Simply by Apple’s law of averages, the likelihood that the following two videos are real, is very small. If someone was able to sneak out one video of the Apple Tablet in action, it’d be a miracle, but two? Now you’re just tempting fate. Still, that isn’t stopping Brian Lam of Gizmodo from wondering if there could be something to these (even though his colleague disagrees). And you know what, even if they aren’t real, Apple should consider hiring whoever made them, because this seems like the right idea.
Sure, certain details are off, like the text alignment on some of the elements as ZDNet points out. But just look at this system in action. It’s like having multiple iPhones on the same giant touch screen (and that may actually be exactly what this is).
Regardless, whatever this is or isn’t, I want this. I was unsure if the app model would be better or worse than running a version of regular OS X on the Apple Tablet, but I’m definitely leaning towards better recently. And after seeing this, I hope Apple is too.
Also enjoy some images posted in the MacRumors Forums of the same purported device.
The one thing that gives this away as fake to me is the wallpaper window fits the exact aspect ratio of the iPhone. Every window in this “leak” is either the same, or simply a stretched out and awkward version of an iPhone window.
If this is the tablet – it would show a serious lack of imagination on Apple’s part.
That’s true, but what if some of the apps were just straight up ported from the iPhone on this demo unit? Okay, I’m dreaming here, but come on, play along.
While we’re at it, let’s pretend that little flip-up portion of the device is a smart-projector.
Good, now you’re playing along.
Also, why limit itself to the diminutive safari or keyboard… still gives us an idea of how can this mythical gadget can be.
MG you look like a moron.. what the heck.. this is a fake video.. “play it seems”.. go do some better work!
Would go along with would like to see a bigger (full size) virtual keyboard.
Oh the flip up portion, would like to see camera and projector.
where’s the voice recognition software? i thought this thin would support hand gestures (ala minority report) this is so lame
Microsoft has Windows Tablet for years and they are very cool! Good that Macmaniacs can FINALLY experience that!
There is a reason the Windows Tablets have never had significant market presence…
There were Windows Mobile phones long before the iPhone also, and well.. yah check the scoreboard, lol.
Sure, it could be fake. Regardless, I like the core concept and functionality of the device. If Apple kicks out anything similar (or better), it will most likely be a substantial success in the handheld computer market. I guess we will see once/if it happens.
May the videos be real or fake, the idea for Apple Tablet looks cool as it has multiple iPhones in the touch screen. Videos are too short which limits in grasping ideas/functionalities of Tablet. But videos increase the expectations to know the model of Apple tablet , and its date of launch.
Who would be so lame to post the serial number of the device they are supposed under NDA not to disclose?
A jealous ex-girlfriend maybe?
Probably not real, like you said. But real enough that I got a little apple chub goin. Can’t wait till these are available.
What the heck is an “apple chub”?
lol. i’m thinking apple boner, but that’s just weird.
who says “chub” anymore?
another thing that gives it away is the way the screen flexes when touched – ie cheap touchscreen monitor
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE. So Fake.
Am I the only one that thinks the ZDnet criticisms about the drop shadow and text alignment are totally wrong?
Why wouldn’t they have a drop shadow? That’s totally apple style.
That seems okay to me, but the text alignment is weird.
It does say development platform after all. It could just be a plain-old touch screen computer for development purposes. It doesn’t have to be the final hardware.
Yes, exactly. Of course it makes sense to have the OS running on all kinds of makeshift devices for testing purposes. The same thing goes for the mini-keyboard. It probably wasn’t dealt with yet or the new one hasn’t been enabled for that app.
Fake or real: it is simply awesome!!! Nonetheless this would mean having a way more complex appstore. Does Apple really want this?
Appstore dont need to change since all existing iPhone apps will work on the tablet. Its up to the developer to take advantage of the larger screen when running on the tablet.
New platform. More apps. More revenue.
Why would they mind, again ?
what the fuss is all about …whatever it will be live some time from now. …..so relax and enjoy the video
Another video upload of a Bootup, at the end seems a little interesting, seeing as how a popup came up, yet still Im skeptical!
LOL sorry, forgot the link! Here it is: http://www.yout...h?v=gLu9OLEuPys
that is interesting. i’ll embed it here
I was skeptical of the first two but this one has to be a fake, the boot up was way too fast for something based off the iPhone.
On a more serious note, if that is the ‘iTablet’ then the screen doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the quality of the iPhone when viewing at an angle. But maybe OLEDs are that way right now.
Typing on a screen looks like teh suck. Have fun with that one fanboys.
which is exactly why this is FAAAKE! Why in the world would Apple make a product with a large screen and then confine the keyboard to 10% of it.
