Will Steve Jobs define the tablet computer business in 2010 with iTablet / iSlate?
Rumors in the press about an Apple tablet computer are rife, and the hype about that tablet and no others are making some people wonder if Apple is going steal both the limelight and the market. There have been announcements from a few other manufacturers about new tablet-like computers, such as Microsoft and Samsung, but none of them have gotten anywhere near the amount of ink as the as-yet-invisible Apple iTablet, or iSlate, or whatever the current batch of rumors is calling it. That has some people asking if everyone else is just abandoning this playing field to Apple. That might not actually be the most important question to ask, though it is interesting. The most important question may be whether or not there is really a tablet computer market to dominate. These sort of devices have been tried before, of course, and never really gotten very far. Then again, those previous devices were very nerd-like and not at all sexy. They were comparatively bulky and heavy and they did not do m
