All the Apple tablet rumours in one picture

Jonny Evans

January 13, 2010

Apple Inc News

We like this visual guide to the many rumours presaging Apple’s rumoured Tablet, which comes to us via The Green Room blog.

Larger image is here.

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Comments (20)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 4:13am

how come the support of itunes' app store is very likely whereas iphone Os is very unlikely :/

DistortedLoop | January 13, 2010 - 6:41am

Because iTunes has clearly become Apple's one-stop shopping place for all digital content, regardless of your device. Whether it's your computer, your iPhone, iPod, AppleTv, or iTablet/Slate, and whether it's apps, music, movies, comic books, ebooks, podcasts, you go to iTunes to get it. The only thing Apple sells that's not now in iTunes is hardware and its OS X software offerings.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 9:14am

Apple software updates are delivered through a different mechanism.

And don't forget Garageband video lessons.

DistortedLoop | January 13, 2010 - 10:56am

Apple software updates are an extension of of the OS X software offerings I mentioned as an exception. Where are Garageband videos obtained? Nothing that I've even looked at or considered.

At any rate, it's pretty clear that Apple is using iTunes as its central point of sale for the majority of its offerings, and it shouldn't be surprising that they'll continue that trend.

Do you disagree? If so, what's the logic?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 8:41am

Because iPhone apps UIs would not scale to 10" screen - so would be major os rewrite to make them run correctly - easier to just make another subset of osx? See John Gruber article on this subject.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 11:36am

Because iPhone apps UIs would not scale to 10" screen - so would be major os rewrite to make them run correctly.

That's wrong. It'd be a very minor UIKit API addition to support multiple container sizes on the new device. Undoutably iPhone OS 4.0 will support this new API call.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 14, 2010 - 5:58am

I can imagine multiple iPhone apps on this thing running side-by-side, each in their little iPhone window. How cool is that?

Luca (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 4:16pm

i would actually say that the two go hand and hand. if it's not the iphone OS, no apps.

that said, the dominant rumor is that in fact it will be the iphone OS, which fits with the functions most commonly sited, the multi-touch, the talk of 3g alongside the wifi etc.

apple has a full power portable. several of them. they call them Macbooks. And Apple isn't in the habit of creating devices that compete with each other. a 'bigger' iphone tablet fills the whole netbook, ereader, portable game device, portable video player all rolled into one that the on the go types would love to have but the iphone is too small to really work (seriously how can anyone comfortably surf the web on the tiny iphone screen, anything bigger is better)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 4:18am

Loving point 11 - the ten foot display!!!!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 4:38am

i found it more like "spot the errors" than informative, it also just a list on an image - the points dont even point to anything. i cant be bothered to list the errors, seeing as the author cant be bothered to check for them either.

PAHess (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 6:59am

Totally agree. This thing hurt my eyes more than helped them with the inexplicable non-linear layout. Honestly, what was the point of that? They don't correspond to anything. It's like playing "Where's Waldo?" with every number. Furthermore, a visual layout of points should be visual only if that attribute adds something constructive to the experience. All this added was a sense of uselessness.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 5:34am

With Apples obsession for thin (MacBook Air, iPod Touch), it would surprise me a lot if an "iSlate" would not be unbelievably thin…

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 5:53am

So everything obvious (aluminium display) is 'very likely' and everything else is unlikely. It's the tablet likely to have a Pixel Qi screen?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 6:30am

number 15 is present twice in the picture and '16' is missing

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 6:32am

Think about how you would hold this thing, you would not hold it in one hand - gesturing with the other like the iPhone / Touch.

I guess there is something we're not getting here...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 14, 2010 - 1:27am

Hold with both hands...point and click with nose :D

Warren (not verified) | January 13, 2010 - 8:57am