“Executives at Apple never discuss products that are in the works, so there’s no confirmation that the thing even exists. But rumors are circulating that Steve Jobs and Co. have designed a magazine-sized, touch-screen, hand-held, all-in-one device that is half-iPhone, half-Macintosh computer,” Goldman reports. “It’s supposedly going to make its debut in the next few months, and you can have it for the low, low price of $600. Or $800. Maybe $1,000. No one’s really sure.”
Goldman reports, “If the rumors are true, the tablet will be able to do basically everything a gadget could possibly do. It’s an e-reader, a gaming device, and a music player. You can watch TV and movies on it and surf the Internet (or so we’ve heard). And it will have thousands of third-party apps available for it … or maybe it will run Mac OS X. That’s all still unknown.”
Goldman reports, “Some analysts are channeling their inner-Frodo, saying the Apple tablet will be the one gadget to rule them all.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: 20 months ago we reported a rumor that Apple’s secret product is ‘MacBook touch’. Said our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod and iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — in staccato fashion:
Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too.
Our source has subsequently told us that “the SuperDrive will not be part of the finished devices, ‘It was just in some of the prototypes for various reason(s).'”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
“If the rumors are true, the tablet will be able to do basically everything a gadget could possibly do.”
So.. heresay based on bullshit? If that’s true, then.. monkeys will come out of my butt?
Weak.
Hell, the rumors alone are killing me……
If it doesn’t make coffee, I’ll just buy a cheap ass netbook
At the dinner table you can switch the tablet to warming tray mode.
Will it cure my rash?
no floppy! no sale!
In mirror mode, it will make you look awesome.
Need web traffic? Why not spin some more unsubstantiated bullcrap on the already so-overexposed-it’s-hackneyed iPod slate rumor? Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Matte or glossy?
Just so long as it’s snappy!
I hear that it can cure cancer and will end America’s dependence on foreign oil.
and it’ll be called the iPad
I also heard the Ruttles Greatest Hits will be pre-loaded on the Gadget To Rule Them All!
It may be the gadget to end all gadgets but it’s no Fleshlight.
I’ll buy it if it’s released with the entire Beatles music library pre-installed. If it is available in Bronco blue & orange I will pay double.
The ‘everything killer’? Ah but does it kill rumors.
It will have stock market results three days in advance…
You know when you should actually start looking for the Mac Tablet? When the rumor-mill and media (is there any difference anymore) start downplaying it’s capabilities, reminding us that it will not solve all our problems while saving publishing, Hollywood, and your marriage.
This device will arrive, be amazing and cool…but won’t come into its own until the data center Apple is building is operational. This is the first truly personal cloud computer. all in one…do many things well device LARGER than the iphone. If you have an iphone THIS device will both tether to it and answer the issues people have with using the phone. Full duplex videoconferencing from anywhere (with enough bandwidth), and a lot more
It’ll be the Rumor Killer, because there will be nothing left to rumor about.
Guess at price?
With the high end touch at $400 – and the least expensive macbook at $999 –
This put the “igadget” between $500-$800 depending on RAM.
I wonder about input on this thing. I struggle with the Iphone keyboard. (fat fingers). For me a reconditioned MBA might be a better fit.
Don’t know about all of you, but I personally am awaiting final, incontrovertible evidence from the ‘<a href=”http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/rumor_apple_to_debut_42_and_50_inch_widescreen_plasma_hdtvs_at_macworld/” target=”_blank”>’ of the final word on this puppy.
Then, I believe everything ….
iPad?
What time of the month is it?
It snappily turns into a ham sandwich and a beer at midnight
Ah, the hype machine starts to spin up. Inevitably the real product can’t live up to the hype. But I am looking forward to it.
I think it will be smaller than the Macbook screen…split the difference between the iPod Touch and the 13″ Macbook.
But, like Steve said…can you really use it anywhere except the toilet for any given period of time?
How will you operate OSX menus with your finger? Will it be an inbetween enlarged GUI?
Will Verizon be involved somehow? Man, I can’t wait until the end of January.
The analysts need something to hammer the stock with, so the hype machine is fired up and pushed to full throttle.
They answer to nobody, still get paid and never seem to get punished for stock manipulation.
…and there’s how many days till Christmas?
Read this piece….
“Executives at Apple never discuss products that are in the works, so there’s no confirmation that the thing even exists.”
Listen…
If you inquiry about one specific product and they say they can’t discuss about products in the works (or future products) then it means the product is in the works, and whether it exists would depend on what your concept of existence is.
The conclusion/implication “so there’s no confirmation that the thing even exists” does not make sense from the first sentence.
Normally unreliable sources inform me that the project code name is MobileMwahahah (a bit long, but there you have it).
“Goldman reports, “If the rumors are true, the tablet will be able to do basically everything a gadget could possibly do. It’s an e-reader, a gaming device, and a music player. You can watch TV and movies on it and surf the Internet (or so we’ve heard). And it will have thousands of third-party apps available for it … “
I already have one of these. It’s called an iPhone.
Me thinks I hear an entire orchestra of disbelief, not just a note.
Can it kill the Archos 9?
can you say iPod Touch small medium & large
Will it tell me I’m “the fairest one of all?”
MDN–typo alert–add an “L”–you quote”your source as saying:
“This is some sick shit.”
@Mike,
You watch way too much South Park. It’s killing your brain.
Look! It floats!
@kreationx
that’s what she said!
0 to 60 in 4 secs (the 2 seat model).
It’s the iBook, stupid.
And the all new Book Store. All your text books in a single device that word searches, highlights and takes notes.
Then, after class/study, then music, movies, the web.
The only unknown is storage, how large will the drive be? Two, four, six, eight times as much as the Touch?
I cannot wait.
Apple makes nothing but quality products so I don’t expect anything less the their tablet. http://www.islate.org
David Goldman has changed his tune:
“Why Apple tablet may not be the gadget of the future”
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/29/technology/tablet_computers/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote