TechCrunch stumbled on something about iPad on a Barnes and Noble questionaire/survey. FFS, if it’s called an iPad I might have to scratch it out and scrawl something more befitting the device…of course, if it’s just a glorified Kindle, I ain’t buyin’
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iPad? I lost my appetite…
Sunday, August 16th, 2009Apple Tablet: 2010 More Likely…Duh
Friday, August 14th, 2009TechCrunch felt it was time for them to join in the Apple Tablet fray. Maybe it was because they wanted to let the rest of the world fall all over themselves making predictions like a frenzy of stock traders in a sell-off and just walk into it like the over-confident banker that feels like he’s seen it all.
Even so, 2010 makes the most sense…you’d have expected a serious amount of hype already about this if it was about to launch. Also, given Apple’s history with the college crowd, the whole furvor around textbooks recently (Kindle, B&N), and the natural fit of a tablet + notetaking + digital textbooks, it would make more sense to make it available before the Summer of 2010.
Besides, I can imagine Steve Jobs or Jonathan Ive beating the Apple engineers on the head trying to get handwriting recognition (and the process of auto-correcting/spellchecking a la the way the iPhone does it now) into that 99th percentile. After all, that’s the main hurdle for a tablet device…if you’re going to make one, you’ve got to make it work like that. A glorified iPhone won’t cut it and is really just a waste of time…kind of like the whole nGage thing. They had an opportunity to lock in a lot of people with a great idea but then they had to fuck it up with mediocre tech and a really dumb design flaw.
I Apple goes that route and ignores handwriting in this tablet, I can see another round of photos showing people holding their tablets up to their ear.
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