Liveblogging The Apple Event

Posted on 27 January 2010, at 9:30 am, by Dan Cohen, Judie Lipsett, Carly Z and Larry Greenberg

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Yes, we’re counting down to the big announcement/ announcements. Judie, Larry and I (along with just about everybody else) will be listening in as Apple (likely) once again transforms computing.

We’ve just installed a live blogging system (Yeah Judie!!!) which will make it possible for us to not only to post the news in real time as it is announced but to also add some of our commentary along the way.

Watch this space starting at 1PM EST for the first Gear Diary LiveBlogging Event!

(Also, we will be recording our second podcast shortly after El Jobso finishes. Look for it later tonight.)

That’s it folks… we’ll have a podcast of our thoughts up soon.

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7 Comments For This Post

Joel McLaughlin Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Few things to say. I want one. Mostly because I really want a GREAT media player. I don’t WANT eBooks on it. Eink is superior, for me, for reading.

The rest of the stuff is just candy for me. I wanted a really large media player for a while and unless something else better comes, this is it for large media players.
Douglas Moran Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Random thoughts:

One question now for iPhone owners is: what do you do? iPad or no iPad? 3G, yes or now? How much memory? (I always try to obey Judie’s Law: “Even the maximum amount of memory you can get won’t be enough”.) Keep your iPhone or trade it in?

Looks like the back is anodized aluminum rather than plastic. Thank goodness!

Interesting to me how Jobs is implicitly invoking Clarke’s Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”).

What are those two dark areas on the side? Ports? What kind?

Will this encourage, discourage, or do neither to the idea of paywalls and subscriptions for newspapers and magazines?

That’s enough for now!
Douglas Moran Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Given that I travel a lot and am supplied with a Lenovo laptop by work, I want one and will use it in lieu of a new personal laptop. Add a portable keyboard and mouse, a monitor at home, and man am I a happy guy. And again, because I travel, I will *love it* for media and ebooks (I *don’t* like eInk). I bet my ripped movies will look like crap when sized up to fit the screen, though. Sigh. I’ll have to re-rip everything.
Michael Anderson Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I personally have no interest. It is not enough of a computer to be a computer, but too big to be a handheld … it meets needs I don’t have.

Personally I like netbooks.
Douglas Moran Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Two questions:

o) What gear bag would be right for this thing? And I would want a gear bag that could also fit the docking station, keyboard, and mouse.

o) Speaking of mouses or mice or meeses: did anyone get any information about mouse support?
Douglas Moran Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Resolution on the device, according to http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/, is 1024×768, which is the exact resolution of a TV set. I can’t decide if that’s a fail or not.
Douglas Moran Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
More from the specs: GSM support is in 850, 1900, 2100 MHz; I wonder if they will release this with 900/1800 MHz for Europe and the rest of planet Earth.