I have a close family member that works for Mac in the big office and i think that you guys are just a little off whats really going :)

I need this so my brother will stop looking at my stuff and I could remember a password instead of a number code

An awful lot of that looks like Microsoft Surface, on a smaller scale.

Leander, you should quit whatever it is you’re smoking. And so should John Doe.

The tablet’s much less portable than an iPhone, and probably not operator network capable. Therefore it will be a nice gadget to have in San Francisco cafes where wi-fi lives, but in the rest of the real world the additional accessibility the iPhone offers makes this a rather pointless mobile proposition.

As for keyboards and mice reaching the limits of their capabilities, what a load of hogwash! Setting the tablet on an angle on your work desk forces you to bend over to look at it properly. And setting it somewhere you can type properly means you’ll be bent over looking at your fingers all day long. Within a week (or day) you’ll start getting RSI in your neck. Remote monitors are used in desks at work because the ergonomics are far more comfortable.

As for swiping around the screen, I’d have to use my entire arm. With a mouse I can do the same barely moving my fingers. And I have 4 buttons to hand (not to mention a trackball) with my iMouse. Does Apple really think we can achieve the same with 2 finger touch? Or 3 finger touch? 4 fingers? Maybe my password entry could be a Free Mason-like secret handshake.

A paradigm shift would be the front facing camera detecting the direction of eyesight and placing the cursor where you’re looking. A few buttons on the edge and hey presto, you have something that really trumps a mouse.

The tablet may look nice, be fun to have, but it’s just a toy. Doesn’t have the practicality of a MacBook (let alone a PowerBook), nor the portability of an iPhone. Why would I even bother thinking about one?

It’s still too close to a retrofitted OS X environment. And I have no idea why people think the ‘messy desktop’ is a good design idea. I hope this series gets better because there is nothing about this concept that excites me at this point & I’m seriously hyped about my idea of what the mythical tablet could be.

A paradigm shift would be a computer you can easily and effectively talk to.

Before the iphone came there was website devoted to mock ups. They collected over 250.

Not one predicted a phone without buttons.

Why does anyone seriously think Apple will do what the hoi polloi think? It’s daft. Batty. Self-indulgent.

I agree completely with Gordon. This will not be a paradigm shift. There are plenty of tablets out there already and they haven’t made an dent on the laptop market.

Tablets are only good with applications that lend themselves to manipulation with the fingers and require little keyboard input. Safari, iPhoto, iMovie and Garage Band could be rewritten to work very well on a tablet, but word processing, spreadsheets and anything that requires typing more than a few lines requires a keyboard.

Typing on a virtual keyboard is OK for the iPhone because people only use it for short messages, but people who type a lot on their phones gravitate towards the BlackBerry.

Most of you have no imagination.

I’m guessing that the touch Mac would have bluetooth in it and therefore your bluetooth mouse and keyboard would work with this.

I’m also guessing that this device would have a picture stand (like on the back of picture frames) that would allow this to “sit up” or “stand” on a desk/table/etc so you don’t have to peer down at it laying flat on a table if you don’t want to.

Also, I doubt it will be very heavy so you could, if you like like, attach velcro to the back of it and attach it to anywhere that has the other side of velcro or … you could attach one of those stick things with the hole in it used to attach to pictures but in this case to the back of the touch mac that would allow you to hang it from a wall, fridge, let your own imagination run wild.

Need more help with imagination? Reply to this and if I feel like it I’ll come back and help you with more ideas of what you can do.

OlsonBW, if you think you cornered the market on imagination, it’s the market on lame imagination. A picture stand? Velcro on a tech gadget? Stick things with the hole in it to hang from a wall? Your imagination matches my grandma’s. Please.

In general, I think Doe’s ideas are fun to read but they’re not resonating. I think it’s awkward to type on a software keyboard for anything other than a short email message, and using fat fingertips for precision software like iMovie doesn’t seem realistic. I agree with many commenters here that any Apple tablet will likely be more like an iPhone OS interface than an OS X interface.

It only has to work so-so and be fairly robust. I’d buy it because I’d like to have multimedia delivered to me on the go and I’d like to use it to watch videos and play games around the house.

The tablet should be in vogue in Manhattan and it’ll be cool to be one of those that have one. I can’t say it will succeed or fail since I haven’t seen or used one yet, so i’m not sure about being a paradigm shift. Too early to talk about that stuff. There are a lot of people that want to see this tablet become a failure just because it’s an Apple product, but if Apple can just reach the people that are willing to spend money, they’d stand a pretty good chance of selling it to enough influential people who’ll keep sales high.

