RUMOR HAS IT: APPLE “ISLATE” INTENDED AS A KINDLE KILLER
According to the Quick PWN blog, the Apple paper isn’t feat to be a paper machine at all, really. If you conceive Quick PWN presenter Hans’s exclusive sources, the Apple iSlate, as he maintains it module indeed be called, is more aimed at attractive on the Amazon Kindle and its ilk as an e-reading device.
Presumably, the iSlate would also substance iPod and media playback functionality, but Hans’ place makes no study of these features:
Our sources hit told us that the gossip most Apple actuation a creation with the iSlate study is true, but the creation won’t be an Apple tablet, it module be an eBook reader. The iSlate module be a competitor to the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook and another e-readers that are discover there. Our sources hit also told us that the iSlate eBook reverend module separate on Apple’s upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 code and module allow a seperate App Store for eBooks. Apple module be announcing the iSlate eBook reverend at WWDC 2010, which our sources says is existence held on June 7.
Note also that if Quick PWN’s sources are correct, we won’t be sight the iSlate or center study of it until WWDC, which is existence held such early than preceding rumors suggested, if the unnamed communicator is to be believed. Moscone Center engagement aggregation suggests WWDC module begin on June 28, not the 7th.
I’m suspicious of this stylish gossip for a sort of reasons. First, the difference between the WWDC dates previously reportable and this exclusive one doesn’t rattling attain some sense. Then again, maybe that actually adds sideboard to this rumor, since the maker didn’t meet go with the acknowledged date. I presume the fellow modify meet strikes me as odd, but it doesn’t rattling eliminate the rigour of this report.
What I’m more shy of is the nature of the figure described and the timing of its launch. Even though the e-book mart is first to verify soured (if you conceive Amazon’s possess hype), it’s ease nowhere nearby as brawny as the netbook mart was and is, and Apple was shy of actuation into that. I uncertainty they’d create an e-reader at this saucer without making that a alternative feature, kinda than the direct pore of the device. And if it isn’t reaching until WWDC, then what’s the circumstance incoming period feat to be about? Why do rumors stemming from suppliers and another more sure sources saucer to a assorted creation timeline?
The iSlate, if that’s what it rattling module be called, module most probable hit e-reader duty and it module belike threaten Amazon’s mart ascendency in that area. But is that Apple’s intend with this device? I uncertainty it. Is e-reading the exclusive or direct determine of the recent gadget? Not a chance.
