The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs - Latest Comments in Help me decide something

Re: Help me decide something

asamoylo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:48:52 -0000

To be perfectly honest, I'm a PC guy. I like the fact that I can fix and upgrade them on my own. With that said, if a thin, fast, long lasting tablet was released by you guys, I would buy one in a heart beat. I'm a student and a light computer I can write on and read from would be a great advantage.

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bot — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:37:20 -0000

Somebody listened :)

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Androgen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:03:02 -0000

You are forgetting the more important part of the last post...the guy that dresses like a woman from the waist down. Normally, I would have thought that this was FSJ nonsense but I can testify to the fact that this dude/ette exists. I saw him in MacCafe when I was watching the iPhone Keynote with my friend when I was down for MWSF. He was truly amazing.

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Peter — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:36:32 -0000

Hell no. Give them a maintenance update to iLife 08 and a new iPhone firmware drop that will break everyone's jailbroken phone.

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Yeah — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:12:45 -0000

Microsoft is killing Office all by itself. The Office 2008 (Mac) version of Excel has dumped VBA and apparently the current plan is the next Windows version will too. Using those old macro laden Excel 'applications' is the one really compelling reason for businesses to stray from the Microsoft fold. It actually gives Google a change that someone will use their apps instead of just download them. And then there is iWork on the Mac and those Open apps accross a bunch of platforms. Microsoft has already to hack at their price.

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wishful think-tard — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:46:29 -0000

How 'bout a device that is as small as a business card but stretches to any size you want that connects to everything, has inifinite storage, transfers any data at teraflops per second, never needs a power source, is controlled by thought, automatically syphons off $ from the Borg that are coverted into AAPL shares in my account...at a 99 cent price point! Bokay?

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lastangelman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:30:36 -0000

http://www.informationweek....

Oh, this is going to be ugly, Apple is going hurt Axiotron real bad. I'd imagine the first few thousand Apple tablets heading straight to Emeryville and Anaheim - oh, that was easy. Will the Apple tablet eat Microsoft, H-P and Dell's lunch or be an expensive fondly remembered experiment? Depending on circumstances, the Apple tablet may supplant the box PC at home, school and work and be the next iPod. If that were to occur, it might hurt Microsoft's OS sales, but Office for Mac sales would increase, unless Steve has an Apple productivity suite waiting in the wings that would render Office and its freetard clones obsolete. Ballmer would render a redwood to matchsticks* if such a thing happened. Not that Apple has anything that could supplant Office at moment - yet ...

Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to make the better version of Office for the Mac - is this the same team that developed Vista - the reason I ask is that the only hardware Vista runs flawlessly on is MacPro.

*Matchstick - the pocket version of Kindle coming out next September.

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Roachie — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:00:22 -0000

How about Apple get into gear and actually release the iPhone to countries that have been patiently waiting for the past year?

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comanchezen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:47:51 -0000

true dat. i'd love to get my hands on an apple slate that i could use for surfing from the web or controlling my apple tv. i don't have concrete floors, but i'd like a slate just the same...

Re: Help me decide something

lastangelman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:28:27 -0000

I do not see how any of those things are supposed to hurt Microsoft. They had an excruciating bad execution of Vista and the latest iteration of Office is being treated as "feh".
To kill Microsoft you have to supplant Office - that is the main aorta to its cash flow - otherwise what you suggest are merely mosquito bites and slight flesh wounds with a paring knife.
What will happen is several "somethings" (software as service, Google as the new Borg, an Office killer) that will shake up and cause the company to fragment, then it will re-assemble itself and meet the challenge.
Unless they start acting like IBM (talk about killing company morale, tanking customer satisfaction and bewildering stockholders), Apple is not going to supplant M$FT.
Apple can and will supplant Sony and H-P, not to mention Blockbuster, Netflix and Nokia.

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lastangelman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:07:08 -0000

I wanna' see those Beatle remasters on iTunes pronto. Geez, I may even buy a Beatle iTouch if it's got Hard Day's Night, Help and Anthology videos (release a Traveling Wilburys iPhone with Jeff Lynne's, Tom Petty's and Bob Dylan's autograph, and I'm sold)

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scottgjerdingen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:39:24 -0000

Either would be "taking your eye off the ball"

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comanchezen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:37:53 -0000

new fake shit? please, please, pu-lease just fake update my fucking iphone and appletv for christ's sake...

