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What d'ya think the new Apple product might be....?

Do you think it might be the strongly RUMOURED iTablet - or could Apple just be evil and release a completely DIFFERENT product?
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f1osof2 | 2 years, 4 months ago
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I think it'll be closer to an e-book type machine. I think they would make more profits revolutionizing the e-book world like they did the mp3 world with the i-pod. The tablet market is idle and mediocre at best while the e-book market is growing rapidly.

I would like to see Apple come out with a gaming system like microsoft's x-box. I think they could just add gaming to the i-touch to make it competitive with the gameboy. But a counsel with a touch screen and 3G connection could be highly lucrative if teamed up with the big gaming companies.

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philipy | 2 years, 4 months ago
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Although Apple is a very secretive company, the rumor mill is usually in the right ball park at least.

And this time no one is thinking that it's going to anything other than some kind of tablet.

What it'll be called is open to question, and what the exact spec or price will be is also pretty much an unknown. No doubt Apple will have a twist or two that no-one has thought of, even if the guesses are broadly right.

But here's a link to a video in which the CEO of McGraw-Hill mentions the tablet, says it'll be based on the iPhone, and that they've been working with Apple on putting content, presumably e-books, on it.

http://switchtomac.com/blog/mac-life/the-apple-tablet-is-official/

Anyway. here's a round up of all the assorted rumors:

http://gizmodo.com/5434566/the-exhaustive-guide-to-apple-tablet-rumors

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shanmac | 2 years, 4 months ago
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All indications are that it is a tablet computing device. It will probably have multi-touch and will be focused on media and gaming. Reports say that it has a 10" screen (measured diagonally) and that it will have a SnapDragon or ARM processor. Hope that helps.

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wy | 2 years, 4 months ago
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Few of the good information sources will be:
1. The Unofficial Apple Weblog
2. AppleInsider

One of the good ways to know what features/products Apple can have is through the patents they are applying or owned.

You may check Google patents or FreePatentsOnline for details of the patents.

This patent on “gesturing with a multipoint sensing device” is cool.
Article about the patent

Proximity detector and ichat are cool too:
Article about proximity detector and i-chat patents

Article showing many of Apple's patents
This article is insightful, detailing Apple’s many patents:

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Proximity detector for tablets.

iChat, patent number 7653719 involves a video conferencing system or, more specifically, automatic detection of channel bandwidth.

Patent number 7653755 involves an apparatus and method for determining communications paths, , especially for AV/C devices.

Patent number RE41088 is for a method and apparatus for rotating the display orientation of a captured image.

Patent number 7653776 involves a method and apparatus for selectively switching IC ports to card slots through the use of three switches per switch group.

Patent number 7653550 is for an interface for providing a modeless timeline based selection of an audio or video file.

Patent number 7652494 involves operating an integrated circuit at a minimum supply voltage

Patent number 7652504 is for a low latency, power-down safe level shifter.

Patent number 7652676 involves systems and methods for color managing content elements on a display device.

Patent number 7652678 involves partial display updates in a windowing system using a programmable graphics processing unit.

Patent number 7653685 involves methods and apparatuses for transferring streaming multimedia data and various types of data associated therewith in a network environment.

Patent number 7653250 is for adjusting the sample rate for encoding.

Patent number 7653719 is for the ornamental design of an electronic device.”
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eelsplayer8 | 2 years, 4 months ago
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I think apple will add the "iTablet" or "iSlate" to its arsenal of technology.

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