Applet Tablet Could be Released Before End of the Year
The Financial Times is reporting today that the much-rumored Apple Tablet is on the way from Apple. It is coming earlier than expected too. The Apple Tablet could be out as early as September.
It will connect to the internet like the iPod Touch - probably without phone capability but with access to the web, and to Apple's online stores for software and entertainment.
Apple is gambling that it can succeed where everyone else has flopped, including Microsoft, which tirelessly pushed a tablet-ready version of its Windows operating system as a personal favourite of founder Bill Gates.
The entertainment industry is hoping that Apple, which revolutionised the markets for music players and for phones, can do it again. "It's a portable entertainment device," said one entertainment executive. "It's going to be fabulous for watching movies."
Apple may be rushing the device to get ahead of Plastic Logic's flat reader that comes out early next year. The Financial Times story quotes an analyst from Oppenheimer & Co analyst Yair Reiner who believes pricing for the flat Apple device would range from $600 and $1,000. Obviously, the Apple Tablet would instantly become the hot gadget for the holidays if it is released before the end of the year.
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