“Even more preposterous is the news that major magazine publisher, Conde Nast, has decided to develop products for the tablet, according to Peter Kafka over at All Things D. There’s only one snag to the publisher’s plan: the company doesn’t know whether the Apple tablet is real or not,” Paul writes. “These rumors are getting so ridiculous that I think it’s time we accepted the truth: the Apple tablet is dead; in fact it probably never existed.”
Paul writes, “Let’s face it: the Apple tablet is a mirage created by legions of fanboys and tech dreamers. The closer you get to that mirage, the more you realize it’s not going to be there when you arrive. But then, off in the distance, an even brighter and more beautiful tablet is envisioned for a day that will never come. It’s a nice dream, but it’s just not going to happen.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As if our iCal wasn’t full enough.
based on what?
I’d like to know how an unannounced product can be delayed. I guess the short sellers are at it again–trying to drive the stock down. Notice how these things seem to happen around option expiration week, too, when the stock is it’s most volatile/vulnerable.
No not created by fanboys but Analysts that want to manipulate Apple stock at just the right moment.
Why, because they know they can spoon feed any tidbit of FALSE info to the press and the press will do no fact checking and just run with their new headline of the hour to plaster all over the Internet just because they can be first with the “breaking news”.
What a joke.
iCal the author, pleaaaaaaaase.
The rumored release date of the rumored Apple tablet is rumored to be delayed.
Sigh. Sad state of ‘news’. What makes me angry is that stock market and business analysts base their actions on crap like that.
No wonder Apple tries to keep product developments as secret as possible.
While I love the mirage metaphor as employed here, I believe I posted a couple weeks ago that whenever we see the press and rumor mill start to downplay the tablet is just when we should actually start looking for it.
I posit that Ian’s rumors and analysis are just a credible as everyone else’s… which is to say they’re not credible at all.
And the award for the worst rumor goes to . . .
@anthony007, exactly! An Apple tablet, which may or may not exist, is not late or delayed… until it’s been announced by the company with a communicated release date.
I always enjoyed graphic artist Peter Saville’s perspective… responding to band member’s of New Order complaints about time to develop album cover art (band saying it was “late”). Peter asks, “late for what?”
“The rumored release date of the rumored Apple tablet is rumored to be delayed.”
Well said!
Now that the rumored, non-existent tablet is dead… will the rumors die?
Only in a world of dumbed down standards can an idiot like this get a job as a writer and get paid too.
We should probably all shoot ourselves in the head and clock out because s history has shown, every prior civilization has wiped itself out and there’s no point waiting for ours to get there – it’s over.
How can that which has never lived be dead?
Until I see it at my local Apple store, any tablet from Apple is a rumor.
You don’t detect just a little humor in his post?
It’s not worth iCal’ing. It was written “tongue in cheek”
Find something else to get angry about.
The Apple tablet is dead. Long live the Apple tablet.
The world is full of crack-jacks. This is just another one.
“in fact it probably never existed.”
In fact, it *doesn’t* exist.
What a fscking tool.
Something is for sure. This product has not been announced, therefor, it can not be delayed. It has been a rumor. But wasn’t the iPhone a rumor too. I remember hearing about the Apple phone about a year and a half before it was announced.
If the rumored tablet is real, it’s the worst kept secret ever.
I say: iCal the infidel!
I saw the unreleased iTablet; John Nash’s roommate showed it to me. It was awesome!
Email scott moritz at street.com and ask him to explain how an unannounced product can be delayed.
scott.moritz@thestreet.com
YES, IT IS DEAD!
Apple could never develop a phone to compete with so many companies that have worked and made phones for years. Let alone compete with Palm and RIMM.
The Apple phone is a dream, hype, and impossible for them to achieve.
Yep, been there done that. Microsoft can say that too. We have been there and done that. They never say that they failed because they do not know how to envison the future. Much like this person, EYES WIDE SHUT!
iCal!
Sometimes I think I’d pay to have MDN’s iCal contents.