“Apple has filed for a European design trademark which may provide a tantalising glimpse of the company’s long-awaited tablet computer,” Tony Smith reports for The Register. “The filing, made in May this year but only published this week, covers a ‘handheld computer’ and contains sketches of what look like an iBook screen minus the body of the computer.”
“Back in November 2003, old pal Matthew Rothenberg at eWeek let the cat out of the bag with a “hunch” that Apple has seeded prototype tablet Macs with developers. It used Mac OS X’s Inkwell handwriting recognition technology and a healthy amount of knowledge picked up during the development of the Newton OS. Inkwell has been a part of Apple’s system software since September 2002’s release of Mac OS X 10.2. So far, only graphics tablet users have been able to do anything with it,” Smith reports. “August’s Apple Expo Paris may prove more exciting than previously thought.”
More details and sketches here.
This rumour is nothing. I heard that Microsoft was going to release an Operating System that was secure and actually worked when hooked up to the internet! I heard they would get it to users and manufacturers before the end of the decade! Not only that, I heard they named it after a cow!
Moooooo!
” I heard they named it after a cow! “
Its A Bar Al, Not a Cow, but a Bar….You know, like a saloon…
Geez….
No no I think they meant the OLD OLD iBook….it’s going to be a toilet seat cover. So that you can sit in the toilet backwards….with a wireless keyboard. “Productivity throughout your Home”
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Ahh well….first you want 9 fans and now an iBook. Make up your mind! Slippery, hunh? Still need those 9 fans or hot breath (with an ice cube to cool it) that you had “anticipated”.
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As someone pointed out on another site, patent/design filings often disquise the final look of the device. It doesn’t have to be exact, just a generalization. For example, the click wheel on the mini and now regular iPod was shown as part of a mouse and not on an MP3 player when it was filed. So there!
pkradd, thanks for the lesson! However, tradmarking a product doesn’t mean that you are going to put this product in production. You can trademark a product to protect your interests… But thanks again for the acid answer, I always like to be jerked off on line…
This is the new iMac. Why would Apple want to trademark a bloody stand? Especially when it would give the game away?
If it’s a 20 incher G5… I WANT ONE!
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