Is This Apple’s Tablet? Probably Not

Leander Kahney ()

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Another fake but interesting spyshot of Apple’s tablet has been published by the French blog Nowhereelse.fr.

Says the blog (in translation): “The ball of rumors and other Fakes is clearly open. After photos of a so-called prototype of the new 3G iPod Touch, here is a rather realistic picture of what appears to be the famous MacTablet that we could in this case call iTouch … Anyway I take my hat off to its author if it is a Fake!”

It is fake. The staging with a Nokia cellphone is just too — well, staged. Plus, would Apple put the Home button at the bottom instead of the sides, where it would be easy to hit with a thumb?

Most interesting is that the tablet is shown displaying the “Welcome” message when installing OS X. Other recent tablet fakes have shown the device running the iPhone OS, or a version of. That of course is the big question: what operating system will the tablet run? We like the idea of OS X.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • Fin Devious

    Looks like bathroom scales.

  • http://www.nowhereelse.fr/ Stagueve

    Hi,

    i wrote this too at the end of my post:

    “Only a little thing disturbs me, the return to the edge mates even though this design was abandoned during the transition to the second generation iPod Touch (2G), and what about the Nokia E51 and placed beside?…”

    BTW thanxxx for the quote! :)

  • Jay Floyd

    I’m fascinated at the number of fakes out there. Not in regard to the product itself — we’ll see it when we see it — but in the amount of time it takes to create some of these rather good fake images. What’s in it for the creator?

  • Mike C

    I hope it runs OS-X with additional gesture extensions for developers to capitalize on and will include the iPhone emulator that allows the device to run every iPhone application.

  • Mike McKenzy

    Fake. Just do a google image search for “OS X Welcome” and you’ll find the exact image used to photoshop the screen. Busted.

    http://www.myservice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/leopard-welcome.jpg

  • Johnny

    Technically speaking, the iPhone and iPod touch do run OS X already. It is almost certain any kind of tablet that comes out of Cupertino will run some flavour of the system.

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    Estube looking as clean and Mighty mouse just found this on this blog could do a http://www.appleisnginia.wordpress.com please

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  • Rob

    Acheh!
    Jobsy would never ever allow a form factor like that!
    The home button over-running the bevel…
    Dodgy!

  • Scott

    I am fascinated by the idea of an Apple iTabet – but I am only interested if it is running Mac OSX. I don’t want a bigger iPod Touch, I want a smaller Macbook.