The Tablet guys will love this:
“Who wants a stylus!” – Steve Jobs. 09 Jan 2007.
I give you the finger. Oh Sorry. That sounded rude!
It looks awesome and will do great things to promote the use of the mobile Internet but with a 480 wide screen. (I’m guessing from the 160ppi figure Jobs gave.) and no keyboard the consumer UMPC, uber-PMP and Uber-Smartphone manufacturers have a little breathing space. They could even position themselves to catch all the people that buy one and need:
- faster throughput (its GPRS only)
- less latency
- keyboard
- 800 pixels wide for real browsing
Apple have created anew opportunity today. But only for about 12 months because next year it will be the 4.5″ 800×480 iThing!
Back to UMPCs now. Hopefully all the UMPC resellers and manufacturers will make their product announcements now that they now how to pitch them.
Move along please… Hey, where have you all gone?… Apple store what?
Steve.
P.S. Watch out for a lot of fuss from Mac fan Blogger.com users. The service was down for maintenance for the whole keynote!
January 10th, 2007 at 5:52 am
my stylus is much less clumsy than my finger.
I think the stylus still wins
January 10th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I can live without a stylus if this new gesture setup works. What annoys me is that I don’t want a cingular phone, I want an OSX internet tablet.
A larger screen and this would easily replace my 3G iPod, no-name portable DVD player, Palm TX and Dell Laptop.
Sigh.
Any more dirt on that mystery Palm project?