Looks cool.
The shortness of the videos is another reason why it’s fake. Why wouldn’t someone that has such a scoop of a new apple gadget, show us more. It’s just a teaser, it increases the rumours.
I’d not be suprised if it was made by apple itself as a viral. Even though it will probably not look like the final product.
I find it hard to believe that apple would test its product in the UK. This person is on google.co.uk… Its pretty hard to access from america.
I managed to go on it easy enough
Fake. Software build shown in the About Box is 3.0 7A341 which was one of the builds for the iPhone3G released on 22 May.
Nobody noticed the most obvious thing? There’s *nothing* to close a window! No little x… instead the guy pushes a button on “the device” (or whatever it’s supposed to be). Seems very “touchy” and easy to use.
As for the ratio of windows, Apple always said one shouldn’t assume that they’ll always be the one we were used to see on the iPhone, so I guess they developped their applications with that in mind… That means the ratio should be different despite what you say MG.
It could be like Dashboard, where you get “management” view that allows you to close windows. I still think it’s fake, but not because you can’t close a window.
When you lazy CrunchGuys will decide to release the CrunchPad, that will be the killer tablet
sometimes the fake stuff is more entertaining that the real stuff.
U mean Pamela Anderson fake? Or Wifey’s World fake?
Either way, I want some!!!!!
Fake is good!!!!
Get me back to the Matrix!!!!
Didn’t know THAT law of averages. But come on MG, you misused the term just to provoke a comment like this one, didn’t you.
I hope the tablet uses a cross between the OS X that’s on Macs and the iPhone OS, just porting iPhone OS to a bigger screen seems like a bad business move on Apple’s part in that if the only thing new is multiple apps at once, why don’t they just build that into the iPhone and forget about the new form factor.
I can see having a way to run iPhone apps on the tablet, but I’m guessing what we’ll find on the Tablet is a cross-over OS that has bits of both OS X and the iPhone OS.
I agree with you. I am typing on a MSI Wind Hackintosh as my second machine and while an oversized ipod may be sexy as hell, I would not give up the Wind/Mac for it. Not that it would not be cool to have, but there are os x applications that I need access to that would not be available on such a device.
Regardless of whether real or fake, the iPad and CrunchPad and the related CE devices will find their way into the market. The video, whether real or fake, whether released by a PR group linked with Apple, has me ready to get one. Very interested to find out the price points…
If only it could be real ! but if there ever is such a tablet mac , i think it will be out of the price range of A LOT of people …
anyway i want it :p
As has been mentioned above, the length if the video pertains to how fake it is, they’ve made it extra short so that the chance of people finding actual flaws is minimal.
If you take a look at about 23 seconds in the second video, when he pressed the button he sort of hovers there for a few seconds and then it appears when he hasn’t pressed it, to me it looks like they’ve prebuilt some sort of video to run in the background and they just play along, making it look as if they’re actually interacting.
Yeah absolutely agree – when he taps one of the tab icons on the “App Store” app – he hovers for ages over the top 25 icon, which almost certainly means it’s a video and they’re just pretending to tap everything.
There’s no way in high hell this is real. The keyboard on the Notes app? HAH – surely if Apple has had this in their labs for so long they would consider building their own Notes app to utilise a full screen width keyboard, no?
And just as an aside, everytime people think tablet they think landscape screen orientation by default. I have a feeling Apple might work more on portrait orientation like they have with the iPhone.
Looks awesome
If this is real, I think it fits the bill. I use my iTouch mainly for Safari on the go, and it has been the best mobile browser I ever used on such a small device. If they deliver iPhone OS with a bluetooth connectable keyboard and mouse capability, I am not mad at apple delivering this for around $700.
It would be an expensive “netbook” and wont compare to Windows 7 netbooks powered by ION, but great for Apple fans.
If it is fake but awesome, let Apple buy it.
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Well it looks pretty cool to me hope when the real one comes out it performs like that
Here it is (first picture):
http://www.geek...ideo-13-08-2009
that thing doesn’t look larger than an iphone
Fake or not, if Apple’s rumored tablet is anything similar to this, it would be a sweet device to lug around. Since getting my first iPhone two years ago (and now with the 3GS), I have found that it has become one of my primary computing devices. Even when I’m at home. Something like this, although larger, would be a substantial handheld tool in the technology market.
this seems quite plausible … why does it have to be fake? still, i don’t see why people would switch from the itouch to the tablet. apple, just give the world an itouch with multitasking capabilities.
and another thing … all those apps on the store, they were built under the assumption of a single-task environment, most of them would crash after a few minutes of multitasking or become huge memory hogs.
