Apple's much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/24/apples_much_anticipated_tablet_device_coming_early_next_year.html

by terpua • 17 years ago

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seasoup• 17 years ago

Again?

uptown2• 17 years ago

My capacity to pay for ultimited data for multiple devices is waning.

ujjwalg• 17 years ago

I agree with you completely. It has to be one monthly payment to access internet anywhere and everywhere.

cesare• 17 years ago

I guess it will run an updated iPhone OS (not the full fledged OS X) and it will probably have automatic resolution switch to retain the compatibility with the existing apps catalog.

st3fan• 17 years ago

Yawn. Again? Same source probably told them that the Newton will come back too :-)

jodrellblank3• 17 years ago

> The 10-inch, 3G-enabled tablet, akin to a jumbo iPod touch, > is the latest brainchild of chief executive Steve Jobs

As if everyone in the Peanut-, er, Apple-Gallery hasn't been clamouring for something like this for many years.

(Not that I can see why. Wacom's digitiser-tablet built into an LCD is a great solution for pen input. A computer with only a pen input is a crummy solution for general purpose computing ... unless the input is never-before-seen tremendous - like Apple's multitouch iswas).

tfincannon• 17 years ago

With Bluetooth in the tablet, you can have a keyboard and mouse when you want them.

jodrellblank3• 17 years ago

My iPhone has bluetooth and I can't have a keyboard and mouse when I want them.

I don't want to underestimate how annoying companies can be when they put their minds to it.

jodrellblank3• 17 years ago

Incidentally, Apple is rumoured to have no debt and $30Bn in the bank.

What do you reckon the biggest limitation on them making use of their cash reserves is? (Assuming they aren't, that is).

Is it ideas? Ability to scale their corporate culture? Their management culture? Their hardware development teams? Their software development teams? Manufacturing arrangements?

uptown2• 17 years ago

I think part of it has to be that they don't want to canibalize their own sales. There's a limit to how much discretionary spending cash people have available ... particularly now. Most people can't afford more than one or two Apple products, so there's little reason to push forward devices that may compete with each other for people's hard earned cash.

Apple's much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year

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