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From: JF Mezei on 2 Jan 2010 01:02
Tom Harrington wrote:

> I've seen a lot of people and organizations creating buzz about a
> rumored tablet, but Apple has not been among them, even a little.

Of course not. It wouldn't be a "rumour" if it officially came from
Apple. But it doesn't mean that Apple didn't find some way to leak
information via informal channels.

When companies need to leak information (for whatever reason), they how
how to do this, and to whom the information should be given to get the
rumour going.

Apple marketing then looks at the reaction from the public, and
financial analysts to fine tune the product and once it has a good grasp
of what the expectations are, it can release a product that meets/beats
expectations.
From: Paul Sture on 4 Jan 2010 21:11
In article <00b93cb3$0$12985$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> BBC has also jumped into the fray, mentioning that Apple's stock has
> risen in part because of an imminent tablet release.

Sorry to disillusion you JF, but the BBC isn't the trusted news source
it once was.

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From: Davoud on 5 Jan 2010 08:21
JF Mezei:
> > BBC has also jumped into the fray, mentioning that Apple's stock has
> > risen in part because of an imminent tablet release.

Paul Sture:
> Sorry to disillusion you JF, but the BBC isn't the trusted news source
> it once was.

In fact, the BBC reported that Apple's stock had risen because of
_expectations_ of a tablet announcement. This report was 100% correct.

Davoud

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From: Paul Sture on 5 Jan 2010 09:57
In article <221220090836414557%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid>,
sbt <dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:

> In article <paul.nospam-A5BCBA.15005322122009(a)pbook.sture.ch>, Paul
> Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote:
>
> > In article <timmcn-450039.19093621122009(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net>,
> > Tim McNamara <timmcn(a)bitstream.net> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <m2ws0gp3ed.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe, but don't be surprised if what you get is an oversized iPhone
> > > > with an OS based on the iPhone OS.
> > >
> > > I think that is probably more likely than a full OS X installation. I
> > > want one that is 8.5 x 11" or A4 size so that I can digitize all my
> > > music lead sheets and just take that to gigs and rehearsals instead of a
> > > pile of fake books.
> >
> > Ditto. I want one which displays an A4 page properly - in other words at
> > 90� to the orientation of traditional computer screens, but for movies
> > still works in "landscape mode".
> >
> > I actually saw this on a dumb terminal some 20 years ago. You could use it
> > like a normal 24 x 80 terminal but when you rotated the screen it
> > automatically switched to 66 x 132 for reading computer listings.
>
> You're most likely thinking of the Corvus Concept. It was a pretty neat
> 68K-based computer that predated the Lisa and Mac.

The Corvus Concept:

<http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=653>

(be patient; it's slow to load)

> Radius produced a portrait monitor for the Mac in the Mac II era -- I
> really liked it as the second monitor on my IIcx.

I can imagine. The one I used was paired with the worst keyboard I've
ever come across (measured by the number of typos I made), but maybe
because it was a special that was designed for Arabic use.

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