Is Apple Developing a $700 Touch-Screen Tablet?
 

According to this post it may be between 7 and 10 inches.

I think that is too big to hold while I lay in bed and read and certianly not pocketable. But apparently it should take on the kindle.

The author of this article points out that Apple doesnt apparently have a problem with coming from behind and squashing the american market. She stated "Apple launched its first iPod three years after the first portable MP3 player arrived. Additionally, the iPhone hit the market five years after the first BlackBerry..."

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And it seems that the OS X 10.5.7 update added support for the Atom low power modes so I would guess that's the target processor.

Frank

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...and both markets had a built up demand for an existing format that wasn't being fully exploited.

MP3's had been around since '94 or so and cell phones running small purpose built apps have been around since at least 2001.

Apple waited for the hardware to evolve and simply provided an attractive server for the format and tied it to a built in market for consumers. In doing so they proved the "you can't make any money off it" crowd wrong in both cases...

I'm wondering what format Apple intends to serve and make money from with a screen that size. Videos, mobile TV, e-books, or all three? :eek:

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This is one of those occasions where I wish the new theme had the title of the thread somewhere around the top of the post. I had opened this thread to read at a later time, and I had forgotten the topic when I finally went to read it. I read those first two sentences .... :eek:

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Hmmm, dont know what to say. But if I was talking about the other "tablet" then I would not have been so conservative on the size range. hehe

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They tried with one thing before it get massive: The Newton... and we all know the result.

And I'm not so sure about the tablet, they fill that market with the iPhone/Touch and anyway: the best is to wait to see what happens to the Kindle DX.

Besides that, from the language used, is almost as they are predicting the weather: they have not 'inside information' or something like that, they just expect that Apple could launch that product, and If that happens, then it maybe comply with the specifications they said. Everything will happen only if the low pressure front is not disipated by the North-East winds.

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Yes. that is also interesting apparently today some consultants mentioned Apple could be doing the tablet thing and it generated 239 related articles under the Google News technology section. This may be more press than Nokia got when it actualy launched its first tablet.

I don't think Apple will abandon this kindle type media, this is why if I was a betting man I would double down.
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&topic=t&ict=ln

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I say bring it. This is nothing like the Newton. At least it had decent handwriting recognition that still is comparable to stuff today... and it was released when?

After seeing OS X on a Dell Mini 9, a tablet with Wacom type input/ability... this comes out and I'm there.

Hopefully they'll have the iSight built in like a MacBook. At least then I'd have a proper way to use video in Skype.

Oh... and it'll be fixed in 10.6, then 10.7. Heck, I got a G4 Cube that's running 10.5 - that's from OS9 up to 10.5.7. On the same machine... not one update, then poof. Support is gone.

Nokia can't say that.