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Apple tablet rumours start again
NEWS THAT an Apple tablet is about to be released has surfaced with regular monotony over the last couple of years.
Now Apple Insider says Apple is set to release the tablet in 2010. But Apple Insider hacks have also found out why Jobs' Mob has been unable to get the machine into the shops.
Rumours of a tablet started about four years ago, but apparently the development was riddled with setbacks.
Two years ago AppleInsider found out that Apple's "next big product initiative" would be based around a modern day reincarnation of its failed Newton MessagePad.
Part of the problem appears to be Steve Jobs. He has made it his personal project to get the 10 inch, 3G tablet off the ground.
Those inside Apple find that when a project is under Steve's watchful eye it is damn difficult to get it off the drawing board.
The project has been reset at least a half-dozen times over the past 24 months. Development has been frozen and key aspects of the device rethought, retooled and repositioned. Jobs did something similar to a smaller PDA device and then eventually canned it.
Apparently Jobs was continuing to oversee the project from his sickbed and has decided it is ready to ship. He has put it into the company's 2010 roadmap, where it's being positioned for a first quarter launch.
As you would expect, it is not going to be cheap. It will be somewhere between the cost of a high-end Iphone and Apple's most affordable Mac notebook.
Apple Insider claims that it will probably be released through an exclusive deal, but not with the Iphone's existing provider AT&T.
Apple is now in active talks with rival Verizon Wireless over the possibility of the carrier playing a key role in providing Internet access for its tablet device.
Another problem is which chip will go into the beast. Originally the device was destined to be based around Intel's first Atom processor, then dubbed Silverthorn. Rumours have been circulating that Apple wanted the Atom in some of its products.
AppleInsider thinks that Steve was unhappy with the battery life it was achieving from pre-production devices employing such chips.
Of course it all could still be vapourware.µ
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If thif thæ truth, wæ fhould gæt him on tu Amærica'f Got Talænt! Wæ tiræd of that Fufan Broonæ.
Wen thæ kaptcha go all Wælsh?
I also forgot to mention that as a former Verizon customer, even if they subsidize the tablet, you would still be charged excessively for each required plan addition. And how will it all work with Verizon's notorious walled garden VCast?
And don't forget apple had hired many chips experts and will continue to develop their own chips to powering their products includes server products using power architecture and ditch Intel completely.
Apple is a company that want to develops their own proprietary products even windows no longer run again in apple mac.
Christ no.
Noooo!!!!!!!
So if I want one (I don't) I have to sign a freaking contract with some cell phone carrier and pay through the nose every month to get one, no thank you. Why not price it at $599 with WiFi built in and if you want 3g you can sign a couple years of your life away and get it for say $199. You never know, something like this may still happen.
If there is a carrier deal with Verizon? Will it be subsidized and if so how how much?