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Originally Posted by Teddman
This is a controlled leak, done with Apple's permission or even at their behest.
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Exactly...purely a part of the manipulation because if they get everyone talking about this as a gaff, even more people will pay attention tomorrow to see if it was true or not. As I recall Amazon has done this twice with the K1 & K2 leaking pics of the final design before the official press conference and ti generated even more chatter...
Something that will be interesting is I have spoken with several folks I know who are university prof's as well as students and all have said a tablet would be great BUT not with the same OS as the iPhone/iPod Touch. I could understand using the core of the OS for the UI and actions but as a tweener type device, I don't know that it would work. Has the iPhone OS even gotten to the multi-tasking level yet? I would sure expect at least a 32-bit OS able to run several apps at the same time. And not just small device apps but real apps as well as web based/centric stuff.
Kinda interested just to see if Apple has been able to extend the OS because I do like the way it works...but Android is interesting as well, just far from "mission critical" ready right now.
But the manipulation really is funny to watch because the it is getting the desired reaction which was as predictable as the rain today here in California.