crave.cnet.com — AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has a project underway to develop a minitablet computer based on the OS X operating system it has developed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The site is calling it "the return of the Newton," referring to the much-maligned but cult-favorite PDA that Apple sold in the mid-1990s.
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z01inksSep 27, 2007
I agree. Tablets & Sub-notebooks are useless. Give me a touchscreen iMac for my kids tho, and i'm sold!!
ricox9Sep 27, 2007
Give us an Apple tablet with a screen like the iPhone but 10", priced at $999, with a Citrix client, and the hospital I work at would buy 400 of them right now. We're evaluating 6 or 7 different devices to replace our current fleet of touch screen tablets, and they all have pretty major drawbacks.
kazbaedenSep 27, 2007
So a niche niche is a niche^2, which as invisiblerobots suggests, is a little too niche.
irelandSep 27, 2007
A bit like phones eh?
johnpaul191Sep 28, 2007
is it because nobody has done it right, or is it a niche market? honestly i am not sure if companies are screwing up tablets, but that they actually have limited uses. *most* people own one computer. if they own two, it's a laptop and a desktop. there are uses where a tablet is perfect (doctors, location managers etc), but it's not going to replace your average user's laptop. i think Apple would not release one until they figure out a new angle to promote it. Apple is good at releasing a product that you somehow never realized you *need* until they made one. i don't mean in a fanboy way, but in a productivity/fun kind of way. tablets are not selling, but they are also not really being sold to the masses. we all know Apple can make one, they have had handwriting recognition in OS X for years now (inkwell), the iPhone is almost there. i'm 100% it's a question of marketing.
dragon76Sep 28, 2007
I own a MacBook Pro and wouldn't mind something smaller than that to carry with my but with more/better features than my Sprint Mogul.