http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/ Engadget Comments for Apple's latest patent probably isn't tablet related, but feel free to speculate anyway http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Indeed.
But will it blend?]]>Jan 8th 2010 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://bit.ly/islate-specs-hoax-and-official-details
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maybe.]]>Jan 8th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 9th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Oled means you can't go outside, right? Meh.]]>Jan 8th 2010 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Or how 'bout you quit trollin'?]]>Jan 8th 2010 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
You realize a patent requires no prior R&D? This patent doesn't mean squat about what Apple does develop.

Apple has a long history of systems engineering. Their history of engineering Hardware ended when they switched over to Intel CPUs.]]>Jan 8th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
ahahah, really? Ever heard of Apple and Intel's co-op on this new optic interface called LightPeak coming to computers this year? No? hmm, How about Apple's next-generation video interface called mini DisplayPort? No? maybe you heard of Apple's multi-touch "button-less" glass trackpads? No? How about something called the multi-touch MagicMouse? No? Are you aware Apple engineers it's own motherboards (logic boards)? Apple has recently returned to designing micro-chips after acquiring PA Semi. You can look up the rest.

Since you've proven yourself clueless, I'll clue you in something else too. Prior to the switch to Intel (and never before either), Apple never ever developed their own CPUs. They used IBM's PowerPC and before that they used Motorola's CPUs.]]>Jan 9th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
There is an Apple Tablet coming. That much is true. The iPhone itself is based off the R&D on Tablets Apple has done over the past few years, but the hardware wasn't quite where they needed it to be to ensure the thinness and the power they needed for a Tablet till now. ARM processors are packing some major power these days, with very little effect on the battery. Not to mention mobile GPUs that are doing a great job for mobile gaming devices.

Plus, an employee or two at Apple has been pumping information out, while it may be scarce in details it's there. Which is why Dell and HP and every other PC maker was adamant about showing off their own tablet device at CES, which by no coincidence was named a "slate" type device. This is merely an attempt to leech onto the success that the "iSlate/iTablet" will have. Cause let's face it, no other company around gets hype up more so than Apple.

]]>Jan 8th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/a small MacBook with touchscreen. I don't think they will
unveil any sort of "tablet" that would compete with the iPod touch.]]>Jan 8th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Totally, even before this article, what with the Macbook only having one model anymore it's pretty obvious Apple has both Macbook and iBook.

There is some serious cluelessness in the tech media or some serious cash making them not think]]>Jan 8th 2010 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
As an aside, if the mythical unicorn comes down from Loki and showers us all in Apple pills then why IS it a slate and why IS it called islate, itablet etc...

Apple, since the iPod and various trademark tussles is surely just buying up names to block their use. That and...

Unibody, multitouch, MacBook Air and the unmentioned fact the Macbook is now a range of one product where Apple -tends- to work in 3's for each product.

Why the heck wouldn't they call it the Macbook or even the iBook. An ultra thin clamshell that's all screen, seamless in the middle, orientation sensing between book and laptop modes with multitouch.

This would make it 5" or such when closed, easy to slip in bag or large pocket. Use in vertical/book mode for content consumption and horizontal/latop mode with keyboard...

Obviously I know nothing like the rest of us, but the tech pundit Imagination on this subject is so blank. It's a book, a slate and a laptop all in one.

The tablet format has proved a fail over n over again, hard to hold, hard to type one handed, hard to carry, screen easily damaged. Why would SJ release another tablet. Consider when the Air came out, here comes the even more Air

It's a freakin Mac Book if its anything]]>Jan 8th 2010 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/to be honest, the first question I asked when I heard about the 'iSlate' was, "Why?". Where is the demand for slate devices? There's a demand for smartphones, for netbooks and laptops, but slates? They've never seemed practical in their current form. I'm fairly sure that it's either not going to be a slate (in the traditional sense), or it's going to be an iFlop.]]>Jan 8th 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Agreed

I ended up with iflop tonight, very disapointing. Will console myself with some rendering]]>Jan 8th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
There isnt.

All of this has been manufactured by the tech media to grease the skids for a rumored device from Apple. And right on schedule many tech outlets have been needlessly attacking the whole product segment to try to again, manufacture a dire need for a Apple version of a tablet computer, to "save" us from supposedly bad computers. Completely, or conveniently, forgetting that an Apple tablet would suffer from the same issues that make tablets a niche device.

The whole thing reeks of astroturf, and if anything has completely discredited many of these folks. Engadget has at least shown some restraint and professionalism.]]>Jan 8th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Now, IF and IF Apple is going to launch a tablet, they will most certainly not repeat the same mistakes of the last 10 years. Therefore it would be logical to take a different approach to developing a tablet that the consumer market in general would find desirable.

But of course, to the MS/Apple-hater crowd this is only unprofessional, biased, manufactured conspiracy and black helicopters. To which say, ahahahahahah! How dare the tech media not like Microsoft and like Apple instead! Ahahahah!]]>Jan 9th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
just a thought!

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MY KEYBOARD IS STUCK ON CAPS LOCK TOO, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO FIX IT???]]>Jan 8th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
my names engadget and the iphone was my idea]]>Jan 8th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
http://gizmodo.com/5435723/the-iphone-wouldve-sucked-if-the-rumors-were-true]]>Jan 9th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
Please confirm.
]]>Jan 8th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 9th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/ditto. It could have something to improve antenna design or increase the snr of the capacitive screen around the edges]]>Jan 10th 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/
and breakable....]]>Jan 8th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 8th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/apples-latest-patent-probably-isnt-tablet-related-but-feel-fr/Jan 9th 2010 11:45PM