Apple is working on planshetnikov 2003
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
High-tech industry is looking forward to release tablet PCs in the first place from Apple. Although such developments leads many companies. Among the competitors - French company Archos (already offers Internet tablet based on Google Android, and this month will release a tablet with Windows 7 on board), a team of the popular TechCrunch tehnobloga (CrunchPad tablet will go on sale by the end of the year) and Microsoft (with its gadget CourierWhich, however, can not yet see the light).
The history of the Tablet PC and the race is dedicated to an interesting development an article in the New York Times (Note: need to register, it's free). The authors, Brad Stone (Brad Stone) and Ashley Vance (Ashlee Vance) among others reveal some details about the "pill" Epple. They write that in Cupertino have returned to create a tablet computer in 2003, after 6 years after Jobs dismissed the Newton handheld computer.
Also in 2003, a prototype was developed, which used PowerPC microprocessor. However, due to high energy consumption, low battery, low graphics performance and high-value components of the tablet was not put into production. Another prototype was also destined to go on the shelf due to the sharp criticism Jobs: Apple founder He demanded that the tablet computer was still useful for something besides web browsing in bathroom.
Now, however, the development of technology allows us to expect quite a lot from a tablet computer - and opportunities to read books and newspapers, use the map services, watch movies, listen to music. Experts interviewed by the New York Times assured: Apple tablet will appear in early 2010, it will cost about 700 dollars, and the main rate will be made on the application: 85 000 applications created for the iPhone, and will earn "Tablet".