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JohnTheArtist — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:31:39 -0000

I love how people say there's no need for a tablet when they have no need for one. As an artist who uses tablets everyday, Wacom and TabletPCs running Photoshop in Windows even, I would love a Cintiq/Mac combo like the vaporware ModBook was supposed to be.

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John Slaughter — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:27:19 -0000

Tablet, yes. But do it right. It needs to have a stylus or it's useless as a tool. iPhone is great with the fingers because of it's purpose, but not too many artist and illustrators are finger painting in photoshop out here in the real world. Just make it a Cintiq-to-go, in fact, call up Wacom and use their awesome hardware and just call it that as a partnership. Cintiq-to-go.

If it's a 15" iPhone it will be crap. Artists won't use it, and it will be too big to be convenient anymore.

Sub-notebook? I can see lots of use for it, but I wouldn't want it unless I can draw on it with a pen of sorts...

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samarks — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:22:11 -0000

The comments are even more interesting than the blog on this one.

The subnotebook is needed. Many people use the Pro as their only computer, not that there is anything wrong with that, but adults need a small lightweight JUST for traveling, whether to work in the coffee shop or on the road. But it should have a unique way to sync with the desktop Mac and use the DVD in the main computer to install software when needed.

The tablet is needed to stake out this new territory that will appeal to iPhone users who don't like computers. I agree with the comments that it needs its own killer apps the way the iPhone did and does. Like a good Kindle reader built in. The Newton reborn!

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AJACs — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:15:42 -0000

apologies for being off topic... the apple help desk would not put me through to your office.

MS update servers doling out viruses (and I don't mean ie7)

erratasec.blogspot.com

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operative c — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:52:51 -0000

hey, how about you start by making it so the keys of my laptop don't scratch the screen, you fucktards.

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DogCatBird — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:44:08 -0000

I want a laptop with a screen in the standard location and a screen where the keyboard normally is. And have both be touch sensitive. And have the keyboard/screen reconfigure according to the application like the iPhone. Then I can type on it when using Pages, use it like a Wacom when doing graphics, and use it like a second page when turned sideways like for a PDF reader. I would buy that; even stand in line for that one.

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Mike Cane — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:32:36 -0000

Shhhhh! How do you think those five guys got nude in that picture? Just before Steve pressed the Beam switch, they had clothes. Stupid beta testers!

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Mike Cane — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:30:57 -0000

And don't forget, aside from Sony, I love you too! Mwah. (Just don't get all, you know, like gay about it. Not that that would be wrong, but it's just not right for me. No, I will not hug you now!)

Scoble Twitter Update: I can has hug?

Ew!

Re: Help me decide something

Mike Cane — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:28:15 -0000

Listen you: We Want All Of It!

You think we're gonna settle for frikkin crumbs? I think you OWE us. Now, while I haven't yet personally thrown down the bucks for an iPhone, others did -- and at the very least they are owed more than mere crumbs. And I have my own warped sense of entitlement too! Think of that!

What is this, Deal or No Deal?

And listen you, I'm getting mighty pissed that you've gone all quiet about that iBook ebook reader! (If it turns out it's really the iTablet, that's OK -- as long as it has ebook reading software!)

Get cracking. I've been giving Sony free advice. Don't end up as 2008's Ed Colligan!

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Bellywaffler — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:15:47 -0000

I'll take either one of those puppies. Preferrably a tablet, but if that's too risky for you at least gimme the flashbook.

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Jim — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:15:21 -0000

I'd go in to debt for a Newton! The first Newton was pretty amazing and it was more than 15 years ago.....oh yeah bring it on.

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Robert — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:07:46 -0000

I had the opportunity to be in LV for the NAR Expo this year and I was asked why Apple doesn’t have a booth here, I agree the Real Estate industry has really embraced tech recently and with that being said I see a real value for a good tablet on the market.