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Originally Posted by kamm
All this is speculative analysis, of course but based on all this info I dare to say it's highly unlikely that Apple can bring a competitively-priced OLED-based tablet to the market (and ebook reader is almost impossible.)
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I agree. The substantive OLED information is about the iPhone, see for example
Next iPhone to launch July 17 with OLED display and glowing Apple logo?. Note the "?" at the end, even for the iPhone an OLED screen might be too expensive. It is the kind of tech that Apple likes though - so this might be correct.
There now seems little doubt that Apple is buying a ton of (conventional) 10" touch screens. These could be for a netbook but a tablet seems more likely. Apple has introduced game-changing devices in the past, and so they might do the same with a tablet. Note the
might, since the game-changing part probably isn't the screen but the software. I'm not convinced that either a larger iPod Touch or a shrunk Mac will end up being a game changer, but Apple could surprise me. If they do introduce a tablet, then they will expect to sell at least a million of them. This is game changing in itself for tablets, and since everyone follows Apple's trends there would then be a raft of copycats.