Posted on 12/31/2009 7:45:26 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Today's Apple tablet rumor has an optimistic zing to it--and maybe that's a great way to close out a dreary 2009. According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. Lee worked for Apple more than ten years ago and left Google earlier this year, according to published reports.
That figure--10 million--seems awfully high for a consumer product that's charting unknown territory. The tablet (or iSlate or iPad, if you prefer) would target an untapped market, if rumors of the device's form and functionality are true. True, a few tablet-style browser/media players are either already on the market or are arriving shortly, but none has garnered anywhere near the attention of the Apple tablet.
I did some checking at Apple's site to see what sales figures were like for the iPhone in its first year. Here's the breakdown:
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
where you get that image of the itablet/islate. That looks pretty sleak. My fear was that it look like exactly like an iphone, just bigger.
LA times article
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2009/12/fact-or-fiction-apple-mum-on-tablet-rumors.html
Maybe that is what they are going for.
Our stuff is used in banks, credit unions,
the Pentagon, post office, police evidence rooms,
pharmacies, anywhere legal paperless signatures are useful.
That sounds great but is there going to be a market for it?
They will create a market imho. I never thought of reading ebooks, but if it come in a device that can do everything of iphone and more, i am considering it
Although I am an apple fan (Since the days of my Apple II+), I am also one of their biggest critics, and I cannot stand the fanbois. That said, if ANYONE can “create” a market for these things where others have failed, it would be Apple. I am eager to see their product.
I hope they still have it. With the economy the way it is, they may have to use it.
ebook readers are too small. THAT thing looks good, and in color and its multi-media.
I can see them trying to put the kindle out of business.
Agreed. The amazing thing is, the money that Microsoft brings in and devotes to research and development dwarfs what Apple has and spends on research, but Microsoft just doesn’t produce as much quality, in my opinion. It seems wasteful to me.
Lee left Apple early this year? Does he mean early 2010 or 2009?
Thus justifying the claim that “Size isn’t everything”.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Where do they keep their 20-30 billion dollars? In a bank that could go bankrupt or do they have their own bank business?
I do not know.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Maybe Apple will get into the e-reader business.
More likely these are going to be like super huge ipod touches. Bigger and better with some new bells and whistles, at 500 bucks they’ll sell a ton of them, just a guess though. They’ll likely be e-readers as well, but if they are they won’t have the battery life like a reader because they wouldn’t use the “e-ink” technology.
I just started looking at the e-readers, they’re really neat, Kindle, Sony and the new “nook” by Barnes and Noble.
I want one already
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lolz
IIRC & IANM, that is Mossorgsky's "Night on Bald (Bare) Mountain" -- from Disney's "Fantasia".
It's either a Photoshop job -- or someone with way too much time on their hands created a true Etch-A-Sketch masterpiece...
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