Though still un-matched by rivals in their respective spaces, Acer founder Stan Shih is dismissing the Cupertino, California’s success with the iPad tablet and MacBook Air ultraportable computer. Shih says that these fad products are just ‘short-term phenomena,’ and that his company will be coming out with its own products to compete in these respective [...]
Well, the name is the iPad and to emphasize couch surfing. Jobs is sitting on a couch showing it off. No stall surfing demo I’m guessing.
Give Motion Computing credit. They are at least trying to be aggressive in the wake of all the hype/rumors/buzz/genuflecting that is going on about the Apple Tablet. There’s speculation that Apple is looking at it’s game changer as a vertical market device in addition to a consumer device and the medical profession has been mentioned [...]
Some interesting touchscreen news to report. First is a proximity-sensing touchscreen patent just granted to Apple. Dug up by Patently Apple (by way of Engadget), this patent describes a manner of detecting proximity of an object, such as a finger or stylus, near a touchscreen. The proximity detection system is configured to detect when an [...]
Everyone’s a twitter over the sweet Apple Tablet tweets from Jason Calcanis. Our focus, rightfully, has been on the battery life claim (need more usage data here). However, if I’m piecing this together properly, he’s saying this thing is a 10″ OLED TV for $600. That’s staggering. To put that in perspective, Sony’s XEL-1 is [...]
Robert Scoble may be late to the party with his analysis of why Microsoft fumbled and bumbled the Tablet PC, but it will get attention. We’ve been diagnosing and ranting here on the pages and posts of GBM about all the ways that Microsoft missed the mark on what it had for quite some time [...]
First, let’s get real. I’ll probably buy the damn thing anyway. Gadget lust will take over at some point and we’ll you know what happens when that occurs. That said, these are the four big things I’ll be looking for today when Apple takes the wraps off of the mythical Apple Tablet, before I plunk [...]
So all this noise about the Apple Tablet and what it will or will not do got me thinking about tablet design, specifically slate design other than a basic flat screen. I’ve been using slates or convertibles in slate mode for years (longer than there have been Apple tablet rumors, apparently), so believe me when [...]
It seems like just about everyone is weighing in on Tablets here in the rush to tomorrow. (I guess that can work both metaphorically and literally.) Motion Computing’s Mike Stinson (VP of Marketing) has an interesting post on the Motion Computing Blog called Year of the Tablet? Focus on Purpose-Built Devices. His point? Apple and [...]
As the announcement of the mythical Apple Tablet creeps closer, and as I’m cranking up an HP 2730p Tablet PC to go back into Ink note taking mode for the final week of rehearsals for The Buddy Holly Story at Wayside Theatre, I know there are quite a few Inkers out there who are a [...]
UMPC Portal has the best database of web centric Tablets that I’ve seen. Intriguingly it leaves off more traditional Tablet PCs from the likes of Lenovo, HP, Fujitsu, Motion, MobileDemand, TabletKiosk, and others. That said, it’s a good roundup of what some manufacturers are hoping (against hope?) that can grab some of Apple’s coat tails [...]
We’re gearing up for the coming of the mythical Apple Tablet tomorrow. I’m sure we’ll have crazy coverage of the event that’s going to change everything and set the record for the most hyped gadget ever released. We’ve been following most of the rumors, much of the hype, and we’ve all got our opinions on [...]
Talk about a loop within a loop. There’s no question that expectations for the Apple Tablet are higher than just about anything anyone has ever seen. The pressure is on for Apple to deliver. And that pressure is more than just delivering a device that will be a consumer hit. Expectations this supposed media centric [...]
There’s something eerily ironic about the fact that the first mock Apple Tablet review is from a puppet fan boy. Pretty funny commentary on all that’s been building. “There’s a button that if you press it a unicorn comes to your door and brings you pizza.” Warning: Some rough language.
This is the last weekend before the Apple Tablet is announced and with the expectations and speculation ramped up to almost impossible to achieve new heights I’ve enjoyed the craziness, the silliness, the real and the off-base reporting, and well, the entire circus. I hope you have too, because I’m guessing it will be some [...]
What’s in a name? Legal fees. Apparently Apple is not just trying to corner the market on Tablets, publishing, music, movies, TV, sharing, and weaken Google’s search dominance, but it is also looking to corner the trademark market on anything that could possibly used as a moniker for its mythic Tablet. Apple has been granted [...]
Amazon is making some moves in what looks like a play to stay ahead of the game before Apple releases its Tablet, that is assumed as a magnet for the publishing industry to try and save its woes. Amazon just yesterday announced a new royalty structure for authors, giving them a larger piece of the [...]
The official leak and rumor source of Apple, The Wall St. Journal, is running with a bunch of things that the mythic Apple Tablet will offer when it changes the world next week. Some of the news (virtual keyboard in a slate form factor) isn’t really news as it’s what’s been expected. What may be [...]
