The old tablet rumour has reared it's ugly head again. I'm sure I can remember Steve Jobs saying that there's no market for a Mac tablet. But that was back when they were only used by those working in science - It was way before the iPod touch and the iPhone brought touchscreen computing to the masses. How things have changed.
Reports in today's Financial Times say that the device will be part of a new entertainment revolution. Apple are in talks with music companies to offer more to those who download albums (very apt, since it was partly down to iTunes that people stopped buying whole albums in the first place). It sounds like they will soon be offering not just pdf booklets but interactive extras; the sort of extras you get on a DVD.
This alone isn't exactly what I'd call a revolution. A tablet device is more likely to attract movie-goers, who currently use portable DVD players, and eBook readers (it would knock the socks off Amazon's Kindle). It could also rekindle [;-)] the dying newspaper trade. That's all the iPhoners do on my train from Commuterville - read the mobile news sites.
However Apple hope we'll use it, we're gonna need a bigger cleaning cloth. Imagine the fingermarks.
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