[iTablet? One of many mock-ups of Apple's rumored new device]
From a just-posted Wall Street Journal story: Apple plans to unveil a new multimedia tablet device later this month, but doesn't plan on shipping the product until March, people briefed by the company told the paper. Among many possible uses: reading newspapers. Price: around $1,000, the WSJ says, adding: "The tablet is expected to be a multimedia device that will let people watch movies and television shows, play games, surf the Internet and read electronic books and newspapers."
Related: New York Times media columnist David Carr calls it a savior in the form of a tablet
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YOU may be reading it that way but not me. It's just a laptop with an ipod controller. Sheez!
ReplyDeletei want one -- at least if it can download papers a la the kindle! (but i'll wait for the 2d generation and the $500 price), though i'd rather have "electronic paper."
ReplyDeleteof course, the only way either can help newspapers is if they quit giving the product away . . . or if they can add enough value for digital subscribers to consider it worth the money (e.g. unlimited archive access, exclusive content, etc.)
p.s.: welcome back, jim! you have been missed greatly.