Well this is going to come as a disappointment to the masses of Apple lunatics who have already begun saving for the upcoming tablet release.
If QuickPwn’s sources are to be believed, the iSlate isn’t an Apple tablet but rather an eBook Reader designed to take on Amazon’s Kindle head to head.
The tablet will reportedly run on Apple’s upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 software and will include a seperate App Store for eBooks. Apple will be announcing the iSlate eBook reader at WWDC 2010, which our sources says is being held on June 7.
Other sources believe that that the Tablet could in fact still make an appearance but under a different name, potentially iGuide – although personally iGuide doesn’t match up with the type of name Apple would usually decide to run with for it’s product (aside from the “i” of course).
“the trademark classification for iGuide seems to be particularly telling. While most of these classifications seem to cover an overly broad range of possibilties, iGuide’s paints a picture of an all purpose media browser.”
Thanks Ray
Apple doesn’t come out with boring products usually. So even if this is ‘just’ an ebook reader it will be unlike any other product.
true. Although if it is just an ebook reader – i’ll cry.
It does look like this concept: http://bit.ly/5aQwpc
That is a hot product! If it has wifi, I’d put that on my xmas list.
I agree Boris, they always have something awesome in store.
Must admit though, I was rather looking forward to seeing an Apple tablet PC running full OS X.
One day maybe!
I think it’s complete BS. An e-reader?! Way to enter the game really late. I doubt this is going to be an e-reader.
Enter the game late? We were just getting started! What do you think? That everybody owns an eReader and that the Kindle is as good as it is going to get?
I really hope this news is not accurate. I will be one of those Apple lunatics that will be disappointed.
I do agree with Boris that Apple does not come out with boring products but I really cannot afford an Apple eReader and an eventual Mac Slate, especially when I already have an iPhone.
If its running iPhone OS 4.0, then its not ‘just an ebook reader’ anymore than the iphone is ‘just an ebook reader’ – i’m guessing the bookstore app will be available on iPhone as well, but will be released along with the slate.
Late in the game like they were late in the music game?
Like with the iPod/iTunes roadmap, this next device will be part of a larger scope. If the device comes with the iTunes for books, with deals with large publishers on the back-end to support this, who will complain it’s ‘ only an e-reader? I bet this will be game-changing again.
No seriously, why would you even quote “QuickPwn’s sources”. QuickPwn’s is a ttal rip off that just try to make a few bucks of the billion ads it has on it’s site. They just write crap content to attract people who do t know better.
Oh and yeah, Apple making a reader??? Seriously?? All this amazing hardware an software to read ebooks???? Naaaaahhbh.
It’s gonna be a tablet and it’s not gonna be called iGuide or iSlate. I mean come on, these names are just awefully bad and you know it.
apple rocked in the late 80′s but windows rules now pc for the win
You guys obviously don’t read much – I’m looking forward to it… The ereader market is crying out for a decent product. Apples effort will probably be over-priced and under-specced as usual but it will give the market a good kick, as usual again, so us sensible buyers can take advantage of all the good buys that follow in the Apple wake.
Apple had to port / rewrite a lot of Darwin for ARM architecture. Sure, if you drill back through the layers, it’s based on the same stuff that OS X is based on. But in no way is it just OS X with a different GUI.