Posted 01.04.2010 at 5:43 pm
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Apple Tablet Fantasy
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The rumor mill has been heating all day, and right now it’s simply too hot to ignore: the Wall Street Journal says that people “briefed by the company” report that Apple’s long-awaited tablet will ship in March for around $1,000, with a formal announcement coming from the company at a January 27th event.
Right now details are scant, but the Journal seems confident that we can expect a 10- or 11-inch screen that will do all the things we’ve been expecting: display TV shows, films, and books, as well as play games, run apps and surf the Web. The price tag could also include (or be subsidized by) a subscription to a "nationwide Wi-Fi wireless service" (not a mobile data plan?).
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Gadgets, Clay Dillow, apple, apple tablet, computers, ereaders, Mac, mobile computingAs one of many, many media entities living in both digital and print, we’re thrilled by the many visions for the future of personal media consumption floating around out there. If you recall, our mothership company, Bonnier, even dreamed up a pretty sick version. And while the steep $1,000 price tag is a bit off-putting, the fact that we might be holding some semblance of digital media’s future in our hot little hands within three months is exciting, to say the very least.
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I think that I will have to wait about 5 years for this technology to evolve and become affordable. I just cant wait till i can have a robot girlfriend and have robot kids!!!
I'll pass on the robot kids and just get another robot girlfriend.
That way when I go to sleep at night, and they powerdown, I'll be sandwitched between my two silicone seductresses.
*snuggles*
@Mikhailian
lol creep
That should've been expected. When they brought out their iPhone, it was $600.00 and three years later, you can get it for $49.00. Maybe in three years this one, the one I've been waiting on, will be $49.00. When the price comes down, I will get one.
Hope it plays movies.
@Thorny
Giggity.
*ahem* nice desktop.
Can't wait 4 tablet!
Still cannot understand people squinting at such a small screen.
I can't imagine I would ever have any use for this expensive toy. Apple would have to do some thing so wild that it would compel me to buy one and I don't think it will happen. I imagine that this will sell only to those with extra money and no better place to spend it or those fan boys that will line up to bye what ever hype Apple puts out there..