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DesiLinguist · 05-20-2009, 03:19 PM

Like Gideon already said, this rumor comes up before every Apple event. I personally am skeptical of Apple launching a device like this and marketing it as a book reader. If I think about it a bit, I don't have a hard time coming up with a hypothesis that the Touch OS that Apple has put so much time and effort into will probably be used for tablet-style device. However, I believe it will be very different from the traditional Tablet PCs. However, I doubt that they will be able to make it as affordable as people seem to think they would. If such a device comes out, I predict it will not have a price point lower than $599-$699 because it's such a niche device. Of course, all of this is pure speculation on my part. I could be completely wrong but I don't think I will be.

05-20-2009, 03:19 PM	#8
DesiLinguist Computational Linguist Posts: 110 Karma: 100 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: iLiad BE, iPhone, Kindle DX	Like Gideon already said, this rumor comes up before every Apple event. I personally am skeptical of Apple launching a device like this and marketing it as a book reader. If I think about it a bit, I don't have a hard time coming up with a hypothesis that the Touch OS that Apple has put so much time and effort into will probably be used for tablet-style device. However, I believe it will be very different from the traditional Tablet PCs. However, I doubt that they will be able to make it as affordable as people seem to think they would. If such a device comes out, I predict it will not have a price point lower than $599-$699 because it's such a niche device. Of course, all of this is pure speculation on my part. I could be completely wrong but I don't think I will be.