Posts Tagged ‘iTablet’
While most recent rumors have been swirling around Apple developing a 10″ iTablet that would basically look like an oversized iPod touch, Gizmodo has a source, said to have been 100% reliable in the past, who’s telling them Apple is also planning 13″ and 15″ tablets, one of which… will run Mac OS X.
This source claims that the two touchscreen prototypes—made of aluminum, but on the shape of big iPhones—were in a factory in Shenzuen, China. One of them “was running Mac OS X 10.5.” When I asked, the source didn’t know if these were built for demonstration purposes, or if they were preproduction units. The company has a tight relation with Apple but “it’s not FoxConn.”
Could Apple be making both small, iPhone-like tablets and larger, MacBook-like tablets? Do we want them to?
Apple’s iTablet is coming soon in this September? – iTablet จะมา เดือนกันยายน หรือเปล่า
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Although Apple COO Tim Cook said there won’t be possibility of iNetbook in the near future, it doesn’t mean Apple won’t release something else. Apple has just signed the new content deals with record companies. One executive from the source said Apple will release a new 10″ tablet device alongside new content deals. It will be similar to the iPod Touch but much bigger in size. The record companies will work with Apple to provide some interesting content like interactive booklets for the tablet.
Some analyst said the device may price between $600 to $1000. Source said Apple originally wants to release the release in September or October, but it may be delayed. It is expected we will see the iTablet by the end of this year.
Time to save money for the new toy.
[via Financial Times]
winandmac.com
Where there’s this many iTablet rumors, there just has to be an actual product Steve Jobs is finally happy with and will be unveiling to the world at a special Apple event in early 2010, right?
That’s what Apple Insider is reporting. The gist is as follows:
- 10″, 3G networked device similar to “a jumbo iPod touch”
- Guided by Steve Jobs from hospital, home, and work
- Culmination of at least 6 previous prototypes Jobs vetoed
- Will launch in first quarter of 2010
- Verizon may be the carrier
- Delays caused by lack of satisfaction over Intel Atom power consumption
- Hence Apple bought PA Semi to build in-house, custom chipset based on ARM
Check out the full article, linked above, for more.
Still and all, even if this is real, Bill Gates has been trying to push the tablet concept for almost a decade with little or no mass market acceptance. Can Apple work another product category miracle, doing for the tablet and e-book form factor what they’ve done for the MP3 player and smartphone?
Can Apple take the tablet from geek niche to consumer necessity? Or is this doomed to Apple TV “hobby” status from the get go?
theiphoneblog.com
