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Personally, I have a feeling this kind of announcement makes it unlikely that Apple is using Pixel Qi's tech in any way, especially since Apple won't attend CES and AFAIK didn't schedule any press events for the next few weeks, either. I just don't see Steve Jobs touting a cool new feature that has been licensed from another company and has been publicly demonstrated before.
Besides, Apple has so much cash on hand they could have easily bought the whole company to prevent the competition from gaining access to the technology.
If the Apple tablet is real, my guess is that it'll either use a regular LCD screen (which all the pundits seem to prefer over eInk, mostly, probably, because they've never actually used an eInk device and don't know its advantages...) or some as-yet unseen technology that Apple either developed in-house or has the right to use exclusively for a significant amount of time. (Like several of Intel's latest chips which made it to Macs first before they became available for other PC makers.)
I could be wrong, of course - few people outside the industry have ever heard of Pixel Qi at tis time, so the "wow"-factor might still be enough for the average consumer if Apple is the first company to present a product with this screen.
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