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IPad Therefore I Am
- ugh 17y agoWow. Just wow. Is this guy stupid or what? He first posts baseless rumors and instead of admitting that he was wrong and his source was not credible he defends them. Because there were some near hits among the many misses. You are bound to get some hits just by chance. Current hardware only allows so many possiblities. But predicting OLED? Solar panel? Verizon? 2 to 3 hrs battery life? Camera? You call that credible? I'm speechless.
- stcredzero 17y agoA camera makes a lot of sense, actually. A lot of the augmented reality stuff that showed up for the iPhone would work even better on an iPad.
- ugh 17y agoI would have predicted one, too. But if that prediction turns out wrong I would start to doubt what I quoted.
- BigZaphod 17y agoIt looks like Cringely was quoting Jason Calacanis' tweets - which Jason admitted were made up jokes. They started out semi-belivable, but then got more outlandish as they went on. How he fell for them, I don't understand.
- stcredzero 17y agoThere’s simply no way that iPad, no matter what the processor, is good for a real 10 hours of continuous use. If Apple (or anyone else) can pull off the tricks developed for the OLPC, then 10 hours would be doable. (The ability to put the main part of the motherboard to sleep in under 0.1 seconds, while separate systems for the screen and the networking keep going on a trickle of power, combined with the ability to come back just as quickly and invisibly to the user.)
- chrisbolt 17y agoThe quoted 10 hours is for playing video. How can you put the motherboard to sleep while playing video?
- stcredzero 17y ago10 hours of video. Oh yeah, that bit about getting on a flight across the Pacific, watching video all the way.