May 2010 bring Apple tablets, Google phones, lightweight jets… oh, and economic stabilization and world peace. ’09 was fun, but 2010 promises the works. Happy New Year!
[a series: fireworks, foregrounded by trees]
Everyone’s talking about the Apple Tablet. Will it come in 2010? Will it be announced in February, released spring/early summer? The rumors have “ramped-up” indeed (LA Times). This has got to be one of the most blogged-about, tech-gossiped-about topics of the year (and years past, even… I remember eagerly searching Mac Rumors for “tablet” back in ’07. The archive goes back to 2002 (Jobs, curtly, on iPhone and Tablet PC)). Techland writer Peter Ha conjectured a few days ago that the OS of the phantom tablet will be something like iTunes, which makes sense given that uses for a tablet will be largely music, photo, tv/movie and book-based. Forget wondering IF it’s happening (the collective will of the tech community has conjured it into existence (and if Apple doesn’t deliver I fear something like the Quietus))… it’s happening, now the question is WHEN and HOW.
While reading one of many end-of-year round-ups, I came across this “burning” question for 2010 on DaniWeb:
Answer: obviously not.
Verizon wants the last word for 2009, announcing this morning that it plans to extend its 3G coverage to accommodate a growing wireless customer base. As they’d say: there’s a new map for that, and it’s red through and through.
