1.) How big is it:? What is the Screen size and how much does it weight.
2.) How much does it cost: Knowing Apple, this is a futile question to ask. Suffice to say that it will be expensive and you will cut down from your household grocery budget to have one of these babies on your kitchen table at breakfast time!
3.) What OS will it be running? Will it run the full OS X? If so will it be the new Lynx version 10.7? If it’s iPhone, then will be OS 4? Who the hell knows!
4.) iPhone Apps: if the Tablet comes with iPhone OS 4.0, then will it be safe to assume it will run iPhone Apps and if it does do you have to buy them or can restore them from your iTunes Applications backup repository to the Tablet?
5.) Will this Tablet be used and subsidized by the print industry to save their hides? If so, what would be the method of content Deliver?
6.) Will this Tablet have Cell capabilities? 3G / 4G / HSDPA as well as MyFi / WiFi?
7.) Who the hell will buy this device? Is this going to be something that only the rich people buy and don’t know what to do with it? Will be bought by the masses, as they bought and ‘learned’ to use iPods in conjunction with their computers and iTunes software and iTunes Store? Will it be just a bunch of happy MacHeads that buy it and add it to their collection of their Apple branded gizmos?
8.) What would happen to MacBook & Macbook Pro sales? Will this little Tablet decimate the Sales of Apple laptops, or are they in different categories?
9.) What will be the level of interaction with other Apple products? Will it Sync with your iMac and MacBook Pro or even Win PC system via iTunes? Can iTnues be convinced to take another Sync responsibility? Can you control Apple TV with it? Most importunately, how will it interact with the iPod and iPhone?
10.) What is the name of this damn ‘none-existent’ device? iPad? iSlate? What? Give it a name, already. I hope, just to spite Steve Ballmer, Apple doesn’t use the word “Slate” in the product name. This iSlate might be coming directly from the Office of Black Ops (Apple Skunk Works) as a disinformation just to drive the competition (primarily Microsoft) nuts!
11.) What will I do with this damn thing, apart from in-bed computing, if it at all it exists?
12.) I have 2 MacBook Pros – a 24” iMac – a MINI – a G4 – an MSI Wind Netbook! Question: How the heck am I going to justify the purchase of Apple Tablet (if it existed) when I have all that computing power? Hard to think of a reason. But I am sure that Apple marketing and propaganda group will convince me as well as the world, that living without an Apple Tablet would be a meaningless life not even worth living and we all line up to get out grubby little hands on those shinny tablets. 
Apple Marketing Borg will prove to you that resistance is futile and you’ve got to buy what they ‘suggest’ that you should buy…
Apple Marketing Borg will prove to you that resistance is futile and you’ve got to buy what they ‘suggest’ that you should buy…
The Release of the Apple Tablet – be it iPad or iSlate, is immanent. Now we can be sure about it. Apple has bought every damn 10.1 screen on the face of the earth. Unless they are coming up with a NetBook, then the only other option would be a Tablet! Good article. Keep it coming!
I think that the Tablet PC has failed because of the PC part.
Apple is trying to build a new device category to have a chance to succeed where microsoft and other failed. So please:
Apple tablet = good
Apple tablet PC = weird