By Seb Janacek, 28 October 2008 15:48
Mac tablet
The arrival of a Mac tablet is rumour that simply refuses to die. But so far, zilch.
It's not hard to understand why it's failed to appear. Tablet PCs have hardly set the world alight. Tablet sales represent a tiny percentage of global PC sales and Apple commands somewhere between five and eight per cent market share for the whole PC market. The maths isn't very convincing.
But this line drawing with its hideously misshapen hand might provide some hope for those who want to believe.
Verdict: 4/10
Stranger things have happened but fan-boy lust aside, it's not clear why Apple would want to move down this path. Tablet PCs are niche and the iPhone and iPod touch are already tablets of a sort.
Credit: US Patent and Trademark Office
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1. Mark Walton
Of all the things I thought I'd never see on silicon, a Turducken reference has be up there...nice one :-)
2. Michael Gilligan
The old ACT Apricot Mouse/Trackball [many years ago] used a neat approach ... This had a gentle magnetic detent on the vertical encoder, so the cursor moved "stepwise".
... Might be worth another look.