Apple Netbook Have time to prepare for the gold rush?

    Increasingly, rumors of news about Apple’s new device, a ten-inch tablet without a tablet, flash across the news feeds.

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    We can assume that:

    - the company will release this netbook this year
    - the device will work on iPhone OS
    - the architecture of the APM processor, the processor frequency is 1 GHz
    - OpenGL ES 2.0
    - the device will be designed for a permanent Internet connection (3G, WIFI)
    - screen the tablet will be with a diagonal of 10 inches with proportions of 16x9
    - the proprietary iPhone multi-touch will most likely also be integrated
    - the device will lack a physical keyboard (in favor of this, it says that on many fakes where there is no keyboard, and in common sense, a device without a keyboard will be much simpler and cheaper to manufacture)
    - the cost will be 20-30 percent lower than that of the most inexpensive laptop Apple ($ 700- $ 800)
    - as with the iPhone, programs for the device will be sold in the AppStore

    i.e. it will turn out a kind of iPhone 3GS with a large screen, an overclocked processor and additional peripherals such as a front camera, an SD card slot, etc.

    Based on these assumptions, single companies and software programmers working in the iPhone software market can make a conscious decision to start designing and developing software for the new platform.

    Of course, while there is no SDK, description of the device, etc., this kind of activity will be a rather risky task, but, saving a few weeks on the development of prototypes, testing ideas, rendering interfaces can turn out to be quite tangible thousands of dollars just because the program came out to market first.

    I would like to ask you some questions, dear colleagues, and to hear your forecasts.

    1. What programs do you think will be in demand primarily by Apple netbook users?
    2. What screen resolution will the netbook have?
    3. Will it be an iPhone OS or a truncated Leopard (Tiger like Apple TV)?
    4. Is there any hope that the vendors, having learned the lesson from the iPhone AppStore, will not start the price race down and the price of applications will be a reasonable $ 10- $ 20?

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