Apple iPad and related items

[gabi]

Anyway. While we wait, here's a fairly lucid, non-hysterical view...

http://powazek.com/posts/2234

Which chimes well with me as a print designer as it might not necessarily mean I'll be having to learn web anytime soon if i want to make a living. Altho I'm not sure how long they'll stick to PDF in reality.

 

[ChrisFilter]

No, I'm really not. I just dislike the Colin Hunt ('just a laugh innit') excuse used to justify posting a load of betty swollocks

I'm perfectly calm and shoving my gob full of Almond Joys if you must know.

I haven't posted any bollocks

 

[paolo]

RIGHT. I'm going to the shops. By the time I get back, I expect you all to have settled down before Mr Jobs starts.

 

[tarannau]

Oh yes you have. You'll recall that I invited you to start another thread to discuss your sub-revol level gibberish and avoid derailing this thread.

Anyway, two and bit hours to the this tablet lark. Feel the lack of excitement from here.

 

[editor]

Which chimes well with me as a print designer as it might not necessarily mean I'll be having to learn web anytime soon if i want to make a living. Altho I'm not sure how long they'll stick to PDF in reality.

Although if it's delivered through a proprietary format which Apple solely controls, that may not be so hokey-cokey.

 

[tarannau]

I suspect it'd be more of a AAC style format if anything - its own or rebadged filetype, but one open to others to use as well

 

[ChrisFilter]

Oh yes you have. You'll recall that I invited you to start another thread to discuss your sub-revol level gibberish and avoid derailing this thread.

Only because you couldn't succintly put paid to my suggestions.

 

[skyscraper101]

T minus 2 hours

 

[Kanda]

2 hours, 17 minutes until the Apple Media Event

Timer here: http://www.macrumors.com/

 

[mincepie]

"1 hour, 58 minutes until the Apple Media Event - Tablet rumored to be launched."

I'd laught my self silly if no tablet came out.

Still I like the idea. But not the price.

 

[skyscraper101]

This is more exciting than when Channel 5 launched with the Spice Girls.

 

[editor]

Good grief. Someone give this woman from the Telegraph a reality check:

It will make us fall in love with the printed word again...

It will introduce new ways of interacting with the world around us...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...the-Apple-iTablet-could-change-our-lives.html

The comments are lively for the Telegraph too.

 

[paolo]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/frantic_steve_jobs_stays_up

 

[ohmyliver]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/frantic_steve_jobs_stays_up

that article is actually trending on twitter now.

 

[skyscraper101]

No matter how cool this product is. Steve Jobs will never out do Steve Balmer's entrance for a microsoft keynote

 

[teuchter]

RIGHT. I'm going to the shops. By the time I get back, I expect you all to have settled down before Mr Jobs starts.

Mr Jobs should start his speech by telling everyone he's not going to begin until everyone in the internet has stopped bickering.

 

[elbows]

Although if it's delivered through a proprietary format which Apple solely controls, that may not be so hokey-cokey.

They have a reasonably good track record in this regard - h.264 standard video, various other things done with html5, css3, canvas and webGL and any additions to these being given over to the standards bodies.

Some of this was clouded in the dark days of DRM but hopefully that wont be an issue now, although I suppose it could be.

 

[editor]

They have a reasonably good track record in this regard - h.264 standard video, various other things done with html5, css3, canvas and webGL and any additions to these being given over to the standards bodies.

Some of this was clouded in the dark days of DRM but hopefully that wont be an issue now, although I suppose it could be.

Apart from the App Store of course, which they retain sole and absolute control over what gets allowed onto a user's phone.

 

[gabi]

macrumors seems to have finally crashed under the sheer weight of expectation

 

[gabi]

Ah its back

 

[grit]

Apart from the App Store of course, which they retain sole and absolute control over what gets allowed onto a user's phone.

So? That doesnt have anything to do with them using proprietary formats or not.

 

[paolo]

macrumors seems to have finally crashed under the sheer weight of expectation

Leo Laporte's TWIT Live coverage is also AWOL.

 

[Kanda]

macrumors seems to have finally crashed under the sheer weight of expectation

Working here...

 

[paolo]

Gizmodo are in the lobby. "We just saw Jon Ive, and he is drinking brandy like a classy son of a bitch."

 

[gabi]

Jesus. This is worse than those religous channels u get in hotel rooms in the us

http://www.ustream.tv/leolaporte#utm_campaign=flive&utm_source=1&utm_medium=technology-computers

 

[gabi]

Stephen Fry's there

 

[paolo]

Stephen Fry's there

You don't get more faithful than Fry. Not since Douglas Adams sadly left us.

 

[Gromit]

I'm going to laugh my arse off if after this massive thread building up to the announcement they show nothing more than the 4th Gen iPhone and OS 4.0. Not a tablet in sight.

 

[grit]

I'm going to laugh my arse off if after this massive thread building up to the announcement they show nothing more than the 4th Gen iPhone and OS 4.0. Not a tablet in sight.

I'm hoping for the same thing I cant imagine any use I'd have for a tablet computer. However I'm interested to see whats coming next for the iPhone.

 

[gabi]

This video feed is making me want to punch myself in both eyes and ears. Jesus.