Apple Tablet Rumor Wrap Up 348
Since the Apple event is this afternoon, and the submission bin overflows with Apple Tablet rumor stories, I'm putting up a few of the more choice links here so we can all speculate for the next few hours. A McGraw Hill CEO confirmed the tablet on CNBC last night, basically saying it is a big iPhone that has content agreements with publishers. Another blogger wrote in with a expectation list for the event, and technologizer had a nice history of fail in the world of tablet computing. Feel free to add your own rumor, speculation, and exhausted eye rolling below.
Re:I was considering one to replace my macbook (Score:3, Informative)
Re:overgrown iPhone / iPod Touch (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Apple's strategy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I was considering one to replace my macbook (Score:4, Informative)
It doesn't "definitely" mean an ARM processor any more than OS X "definitely" meant a PowerPC processor. OS X already runs on three different kinds of CPUs (ARM, PowerPC, and Intel), and it's certainly not impossible to imagine a fourth.
Even most of the iPhone OS itself already runs just fine on Intel chips, as any developer with access to the iPhone Simulator knows. I run iPhone apps on Intel all the time (though admittedly it requires a recompile).
Now, the new tablet will almost certainly run existing iPhone apps without modification, which either means an ARM CPU or a Rosetta-like technology to handle the emulation. I agree that the thing most likely has an ARM chip and will run existing apps natively. But we won't know for sure what chip it uses for a few more hours.
Re:Apple's strategy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Apple's strategy (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I was considering one to replace my macbook (Score:1, Informative)
It's not that Adobe didn't 'allow' Apple to install Flash on the iPhone. It's that there simply wasn't a version of Flash that ran on the ARM processor until fairly recently (the past few months).
Re:Touch screen apps has come of age (Score:2, Informative)
Uh, complaints are negative observations.
I like how you didn't refute his point about Slashdot's need to bash things as if it's some personal insult that the things exist in the first place. Remember the initial reaction around here to the iPod and iPod mini?