[Swordmaker]

Link to FreeRepublic Article and discussion on Joe Wilcox's article "The World Doesn't Need an Apple Tablet or any other"

Interestingly, our FR discussion of Wilcox's article has been picked up and linked by today's . Who'd a thunk it?

[Swordmaker]

One of the now numerous counter argument to Joe Wilcox's article about no one needing an Apple Tablet computer... PING!

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[Swordmaker]

Interestingly, our FR discussion of Wilcox's article has been picked up and linked by today's . Who'd a thunk it?

Oops! ~ That should have read:

"Interestingly, our FR discussion of Wilcox's article has been picked up and linked by today's "MacSurfer Headline News™". Who'd a thunk it?"

[eclecticEel]

like relaxing on the beach

A glossy screen (as pictured) and relaxing on the beach don't really go together very well.

[thecodont]

Why oh why are major media outlets showing growing signs of illiteracy?

"Sneak peaks" instead of "sneak peeks"?

A peak is a point, like a mountain top.

A peek is a sneaky, furtive glance at something.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/gadget-gossip-lastest-rumors-google-phone-apple-tablet/story?id=9465746

[irishtenor]

If they could make a Table like that, but that folds up and fits in a back pocket... now that would be useful.

[dennisw]

A netbook type laptop will protect its 10.1” LCD but this Apple tablet LCD is unprotected. And its prolly a more expensive kind of LCD. Just waiting to get scuffed up and get greasy fingerprints all over it. Apple may put lots of interesting features into this that would be better done in a netbook format. Apple can do this themselves and maybe they will or maybe the hacker fanbois will do it and demo the proto-types.

If I were in the Jesse Jobs gang I would put out a naked 10” tablet and an Apple 10” netbook w exact same features and see which way the market voted

[I see my hands]

It must attach unobtrusively and withstand being hit with a baseball bat into a brick wall.

[antiRepublicrat]

That’s a pretty sad artist’s concept. He didn’t even try, just blew-up an iPhone. I don’t know what it’s going to look like, but it’s not going to look like that. I just can’t see Ive doing it.

[Bookwoman]

The real issues i whether the software will be there for some of the uses I can envision. My doctor’s office has gone totally digital and a tablet would be a lot easier to carry around - if it was sturdy enough. Ditto for my internet cable repairman.

[Crusher138]

Has anyone pointed out that the new aluminum Mac laptop cases may have been an offshoot of preparations for a tablet computer? I can imagine that making a 10” tablet rigid and strong enough to take abuse would require exceptional materials and design - why use it only on the tablet?

This also begs the question as to what did delay the tablet, since it should have been out before the holiday shopping season? Might it be the “new” coating that is now available on the IPhone screen required units that would have otherwise been ready to go be sent back to have this coating applied? Possibly. Other sources are saying that the solid state storage devices weren’t available in quantity. One insider told me that they are having issues with the OLED screens - which may now be held back until a late 2010 update.

I guess we’ll all know in a couple of weeks.