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27 Jan 10 - 12:31 PM (#2822677) Subject: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Donuel ITs claimed to be a game changer but tablets have been around for some time. It may be given a new as time goes on. This $800-$900 gizmo/gadget will be like a Kindle, i phone with i phone software, lap top, graphic studio, TV, radio, boom box, recorder, dvd burner, scanner, remote for specailly equipped vehicles, receiver of all broadcast bandwidths and penetrating soft X ray analyzer (see through glasses), holographic generator that can be transmitted to other tablets, small snack/drug synthesiser, erotic stimulator, screeplay generator etc. Or at least some of the above claims. They will roll it out in two hours. No matter what it does I bet it will become the new status symbol. |
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27 Jan 10 - 12:54 PM (#2822699) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos It will earn a few billion in its first 12 months. Blow by blow blog here (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1626&tag=content;col2) A |
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27 Jan 10 - 12:55 PM (#2822700) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos Picture of Steve revealing the tablets. :D |
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27 Jan 10 - 01:00 PM (#2822701) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Alice scanner too? wow |
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27 Jan 10 - 01:06 PM (#2822705) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: GUEST,number 6 books will now be pirated much the same way as music is. Authors are not going to be too fond of this. biLL |
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27 Jan 10 - 01:07 PM (#2822706) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer It's back to the future! I want the carrying case. (Others may just want the carrier.) I liked this NPR blogger's take on what would make it worthwhile. ~ Becky in Long Beach |
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27 Jan 10 - 01:24 PM (#2822715) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: bobad South African Police reveal Apple tablet photos "The site also indicates that all Apple tablets include MDMA support, while some provide MDA and MDEA support as well." |
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27 Jan 10 - 01:52 PM (#2822731) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer It's an "iPad", and it looks like a giant iPhone: NY Times live blog on the topic today. |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:00 PM (#2822739) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer The blogger suggests its utility as a breakfast table reader -- requiring only one hand for browsing. I'd add: much less susceptible to crumbs than a keyboard. But, I'd want a stand for it... |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:08 PM (#2822743) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer I think I'd want to be able to plug in a keyboard for actual typing, though (altho it should be much easier to type on the larger keyboard picture than it is to do on the iPhone), and it has no webcam! |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:26 PM (#2822758) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer Live blogging from the live blogging... there is a keyboard dock! |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:27 PM (#2822759) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Bill D wow...lots of features! Almost as good as an Etch-a-sketch and some LSD. |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:33 PM (#2822761) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: John MacKenzie Well, as $450 usually translates to £450 when things like that get to the UK (WHY???), I shan't be rushing out to buy one. |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:33 PM (#2822762) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: gnu Do a tab of Apple? |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:36 PM (#2822764) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: VirginiaTam Almost as good as an Etch-a-sketch and some LSD. Ahhh memories. That was a very good Christmas. |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:39 PM (#2822768) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: SINSULL 1956 or 1969, Miss Tam? |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:48 PM (#2822777) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Greg F. Just great. Another overpriced techno-toy that nobody really needs. Just the thing for a better life. With the median family income in the U.S. around $43K, I'm sure all those with $10 an hour jobs at Mal Wart will run right out and buy several. Bound to be a big hit in Africa and India, too. |
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27 Jan 10 - 02:54 PM (#2822782) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: robomatic I think it is worth it alone for the ability to fingerpaint without the mess! I've not been an Apple person for many years, but I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for the next version where they fix all the problems in the original version. Intrigued they have USB but not Firewire. I'll bet it isn't USB 3.0 which is coming out for PCs later this year (Promises, Promises). |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:00 PM (#2822786) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Alice Lowest price iPad is $499, added feature model is $829. Available 2 months from now. If I have to replace my MacBook at some time, I think I'd get the iPad, as it is half the price of a MacBook and looks like it will do more. iPad details |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:09 PM (#2822796) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer Apple's page on it NYT sez what's missing: Update | 2:45 p.m. Expectations were very high for this device. Some missing features that many people were expecting: * No ability to play Adobe Flash animations, widely used on the Web. * No camera, still or video * No non-Internet phone function * Unclear whether you can bundle your AT&T iPhone plan with an iPad data plan * No removable battery for a device that can suck a lot of power * No removable storage |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:10 PM (#2822799) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer No Flash?? I find that hard to believe. That's what's behind YouTube. |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:13 PM (#2822803) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: VirginiaTam I weren't even a twinkle in me dad's eye in 1956. I almost got me an etch a sketch this christmas. |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:20 PM (#2822811) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer There's a camera among the accessories... it's like the Air -- the lovely thin package means you can't squeeze everything in, but they for an additional price you can plug it in... |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:21 PM (#2822812) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer Scratch that, that's just for connecting to cameras for downloading images. |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:24 PM (#2822819) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos I thinks it's beautiful. I can't wait for the next iteration, when I will want one. A |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:32 PM (#2822825) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: McGrath of Harlow Somehow much does it cost to use it? |
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27 Jan 10 - 03:45 PM (#2822844) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Desert Dancer yeah, wait for version 1.2 or 2.0 or something. But, drool, meanwhile. |
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27 Jan 10 - 05:28 PM (#2822963) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Alice Video of Jobs' demonstration is on CNN.com VIDEO of iPAD demo |
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27 Jan 10 - 07:59 PM (#2823084) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: The Fooles Troupe ... and I have already seen the iTampon jokes go by.... sigh.... |
