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5Words: Tragedy Strikes Beloved Apple Tablet

Thursday, November 19, 2009

God, no: Apple tablet delayed. Courts: Verizon’s AT&T ads OK. AT&t’s snarky anti-Verizon ad. How to improve Office 2010. Flips to get Wi-Fi soon? Pre for $80; Pixi, $25. Trillian for iPhone now available. ThinkPad Edge: hey, what’s that? Blu-Ray for $78? That’s tempting. AOL to shed mucho employees. Michael Arrington annoys Lance Ulanoff. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

The Great Tablet Debate

Friday, October 9, 2009

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I had fun guesting on CNET’s Reporters’ Roundtable today, talking about tablets with host Rafe Needleman and fellow visitor Ryan Block of Gdgt. For some reason I’m having trouble embedding the video, but you can watch it here.

I’m on CNET TV Today

Friday, October 9, 2009

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I’m tickled to report that I’m going to be a guest today on Reporters’ Roundtable, a new CNET podcast. I’ll be in excellent company: The host is Webware’s Rafe Needleman and Gdgt’s Ryan Block is also guesting. And the topic’s a fun one: the past, present, and future of tablet computers. The show is taping at 1pm [...]

5Words: Tablets Come Into Focus

Monday, October 5, 2009

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Tablets: finally coming into focus? Windows Mobile 6.5 phones arrive. A massive Hotmail password leak? I want this Toshiba TV. Matt Cutts is avoiding Microsoft. Does Mozilla fear Chrome Frame? Android on Verizon by Christmas? iPhone Documents to Go spreadsheet. Google puts ads on phones. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Magazines: Still Ripe for Digital Reimagining

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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We don’t even know for sure whether Apple will ever release a tablet–although there’s lots of compelling evidence that it will–and already there’s a lively debate about whether the company is interested in using said tablet to do to printed reading materials what iTunes has done for music. Until recently, the smart money seemed to be [...]

More “Details” on the Apple Tablet

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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iLounge has a story with what it says are ten new details about the impending Apple tablet device. None of them are shockers, and most repeat tidbits that have already been out there: The site says that the gadget has a 10.7″ screen, runs iPhone OS, will be available in 3G and non-3G versions, has [...]

Microsoft Does Tablets. Yes, Again

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Gizmodo is reporting on what it says is Microsoft’s prototype for a new sort of tablet computer–one with dual screens bound up like a book, and an interface that involves both multi-touch (like an iPhone) and a stylus (like a Tablet PC). It’s supposedly code-named Courier, and Gizmodo has a video walkthrough–which is done in [...]

Archos’s Android 5 Tablet: It Isn’t a PC (or is It?)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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The French company Archos makes portable entertainment gadgets that often feel like a first rough draft of the future: For instance, it started making media players with big screens,video support, and TV output back when your average MP3 player was…an MP3 player. Today, it announced the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, an inventive gizmo that’s on [...]

More Mac Tablet Scuttlebutt

Friday, August 28, 2009

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A couple of weeks ago, a “photo” of a tablet apparently running full-blown OS X rather than iPhone OS hit the Web. Now Gizmodo is quoting a supposedly reliable source as saying a Mac Tablet was spotted in a factory in China: This source claims that the two touchscreen prototypes—made of aluminum, but on the shape [...]

What if the Apple Tablet is a Mac?

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Over the weekend, a French blog published new “photos” of Apple’s “upcoming” tablet. They looks fishy and pseudo-Appleish at best (and if the tablet isn’t coming until next year, which is now the consensus among the smartest Applewatchers I know, they’re here awfully early). I bring this up here mainly because the image seems to [...]

When Will Apple Announce a Tablet?

Friday, August 14, 2009

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Back in June, I asked you guys to predict what Apple would announce at its WWDC keynote…and you did a better job than some professional Applewatchers. Wanna try your hand at outsmarting the pros when it comes to figuring out when it’ll announce its tablet computer, assuming it is in fact working on one?

Apple Tablet Date Debate

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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The Applesphere seems to have stopped debating whether there’s going to be an Apple tablet or not. There even seems to be some consensus about form factor and price range. What’s left to toss around? Release dates. The question seems to boil down to this: Fall/Holiday 2009 or 2010? (As you may recall, we already [...]

More Tablet Naysaying

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Over at Cnet, Rafe Needleman joins the chorus of entirely rational skepticism that the world is ready for a tablet computer from Apple or anyone else: But what you can do with a screen-only computer gets really limited when you expand the device beyond pocket size. There are two big limitations. First, you need a keyboard [...]

Enter the Tablet Naysayers!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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At the moment, Apple’s tablet is not a real product but a gumbo of rumor, speculation, patent diving, and unabashed daydreaming. But it’s already inspiring a thoughtful backlash. Over at IntoMobile, Stefan Constantinescu lays out in amazing detail the history of rumors about an Apple tablet that turned out to be pure fiction, or which [...]

The Apple Tablet: Some Possibly Answered Questions

Monday, July 27, 2009

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About the only thing we know for sure about Apple’s allegedly upcoming tablet computer is that there’s definitely misinformation floating around at the moment. Last week, AppleInsider. Last week, AppleInsider was exceptionally confident that Apple will be shipping its long-awaited tablet computer in the first quarter of next year. This week the Financial Times (in [...]

Apple Tablet in 2010? Maybe! And Maybe Not!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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When analysts predict Apple’s plans, I’m instantly, incorrigibly skeptical. With that in mind, I’m regarding Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s theory that Apple will release a tablet device next year for $500-$700 as just that: a theory. Munster pieced together his prediction based on multiple pieces of interesting evidence, ranging from rumors coming out of [...]