Apple’s New Device Stirs Rumours
Since Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, has left on medical leave, the company hasn’t heralded a major new product. That has increased the rumours regarding what possible new devices the company may be getting ready to launch. One such rumour was the Apple is developing a touchscreen device that could be as large as 10 inches, for release later on in the latter half of 2009. Certain people associated with the topic say the gadget is a netbook, an affordable, smaller notebook computer.
Other people close to the company, nonetheless, say the device will be more like an iPod Touch with a larger screen that will allow for easier viewing of movies, read electronic books, play video games, and surf the web. These individuals state the multimedia device would be targeted at producing a new market that would compete with devices such as Sony’s PlayStation Portable video game player and Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. They precaution that any such plans are still in the initial stages and could alter.
