I'm Adrian Palacios, and this blog is a record of my thoughts on how to leverage social media for advertising purposes (and, consequently, monetizing Web 2.0). I do my thinking in the Flatiron District and my dreaming in Brooklyn, but sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the two :-)
So many people are talking about this I don’t even know who to link to; we’ll start with Ars Technica. It’s amazing how split people are on this though.
I’m going to grossly over-generalize and guess that the rumored iTablet is going to be the smallest but most powerful computer we’ve seen; in other words, I completely disagree with those that suggest this is going to be a larger iPod Touch. Except for Apple TV, the company has not dissapointed in new products…so why would they choose to dissapoint now?
Anywho, I just think it’s interesting that with all this cash on hand, the only very public thing that Apple has done is buy PA Semi and hiring a bunch of “chip guys.” Next, I find it interesting that Steve Jobs once mentioned something along the lines of focusing less on the OS and more on how chips are used; I can’t find a link and I’m not familiar with the terminology, but it seemed analgous to getting our brain to use 100% of its “computing power” rather than its common 10%. Which, would make sense, now that Apple is pushing developers to support 64-bit.
So, my guess is that this new tablet will actually run something like Snow Leopard. It will be one of the smallest and most powerful computers we’ve seen. Oh, and they are going to do something amazing with the keyboard. I watched a TED video yesterday where a guy projected a keypad onto his hand and dialed a phone number; I seriously think it will be something like that.
I mean, our Dear Leader, who has a lot to say about iTablet, once wrote a little book that ended Steve Jobs taking time off to dream up a “computer built entirely out of a single sheet of touch-screen plastic that you can roll up and carry with you in a tube.” It may not be that amazing, but it’s gonna be close.
