Much like fusion power
The 12.9" iPad is always six months from release.
Rumors of the much-fabled 12.9-inch iPad have surfaced once again, via a new analyst report. Supply chain specialists IHS now say they believe the Reg-deemed "MaxiPad" is set to enter production in the latter part of 2015. "This product has been in the planning stage for several years but looks to now be solid for a 2015 …
Practical, commercial nuclear fusion power is 50 years and always will be.
This will be the year of the Linux desktop.
The paperless office is nearly here.
It's 2015 and where's my hoverboard, Mattel? At least Nike are promising Marty McFly's Hyperdunk trainers with Power Laces before the year's end.
The new Surface Pro 4 is likely to give it a run for it's money.
For instance, since the FAA approved Microsoft devices for cockpit use late last year in what used to be a solely Apple domain, practically every contract has gone to Wintel - and primarily to Microsoft Surface based solutions. For instance Lufthansa, BA, Delta, Austrian , etc.
>That's a bit rich considering what OS (iOS) was running on what machines (iPads) in the recent grounding of lotsa aircraft.
Seriously? Logically: we know that it was either the OS or the app. Devices running the same OS but without the app did not exhibit this issue. Devices with the app did exhibit the issue. From this we conclude that it was probably the app that was responsible.
"For instance, since the FAA approved Microsoft devices for cockpit use late last year in what used to be a solely Apple domain, practically every contract has gone to Wintel - and primarily to Microsoft Surface based solutions. For instance Lufthansa, BA, Delta, Austrian , etc."
Microsoft likes to have its products used in high profile areas. As an example, Microsoft paid the NFL $400M for Surface to be the official tablet of the NFL. So I wouldn't be surprised if they sold them to the airlines at a substantial discount.
They paid Fox News (or was it CNN) to use Surface tablets during last fall's election coverage, so the Surface tablets with their kickstand were featured prominently on their desks. One shot taken from a side angle revealed they were using the Surface tablets as kickstands to hold up their iPads :)
It's Apple's entry into planned obsolescence/disposable technology.
Like a hockey puck & perhaps its namesake, you throw away after 3 periods.
Not sure where the author got Apple's success lines, but iPad, iPod and probably Mac desktop have all taken a dive of late (we don't see desktop figures broken out anymore, but certainly the server is gone and desktop upgrades are far between - MacPro?). What about Mac mini? AppleTV?
More hype please.
This format makes sense with a stylus. A digital clipboard, a tool for rapid diagramming, a presentational tool for meetings / lectures (tablet and stylus with projector or large screen are far better than a digital whiteboard for a number of reasons not least of which that everyone at the table can write on it by either just handing the tablet round or each having their own). All these uses make a large format tablet pretty useful if it's light.
Such a tablet without stylus - no.
Absolutely a small market - that is why they currently pay a lot of money to anyone catering to them, and why Apple haven't bothered selling 'artist's tablets' to them. It is a smaller subset of the small market that kept Apple alive during the '90s.
Adobe are actively working in this area, though, promoting a stylus and ruler combination for vanilla iPads.
Still, SoC and screen prices fall year on year - even if digitiser tech doesn't - so it might get to the point where a digitiser becomes a good way of differentiating a product for not too much extra cost.
Jobs also once said that the next iPod will also make toast, when asked if it would play video. Jobs would say what he needed to say at the time. Don't think of it as any more than that.
A stylus on a phone is unnecessary for phone and text functions. Tablets and phablets - which people often use with two hands - change things. Apparently the Galaxy Note stylus is good for entering mathematical notation. Cintiq and Modbook make big digitiser tablets for artists. The decline in tablet sales suggests the low hanging fruit of the mass market has already been plucked.
A lot of time will have been spent by Apple, and by Microsoft and others, filming and analysing focus groups using prototype devices in different ways. The potential returns are too high to be amateurish and and unscientific about it.