What David Pogue knows for sure about the Apple Tablet

David Pogue, the technology columnist/blogger for New York Times believes that the announced Apple tablet, the so called iSlate, will contain at least one element of surprise and will not be just a tablet. Or so we can hope.

But my gut tells me that, as usual with these overheated Apple hypemonsters, we’re all missing something important. There are some aspects, some angles, that nobody’s guessed. We’re like the blind men who encounter an elephant in the ancient legend, where each guy feels only one part of the beast and nobody puts it all together.

Because “a big iPod touch” wouldn’t really be that interesting, would it? I mean, it wouldn’t have nearly the same appeal as an actual iPhone/Touch, because it’d be too big for a pocket, you’d need two hands to operate it, and it’d be too fragile to chuck into your backpack. Besides, touchscreen computers have been tried before, at prices much lower than $1,000 — remember Microsoft’s Tablet PC initiative? — and flopped.

via The Apple Guessing Game – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com.

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