>>>I think we will hear something significant about this tomorrow. The thing might be based on the iPhone operating system. I assume it will be called the iTablet...
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>>>We shall see - rumors rumors for weeks now...
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>>I heard about the announcement on the local news this morning...either a lot of hype or there will be an itablet, ipad (didn't Apple try to get a trademark for "ipad" recently?), i?
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>It might end up being iPad - that seems to be another popular rumor.
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>Apple might really have something slick here if the device works well. It will probably be much thiner than it's windows-based counterpart tablets and with the popularity of the iPhone I bet they end up selling a zillion of them.

Agreed. It might not all happen right away, just as e-book readers took a while to catch on, but Apple has had a lot of hardware sensations, especially in recent years. My guess is a lot of people who don't even know they desire a tablet device will take it seriously because it's from Apple.