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Friday July 24, 2009
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 Since 2007, AppleInsider has been convinced that Apple is working on a tablet. The site is now reporting that Apple is this close to shipping one, and has placed the date at 2010.
Apple Insider is so far inside Apple that the site is reporting that Steve Jobs has personally overseen the project "from his home, office and
hospital beds, [and] has finally achieved that much-sought aura of
satisfaction" about the 10-inch tablet with a 3G connection.
AppleInsider also claims that the project has been restarted half a dozen times within the last two years, which either again is terrific insight into the workings of the couple or a convenient out in case the rumor does not come to pass. Cynicism aside, however, we'd much rather see something happen with the existing Apple TV than Apple burn engineering resources on a brand-new technology.
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July 24, 2009 5:35 PM
Okay, now that AppleInsider has said so there might be some merit here. Still, I'm doubtful - tablets have sold so poorly in other markets (and those markets are about saturated with them) that it wouldn't make sense for Apple to intrude here.
If they are working on one, it'll be pretty tough to sell it, I think.
July 27, 2009 3:51 PM
If it has all the features of the iPod Touch (iTunes App Store, iPod, etc.) plus the functions of the current e-book readers with decent memory (64GB?) at a decent price (500?), I'd consider one. Of course, since it will likely have a proprietary e-book format along with the Apple "think different" baggage, it will need to play nice in a Windows environment before I'll go down that road. I'm really waiting for an e-book format that isn't tied to just one company before I decide on a device. This would be a nice form factor to fill that niche though. An e-book/planner/tablet that's got 3G access would lighten my load by a few pounds.
July 27, 2009 10:57 PM
Since this is launching in 2010, I wonder if this is the big Apple 3G iPhone type product that is rumored to launch with Verizon.
It would be nice to have WiFi also. If I had this and was at home, I would rather use my WiFi connection than the slower 3G, not to mention the extreme price of the data plans. The tablet would also work well in some business applications, so WiFi wouls help there also.