Posted on 12/31/2009 7:45:26 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Today's Apple tablet rumor has an optimistic zing to it--and maybe that's a great way to close out a dreary 2009. According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. Lee worked for Apple more than ten years ago and left Google earlier this year, according to published reports.
That figure--10 million--seems awfully high for a consumer product that's charting unknown territory. The tablet (or iSlate or iPad, if you prefer) would target an untapped market, if rumors of the device's form and functionality are true. True, a few tablet-style browser/media players are either already on the market or are arriving shortly, but none has garnered anywhere near the attention of the Apple tablet.
I did some checking at Apple's site to see what sales figures were like for the iPhone in its first year. Here's the breakdown:
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http://www.gvetchedintime.com/gvetchedintime/index.php
Since 1989 - at just ten years of age - George Vlosich III has been perfecting his talent on the Etch A Sketch. Each is an original work of art that takes 70-80 hours to create. Once finished, the piece is then preserved to stand the test of time. Every creation is uniquely different, and cannot be duplicated. George has Etched many of the world's greatest athletes and celebrities and his work has been described as "the one continuous line that continues to amaze the world." As you travel through Etched in Time enjoy your journey and the adventures of George Vlosich III. George is proud to have paved the way for others to follow in his footsteps, but what continues to set George apart is his amazing story, his incredibly detailed etches, his worldwide publicity and his uncompromising passion to take his Etches to places no one ever thought possible.
It’s a copy of “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh.
One of the sweetest memories of my life was seeing some of Van Gogh’s paintings in the National Gallery in London in July. Amazing tour of Europe.
In a brief search, I don't see a copy online of the final pan up the mountain toward the climactic apparition of the demon atop its pinnacle, but that was really evocative of "Starry Night"...
Plagiarism? Not too far from it...
Wow!
Impressive collection of images
My wife was telling me she heard(on the radio) that Apple was coming out w/ a reader similar to the Kindle but more similar to reading an actual book.
Whether that is true and possibly this product, don't know.
I hate reading text on the computer screen. That's why I only spend hours a day on FR :)
Kindles haven't appealed to me or my wife, yet.
I bought my kids the iPod Touches for Christmas. After setting them up, sync'ing them, adding my libraries, learning the device with the kids all weekend long; gearing up for work and picking up my Blackberry, that device just seemed old at that point, clunky, hard to use.
The Touches run seamlessly on my network even still jailed. If this tablet/slate, whatever is just a Touch super-sized, I am still in. Amazing devices.
I would buy two today if they were available. My partner and I use tablet PC’s at our medical office and we are on our third model in three years. ACER was POS(2 gone), Toshiba is working but not wonderful, and Fujitsu has been in shop for two weeks. We use PC software so long as it runs parallel we would be in like flint. Can’t wait to get my hands on one or more.
I saw three recent different versions of the rumor — a Chinese language blog by an Asian exec who has worked with Apple in the past sez 10” screen, great UI. The other two said 7” screen, and one of those said available starting in March.
I should read everything before I post, but I have few regrets. ;’)
http://gadgetmix.com/index/apple-tablet-to-out-for-selling-in-mid-march-2010/
http://gadgetmix.com/index/apple-tablet-to-be-unleashed-at-ces-has-7-inch-display/
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16772/41/
There’s no way it will just be stock OS X shoehorned into an ugly, bulky tablet form. Jobs wouldn’t let it be released unless it brought something new. It’ll have more of a chance of succeeding than what Bill’s holding.
Depending on the chosen graphics chipset, OS X Snow Leopard already has the technology to pass on video decoding to the GPU. In that case, it could be capable of 1080p.
Just google “Etch-A-Sketch Art”. Some of the works will blow your mind.
That is real art — on a toy!
If some of the prints go for over $1,000, I wonder how much an original costs.
Money spent without focus is money wasted.
His most noted work was the illustration for "East of the Sun, West of the Moon." He was from Copenhagen and studied in Paris, so he was influenced by the impressionist school, and doubtless studied van Gogh.
Agreed. Would that our government would adopt that maxim...
We know that an improved Cortex A8 ARM-derivative CPU is going to be in the tablet computer. But the big question is what kind of graphics processor will it use—will it be a unit developed in-house? Or will it use a next-generation PowerVR graphics chip that can process 720p/1080p video?
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