It’s widely believed that we will finally see an Apple tablet of some description revealed later this week, since plenty of other people have already covered in a fair amount of detail the speculation around the technical specs of such a device, I’m going to keep this simple.
What might the event reveal? Some (unlikely) possibilities
- The ‘tablet’ will be just like all the fan-made mockups we’ve seen in the past couple of years.
- The ‘tablet’ will be completely different to everything people have dreamed up over the past couple of years — remember how wrong all those iPhone mockups were prior to the reveal of the original iPhone
- The ‘tablet’ probably won’t be available with a docking LED display or add-on keyboard as Tim Van Damme hopes but it sure would be awesome if it did.
- The ‘tablet’ will run the iPhoneOS just on a bigger screen (unlikely)
- The ‘tablet’ will run full OS X, or an optimised version for the ‘lesser’ hardware
- The ‘tablet’ will run a “new” OS which will still have OS X as the base, but with a new (awesome) UI
- The next gen iPhone hardware will be previewed (unlikely)
- The iPhone 4.0 software will be previewed (maybe)
- The MacBook Pro line will get an update with new Core i5/i7 processors etc
- An LED cinema display in a size other than 24-inch
- Or… we’ll all be disappointed when there is no ‘tablet’ announcement, no iPhone 4.0 announcement, no MBP update — instead Apple announce that they’re moving more into the software side of things and that their first product will be a direct competitor for Photoshop.