Quickly reviewing what I got right and wrong 5 months before iPad was announced, in my blog post Piecing Together The Apple Tablet. I got everything right except the dimensions of things and the multi-tasking (which comes later).
Right: 100% multi-touch.
Right: Glass and aluminum.
Wrong: The virtual keyboard will be full size. No, it will be kinda-sorta near full size. Tablet’s 8.25″ x 11″ dimensions. It will be 7.5″ by 9.5″. The bezel will be 0.25″. It is about 1″. In order to hold it properly. Resolution 1600 x 1200. It will be 1024 x 768.
Right: Thickness of an iPhone.
Right: Non-removable battery.
Right: It will run an OS far closer to iPhone OS than to OS X Leopard.
Right: It will use the App Store exclusively.
Right: It won’t be a “full purpose computer.”
Right: The Apple Tablet will be for stuff like surfing the web, email, taking notes, calendar, YouTube, music, games.
Right: The Apple Tablet won’t be very powerful, like a typical laptop.
Right: The Apple Tablet will only have a headphone jack and iPod connector. Nothing else.
Right: No moving parts. No Stylus.
Right: The app for music will be called “iPod”, it won’t be “iTunes” like on Mac OS X.
Right: It still needs a full purpose computer around to sync to.
Right: The Apple Tablet will be the first non-mobile device for the masses that will be as easy to use as an iPhone.
Right: Apple will equip it with a full complement of completely multi-touch optimized applications.
Wrong: Multi-tasking.
Right: One app on screen at any given time. No Windows. No OS X menu bar.
Right: Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Right: It might have 3G capabilities.
Right: Not a phone.
Right: There’s always a camera in your pocket (the iPhone) for a better experience than lifting the tablet up to take a photo.
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong: It has to support Flash.
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