Apple Tablet Postponed to Next Year?
By Simon Sage on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 1:42 PM PST In Apple, MID, Rumors, Verizon
Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, is digging up the ol’ Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet rumour, only he says it won’t happen until next year, rather than this summer as previously speculated. The screen will supposedly be in the 9-10 inch range, and sold through Verizon (NYSE: VZ) for wireless data access. Apple has gone on record as saying they won’t be getting into the netbook game, but perhaps they can massage the device category into something a little more their style. Analyst commentary, as ever, needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but certainly not ignored. If various independent sources keep talking about an iTablet/iSlate/iWhatever, it’s a safe bet that Apple will launch it sooner or later. These rumours have been floating around for awhile now, but maybe if we keep talking about it, Apple will make one just to shut us up, already.
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The thing is too big. I’ll wait until it is technologically feasible for Apple to make it fold like a paperback book with the screen covering the hinge in the middle. Now that device would really revolutionize this product category.
Intermobile’s Stefan Constantinescu posted a history of the Apple Tablet Rumor earlier, an event foretold by industry watchers as “coming soon” for at least seven years. I’m nearly as dubious as Stefan, who believes it’ll never happen.
Not only that: Without an act of Congress there won’t be an iPhone before 2011. If you’re lucky. And don’t get me started about Santa and the Easter Bunny.
Did I mention Bah, humbug!?
Sorry…I meant VERIZON iPhone before 2011.