Powerbooks Wo n’t Need Keyboards Once They Get stylus ! ( 2000 )
To the author ’s course credit , this reportstays on track for a passably long time :
harmonize to sources , InkWell will ship alongside Mac OS X , which is currently due to arrive betimes in 2001 ; a version may also be available to users of Mac OS 9 .
Apple is reportedly working closely with Wacom Inc. to ensure InkWell ’s compatibility with the pad of paper manufacturer ’s line of insistence - raw input devices .
This turned out to be true , and InkWell is still built into OS X. It ’s now mostly shroud , and close to vestigial , but InkWell consolidation did happen . Here ’s what did n’t :
In summation , author said Apple is considering lend pen - input support to the trackpad of Mercury , the society ’s next - generation PowerBook G4 .
“ The idea is to carry off the motive for a keyboard , ” said one source familiar with Apple ’s plans .
So , a grapple pad of paper ? A laptoblet ? Does the touch expanse exchange the keyboard ? Is it even attached ? In the years after this was posted , Microsoft ( and others ) made the concept of laptop computer - sized touch screen utterly terrestrial , and this branch of the hypothesis tree — the separate , all - inclusive touch input signal surface — sere and become flat .
Apple ’s Tablet Will Finally Link Our Computers , television receiver and VCRs , Because Of radical - Wide Band Wireless ! ( 2003 )
Robert X. Cringely ( Mark Stephens , really ) starts this pillar by lay out areasonable visionfor what a tablet gadget could do , or at least what is should aspire to :
The tablet PC grampus app for the lot market is functioning as a digital hub , a general concept both Apple and Microsoft have been drive for a twosome yr . It ’s the idea that your computer ought to operate your telecasting and your stereophony and your VCR . The only trouble has been that there is n’t a good way to link these thing all together , and even if we do , that digital hub is n’t anywhere near your TV , at least not yet .
This is still a running song in tablet give-and-take , and in many ways — tablet - ized or not — it feels inevitable . For Rob , though , the star were aligned for the media hub — i.e. the tab — all the way back in 2003 . The bright in the constellation ? Ultra - wide band networking hardware ! :
What ’s needed is a networking technology optimize for video transport . One has been in the works for sometime , and down at the IEEE , they call it 802.15.3 , and this is where I think Apple see opportunity … Understand that 802.15.3 is a high data rate Personal Area connection with a reach of about 10 meters . This is n’t a WiFi competition . consider of it as a form of Super Bluetooth , capable of post video over poor distances without interference and with true quality of service , which 802.11 ca n’t bring home the bacon .
To project that Apple may be concerned in UWB wireless for a tablet would have been fine , but to hinge its intact existence on this fledging tech ( that still has n’t give out much of anywhere , by the way ) does n’t make any sense . And why would you stream media from a tablet , which has barrage and connectivity constraint ? Why not make something like … the Apple TV .
The Wireless Tablet Without a Battery ( 2003 )
Here ’s a password - jumble of atablet rumorfrom Digitimes , Circa 2003
Apple Computer plans to launch a wireless display for a desktop organisation , according to generator . The display is enounce to resemble a Tablet microcomputer in appearance and include a detachable keyboard but not have a barrage . Whether it has handwriting realisation or any screen input potentiality is unclear … The Formosan - language Economic Daily News reported today that Quanta had landed club for a 15 - inch Tablet PC - like gimmick , with payload to start in the first tail of 2004 .
A tablet - like wireless show , with a keyboard , without a electric battery , possibly with screen input . What the infernal region is this suppose to be ? Did a reporter trip up across an iMac for the first time , and decide he ’d see a HOT scoopful ?
Digitimes occasionally come through with a juicy bit from their component industry connects , but more often their “ exclusives ” are just buzzy word puzzles , gleaned from the newspaper headline on Techmeme . And this may be their finest work .
A “ Mega Platform ” : Hot for Touchscreens , Apple Kills All Keyboards ( 2007 )
Analyst take in iPhone . Analyst decides to extrapolate all forecasting from iPhone . Analystssays ridiculous things :
In a inquiry note issued Tuesday , analyst Ben Reitzes encourage his clients to look past the minute contingent of the initial iPhone and focus on the powerfulness that lies in the ‘ unannounced ’ multi - touch ecosystem that will eventually find its style into several products across the company ’s product portfolio .
“ We believe this ‘ Mega - Platform ’ could aid Apple become an ‘ open - ended ’ growth story once again with a logical chronology of new products for years to come , ” the analyst wrote …
To be honest , Apple had just labour touch UI monetary standard forward a few years , so some enthusiasm is venial . But touchscreen TVs ? :
The UBS analyst said he expects the new weapons platform to become rife in each of the consumer electronics Lord ’s major computer hardware products within 3 - 5 year , possibly sparking touchscreen Macs later this vacation season or sometime in 2008 . Among his expectations are touch - screen door iMacs , as well as “ tablet - like ” notebook computer devices that supply basic computing without the need for a keyboard or stylus if the substance abuser desire to keep the machine close .
“ We also expect novel touchscreen telecasting iPods , more phones and possibly even television in the future , ” he add together . “ With heed to the iPhone , we expect Apple to have a full line of phones from $ 150 to $ 600 available for leverage at multiple retailers in several geography within three years , just like it did for iPod . ”
A lot of the worldwide prediction actually came true , but the problem here is with the logical system : Apple made one affair with a touchscreen , and it was passably undecomposed ; therefore , Apple should make all things with touchscreen .
( In character you ’re wonder where the horrendous exotic clubhouse fingerscame from )
https://gizmodo.com/how-will-we-type-on-the-apple-tablet-5446652
The Tablet That Lives in a Lobotomized iMac ( 2008 )
Because all Apple patents wrench into actual mathematical product 100 % of the sentence , the Apple tabletmust have a dock , or something :
fulfil the flagship of Apple ’s recent fuss of patent activity , a mathematical product some have been predicting Apple would release for long time : the Mac tablet . This slate - format pad of paper is as portable as a MacBook Air , but with a twist : It also docks into an iMac for regular desktop oeuvre .
But not just any iMac . This is a very stupid iMac :
This may seem mundane at first , but do n’t weigh on Apple leaving this as a dewy-eyed , mute display , with a comparatively underfeatured pad shouldering all of work load . Tucked inside this customs duty iMac you ’ll witness a big , secondary hard cause ( for spare storage or robotlike backup ) , a beefed - up artwork chip , or even an special mainframe , dedicate the tablet a magnate cost increase befitting a workstation .
It ’s clear that Maclife cherry - picked Apple patents the synthesize this exceptional rumour , and almost everyone who ’s written anything about the tablet is shamed of a petty dream projection . The trouble here , though , is that the dreaming is very , very dumb . Oh , and Apple already tried it , rather miserably , in1992 .
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