Hold onto your horses.... Apple's officially preparing for a big event next week! All eyes, ears and salivating mouths are anxiously awaiting the mythical Apple Tablet, as well as further iPhone/iPod Touch evolutions.
(Invitation card design viewable here at Appleinsider.com: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._creation.html)
The biggest thrill that I'm getting is the rumour that an Apple employee said that even Steve Jobs likes it. And that guy is a damn perfectionist. He almost canned the iPhone because afew months from the announcement, he said "We still don't have a product". I don't know how, but I reckon he could still wring blood from a stone, given how he gets his staff to do the impossible: Take existing ideas and make them drool-worthy.
I mean, Tablet PCs have been around since 1990s! Back then, Bill Gates envisioned a time when everyone would be toting one, from students through to business leaders doodling the next enterprise workflow or scientific invention. But it never happened. Why? My understanding is that no one really saw much point in paying a premium for a laptop that is lower-powered than a standard one, and you're supposed to interact with a stylus pointing at small things designed for a quick and accurate mouse. One look at how the iPhone differentiates itself from Windows Mobile shows a clear schism in UI doctrine: WM tries to emulate the same Windows UI of windows, menus and sub-menus; iPhone tries to give everything a easy-to-tap interface that is pretty much obvious and intuitive. One coaxes you into doing something you're familiar with (start bar, menus), while the other tries a different approach. That same categorical difference looks set to be repeated on the Tablet scene very soon.
I'm really damn excited about this!!! I'm practically telling my wife that part of my bonus is going towards this new toy. (Haven't really... still scared, hahaha) But its going to be so awesome.
On a related note, the iPhone 4.0 demonstration expected is also rumoured to have a 'simulator' that will show how apps would look on a higher resolution screen! Now that could mean that iPhone OS is basically portable to the iTablet, or it could mean we're due for a new iPhone hardware revision, with a sharper screen to match those of the latest Android devices. That would be very interesting to see how that pans out. As it is, Android developers already have - in the space of afew months - to accommodate three different screen resolutions somehow! Apple's been smart to keep the same resolution across its mobile devices while the App Store gained traction. I would hate to see it lose its momentum like that.
Do you guys and girls have any thoughts on this? Or don't really care all that much?
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