We’re realistically no closer to knowing the outcome of next week’s Apple event than we were a week, a year, or a decade ago, but rumors are obviously congealing around the mythical tablet that users, fans, and media have all but willed into existence recently — and our buddy Clayton Morris says that’s indeed a part of the story. Morris reports having spoken with a source at Apple this morning — prior to the company’s invites going out, interestingly — who said that the event would focus on a new version of iLife, iPhone OS 4.0, and naturally, the tablet.
Loosely speaking, you can see how these would all tie together pretty nicely: the seemingly “creative” theme of Apple’s invite rolls into a new version of iLife, and the announcement of a tablet could have implications for how a suite of artsy tools gets used. Rumblings that the tablet is underpinned by a new version of iPhone OS have gone back months, so that would give Apple impetus to tease it at the same time the tablet’s shown off — sans new iPhone hardware, possibly, which the company has done before. It’s also possible that Apple will open source its entire catalog of software and shut down, buy an island nation, or do nothing at all — but in fairness, there’s an awful lot of logic to what Clayton’s saying here. We’ll know soon enough.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
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