Comments on: Apple’s tablet- Revolutionary device or hype machine?

By: Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:42:37 +0000

Just for interest’s sake, here’s the Official release:

http://whatsyourtech.ca/2010/01/27/apples-official-release-on-ipad/

By: Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:47:35 +0000

that part went right by me…I don’t get it either. New validation for the networks?

but did I miss something – no mention of cameras?!?

oh right, version 2

By: Gadjo Sevilla

Gadjo Sevilla — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:42:23 +0000

I am just a bit confused as to what Jobs meant by micro-SIM card…is this a new standard?

By: Gadjo Sevilla

Gadjo Sevilla — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:41:11 +0000

the Wi-Fi (non 3G) models should be sold here in Canada too! Very surprised (and thrilled) at the the price point. I doubt we’ll get cheap data-plans here in Canada though.

The dock with the built-in keyboard is pretty compelling as well.

By: Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:20:57 +0000

weighs 1.5 pounds

has 16 – 64 GB Flash memory

$999??? NO – starts at $499!!! More gigs, more bucks, more wifi bandwidth, more bucks. Four models in all. “A bombshell”

Oh-oh – data rate plans…..tiered levels of data consumption, various price plans, deals with major US carriers.

Ships is US within 60 days

International availability? Maybe in July, they are “working on it”

By: Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:37:22 +0000

iPad details streaming online

802.11n wireless

10 hour battery

9.7 inch screen diag

iPhone apps will run in a letterbox, or can be blown up pixel by pixel to fullscreen

No arsenic!!!!

By: Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:14:49 +0000

We’re all counting down to ‘iTime’.

All (most) will be revealed

1:00 EST

Gadjo is right – whatever happens, it will be a big story…and the story is not just a tech spec story – 10 or 11 inch screen? HDTV tuners. 4G WiFi? – it is a business and industrial story

How about new publishing metaphors for a struggling print media? Content deals left and right, with more to come. What about all the new apps and developer activity? The OS will be a starting point – the mobile store is on the way. The finish line? In motion.

Me, I will be suitably impressed, when after saying it has all of the above and more, Stevie J takes the device, rolls it up and puts it in his pocket! iFlex screen for the new iPad

Anyway, more recent speculation and some live blogging from the scene of the crime, among the links you can follow

The secret is out:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/01/mcgrawhill_ceo.html;jsessionid=2KUYGE4OQEP15QE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN

The conversation is live:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/personal-tech/apple/join-in-to-chat-about-the-apple-tablet-announcement/article1444771/