January 1, 2010

The Tablet

The Tablet (or Slate), which may or may not be announced on January 26 and which may or may not ship in April, will be the Next Big Thing for Apple: 9 years after the first iPod was announced in 2001.

It's predicted to have a 10 inch LCD touch-screen and a camera. No one has mentioned voice-recognition as input. That is my one prediction and wish for this device.

I know my rule about not buying first versions of Apple products but I think I'll buy this device since I've been waiting since 2005 for this thing to appear.

Update Wed Jan 13 22:03:09 2010: The latest rumours say it won't have a camera. That just means instead of buying two tablets, I will buy just one.