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Regarding the Mac Tablet
I’m laying at the beach writing a rough draft to this entry not because I want to but because I can. Because there’s finally a device that has cemented for me what it means to handle minimal computer task effectively while not being in front of one. I’m referring to the iPhone.
Responding to an email is simple. Browsing the web is painless (depending on which model you own), social networking is entertaining and the gist is that the realization of feeling connected with what’s important even in the strangest of places is there.
The iPhone commercials says it best. You can practically do anything with the device without feeling limited to what it really is, a cell phone. Thankfully in part to the existent passion in the app development community and Mac addicts like myself that giggle in excitement with any rumors pertaining new products. Which brings me to the much talked about Mac Tablet.
Beautiful illustrations are everywhere from what some already envision this product to look like although I’ll admit I’m more charmed by the notion than the actual development of it and here’s why.
If the Mac Tablet does exist, it would more or less be considered Apple’s response to the electronic craze of netbooks and their strength lies in its amazing portability. The ability to do minimal stuff as mentioned before but without having the full CPU power. If I fancy for a full computer experience, why not just bring along my laptop instead of settling for second best?
Any task you can’t do on your iPhone or feel stronger doing on your computer, you’ll look forward to accomplishing it on your laptop, so there is a desire to get to it and complete what you have to.
Working on the iPhone leaves me wanting more from the limited the device has to offer. It makes me look forward to follow up on clipped feeds on NetNewsWire iPhone, on responding to emails that require attachments, on getting the full experience from a hilarious YouTube video or finalizing a draft as I’m doing now which I started on Simplenote.
My point is that what the iPhone contributes to me is merely chapters of an entire book I have awaiting for me at home, which is my laptop. If I want the whole book, I’ll bring it with me and by having a Mac Tablet in the mix, it’ll be like having a photocopied version of a book that I already own and have no interest in carrying when I can occupy myself with chapters on my iPhone until I get home to continue the real thing.
Sound confusing? I hope not. Needless to say I have no interest in a Mac Tablet because as Nick Santilli over at The Apple Blog puts it, “Apple has already entered this market, albeit, incognito. Disguised as a cellular phone and MP3 player respectively, the iPhone and iPod touch are on the verge of being an ultramobile computing platform”.
I love being able to handle multiple small task on my iPhone and I can see that going away if I purchased a tablet. Or perhaps a tablet is what I need to remind me that phone calls are possible on my iPhone too since I exploit every other function but that one.
