the contrary 4) A very limited API 5) Stupid restrictions on what applications you can exactly develop for it 6) Me annoyed I feel better for getting that off my chest now :)
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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Probably nothing that the MS Slate released earlier this week doesn't have, but had no hype at all (probably because it lacks a certain fruit), at twice the price running a bastardised version of iPhoneOS and OSX mixed.
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Vista Gadget Book: Creating Vista Gadgets using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. Sample chapter here Selling Your Gadget
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Vista Gadget Book: Creating Vista Gadgets using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. Sample chapter here Selling Your Gadget
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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Seriously at first looking at the title I thought you are talking about iSlave from Apple.
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It is supposed be < $800 according to some reports.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
It is supposed be < $800 according to some reports.
(your choice of Namaste, Namaskaram, or Vannakum) Sri Rama, I hope Apple really does "re-define" the market in some interesting ways in its tablet design ! I'm no Apple fanboy, either; I think their policy and attitudes towards developers has sucked for years, and, with the advent of the iPhone, became absolutely obnoxious. Here in northern Thailand US $800 would be about 26,000 baht : that would cover : 1. two months of rent for a two bedroom house with walled gardens, teakwood floors (12,000 baht) 2. two months of electricity and internet (3,000 baht) 3. two months of health club membership in a four-star hotel health club (1800 baht) 4. fresh laundry service from neighbors (washed, ironed) twice a week for two months (2000 baht) 5. two months supply of fresh-made soy-milk (120 liters [consumed at 2 liters per day] : 2200 baht) The remaining baht, about US $160, would cover well ... for two months ... delicious fresh Thai vegetarian food every day from the local market, one tank of gas for rare use of a car (use the bicycle most of the time), and other miscellaneous expenses, some second hand books, perhaps one minor doctor's visit, etc. Of course all the above does not include automobile maintenance, bicycle repair if needed, major medical treatment, etc. And it would certainly not cover those diversions for which Thailand is notorious which I have no interest in, anyway. Thinking in those terms : for me, US $800 is quite expensive : it's two months of a "millionaire's life style" :) best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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Everything you say is true. What you don't mention is the flurry of activity of other vendors who will take Apple's idea and "go to town". They will greatly improve the functionality of the multi touch screen interface, vastly improve the touch, draw and write capability, add to the utilization of the WiFi, USB, BlueTooth and generally make a device that will outshine Apple in every way. Apple will then ignore the field and make their users put up with their innovation for several years, despite the aggressive innovations spawned by Apple. They will succeed in this because Apple users have been led to believe that if they buy the outrageously priced hardware coming from Apple that they actually gain something (besides having to define why they paid the price to begin with). They will complain directly to Apple and Apple will judiciously ignore them, marching to the tune of their own drummer. Yet Apple users will allow Apple to continue on this path simply because they have the Apple logo. When the field of devices becomes huge (with Apple leading the charge) we will find that only Apple has the same interface as previous models and the market for third party addons is counted in the millions. This will then spawn a flurry of innovations directed only to the Apple device, after all why create a third party hardware device with an interface for Samsung, a different interface for HP, a different interface for Dell (who will have an interface totally unknown to the modern world, but that's a totally different story), etc. etc. After a few years of success and consumer choices counted in the hundreds, Microsoft will suddenly announce a new technology which will be nothing more than modification of a device already on the market with features from three years prior, will not run until at least service pack 2, and predict that their device will outsell everyone else. It will take Microsoft several years to figure out that they were wrong. In the meantime, the consumer will be the one that wins. They will have their choice of devices that meet their needs and will purchase devices accordingly. Some will stick with Apple (see previous paragraph) simply because it is built by Apple. Some will choose different devices because they offer better functionality and can be repaired cheaper. Some will become zealots regarding why their (fill in device name here) is better than Apple, but in the long run it will always be compared to Apple. Yet Apple will remain a niche player, always the innovator but never the one to
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There has been too many speculations on Apple Tablet PC. This is my take on that. Apple has a reputation of emerging from the average by using mature technologies which is available otherwise to everyone and differentiate in the user experience. For example 1. IPod had no new features than an MP3 player cannot have but it was cool and it was a phenomenon 2. IPhone, any new feature ? well touch screen was there but not utilized in that way ever, apart from that everything else was there Now comes the Tablet Microsoft has a Tablet for almost 5 years now, they have got everything but success. Amazon Kindle eReader is a reading device which does not utilize the technology to the full but earns by limiting them, you don't have USB port to transfer to and from your device. Now, what will apple tablet have that will differentiate them from these two giants. They will utilize the Tablet multi touch screen interface Second, a major functionality missing from Kindle is eWriter which everyone is ignoring, Microsoft Tablet has got that in a medicore way, thats where Apple will excel first. An eWriter with excellent touch, draw and write capability, if you think of it these functionality are already mature and available in any tablet. Third eReader, where Kindle retricts and limits user by going against technology, Apple will utilize technology to the full, Wifi, usb, blue tooth, a device completely independent of the service, but can be used to download ebooks from an Apple service Thats how Apple will do, beating Microsoft tablet and Amazon Kindle by producing a great touch screen eWriter and a boundless eReader. Lets see.
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It does not really matter how crappy the ISlab is for one major reason - IMarketing will still be able to pawn it off to IFanboys at an IInsanelyHighPrice. As for as I care, Apples marketing team is the only reason half there stuff sells at all. And seriously, why bring the Kindle into this discussion at all. It is an eReader. If they wanted to add in eWriter functionality it would no longer be only for eBooks.
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What will it have? Fanboys willing to stoke the religion and overlook any flaws while ignoring the fact that similar devices have been out for years. The iWhatever will simply be "better". It will take something boring, wrap it in a coating of chic, whack a high price tag on it, and have it integrate seamlessly with all the other chic, sleek toys unwrapped from their silken boxes. It will be the same old same old, presented with a refreshing UI and a form factor that is a joy to hold. And so it goes.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Fanboys willing to stoke the religion and overlook any flaws while ignoring the fact that similar devices have been out for years. The iWhatever will simply be "better". It will take something boring, wrap it in a coating of chic, whack a high price tag on it, and have it integrate seamlessly with all the other chic, sleek toys unwrapped from their silken boxes. It will be the same old same old, presented with a refreshing UI and a form factor that is a joy to hold.
All true but it will out sell the "competition" and the HPs, Dells, Sonys, etc... of the world will try to imitate it and still fail. And so it goes.
