“The hotly anticipated Apple Tablet — or the Apple Newton II — will feature a wireless chip made by Qualcom,” Moritz reports. “This discrete little fact would confirm that Apple has chosen Verizon as its telco partner, says Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar.”
“‘This makes sense for Apple,’ says Nielsen Wireless analyst Roger Entner. ‘It behooves them to build a relationship with a company they haven’t worked with yet,’ Enter said referring to Verizon,” Moritz reports.
“Having a telco partner means the price of the Verizon Tablet will be less than a Tablet purchased directly from Apple. Analysts estimate that Verizon will subsidize about $200 of the Tablet’s price and require a two-year data service plan of around $60 a month,” Moritz reports. “Apple is expected to sell the Tablet for around $800 without a subsidy.”
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Another data plan
no thx
Wow, they are really shooting at anything that moves, ain’t they?
How does it make sense?
Maybe it will be offered to Verizon in addition to ATT
That would make sense
You can’t use two devices at once; who would pay two separate cellular tariffs?
I really hope they can really verizon it up, like sticking in the fucking V-Cast startup bitchfest. Of course, Apple would not let that shit happen, but dare to dream, right?
Moritz has no contacts, no class and wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in Jim’s butt. Be wary of anything he writes.
That is the stupidest thing the president could do. Microsoft hasn’t innovated in years. What a joke.
Jbird, wrong thread?
A subscription and/or contract on anything, and I am a non-buyer of any Apple creation.
I don’t want to make phone calls, I want a larger, lightweigt, more computer-like iPod Touch.
$60.00!
Count me out.
i’m really starting to hate all this speculation. NO ONE KNOWS AN EFFING THING YET, end of story. Apple can’t possibly expect all there current iPhone users to latch onto yet ANOTHER carrier and pay ANOTHER monthly fee…..or could they. Just wait the few days and stop trying to predict the future. All these guys should spend more time trying to anticipate where their next lay is coming from.
If we can’t tether this to our iPhones, etc., this thing is dead in the water. Maybe that is why the tiered data plan is needed?
Who wants to pay for internet various times? i.e. Home, smartphone, & Slate or laptop
I hearby predict that the new product will be called the Newton II. (that would be a hoot, though).
Why would they do that? Fill the AT&T;ecosystem with one device only to place their new device in another? Now iPhone users would have to decide to hold two expensive data plans; switch to Verizon, pay an early termination fee (didn’t they just go up?), and have an iPhone that is effectively just an iPod; stick with AT&T;and keep your iPhone and pay an arm and a leg for an unsubsidized product. The only one that wins in all three scenarios is Apple. Yeah Apple!!!
worst news i’ve heard yet about the rumored Apple tablet.
mandatory subscription = fail
I predict that NO ONE has a clue about what this thing will be like. Any idiot can predict that it will have a 7 or 10 inch screen, long battery life, an hybrid OS, multitouch…….
January 27, 2010
G5 laptop!
Maybe the iPhone slides into this slate thingy. Or latches on like a lamprey.
iPhone will tether with the tablet. Keep your iPhone in your pocket and have ubiquitous data on your tablet.
It will also have bluetooth (duh) for existing wireless keyboard and mouse. iMacs have been shipping with those default for a while now (I think).
Aaaawright….
How is it all those analysts talk (or write) as if the KNOW what’s going to happen?
Which crystal ball are they looking at? What kind of mind-opening shaman dope are they smoking?
We don’t even KNOW it there’s going to be a tablet. We all ASSUME there will be. Rumors say so. We all hope for it. But those guys are speculating about a possible non-existing product that (if exists) it’s being held under 1000 locks.
Please, don’t BS me. I INVENTED BS!!!
(I always tell my friends that, hehe!!)
The Apple tablet has to come with Wi-Fi at least and NOT make it a requisite to get a plan in order to use it. If they do that…it will definitely FAIL. Hopefully Apple isn’t that dumb to do that.
Seven more days!!!
To hell with another data plan. If Apple makes a data plan required for this device it’s dead to me.
The only way you could even justify asking people to pay for two separate data plans (Iphone & Tablet), would be to have them through 2 different telcos.
Having said that, I can’t see many takers at $60.
If you throw enough speculation at the subject one may get close to the truth. The again, the talking heads all guessed that the iPhone would arrive but were so far off in guessing the functionality that it took them about a year to even admit that the phone was a game changer.
iNewton®