Apple Tablet

Apple netbook? Apple tablet? Neither? Both?

Apple has apparently purchased some specially made touch screens from the company Wintek and since then there has been speculation as to what these are going to be used for. For this article I am going to focus more on the aspect of the HCI as was talked about in Manovich's chapter 2.

I believe that an apple tablet computer is the next step for apple. They already have the technology to do so and it would closer knit people to their computers and allow for better user interface with the computer. Apple has always been on the fore front of interfacing and a tablet is more of a question of when not if.

Apple has been reluctant in the past to enter such a market because they refuse to produce poor quality products and that is what a tablet would have meant because cheap parts would have meant that the product is in a consumer price range. With the launch of the iPhone and iPod touch, apple has proved that it is capable of seamlessly integrating multiple touch functions and better usablitiy for consumers. As Manovich said "We are witnessing the emergence of a new cultural metalanguage, somthing that will be at least as significant as the printed word and cinema before it."