Thread: Is Apple Developing a $700 Touch-Screen Tablet?
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2009-05-21 , 21:56
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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..."
...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?