Apple Tablet Coming – You Can Thank Not The iPhone But The iTouch And App Store
January 4, 2010
Filed Under: in Analysis, Mobile, News
Author: John Furrier
Welcome back.
The Apple Tablet is coming. What is it you ask? It's an oversized iTouch. It will be perfect for surfing the web in bed or on the couch. The Apple Tablet will be just perfect. Why? One reason: The Apple App Store.
Apple has just released the massive number on the App Store -3 Billion Download - AMAZING.
CUPERTINO, California—January 5, 2010—Apple® today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone® and iPod touch® users worldwide.
“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
According to the Wall Street Journal Apple plans to ship their new Apple Tablet computer in March. According to AllThingsD John Paczkowski, Apple will hold the announcement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 27, not Tuesday, Jan. 26, as had been rumored.
The Apple Tablet is supposed to feature either a 10 or 11-inch touch screen. Price will be around $1,000 with e-reader software according to the Wall Street Journal.
Not sure of the success of this new Tablet device? Just look at the iTouch. The iTouch never should have succeeded. It was an over sized iPod an iPhone with no phone for crying out loud. Who would ever buy that product? Hmmm … combine the iTouch with the Apple App Store and you have a mini-tablet. Bingo done deal.
One thing that many don’t seem to be saying is that (according to my sources) the Apple Tablet is a outgrowth of the massive success of not the iPhone but the iTouch and App Store.
According to one of my inside sources at Apple, the entire company was in shock with the success of the iTouch. Apple insiders considered the iTouch as a way to get iPhone inventory out in the market via a differentiated iPod. Expectations were low. What Apple didn't see coming down the tracks like a freight train was the APP STORE.
The iTouch App Store combo proved the market value proposition for Apple. Since then my sources have been telling me that they Apple Tablet has been on the fast track.
The App Store validated that a non-phone would be of value. The timing couldn't have been perfect for Apple. In years passed Tablets have come and gone - just ask uber-blogger Robert Scoble he loves tablets. Robert Scoble and fans of the web will love the Apple Tablet. I know that I will.
The Apple Table will basically be a oversized iTouch. Sounds simple but with the App Store the Apple Tablet will rock.
Then maybe the guy in this video below was either joking or pointing us in the wrong direction as well:
http://www.allt…ockingly-cheap/
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The amount of press and comment that has been generated about the iSlate or whatever it’s called tells me it must be corrindinated in someway by Apple, they are definately pumping out the rumours for the media to cling onto and it’s worked a charm I’m looking forward to seeing it even though a month ago I didn’t even know I wanted one…
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Like the iPhone, the Day 1 price can be extravagant just to milk the “early adopters” who will line up to pay anything for version 1.0 of whatever it turns out to be – Xmas 2010 will tell the tale.
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… at the end of 2010. But the launch price will be much more. Apple always exploits early adopters.
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I completely agree with your entire article. Well done MG!!!
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I really want to buy this one…
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Re @Pete Austin “…end of 2010″ Yep, I agree: beginning to sound sort of like a “bait-and-switch”. Like GOOG’s Chrome for Mac. “Coming soon”. Folks panting. Waiting with bated breath… waiting…
Re @LEADSExplorer “define the market” Yep, I can define a market, precisely. There is a real, practical, down-to-earth, non-geek customer who could use such a device. My 80-year-old mother-in-law is terrified of computers. She lives alone. She’s lonely, needs activities beyond just, watching TV. She likes to read.
The iPhone is too small, too much work to scroll continuously for reading. I can set up this device, with its very friendly GUI, to give her instant access to reading and email-fetching. (She could get email and pics, to keep her company, from a wide-ranging family.) It would be less work and intimidation than a lidded laptop. And the price would be right down her alley. Now THAT’s a market!
For *personal* reasons I won’t rant about, I’m not eager to go for an equivalent GOOG device.
So there.
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Interesting story but what is with all the bold green words? Not only is it overkill, it is extremely annoying!
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Apple Tablets: Rumor: Apple kills Verizon deal, will announce iPhone 4G alongside tablet on … – GeekSmack http://bit.ly/62s2Bw
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Apple Tablets: Thoughts on what an Apple tablet should be – or not – Chicago Sun-Times http://bit.ly/62s2Bw
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The company name is simple “Apple.” And studies have shown that just looking at their logo makes one more creative.
http://www.npr….toryId=89408933
Well-documented, anti-competitive practices explain why Gates is richer, and nothing else.
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