If Apple releases a tablet, it will probably be called the “MacTouch”. I can see it as a fusion between a netbook and tablet PC. I think that’s really the only way it could work with their product line. Anything smaller starts to cannibalize iPod Touch sales and anything larger, the MacBook sales.

I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to suggest what Apple may or may not release. The real question is how such an animal would fit within the existing product line, whether it could cannibalize sales of the MacBook or MacBook Pro and whether, regardless, Apple could sell enough to make sense.

If I knew that, I’d be rolling in money now as an expert analyst. There are no expert analysts, alas!

Peace,
Gene

Gene, are you trying to say there is not going to be an Apple Tablet?

I do not care if Apple did not actually “officially” announce the device yet, it is on its way.

Pet Peeve: I wish people would stop comparing this Apple Tablet computing device to the Kindle, the latter is simply an electronic reading device and the former will be awesome.

I wrote a quick blog article talking about the potential OS/GUI of the “potential” Apple Tablet…

Why does Apple need to assemble books? Amazon have happily made the Kindle Reader available on the iPhone and its not in their interests to take that away.

It makes far more sense for Apple to say to Amazon “we sell the razor, you can sell the blades”.

” The Kindle DX seems like a really useful device, but it can only go so far as a niche product.” Yes, but IF (and that’s a big qualification) Apple could assemble enough books to make an e-book reader a viable product (by hooking up with somebody like Barnes and Noble or Borders, for instance, and by permitting access to all the free stuff now available from sources like Google Books, Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg), and if it had the additional capacity to do a lot of other useful and entertaining stuff as well, then it would blow Kindle out of the water. Kindle, after all, is what you call a niche product because it’s a one-trick pony.

Yeah, I’m sure if this tablet had wings it would fly. This tablet is the wildest Apple rumor ever. It’ll take a basketball player to palm the device just to hold it in one hand. The whole tablet carrying concept seems really ridiculous in a practical sense, no matter how useful it actually is. Seeing is believing.

I hope I’m wrong and Apple sells millions of them, but I really just can’t visualize the product at all. The Kindle DX seems like a really useful device, but it can only go so far as a niche product. I’d say the same thing about the Apple tablet. Anyway, go Apple.

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, stock analyst, has followed Apple for a long time. I became aware of him when he appeared on a Mac Radio Show several years ago. He has been the first-and-only analyst who stated that Apple stock value would be over $100. Mr. Munster also was the one that said that Apple will make a cellphone.

Both situations were hard for me to believe and yet, came to fruition. So when Mr. Munster mentioned about a tablet-like device in 2010, I am more likely to believe him. I tend to think any so-called announcements for this year are bogus. The perfect venue for this media pad device would be the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.

There is a big glaring gap from the iPhone/iPod touch to MacBook. It would be nice to see a device that has the mobility of an iPod touch and features of a mythical, smaller not-so-powerful MacBook. I would like one. Lugging my “white” MacBook around is still a chore.

Apple Tablet may be launched this Christmas or possibly as early as September. I hope this will be another great rally for apple earnings. I will buy one of this for sure. The iphone started to be too little to stay all the day looking things. I am a great fan of apple product so started collecting all the information (more than 200 sites) about Apple Tablet(News, Videos, Pics, Pre reviews, Rumors etc.,). If you are interested take a look at the below link
http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/07/apple-tablet-large-iphone-or-ipod-touch.html

There are good things and bad things about Apple’s famous policy of secrecy. It’s amusing to see rumor sites being reduced to behaving like Sovietologists and trying to predict Apple’s future by parsing such things as patent applications, job advertisements, and real or supposed purchase orders with subcontractors (as well as more reliable straws in the wind such as Intel’s much more open  roadmap to future processors). The is no doubt an upside to this corporate secrecy (it sometimes allows Apple to totally beat out the competition), but as a (very minor) AAPL shareholder I tend to focus on the downside. Very often rumors of some forthcoming product surface, and when the product in question fails to materialize Wall Street punishes Apple by lowering the value of its stock. As for this netbook / tablet idea, I don’t quite see how it would fit in with Apple’s overall scheme of things or what exactly it would be supposed to do. Such a device would have been a great idea if they had marketed it as, among other things, an e-book reader and had ready a large and compelling library of books accessible via iTunes. But, if that was ever they idea, they let the Kindle beat them to the marketplace, and it is a little hard to see how they could move into this area now since Amazon has so many books already tied up. Barring something like that, what exact need of mine would this device be supposed to satisfy? Apple would have to convince me that it could do something for me, and I’m not certain what that might be.