Apple Tablet Archive

  • CrunchGear Is Live at Today’s Apple Event

    CrunchGear Is Live at Today’s Apple Event

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    This is where all of our live content for today’s Apple event will live. To make things perfectly clear, Apple won’t let us film inside the event. However, CrunchGear and a special surprise guest will offer a full play by play. Feel free to turn on your headphones at work and listen to the news [...]

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  • Stephen Colbert wants the Apple iTablet

    Stephen Colbert wants the Apple iTablet

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Wait in line, buddy.

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  • Doonesbury takes on the Apple Tablet announcement

    Doonesbury takes on the Apple Tablet announcement

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    So very true. [Slate via Daring Fireball]

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  • The Top Ten Groundbreaking Slates

    The Top Ten Groundbreaking Slates

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Tomorrow is a big day. Apple will be revealing a brand new product to the masses. While we don’t know what it will be called, we’re quite certain Jobs will be unveiling the much-anticipated Apple Tablet. While the Apple Tablet may very well revolutionize the tablet industry–as their previous products have done many times before–it [...]

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  • Open thread: What does your ideal Apple tablet look like?

    Open thread: What does your ideal Apple tablet look like?

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    At this point in the game, you know as much about the Apple tablet as we do — squat. Sure, some esteemed tech pundits seem to have it all figured out, but they don’t. Hell, Apple might not even announce the iPad tomorrow. That’s what I’m praying for. But we’re curious, what’s your ideal Apple tablet look like? [...]

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  • McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet Is Coming Tomorrow

    McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet Is Coming Tomorrow

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    McGraw-Hill. Ever heard of them? If you’ve picked up any textbook written in the last hundred years or so, chances are they published it. Well, their CEO just spilled the beans on Apple’s not-so-secret surprise on live TV. Going beyond confirming that it’s the much-fabled Tablet, Terry McGraw confirms that they “have worked with Apple for [...]

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  • If only this comic turned out to be true about Steve Job’s announcement tomorrow

    If only this comic turned out to be true about Steve Job’s announcement tomorrow

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments

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  • HP shows off its slate computer while revealing a key disappointing detail (Windows)

    HP shows off its slate computer while revealing a key disappointing detail (Windows)

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple isn't the only company with tablets. HP and Dell showed off its slate concepts at CES '10, but their demo's left us with so many questions. HP's CTO Phil McKinney at least reveals a bit more about his company's offering. But hopefully he's out of the loop a bit and HP actually has more planned for the device. Otherwise, the HP Slate will be about as successful as the HP TouchSmart iMac clones. Phil gives the background about the Slate's development at HP. He explains that the company has been working on the unit for about five years and it started out as an ereadering device. But then as many things do, it evolved into what he's showing off in the video. But this slate is plagued by the same fundamental flaw as the vast majority of the current tablets: Windows. Phil states that the device will run plain-jane Windows 7. That's a problem because even Windows 7 with its added touchscreen capabilities is not suited for extended tablet use without a stylus and Apple/Palm/RIM/HTC has proven to the world that we don't need styluses. (stylii?)

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  • Latest confirmed Apple Tablet news: There will be no solar panels

    Latest confirmed Apple Tablet news: There will be no solar panels

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    There’s been some minor speculation that the Apple Tablet will be one of the greenest devices on the market. Why? Because after a patent surfaced describing an iPod with a solar panel on the front, there were some rumors suggesting that this patent would become active in the tablet, perhaps in the form of a [...]

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  • Apple Execs Downright Giddy About The Tablet (For Them Anyway)

    Apple Execs Downright Giddy About The Tablet (For Them Anyway)

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Yesterday, we noted that multiple sources have heard Steve Jobs refer to the soon-to-be-unveiled Apple Tablet as the "most important thing I've ever done." Today brought two statements out of Apple that are just about as close as you're ever going to get to a confirmation of that. In Apple's press release for its strong Q1 2010 earnings, Jobs said the following: "The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about." What's odd is that not only does Jobs (or anyone at Apple, for that matter) usually make no comments about as-yet unannounced products, but why would he do so in a release about the previous quarter's earnings — which have absolutely nothing to do with the tablet? He simply had no reason that he had to make that statement. I can only interpret that as he's just that excited about what he's going to unveil on Wednesday.

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  • Breaking: Flurry Notices Cupertino-based Users Testing Apps on Apple Tablet

    Breaking: Flurry Notices Cupertino-based Users Testing Apps on Apple Tablet

    Posted on January 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, has noticed approximately 50 devices in the Cupertino that match the characteristics of Apple's tablet device. Flurry claims to have reliably placed these devices on Apple's Cupertino campus, and are confident that they are "observing a group of pre-release tablets in testing." This make sense - as the Apple Tablet has to be tested before it is announced this Wednesday, January 27 in San Francisco. Furthermore, Flurry has been an extremely reliable source on analytics data thus far and don't often break stories unless they are sure they've checked their facts. They've noticed that a large number of the apps downloaded were Games (140 total downloads or launches) and the next group was Entertainment, followed by News and Books. Here's a chart of the usage data:

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  • The killer app for Apple’s tablet: Gaming

    The killer app for Apple’s tablet: Gaming

    Posted on January 24, 2010 | No Comments
    This guest post is by Jeff Scott, founder and publisher of 148Apps, a blog providing fanatical coverage of everything iPhone and hopefully soon, the Apple tablet. While we still don’t know the name of the new tablet device; could be iPad, iTablet, iSlate, iCanvas, or an extension of the MacBook name. But what we do [...]

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  • ‘Garbage Men’: A short comedic take on the hype surrounding the Apple Tablet

    ‘Garbage Men’: A short comedic take on the hype surrounding the Apple Tablet

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    This is a story about Louie, a municipal sanitation worker. It’s called “Garbage Men.” It’s fiction. It takes place on January 27, 2010, the day and date of the big Apple announcement. It has mild profanity because that’s how people talk. \Alarm rings at 3:30am\ Louie: God damn it. After 10 years this doesn’t get any easier. \Louie [...]

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  • Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction

    Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    For the record, I'm writing these words on a MacBook Pro; the third Mac I've owned in the past twelve months. As I do so, I'm listening to music on iTunes through my standard issue iPod headphones, so as not to disturb my neighbours. Less than a foot from where I'm sitting, my iPhone sits charging. I am - as marketers might have it put - "a Mac". And yet - my God - I'm bored of reading about Apple and their 'long awaited' tablet.

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  • Will Next Week’s Apple Event Finally Bring Background Apps To The iPhone?

    Will Next Week’s Apple Event Finally Bring Background Apps To The iPhone?

    Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
    This morning, after many months of rampant speculation over the enigmatic Tablet, Apple officially invited scores of press to a special media event to be held January 27. The debut of the Tablet seems all but a given according to most reports, but there are some secondary announcements that also stand to be huge — especially the rumors that we may also see the launch of iPhone 4.0. This afternoon, Fox News "confirmed" that we'd being seeing the latest iteration of Apple's hugely popular mobile OS for the first time. Should that be the case, there's also a good chance we'll see launch of a very important new feature: background applications. First things first. While the title of the Fox News article is "Apple Tablet, iPhone 4 Launch Confirmed for January 27", the body of the article later says that it's "likely" that Apple will unveil those two products (along with an updated iLife suite), and also notes that Apple is known for suddenly removing features or products from their announcements at the last second — none of which makes the news sound totally concrete. That said, there are plenty of reasons why iPhone 4.0 could be making an appearance alongside the Tablet, and why it will bring background apps with it.

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