"There hasn’t been this much hype about a tablet since Moses came down from the mountain,.." David Carr January 3, 2010 NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/business/media/04carr.html?ref=technology via Brainstorm Tech
What it should be:
- Form factor, a clamshell, when closed, slips into the inside pocket of a dress jacket. About 4.5 x 11 inches for about the same total screen pixels as a 13" macbook.
- Ruggedized, stop a bullet, carved aluminum feel. Drop it, kick it, pound away on the screen. Slight extra cost, huge extra durability that cannot be matched by any conventional manufacturing. Durability and build quality, 3 products in one, make the $799 price tag a bargain.
- 3D visuals that closely mimic the real world. Open the clamshell for reading, page on left, page on right. Turn pages by grabbing upper right corner and flipping, stuff like that.
- Can set one half of clamshell to full size keypad for typing, 4.5 x 11 inches. Drool-worthy tactile overlay or new audio-visual experience that makes most users feel like they are typing on a real keyboard.
- In vertical reading mode, two sides of clamshell can act like a two button mouse, with up to 4 finger gestures on either side.
- Non-camera and camera versions. Next release, a dual camera-stereo effect option. How else to top the Nano for video recording besides 3D stereoscopic video recording?
- A mode button or gesture that switches between iPod, ebook reader, computer, 3D stereoscopic camera when it becomes available. Saved state in each mode for quickly jumping back and forth.
It simply has to open like a real book. Apple is consistently about user friendly, super cool, and surprises. They have done enough hinge and closure designs, they have it figured out. It will definitely go far beyond, and be nothing like, a plain flat slate punched out in the same clunky form factor as current netbooks.
Rather than a grown up Touch, it is a downsized Macbook Air. If not, I can wait.
This design will contain everything needed to live life in "the cloud". Even if that cloud is a local intranet powered by Snow Leopard Server. With Apple, the tech is not about one particular single piece, it is about the entire user experience.
UPDATE:
It's a grown up Touch.
A clipboard replacement. Simple access to information as the sole purpose.
I said I can wait, I was wrong.. http://ipliance.com/index.php/eng/Blog/The-iPad-12-Simple-is-the-BreakThrough
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