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[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Just when you thought Apple tablet rumors were dead -- because, you know, they kind of announced one already -- another has emerged like a zombie rising from its grave to feast upon the brains of gullible fanboys.
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[Neowin.net] Neowin.net - Google Tablet on the way?: Following Apple's unveiling of its iPad tablet computer earlier this week, could Google also be planning to launch a rival tablet running its upcoming Chrome operating system? The Chrome OS has until now been aimed at netbooks, but would seem to be the perfect candidate for a simpler tablet device - like the iPad - and could easily build on touch screen foundations used in Google's Android mobile operating system.
[Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks] Chinese cloner says it may sue Apple over iPad | Electronista: I've lived in East Texas and if a Chinese company sues a U.S. company in Tyler's Federal Court, they won't have a prayer of a chance of winning. There was a Chinese restaurant in Lufkin called The Happy Buddha and the locals forced them to change the name.
[Posts from the Econsultancy blog] iPad hoax lessons: people are gullible, trust is overrated | Blog ...: One of the reasons some bought into Calacanis' claims: because they came from Calacanis, a well-known internet entrepreneur who has never sought attention (note: sarcasm). Some, like Henry Blodget, trusted what Calacanis tweeted because, in his words, "Flat-out making all this stuff up will backfire, and Jason is smart enough to know that."
[Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine] Apple's iPad vs. the netbooks - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech: I was thinking of buying a netbook, but after seeing the iPad's user interface, and especially with the upcoming relase of Apple's iWork software (which I already use on a regular basis, and is much, much better than Microsoft Office), the iPad will become my mobile computing device. It will be a major boon to both my leisure and my work activities that require an internet enabled device.
[Inferno Development] 14 Problems with Apple's iPad Leading to Failure | Inferno Development: The Apple iPad is advertised and hyped as a netbook killer or a tablet PC, yet it doesn't even have a pen so it's not a tablet PC, and it can't perform as well as a netbook so it's not that either. The arguments I presented in this article are reasons why it can't compete with smartphones, Tablet PCs, or netbooks and is therefore a product which consumers will not purchase.
[Apple, iPhone & iPad Forums, Mods, Guides, News, Themes, Downloads, and more! | ModMyi.com] Is This Our First Look At Apple's Tablet?: Although the above photo has all the trappings of a set-up ripe for the gullible among us, I tend to land on the side of caution and mostly agree with the conspiracy theorists who speculate that this is merely a nicely Photoshopped characterization of what the real thing will look like.
[Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome] Is This The New Apple Tablet? (Probably Not) - Geekologie: Fuck off with this apple tablet bullshit, half of the hype behind this whole apple tablet craze is thanks to people posting videos of crunchtablets telling everyone that it's the new apple tablet. It doesn't exist, it's not going to exist, Apple haven't even said they're making a tablet, it's just gullible assnecks like people who make blog entries like this who are sure it's going to be the tablet.
[Boy Genius Report] Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet ...: when the details of todays event were planned.Maybe they really work for Google and found you the perfect vehicle to spread Dis-information.
[BloodhoundBlog] iPad observation #5: Linking free slaves, sometimes, but the ...: FTR, the only Apple products I own are two 10+yo computers that are gathering dust in our storage unit, and a Shuffle, a gift, that has maybe 40 songs on it and I forget about until I get another iTunes gift card. I have no plans to purchase an iAnything, but, I understand that Apple changes other products and our lives.
[F iat Lux] The iPad is a Hoax | F i a t Lux: There had been so much hype about the Apple “Tablet” that this joke was actually some time in coming. Imagine my shock, my horror, when I discovered that my mother's hilarious malapropism of iPod was actually ” unfortunately ” an item of its own.
[Nanotech] Microsoft, Intel to cede tablet market to Apple? | Nanotech - The ...: The fact that Apple can come in with a product that literally blows away the competition in such a way(technically, ease-of-use, design, innovation, appeal to the masses, etc) is a testament to the geniuses(technical, marketing, creative) in Cupertino.
[Law Librarian Blog] Law Librarian Blog: Two Predictions for This Decade: Until Apple releases a touch-screen web tablet that makes the Kindle look so last decade? We may know as soon as 10 a.m. PT on Jan. 27. Tech insiders expect the Apple to unveil a 10.6" touch-screen Wi-Fi tablet for under $1000 that's been ... Apple gave up on its iPod-only file format and Amazon will too. It's bad for sales. Once the craze is over, this will pass. Never underestimate the profit motive; market forces will overtake the gee-whiz gullibility of consumers ...
MacDailyNews: By now everyone should realize microsoft's vaporous product announcements are nothing more than an historic tactic to freeze both buyers and competitors, although this works less well as Apple rises. The reason the "introduction" included few specs, no price points, no content, and no partners is because the company is waiting to see what Apple does so they can try to copy it, while still claiming they were first.
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