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12 out of 17 in my iPad predictions

I got 12 out of 17 of my predictions right.

What I got right:

  1. It’ll be called the iPad
  2. It’ll have a 10? screen (9.7, close enough)
  3. It will run a new version of the iPhone OS, and come with a new SDK
  4. It’ll have a new version of iTunes on it
  5. It’ll sell books, magazine subscriptions, TV shows, and movies through iTunes
  6. The App Store will offer a selection of iPhone apps (I assume we’ll need to re-submit our apps to be compatible with the Tablet before they show up)
  7. No webcam
  8. Yes geo-location
  9. Some new multi-touch gestures to wow us
  10. It will have a screen keyboard and an option for a bluetooth keyboard (actually, was a keyboard dock, but close enough)
  11. It won’t have Bing as the default search engine
  12. It will be available for pre-order, but won’t ship until at least March (no pre-order yet, but I’m assuming soon)

What I got wrong:

  1. It’ll be something like $999 and have some way for a phone company to subsidize it if you sell your soul to them (was actually cheaper than I thought, so didn’t need the phone company subsidy)
  2. There will be multiple carriers offering 3G connectivity, not just AT&T (I heard something about it being unlocked, so there’s hope)
  3. The same will be available for iPhone users
  4. It’ll have some drawing on the screen, or handwriting on the screen, capability
  5. It will support Flash (I assume not, since they didn’t explicitly show it, but could be wrong)

Not bad, really.

I did get really excited about the possibility of creating a new “web content store” for people to sell subscriptions and issues of their own content… but that’s seems to have been an innovation entirely owed to the creative brain-turnings of Apple fans.  It’s interesting to think about how innovation can happen when we try to guess other peoples’ innovations.

Anyway, back to work everyone!

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2 Responses to “12 out of 17 in my iPad predictions”

  1. Certainly doesn’t do flash, since there was an ugly blue “no flash” box in one of the web pages Jobs demoed ;)

  2. Yes, but it has been noted that some of the Safari demo pages on their site do have pages that include Flash. Seems strange that they would doctor those photos unless they intended to support it at some point. But who knows, maybe they’re just embarrassed by how much Flash is on some of their favorite web sites around the web. One can hope, I guess. It’s a long shot though.

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