Apple tablet could arrive with a familiar name
There's a lot of speculation that Apple is preparing one or more tablet computers for launch in anything from a few weeks to more than 12 months.
It's been suggested that one of them could be a (vaguely) Kindle-like reader. Think of it as an iPod for the printed word.
If anyone can get the user interface and aesthetics right for such a device, it's Apple.
The company already has the infrastructure in place to sell the content - the iTunes Store - and its experience in negotiating with music labels and movie/tv studios would stand it in good stead.
A whole range of books and magazines could become available wherever you are in the world (the latter are rarely encumbered by territorial rights to make life difficult for an international operator like Apple), and remember that Rupert Murdoch is looking for ways of charging for news.
Apple has been known to recycle names ('Cocoa' was used for a children's Internet authoring system before being applied to the Mac OS X programming framework), so it already has the ideal trademark waiting for such a device.
iBook.
 Subscribe to Hydrapinion
|
|
Recent Posts
Trackback address for this post
Trackback URL (right click and copy shortcut/link location)
4 comments
Add video-out and USB2 ports to the Apple Tablet and it will be awesome, as long as it runs Mac OS X (not the OS X of the iPhone/iPod touch) for full blown Keynote and PowerPoint presentations on videoprojectors via the video-out port, using USB-based remote control for the presentation.
That alone will sell millions worldwide on the corporate, education and domestic markets, besides creating a tremendous halo effect for Apple to sell more stuff like Macs, iPhones and iPods.
We need thousands of such Apple Tablet for our University. Even at 1,000 to 2,000 USD.
Comment feed for this post
One of Australia's most experienced IT writers, Stephen Withers has been using and writing about Macs since 1984. His journalistic resume includes stints as editor of Australian MacUser and as Macintosh section editor of PC Week. He has also managed a PC and Mac support operation at one of the country's leading universities, and is active in the Mac user group community.
