The hype and hope on the Apple Tablet is ridiculous right now, and the WSJ is just piling it on with talk about it revolutionising television, textbooks and newspapers like the iPod changed music. Let’s all just calm down here.
WSJ says Apple’s been researching e-textbooks, as well as newspapers and magazines (which we knew, and we knew that they’ve been talking to various people in the publishing industry).
But, what we didn’t know is that apparently Apple’s been talking to CBS and Disney to get a monthly TV subscription deal going, and working with EA to demo how well games would work on the tablet. The Journal also reinforces the Bing on iPhone rumour we heard yesterday, making it seem like Apple’s really taking an anti-Google stance.
Another bit we didn’t know is that the tablet is supposedly shared among various people in the house, complete with sticky notes that you leave to other people. And, with the built-in webcam, it’ll recognise you automatically. If all these rumours pan out, the tablet is kind of an all-in-one media consumption device, slurping down basically every sort of mass media humans have made since the printing press. [WSJ]
Shane
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12:59 PM“slurping down basically every sort of mass media humans have made since the printing press”
So long as you subscribe to the “apple/itunes” model that is…
Shane
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 1:25 PMYou know, the one catch phrase I’ve not yet heard is “paperless office”
adelaide dancing
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 2:21 PMi’m excited! can’t wait to get my hands on one and try it out for myself… i wonder when they plan to start shipping to australia?
jFROMcolourtheatre
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 3:09 PMnext on the list, facial activated commands! twitch an eye to scroll to a panel in that direction! close both your eyes to go to sleep mode and much more!
that said, us chinese folks will probably have some problems with the technology, “hey, what’s happening? this darn thing keeps going into sleep mode”