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27 Jan 10 - 09:51 PM (#2823141) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: number 6 be the first to be seen at your local Starbucks with one of these babies !! biLL |
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28 Jan 10 - 12:54 PM (#2823669) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: SINSULL The argument here at work is - is it a computer? and what do you need to make it work? |
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09 Sep 10 - 12:00 PM (#2983175) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos Apple announced Monday that it had reached a new milestone with its iPad, selling two million devices in less than 60 days. The latest announcement shows that Apple is selling one million iPads a month, an average of nearly 35,000 a day. The iPhone, which went on sale in mid-2007, took 74 days to reach one million sales. In a news release, Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said customers around the world who are buying the iPad "seem to be loving it as much as we do." Mr. Jobs also said, "We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone." Shipment of the international version of the iPad was delayed by several weeks as Apple struggled to meet demand. Last week Apple began selling the iPad in nine countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. Shoppers waited in long lines to buy the device, which went on sale in Apple locations and some partner electronic stores. Applications for the iPad continue to trickle into the iTunes App store. As of Monday the store listed 8,027 iPad-specific applications available for download. There are currently nearly 200,000 applications available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. |
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09 Sep 10 - 12:14 PM (#2983194) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Greg F. You can buy a lotta books for $900. Another solution in search of a problem and/or another way to separate yuppies from their unearned income. |
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09 Sep 10 - 12:17 PM (#2983197) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: catspaw49 We are in the process of getting Tristan a generation 4 (9/1/2010 available) I-Touch to run a program called ProLoQuo2Go.....The gen4 is a quantum leap past the gen 3 which was fantastic as it was. Gen 4 has 512RAM, the Apple Retinal display, and two camera(forward and back facing), plus all the great features of the previous ones. The program for a delayed kid with a speech problem or many with autism is simply amazing. Previous versions of similar programs have cost in the thousands......This one WITH the I-Touch is less than $500.!!! One of many ways to use it .....Other videos on the sidebar there are equally good. Spaw |
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09 Sep 10 - 12:24 PM (#2983203) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos Greg F: Your criticism might be valid if all you wanted an iPad for was to read books. Sheeshe!! Add movies, internet, email, and music on command and it begins to look like a useful bit o' kit. A |
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09 Sep 10 - 12:45 PM (#2983222) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) I can cope without it for now. I'll stick with watching films on a decent sized screen, reading books in a format that I can fold the corner down on and fall asleep in bed with or even loan out and lose, listening to music on proper speakers with an amplifier for decent sounding music, and using a lap top for photography, word processing and internet.. A decent computer definitely improves particular aspects of one's creative/leisure/work life considerably. But I know there are many things that I currently do in other ways that I *could* do on an iPad but that would not match the way I currently do them - for me anyway. |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:09 PM (#2983293) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: VirginiaTam i folk |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:20 PM (#2983302) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: VirginiaTam i folkier |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:27 PM (#2983306) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Hey Tam, but where's the iVoice? Or indeed the iTankard, or the iCaravan? In fact *where's* the iSidmouth now I think about it? This Apple technology is a folkie fraud I tell you! |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:32 PM (#2983313) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos Catspaw's excitement about the fourth generation iPod Touch is well justified. These guys at Apple are continuing to break new ground and enable new ways of living with their devices. Of COURSE you won't be interested if you don't want to change your ways, that goes without saying. If the benefits don't appeal and the beauty of the engineering doesn't excite you, it's simple: Apple is not for you!! A |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:37 PM (#2983321) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Bill D and I thought I had seen it all 15 or more years ago, when a guy showed up at our festival with an electronic bagpipes...at least IT was physically similar in how one played it... |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:38 PM (#2983322) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: ClaireBear iFOLKiest? (My favorite, anyway) |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:45 PM (#2983330) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: gnu Spaw... awesome. Uilleann Pad? Holy moly! |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:46 PM (#2983332) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) "Apple is not for you!!" Apple IS for ME. I LOVE apple. Both my partner and I use apple everyday and wil ever do do. But I'm not some hillbilly retard because I recognise that other current regular tech. (such as films, music, books) gives me a better quality experience than the iPad does. I'm a happy nerd in film, music and books, so I seek the best experience I can get. iPad is just a faint gimmicky echo of these pleasures, and is not in any way a serious contender, unless you lack ears and eyeballs. |
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09 Sep 10 - 02:54 PM (#2983340) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) I aught to add that if you want a Computer for practical or creative reasons, then you should obviously get a Mac.. Yes, they are brilliant in many ways. |
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09 Sep 10 - 03:04 PM (#2983350) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Amos The iPad also has, just for example, drums, synthesiuzers, pianos, harps, accordions and other muysical applications (spearate and combined) which makes it a hoot for jams. Check out YouTube iPad Music samples. A |
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09 Sep 10 - 03:20 PM (#2983360) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: catspaw49 Thanks Amos......I am so damn sold on the i-touch...........The ProLoQuo2Go program is a perfect fit for Tris and with the hard drive capacity he has plenty of room for truck and Wiggles videos (like about 40 hours)......and that damn screen is superb!!! Fast processor and 512 RAM makes it larger and more powerful then the desktop I'm using and its WiFi ready so he can use it here and at school to access the net PLUS use the speaking Proloquo program...........All this with a 3 year warranty including drops and dunks for a bit under $550. That's friggin' amazing......... PLUS......the county MRDD Board is picking up the entire tab. Its the first time we ever used the allowance but this is the frankly the first thing we have found that we really wanted to get for him.as adaptive equipment in a long time. Spaw |
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09 Sep 10 - 03:30 PM (#2983367) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: VirginiaTam banjo and steel drum too but no bodhran as far as I can tell |
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09 Sep 10 - 04:02 PM (#2983397) Subject: RE: BS: Apple reveals Apple tablet today From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Mmm, yeah yeah: Got it all, don't use it. Alternative: have it smaller, never use it. |
