{"id":108,"date":"2009-09-27T09:28:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loomingtech.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-09-27T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:28:48","slug":"the-looming-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/the-looming-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"

TechCrunch recently came out with this article on the future of tablets<\/a>. This part is particularly interesting:<\/p>\n

So what can we expect in the next year? Well, first we have the CrunchPad. When all the bugs are worked out, it will be an amazing device \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen it. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not just saying that because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been intimately involved in the design process, because I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that gives me a bit of perspective. Expect the CrunchPad to be a excellent device for blogging \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Mike made it for \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and for web apps. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect much in the way of media.<\/p>\n

Then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the iPad. This will eclipse the industry and for the rest of the year that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hear about. Trust me. Apple could require you to give this device three drops of blood every morning in order to satisfy the demonic hell-beast soul trapped inside it and we would, gladly. The release will be on par with the iPhone release and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sell a million of them.<\/p>\n

\"\"Then you have Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Courier<\/a>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impressive, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Microsoft; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect that thing to take shape for two years and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect it to take off until the second generation. Like the Zune, Microsoft will make a product but they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it good until they have a little time to mull it over. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the Courier will be a player in 2010.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of the devices, expect slow uptake by price conscious consumers and folks who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cool\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153name brand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d technology and are real \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hackers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (read: teenagers and European students). Archos<\/a>, \"a9_front_11\"for example, is doing a lot of good work in the tablet space but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an also-ran. They are going the Tablet OS route, which is no good. Creative has some devices planned and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also clear that ChromeOS could power a nice device \u00e2\u20ac\u201c provided HTC<\/a> makes it.<\/p>\n

As for connectivity most of these will have a 3G option \u00e2\u20ac\u201c although I doubt the iPad will have 3G built-in. WiFi is an obvious second-best.<\/p>\n

As for size, tablets, at least with capacitive screens, are weighed down by a huge hunk of metal that shields the electronics from the screen. This hunk of metal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the glass \u00e2\u20ac\u201c prevents us from getting a bigger iPod Touch and is what is keeping the iPad from coming out sooner. Once the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (i.e. China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) scientists solve this problem we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get what we want. Until then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resistive all the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n

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TechCrunch recently came out with this article on the future of tablets. This part is particularly interesting: So what can we expect in the next year? Well, first we have the CrunchPad. When all the bugs are worked out, it will be an amazing device \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen it. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not just saying that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53,54,55],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovered","tag-tablet","tag-tablets","tag-techcrunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}