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Steve Jobs is going to appear at the latest All Things Digital conference, and to celebrate the rare appearance of the CEO outside of an Apple event, All Things Digital has posted a few historic interviews with Jobs from conferences past. The first is from 2003 (also posted after the break on this post), and Kara Swisher will be posting the others weekly up until the new conference. None of it is new material, obviously, but it’s very interesting to see Jobs’ thinking a few years ago, knowing what we know today about what Apple was hoping to do with the iPhone and, now, the iPad. If you don’t want to wait for Swisher to post the latest ones, you can check out our posts from when the events actually happened.

He, of course, denies that Apple is working on a tablet (would the Internet have believed it if he’d told them about the iPad anyway?). However, when he talks about a personal computer as a content hub and how it is “integral to our digital lifestyle,” you can see flickers of the vision that he had of us sitting on the couch, receiving the world through this book-sized device.

These interviews probably aren’t for everyone. For those of you who are interested, not only in what Apple is doing next but also in what they were doing “next” five years ago, they are definitely worth a watch.

TUAWSteve Jobs of interviews past originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 12 May 2010 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe is showing off Android-based prototype tablets at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Zedomax has a pretty gushing review of Flash’s performance on these tablets, calling it “rather incredible technology.” There’s no mention of how the battery life in these prototype tablets suffers while playing Flash video, though. In his “Thoughts on Flash,” Steve Jobs noted that using Flash on the iPhone effectively halves its battery life.

What’s far more interesting, and far more hilarious, is that although Zedomax claims Flash works “flawlessly” on these tablets, there’s certainly evidence to the contrary. In the video above, the Android tablet reviewer is showing off the Flash functionality. Just as he says, “Good thing I didn’t buy an iPad, because this one does Flash,” the browser crashes. “Whoops,” the reviewer says, gamely trying to carry on with his review in spite of the crash. [Never mind that he's demoing Flash by playing a YouTube video, which of course the iPad does just as well. -Ed.]

As an interesting side note, the same reviewer says that these Android tablets are “basically a giant Android phone.” So, if you hate the iPad because “it’s just a big iPod touch,” please remember that, in the interest of not sounding like a fanboy, you are obligated to hate the Android tablet (whenever it actually gets released) for the same reason.

[Via Daring Fireball]

TUAWFound footage: Android tablet prototype running (and crashing) Flash originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 May 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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An Android-based tablet was captured on video running Flash — or should we say trying to run Flash — before it crashes:

“Here’s a quick and dirty hands-on video review of the Android multi-touch tablet prototype (Android ipad). Yes, it does Adobe flash and air well.”

Ironically, you can hear the cameraman boast how [...]

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UPDATE: TiPb was sent a transcript of the TD Newcrest Technology Conference, including the comments by RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridi, so here they are in their entirety. On tablets:

Well. The trends we’ve been following have been an — there’s been, over the last three to four years, organizations have discovered the value of [...]

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There’s a great article at The Guardian today that compares the iPad’s introduction to that of the iPod and iPhone, and offers interesting numbers regarding Apple’s share of the tablet market.

Last January, IDC analyst David Daoud projected that sales of non-Apple tablet PCs will fall to 1.25 million units in 2010 (down from 1.32 million in 2008). At the same time, projected iPad sales for 2010 range from Piper Jaffray’s estimate of 4.3 million to Forrester’s 3 million (iSuppli says 7 million, but that seems a bit nuts).

Let’s say they’re all way off and go with a conservative guess of 2 million units sold. Even that number would make Apple the largest tablet computer manufacturer in the world. Already.

TUAWThe Guardian: Apple probably already top tablet supplier originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Michael Wolf at GigaOm has put together an interesting report in which he believes that the tablet app market will grow to $8 billion annually by 2015. That’s a far cry from the $183 million tablet app market he predicts for 2010. Wolf believes that downloads of paid apps will be significantly higher for tablets than for smartphones. In 2011, he believes 179 million paid apps will be downloaded. By 2013 he expects that number will reach 630 million. He also believes that downloads of tablet apps (paid, free, and ad-supported) will reach 12 billion by 2015, up from 272 million in 2010.

Wolf is quick to point out that that $8 billion app market is only for paid apps on tablets — he doesn’t include apps that monetize in different ways like advertising, paid content subscriptions, or content downloads. While Wolf sees Apple leading the tablet market he also sees Microsoft and Google sharing in that market and believes that by 2015 the tablet market will be a 43-million-unit-per-year industry. With all the hype surrounding the iPad and tablets in general, the media’s constant use of the phrase “gold rush” to describe the coming iPad app market seem increasingly spot on.

TUAWTablet apps to be a $8 billion dollar industry? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The latest report (PDF) from mobile advertising network AdMob has good news for the company’s parent firm, Google, but greats news for Google’s mobile rival Apple.

For February, smartphone traffic share increased an astonishing 193 percent over the same period last year with a corresponding drop in [...]

It may not be ready in time for the launch of the iPad, but Amazon wants you to know that its Kindle app will be worth the wait. That’s why it’s created a special preview page of the upcoming software, dubbed “Kindle Apps for Tablet Computers” [...]

It may be a little early to say this, but to me it seems like Microsoft took all the disappointment and fear resulting from Apple’s dominance of the mobile devices category over its own products through the years and used that energy to create the Courier. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen another company’s [...]

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Gartner’s latest forecast is projecting global PC shipments will total 366.1 million units in 2010, a 19.7 percent increase from 305.8 million units shipped in 2009, with global PC spending forecast to reach $245 billion in 2010, up 12.2 percent from 2009. These latest numbers don’t only include traditional PC towers and laptops, however. Garnter believes that netbooks and tablets will comprise a significant portion of the 366 million PC expected to ship this year – and they believe the iPad will help change the entire PC ecosystem.

“User requirements are clearly segmenting, and the mini-notebook proved this point,” said Ranjit Atwal, principal analyst at Gartner. “Vendors can no longer afford to just think in terms of traditional PC form factors or architectures. With the rise of Web-delivered applications, many users no longer need a traditional PC running a resident general-purpose operating system and fast x86 CPU to satisfy their computing needs. Apple’s iPad is just one of many new devices coming to market that will change the entire PC ecosystem and overlap it with the mobile phone industry. This will create significantly more opportunities for PC vendors as well as significantly more threats.”

Netbooks aside, Gartner believes that vendors could ship up to 10.5 million traditional tablets and next-generation tablet devices worldwide in 2010 – that’s roughly 2.8% of the total PC market tally. How much of that tally could be iPads? “The most likely scenario for iPad sales this year is 4.2 million units,” says Gartner analyst Angela McIntyre. Most Wall Street analysts expect Apple to ship slightly more – around 5 million iPads in 2010.

One thing is sure: the PC market is changing. Some people, like my mother, will only require a tablet for simple browsing and email. Gone are the days when PC technology was “one size fits all.”

TUAWGartner: iPad will “change entire PC ecosystem” originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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