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Wednesday October 7, 2009
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 DigiTimes says it has confirmed the presence of an Apple tablet, and that it will be manufactured by Foxconn for delivery in the first quarter of 2010.
Foxconn, which has previously served as an ODM for iPods and other Apple devices, will deliver between 300,000 and 400,000 units to Apple for shipment, according to the Taiwan publication.
The tablet will have a 10.6-inch display, and other OEMs are expected to follow suit with their own tablets, DigiTimes said.
Is this story legitimate? Well, it ties into the recent rumors that an
Apple tablet may be delivered in 2010. The ODM, Foxconn, also has a
history with the company. The story seems to fall into the more
conventional speculation that the tablet will be aimed at magazine
delivery, however, as part of Apple's goal to create an iTunes-like
store for periodicals and ebooks.
The only sour note is the quantity: 300,000 to 400,000? Seems awfully
small for a new Apple product. Granted, those numbers could be just an
initial order, or Apple could be sharing its tablet production across
multiple ODMs. But if everything about this story is true, it could
also mean that the Kindle isn't quite as hot a product as Amazon Jeff
Bezos makes it out to be, the most-sought-after product at Amazon.com notwithstanding.
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October 7, 2009 4:46 PM
This is how rumors start. Next thing you know, someone will have a website up with a photoshop image of the new Apple Table (please see first sentence). As a side note. the supposed tablet above looks like an iPhone put through photoshop.