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Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet 303

Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the price-point-will-be-everything dept.
All the whispers of an Apple tablet PC seem to be culminating in a flurry of rumors suggesting we may see one as soon as next month. Sources inside Apple are saying that Jobs is finally "happy" with the device after being involved in every detail of bringing it into the light of day. As a side result of these rumors, it seems that Apple stockholders are also getting a bit of Christmas cheer with a significant bump in stock price.
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Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet

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  • Re:Wow (Score:2, Informative)

    by ShooterNeo (555040) on Friday December 25 2009, @12:57PM (#30551456)
    Look at FairTrade's reliability data. Apple is one of the manufacturers of the most reliable laptop computers. Sure, they aren't ruggedized laptops : but toughbooks are an extremely expensive niche device. For the overwhelming majority of applications and users, it's cheaper to buy the extended warranty against accidental damage than to buy a ruggedized laptop.

  • Re:Wow (Score:3, Informative)

    by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday December 25 2009, @01:25PM (#30551586) Homepage

    Apple is one of the manufacturers of the most reliable laptop computers.

    I worked in Unis, large corporations and I found from these places that Apple laptops had a rather large amount of "logicboard failures" and bad manufacturing practices in their products (super amounts of thermal paste, poor soldering) as opposed to HP business laptops, Thinkpads, Acer that had very few issues in comparison... From my large experience, I am skeptical of anyone claiming this.

  • Re:And the price... (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 25 2009, @01:46PM (#30551686)

    I can only imagine laying on my sofa

    FFS, it's lying.

    I am lying on the sofa; I lie on the sofa.

    I lay the book on the table.

    I went to the couch and lay down.

    I went to the couch and laid the book down.

  • Re:Jobs is happy with it? (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 25 2009, @02:27PM (#30551872)

    Depends on your definition of 'superior'. The PSP is 'superior' to the DS, but look how reality is playing out.

    You're right, though, you don't understand.

  • Re:Jobs is happy with it? (Score:3, Informative)

    by compro01 (777531) on Friday December 25 2009, @04:46PM (#30552474)

    You can say that again. We bought a Panasonic house phone set, and the UI sucks eggs. For example, there's a "speaker" button to turn on speaker-phone mode. However, the same button doesn't turn it off. (It's not broken because there are multiple handsets). I never figured out how to turn off speaker mode (the manual was lost). It's as if they don't do any real UI testing. They bang out a design and as soon as it merely works they ship it. And don't even get me started about Windows.

    If you have the same sort of Panasonic phone I do, you switch it from speaker to normal by pushing the talk button.

  • Re:Well (Score:3, Informative)

    by LOLLinux (1682094) on Saturday December 26 2009, @01:13AM (#30554236)

    And the 1st gen iPhone was a dismal failure until Apple gave customers what they wanted vis-a-vis 3G, native applications, and carrier subsidies.

    They sold 6 million of the original iPhones before the 3G came out in 5 quarters. That is hardly something that is considered a "dismal failure".

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.