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Old 01-26-2010, 06:16 PM   #1
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McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/26/...o-be-terrific/

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"Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they'll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you're going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific."
lol, wonder if Jobs is still going to let him on stage tomorrow now.
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Old 01-26-2010, 06:30 PM   #2
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lol, wonder if Jobs is still going to let him on stage tomorrow now.
What an astonishingly stupid thing to have done. He must have signed an NDA that he's just breached. Has he not noticed that Apple (justifiably) like to keep announcements like this secret until the day?

I would be surprised if ANY mention of McGraw-Hill was now made at tomorrow's announcement.

The only thing that could save him would be if he didn't have any actual knowledge. But the assertion that Apple's (yet-to-be-announced) tablet would have (a version of) the iPhone OS sounded like insider info to me.
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So they had to have someone to clear this tablet thing up instead of themselves?

Uh...

EDIT: My point here is that there is this psychological hype someone as smart as Steve Jobs is forcing down out throats.... With this tablet....
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Old 01-26-2010, 06:53 PM   #4
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Oh heaven help us. Announcer ended with " I'm glad I went to school when I did, I like to smell my textbooks." AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, if it was a tablet, it might not be now!
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lol, wonder if Jobs is still going to let him on stage tomorrow now.
I like it. I just hope the next headline isn't:

CEO of McGraw Hill found dead. Thought to be strangled with black polo-neck jumper. Police are looking for a balding, naked from the waist-up, man with glasses, seen fleeing in the direction of Cupertino.
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So they had to have someone to clear this tablet thing up instead of themselves?

Uh...

EDIT: My point here is that there is this psychological hype someone as smart as Steve Jobs is forcing down out throats.... With this tablet....
Yes, this Apple Tablet is a hard pill to swallow.

Sorry. Had to say it.


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Oh heaven help us. Announcer ended with " I'm glad I went to school when I did, I like to smell my textbooks." AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The end-all-do-all-better-than-sex iTablet will have a small emitter that periodically spritzes a whiff of decaying paper. You can choice between the scents of mildew and silverfish feces (each sold separately.)
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Yes, this Apple Tablet is a hard pill to swallow.

Sorry. Had to say it.




The end-all-do-all-better-than-sex iTablet will have a small emitter that periodically spritzes a whiff of decaying paper. You can choice between the scents of mildew and silverfish feces (each sold separately.)
Love it!!!
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The end-all-do-all-better-than-sex iTablet will have a small emitter that periodically spritzes a whiff of decaying paper. You can choice between the scents of mildew and silverfish feces (each sold separately.)
I will take three, and one in spilled-coffee flavour if you have one
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the funny part is if this guy from McH was shown a totally different device. I doubt the guy would know the ipHOnE OS from BeOS or CP/M...I just think it wold be too funny for the guy to be waaay of the reservation with what he thinks is the case.

BTW, please being the complaining about everything now being compared to the iSlop rather than the Swindle...it will be funny to watch the monkeys dance. Dance Monkey Boi's Dance...
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What an astonishingly stupid thing to have done. He must have signed an NDA that he's just breached. Has he not noticed that Apple (justifiably) like to keep announcements like this secret until the day?
This is a controlled leak, done with Apple's permission or even at their behest.
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Can't wait for the release of this device, so we can finally start talking about other things...
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Can't wait for the release of this device, so we can finally start talking about other things...
Next week we'll talk about all the things 'we can't do' with the tablet
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This is a controlled leak, done with Apple's permission or even at their behest.
Exactly...purely a part of the manipulation because if they get everyone talking about this as a gaff, even more people will pay attention tomorrow to see if it was true or not. As I recall Amazon has done this twice with the K1 & K2 leaking pics of the final design before the official press conference and ti generated even more chatter...

Something that will be interesting is I have spoken with several folks I know who are university prof's as well as students and all have said a tablet would be great BUT not with the same OS as the iPhone/iPod Touch. I could understand using the core of the OS for the UI and actions but as a tweener type device, I don't know that it would work. Has the iPhone OS even gotten to the multi-tasking level yet? I would sure expect at least a 32-bit OS able to run several apps at the same time. And not just small device apps but real apps as well as web based/centric stuff.

Kinda interested just to see if Apple has been able to extend the OS because I do like the way it works...but Android is interesting as well, just far from "mission critical" ready right now.

But the manipulation really is funny to watch because the it is getting the desired reaction which was as predictable as the rain today here in California.
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Next week we'll talk about all the things 'we can't do' with the tablet
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