Most of the people that are in love with tech and specs, don’t know crap about selling products or customer appeal. All the tech-heads that thought the Palm Pre was going to revolutionize the cellphone industry and somehow outsell the iPhone were, of course, totally wrong. If non-tech people pick up the tablet and find it useful, it will sell. It’s as simple as that. Tech people are totally jaded and think non-tech users feel the same way as they do.

If you ever want to know whether a product will succeed or fail, never, ever ask a tech-head. They over-think everything. It would probably be better to ask an average ten-year old child if they like using the device. At least ask people whom the device is going to be targeted for.

Yeah, but how will you hold it while you’re doing all this swiping and typing? The table or your lap just isn’t going to cut it – both would be uncomfortable and limit the times when you can use it.

The iPhone fits comfortably in one hand and can be poked at with the other, or rests nicely between two hands with two thumbs typing.

A 10″ diagonal device won’t fit between two hands the same way, and in one hand it’s likely to fall from your grip as you prod at it with the other hand.

Still waiting for someone to show something substantial on that front, and not more of this “look how awesome it will be to touch everything in OS X” stuff that we’ve seen a million times.

While I will give a thumbs up to this project as a good design exercise I am not fully sold on what I see. FIrst much of the gestures and actions on the screen are replication of the Microsoft surface. To that end the use of two handed gestures are somewhat illogical on a small device which is speculated to have a 10″ screen. You need one hand to hold the device and one for the interaction 70 to 80 percent of the time.
The interface while in keeping with what Apple is already doing seems plausible.The inclusion of coverflow may muddy the usability especially the fully 3D concept shoving stuff into the distance sort of like a lazy susan. The idea of putting Widgets on the desktop while already possible (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050422172929402)
It starts to clutter an already busy desktop. Yes you could enable spaces, but then are you not back to the similar function of dashboard? If an interface idea is hopefully going to carry over from the Mac OS it should be spaces. Spaces is built for small screen users and the use of gesturing to move between is already built into the iPhone OS.
Lets talk hardware. The 13.3 inch screen is most likely not going to show up in the first go round but it could be the next big thing for this device. The first out of the shoots device will be most likely completely solid state i.e. no hard drive. I wouldn’t discount an SSD option but I think the device will be ram maybe starting at 64 GB
Let me insert my own thoughts on Tablet technologies. First let me say I have been using tablets before tablets were cool by Microsoft standards. With just an os and a stylus the tablet is a niche market. They were / are heavy for long term use especially with the hand supine. The application most often run on them were specific to the business to which they were used in. The battery life can suck especially with a hard drive installed.
The only way this will extend from that is if it can be brought into the main stream an really become usable in the everyday life of the user. The battery life will have to last the full day, it will have to be light, it will have to be peppy. It will have to do the best of both the iPhone and the Mac OS worlds while adding value that neither has.

forget the tablet. I finally just saw Quantum of Solace. I want that computer.

Ahhh man the whining about a device that hasn’t come out is soooo annoying. This is the damn reason why no one else in the industry strives to put out original ideas because morons like most of the people commenting on this site kill a potential product before it’s even released. RELAX PEOPLE. At the very least hold all your negative/dumb comments until you have actually had the opportunity to use the device.

I believe that Jon Doe is on the right track about the tablet. I think that it will certainly be a paradigm changer in many ways. I am sure that it will have many of the UI features mentioned in this article and It will do all of the usual things that we expect from Apple–music, movies, photos, etc.

However, I believe that the real paradigm shift and “killer app” for the tablet will be as a newsreader/magazine reader. You will download the newspaper/magazine into the tablet and then will read it onscreen. Cover flow will allow the reader to flip through various issues of the newspaper/magazine, tap on one to select it, and then further use cover flow to flip through the pages/sections of the newspaper/magazine. Find an article you want to read, double tap it, and it pops up so that you can read it. Then back to cover flow to continue scanning through the publication.

Because the electronic version of the newspapers/magazines will be formatted the same way as the print versions, the newspapers/magazines will not have to change their workflow and will continue to make money through advertising. Apple will profit from the arrangement by pocketing the money from subscriptions placed through iTunes Store, sales of iSlates, and possibly from fees for hosting the newspapers/magazines at their new data farm in North Carolina.

It will be the second time that Apple has revolutionized the publishing industry.

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