{"id":2502,"date":"2010-01-27T02:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:39:19","slug":"jason-calacanis-has-an-apple-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/jason-calacanis-has-an-apple-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Calacanis has an Apple Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n      google_ad_client = \"pub-9460716267036836\"; \/* 336x280, MiddleContent *\/ google_ad_slot = \"1959614333\"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUpdate: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scobleizer\">@Scobleizer<\/a> this is all bunk, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jason\">Jason<\/a> was lying. Sorry. I really believed him. To joke about a few features is one thing, but to drag on so many detailed tweets and to emphasize that he&#8217;s not joking is taking it too far. Why would you risk your credibility over something like this? Anyway, sorry folks for dragging you here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;&#8230; also, Farmville for Apple tablet is a huge game changer. I know for a FACT Mark Pincus is onstage tomorrow with Jobs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Off to bed, but I assure you I&#8217;m not joking and the specs are real&#8230;. Most of all that this is best gadget ever made and NOT overhyped.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>apple tablet connects to other tablets over wifi for gaming. There will be LAN parties with these things, people playingFirst personshooters<\/li>\n<li>For background: apple asked me to do press tomorrow on cnbc, cnn, etc. As a pundit they gave me tablet 10 days ago. 3people dropped it off!<\/li>\n<li>Apple tablet games are sick. Basically nintendo wii-level innovation. Custom farmville app is insane. Mark pincus is demoing with steve tmmr<\/li>\n<li>Ok, I&#8217;m going to bed (with apple tablet after reading nytimes+Vanity Fair on it!), steve jobs outdid himself, its greatest device ever!!!<\/li>\n<li>Apple tablet&#8217;s 2 cameras is sick feature for video conferencing: u shoot what&#8217;s in front of you + yourself. Augmented video conferncing!<\/li>\n<li>Yes, apple tablet is oled + back has solar pad for recharging, but it really doesn&#8217;t work quickly. More a gimmic. Verizon+att,wifi yes!<\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n      google_ad_client = \"pub-9460716267036836\"; \/* 336x280, MiddleContent *\/ google_ad_slot = \"1959614333\"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li>Apple Tablet has thumbpads on each side for mouse guestures, reads fingerprint for security. Up to 5 profiles by finerprint for family.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, there are 2cameras: one in front and one in back (or it may be one with some double lens) so you record yourself and in front of u.<\/li>\n<li>Well @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joshgrenon\">joshgrenon<\/a>, I can tell u the battery life is great in ebook reading mode but not great when on wifi or playing games. 2-3hrs<\/li>\n<li>Yes @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyDrew\">HappyDrew<\/a>, the apple tablet is running an iphone os flavor with ability to have multiple apps running at same time (ie pandora, browser<\/li>\n<li>Ok, I will take two questions about the new apple tablet which I have right here. Go ahead&#8230; My nda is basically over. \ud83d\ude42  The price will be 599, 699 and 799 depending on size and memory in apple tablet. Also, wireless keyboard + monitor connection for tv<\/li>\n<li>Also, the apple tablet is really amazing for newspapers. Video conferencing is super stable, but nothing new.<\/li>\n<li>The best part ofthe apple tablet as beta user has been the built in HDTV tuner and pvr, and the chess game.<\/li>\n<li>Note to press: No, not going to break my NDA w\/ Apple\/steve so u can get jump on announcement. It is the most *amazing* device ever.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, it&#8217;s true&#8230; I&#8217;ve been beta testing the Apple tablet for the past two weeks and it&#8217;s amazing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script src=\"http:\/\/mylikes.com\/embed\/js?user=stephenpickering&amp;width=335\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSource:  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jason\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/jason<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Update: According to @Scobleizer this is all bunk, and Jason was lying. Sorry. I really believed him. To joke about a few features is one thing, but to drag on so many detailed tweets and to emphasize that he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/jason-calacanis-has-an-apple-tablet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}