Comments on: I hope Apple is building the iTablet: a light-weight, wireless, touch screen tablet. http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/ Business • Technology • Society • Environment Sun, 16 May 2010 21:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: KathyB http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-520 KathyB Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:39:17 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/?p=553#comment-520 Fun indeed! Especially like the rumour that Apple might be starting their own electronic bookstore (as per Andy Ihnatko). We will see. Fun indeed! Especially like the rumour that Apple might be starting their own electronic bookstore (as per Andy Ihnatko). We will see.

]]> By: Troy http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Troy Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:37:18 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/?p=553#comment-519 John Packowski has another good post about it here. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090311/apple-netbook-actually-an-e-book/ John Packowski has another good post about it here. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090311/apple-netbook-actually-an-e-book/

]]> By: Troy http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Troy Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:32:12 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/?p=553#comment-518 Maybe but don't you think Apple has always made leaps forward while sacrificing things on the way knowing that eventually technology would catch up? the first iPods had hard drives (first ever in an MP3 player) with small capacities and pretty awful battery life. But they had made the leap. Technology then caught up. Look at the MacBook Air - no removeable battery, solid state super expensive drives with almost no useable capacity but they made the world's lightest 13" laptop. The power management group at apple is probably second to none across the industry right now. Following their patterns from before, they would remove as much as possible (unibody design, no moving parts, minimal plugs, and buttons), add the essentials (wi-fi and maybe 3G), and then make the great leap forward (low-power touch screen of some sort - possibly even grey scale like the early iPods, followed by better screens later as the technology matures.) One of the things I appreciate about Apple's design ethic is that they really are one of the companies that improve design by stripping things away, rather than adding them. Heck, look at the new <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle" rel="nofollow">iPod Shuffle</a>. They were the first company to ditch floppies, the first company to make CD drives standard issue, the first company to ditch the old serial ports and go all USB (I might be reaching there - I don't know that for sure.) My point is that with each generation, they seem to do ditch old technology and standardize on new technology before it's ready for prime time and the act of doing that lets them get an early market lead and then also drive down the costs of said components by purchasing them en masse. I can imagine Apple starting with regular screens now and then moving to touch OLED screens as those develop. Who knows? But it will be fun waiting! Maybe but don’t you think Apple has always made leaps forward while sacrificing things on the way knowing that eventually technology would catch up? the first iPods had hard drives (first ever in an MP3 player) with small capacities and pretty awful battery life. But they had made the leap. Technology then caught up. Look at the MacBook Air – no removeable battery, solid state super expensive drives with almost no useable capacity but they made the world’s lightest 13″ laptop. The power management group at apple is probably second to none across the industry right now. Following their patterns from before, they would remove as much as possible (unibody design, no moving parts, minimal plugs, and buttons), add the essentials (wi-fi and maybe 3G), and then make the great leap forward (low-power touch screen of some sort – possibly even grey scale like the early iPods, followed by better screens later as the technology matures.)

One of the things I appreciate about Apple’s design ethic is that they really are one of the companies that improve design by stripping things away, rather than adding them. Heck, look at the new iPod Shuffle. They were the first company to ditch floppies, the first company to make CD drives standard issue, the first company to ditch the old serial ports and go all USB (I might be reaching there – I don’t know that for sure.) My point is that with each generation, they seem to do ditch old technology and standardize on new technology before it’s ready for prime time and the act of doing that lets them get an early market lead and then also drive down the costs of said components by purchasing them en masse. I can imagine Apple starting with regular screens now and then moving to touch OLED screens as those develop. Who knows? But it will be fun waiting!

]]> By: KathyB http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-517 KathyB Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:13:35 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/?p=553#comment-517 But the battery usage for something like this would make it impossible, wouldn't it? The Kindle and the Sony use low power e-paper. Am I missing something? But the battery usage for something like this would make it impossible, wouldn’t it? The Kindle and the Sony use low power e-paper. Am I missing something?

]]> By: Leslie http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Leslie Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:56:31 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/?p=553#comment-511 I've always wanted to try a Kindle. Have never seen an iPhone so don't know what you're on about but a Kindle makes sense to me. I’ve always wanted to try a Kindle. Have never seen an iPhone so don’t know what you’re on about but a Kindle makes sense to me.

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