The graphic accompanying this post will probably get really old by later tonight, much less by January 27, but it is what accompanied the invitations to Apple’s event on January 27 in San Fransisco. Of course every one is expecting the mythical Apple Tablet to be announced that day. Tea leaf and Apple Kremlinoligists are [...]
Anyone who didn’t see this coming, including the folks at Gawker Media, has to be considered naive at best. As we reported yesterday, Gawker Media offered a bounty for pictures, video, and info of the Apple Tablet via ValleyWag. It didn’t take Apple’s lawyers long to issue a cease and desist, which they did. They [...]
As impressive as some of the devices shown at CES were, it was clear to me, if Apple does announce a tablet as expected, they won’t have to worry about competition for a while. It wasn’t just that Dell and HP were showing nameless, possibly vaporous prototypes (Dell wouldn’t even commit to theirs ever being [...]
Stéphane Richard is headed to the CEO chair for Orange/France Telecom. Or maybe not. Apparently on a radio interview this morning he sort confirmed the new Apple Tablet and that it will have a webcam (front facing we’re assuming). Here’s the translated text of the key moment: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (the interviewer) : According to Le [...]
The great dark cloud that has been hanging over every CES2010 Tablet/Slate announcement continues to form on the horizon as the great gadget show in the desert begins to draw to a close. There have been as many new Apple Tablet/Slate rumors as there have been new Tablet/Slate devices unveiled it seems. One that is [...]
Pretty much everyone believes Apple’s upcoming event later this month will center around their mythic tablet, which I will be extremely relieved to see. I don’t really care what it does at this point; I just want the aimless rumor-mongering to stop. It’s great that you know a guy who met a guy who touched [...]
Okay, I might owe Freescale an apology for wondering aloud if the bezel on their tablet design is too wide, as I have been reminded this morning that going the other direction can be even worse. I refer to Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo sharing his dream of an Apple iSlate, which looks highly elegant but… [...]
Apple Tablet rumors have been with us for quite some time. Gizmodo has done what they call an “exhaustive list” of all of those rumors and put them in one tidy place. On one hand-Bravo. On the other hand-Jumping Jehoshaphat that is one exhausting list to read through. If you’ve got the time and are [...]
Today is ripe with Apple Tablet rumors, almost over-ripe. Analysts are as busy as elves saying that we’ll see multiple tablets (7 inches and 10 inches), that developers are being asked by Apple to make sure their apps work on the new screen sizes, and predicting how many Apple will sell and at what price. [...]
James Kendrick lays out a very reasoned and logical post on why he thinks we’ll see a Google Tablet next year. Of course that kind of reasoning/speculation/wishing/hoping is what fuels the biz these days. I can’t disagree with anything he says because from what we know today it all makes sense. Essentially, JK is saying [...]
Fresh Apple Tablet rumor, s’il vous plaît? In an impressive feat of fakery, French blog Nowhere Else has posted a video of a real tablet device that supposedly is the mythic Apple tablet. Certainly its physical design mirrors that of a larger, wider iPhone, but it could just as easily be the 7″ version of [...]
Brilliant and wonderfully done. The rumor that won’t die (or perhaps turn into a real product) has grown larger than life and threatens to overwhelm the tech world. Yes, that’s the mythical Apple Tablet. And how appropriate to have a little fun with that in this Apple Tablet-less holiday season than to use one of [...]
Yes, we’ve got more Apple Tablet rumors floating about, begun by yet another analyst. This time the rumor says Apple will be gearing up production on a 10 inch device (old news) in February for delivery in March or April. It also says Apple has been talking to publishers (again, old news) about delivering content [...]
We’ve blogged about this before, but now things look like they are moving into a higher gear. Five large publishing companies (Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation and Time Inc) have formed a joint venture to bring their magazine content to the web. It’s being touted as an iTunes/Hulu for magazines on the web. Of [...]
Yesterday’s reveal of a digital magazine system from publishing and media giant Time, Inc. hit news outlets well beyond the tech and gadget blogs, and reaction has demonstrated to me that, even with the buzz over the mythic Apple tablet, news outlets beyond the tech and gadget blogs don’t seem to realize that tablet computers [...]
If I didn’t already think Apple tablet mania has gone too far (because it’s based on a product that doesn’t even exist yet), I’d say this clip from a German kids magazine proves it’s gone way past the edge. Yes, our friends at UMPCPortal have spotted the mythic Apple tablet in a German teeny bopper [...]
In the category of “I wish I had written that” Gerald Sindell has penned a wonderful little satiric piece about the Apple Tablet that presupposes he has worked withthe device and is now breaking his NDA to tell all. Here’s a quick excerpt: Killer apps? Try this — for those who will want to mount [...]
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