The Apple Tablet - flop or not?

According to anonymous reports from a well respected analyst, the Apple tablet prototype is to be unveiled for beta use in less than 3 months! In addition to revealing this intriguing news, he/she has in fact held the 10-inch screen multimedia computer.

The experienced analyst also went on to say that Apple are going to publicly announce the release of this prototype in September but will have the model finished by some time in the next six or seven weeks. Since we are being hit hard by the recession, November could be the wrong time to release such a revoultionary product since not many consumers have the funds to purchase such an extragavant gadget.

Pricing

There is speculation that Apple will put a price tag of $700 -$800, but this could dramatically change since it could not sell and thus they will be obliged to lower the price. You must be thinking to yourselves now that what on earth would justify pricing the gadget so high. Well, I shall now outline some of the features that we predict the tablet may contain:

• High Definition video playback.
• New multimedia “cocktail” service which contains music and videos from such places like iTunes, EMI, Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music Group.
• 10 inch screen.
• Online experience like no other.

All of Apple’s projects that are currently under development are threatening rival companies because they do not know what to expect. If they jump the gun and release a lookalike which is cheaper, they could be losing up to thousands of pounds and have large amounts of useless stock on their hands. In addition, there has been an obscene number of rumours during the last fornight regarding the highly anticipated Apple Tablet, but let me highlight just a few:

1. The cost will be $800 in a two year deal with Verizon.
2. The new multimedia software project Cocktail will contain all the huge music labels. A report came in saying that it is “a new type of interactive album, which will combine photos, lyrics sheets, video clips, and liner notes, all gathered into an interactive booklet.” Effectively ditching the app store as tests have proven that it slows down the processing speed of the device by up to 40%.

Once the prototype is released, do you think it will be a success as it is just that good or perhaps because of the credit crunch, it will be no profit but much more expenses? Do you think that the tablet concept is functional? Feel free to comment below.