Apple’s tablet, rumors for Wednesday’s event

// January 24th, 2010 // General musings

Every tech site can tell you all about Apple’s event Wednesday, which is supposedly going to be the unveiling of its mystery tablet. I’ll write more on it throughout the week, however, I wanted to simply post some of this now from Crunchgear.

Guest author Jeff Scott looks at the Apple tablet from a gaming perspective. I thought this was fitting given all the gaming articles I’ve written recently. It poses some interesting thoughts, but I think the tablet as a gaming device would be more of a secondary feature. Sure, it would be nice, but it would serve the masses better in other areas — most importantly mobile productivity. I’m hoping Apple doesn’t play it off simply as a gaming console.

Anyways, Scott’s opening and link to the full article:

While we still don’t know the name of the new tablet device; could be iPad, iTablet, iSlate, iCanvas, or an extension of the MacBook name. But what we do know, due to many recent leaks on the announcement coming from Apple next week, the tablet is being targeted as a gaming device.

Connections with the device and gaming started when the Wall Street Journal reveled that Apple had been working with Electronic Arts purportedly to have games available to demo for the device reveal on January 27th. What games EA will be presenting, we don’t know. This follows earlier reports that Apple had been in contact with “select developers” to create apps to showcase on the device. At that time we were unable to find anyone to admit to working with Apple for the Tablet launch.

Then in the last couple days came indications from many gaming related publications small and large that they had been invited to the special Apple event on 1/27. This shows a clear push by Apple to have the device covered in the games press, pointing to gaming as a major target for the device.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at the Apple tablet as a gaming device.

Read the full article at Crunchgear here.

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