Apple just had its best quarter ever, but much of the public focus on the company is concentrated on something else: whatever it is Apple plans to announce at a press event Wednesday.
With almost $40 billion accumulated in cash, revenue topping $3 billion, and almost 9 million iPhones sold in the last three months of 2009, the much-discussed tablet is what both investors and tech fans seem most concerned about.
The company didn’t shy away from providing even more fodder for hungry Apple fans related to Wednesday’s event. In a press release about Monday’s quarterly earnings, CEO Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, ‘The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about.”
Until we do see that, there’s going to continue to be a parade of headlines trumpeting every latest morsel of info related to what Jobs will unveil. Here’s Monday’s round, from around the Web.” (Via CNET Tech News.)
But here’s the thing. Can apple really produce a tablet like iPhone device to replace the current Windows running tablet PC’s? There’s been some big speculation as to whether this was going to be some great service, or if it was just going to become another eReader. Certain publishers have offered up inside information about the ‘Apple Tablet’ (unconfirmed) as to what it will do and what kind of content it will host.
At any rate, we’ll all have to wait till Jan 27 to find out exactly what “big project” Apple has been working on. Until then, enjoy these nice photoshopped mockups of the apple tablet. (Via Gizmodo.)
