Apple might release a touch-screen tablet next year
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster thinks that Apple might release a touch-screen tablet next year, measuring between 7 inches and 10 inches. The tablet will have software resembling the iPhone’s operating system.
Don Reisinger suggested some Pros and Cons to having Apple touch-screen Mac tablet computer.
Some pros
The tablet’s touch screen would provide an intuitive experience. I’d be able to swipe my finger across the screen to flip through pictures. The pinch feature would allow me to zoom in and out whenever I need to get a better view. And moving around the screen would take just a few movements of my finger. It would easily best a mouse.
Apple would probably ditch the keyboard and mouse, at least for the device’s primary functionality. It would have a relatively small footprint. If you wanted to tote the tablet around or simply save some room on your desk, that’d theoretically be no problem.
Some cons
Since fingers typically get oily, smudging would be a major concern with an Apple tablet. As with the iPhone, keeping the device’s screen smudge-free would be practically impossible. On the iPhone, it’s not such a big problem, since the display is relatively small, and you typically won’t spend extended amounts of time working on it. But having to constantly rub down a display of 7 to 10 inches with a soft cloth to get work done would get annoying quickly.
The lack of a keyboard, in addition, would seemingly make a tablet practically impossible to use at a desk, and it wouldn’t be as easy to hold as an iPhone.
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Here are my own thoughts
- If apple were to make a touch-screen Mac table computer, they would go probably go for the ‘thinest’ tablet PC design which is typical of their innovative product design culture.
- Since Apple computers are very popular with the graphic design, website design and creative design industry, a stylus pen would be very useful as even with a touch screen design, you’ll need pin-point accuracy for graphic design work.