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Jan222010

Apple Tablet Speculations Everybody!

Friday, January 22, 2010 at 11:00AM

The Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology column has provided a great insight into the potential role the prospective Apple tablet device has to play in the world of mass media distribution. Unsurprisingly, it looks that Apple has found a streak of untapped revenue in overhauling the content delivery model:

With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman.

The details of the Apple tablet device are still clouded by doubt, however the article I refer to provides cogent argument relating to business agreements that have been recently made.

In my opinion, Apple's (still to come) tablet device operating under such paradigm would make far more sense in Apple business model's terms than an "iPhone on steroids", as the mysterious tablet device has been often referred to.

You go figure.

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Source: Apple Sees New Money in Old Media

by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Ethan Smith at The Wall Street Journal | Personal Technology on January 21, 2010

With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman.
Related: Apple wants a tablet in every home, a use for everyone

by Jeff Smykil at Ars Technica on January 21, 2010

Apple wants to change the way television, news, and books are distributed once and for all, and it's going to use its soon to be unveiled tablet to try and do it. That's according to a Wall Street Journal article citing what seems to be several unnamed sources "familiar with the situation." The Cupertino powerhouse has reportedly been in contact with television networks as well as magazine, newspaper, book, and textbook publishers for some time now in hopes of giving the tablet a purpose and not

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