Comments on: Apple Tablet Event Invitation Insights

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:59:52 +0000

I think the event is at 10am PST (1pm EST, 6pm GMT?), and Leo will begin broadcasting from 9am PST (12pm EST, 5pm GMT?)

By: u.c.

u.c. — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:15:18 +0000

You dont happen to know what time Leos live.twit broadcast is going to be in you time do you. If Im awake Id like to hear that…..
I hope the Tablet is really really light. Enjoying your posts on this:))

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:07:06 +0000

In a way I am getting tired of all the predictions. The hype is so high that my gut is telling me it’s going to disappoint a lot of people. We’ll see. Only 1 week till we know what it is.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:51:41 +0000

I think I’m with you on most of that analysis. It takes a lot of demo to fill two hours. I think the UI for the OS will be largely new. There is just a lot of complexity on a large screen that doesn’t really exist on a small screen that they need to discuss. For example, can you run two apps side by side? Can you layer them? Do we have control of window sizes? How can we quit apps versus switch apps (the difference is barely noticeable on the iPhone)? How do apps communicate between each other? Can you drag between? I think a new paradigm is necessary to deal with this.

-on going outside the lines: I hadn’t thought about that. It’s a simple metaphor, but that might have been what they had in mind. I would agree that there could very well be some kind of paint app like the old MacPaint which ships free.

I’m still not convinced it will be pen based though. Surely it will be possible to buy an extra stylus from somebody. But I just don’t know if they’ll encourage it. They always think prescriptively instead of what people “want”, which I love. Turns out people will start using things stupidly if you give them a choice.