Although I love a good Apple rumor one of the biggest flaws in the second video is of the person interacting with the touch screen. Don’t even look at the OS. Look at your iPhone and the layer of touch sensitive” glass”. Touch that and then touch your Cinema display. You’ll notice that on a Cinema Displays or Mac Books that when you press your finger to the screen it causes the thin film to deflect the images and colors slightly. Its doing the same thing in the video. They need to do better than that.
Odd that this new bit of kit it is running ‘Version 3.0 7A341′ software…
…which is also the build number of iPhone OS 3.0
I tried making a fake Apple Tablet video once using a baby and and iPod Touch. That failed miserably. Hands were too chubby.
Would the first version of an Apple tablet be 3.0?
Fake or not, it’s definitely a great idea and needs to come to reality. How about the CrunchPad Tablet?
Ugh I hate that I know I am going to buy this stupid thing.. My vote goes to FAKE!
But im sure ill still buy it!
It is pretty easy to debunk fakers, because they always just modify things that already exists!
Fake or not, I hope the tablet looks and functions similar to that. If it does, then I’ll be okay with that.
I bet some worker in China was working on the TechCrunch tablet and decided it would be fun to play a prank.
What’s up with the really awful camera angles? If you were going to leak something, show it off!
Soo fake.
ULTRA fake.
Come on, Apple always innovate with his new products. And this seems simply like an iphone with a big screen or a macbook with a… touchscreen.
Too simply, too normal. It’s like HP products.
Total fake. for one as aforementioned this snoop did not show us much and he should have shown us the entire unit to convince all of us this was a legitimate mac unit. It could easily be this person has taken a mac mini and attached an Elo touchscreen or something to get this fabled touchscreen Mac. Benjamin said he noticed there was no way to close the windows except on the device. Now I am not sure how an i-phone works and if it is true that you close the windows with a button on the i-phone I would agree it was fake, but if not that is the only detail that makes me believe it is real. look at every other MAC OS they all have the traditional X to close a window if they designed a touchscreen the may have had to put it on the laptop, desktop tower whatever it is being used with. thats my thoughts over all I think someone is using a mac mini with a touchscreen monitor or took apart an i-phone arranged it took look like a computer and that is why he was always so close to the screen and device.
enjoy the debate.
The only thing awesome about this gadget, regardless of origin, is that anyone thinks it will be successful. Are there that many fanboys left who still have money?
This is like Viagra for the brain. Fake leaks need to be regulated by our government as they can cause abnormal brain erections while at work.
This is real.
Agreed. People commenting on the device itself, this is just the dev-kit, not a real device.
This is the real OS.
Defiantly fake. Why would the tablet have those apps – text? weather? in that form. And how could their be the same app store for the tablet as the iphone? anyway still cool.
Definitely fake?
Maybe because the table runs a scaled-up version of the iPhone OS? You can’t port OS X apps to all be touch-screen enabled, but guess what platform has 60k touch-enabled apps? HMM….iphone.
Wonder where we’d get those apps…maybe some sort of…app store?
Use your brain.
It’s fake because when he clicks on the screen in the second video, you can see that effect that happens whenever you click on a regular (non-touch) LCD, where the liquid crystal is moving around…
The is just the dev-kit running on developer hardware – most likely a standard issue table PC (LCD). He never claimed it was the actual table. (See the mac rumors thread)
Is it possible that this is a highly modified version of the iPhone OS? Could be a video too but how did he manage to record separete iPhone- like apps?
While the OS looks like it might be as someone mentioned–a dev kit, the “device” itself is 100% fake. The idiot takes his time trying to click certain things because he’s waiting for a script or someone off screen to click it (hiding the mouse cursor on that monitor). There are several times when he either clicks too early or too late.
The real issue: You mean I have to one-finger type on that son of a bitch? You’ve got to be joking…
“I’m sorry, can you slow your speech down, Mr. Jobs? I can’t type faster than 8 words a minute on your little tablet…”
It is real. These tablets have been selling in South China for 3 now. You people in the United States are so naive. The Chinese always manage to get stuff to the black market months before official releases.
I’m sure you all are aware of DVD’s in China. You can get a DVD of just about any movie BEFORE it is officially released in the US or anywhere. Just go to the DVD maned by the 12-year-old by down the alley where they serve duck porridge.
The same goes
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It’s a neat proof of concept if nothing else.
I fully agree.
I honestly doubt anyone would take out a 10 inch tablet just to calculate something (hence the calculator icon, why does it deserve it’s own icon/shortcut on the bottom bar?), or check the time, or do whatever small thing when they could use their iPhone or iPod touch.
Plus, Apple knows that more than half of the Apple Tablet owners will probably be iPhone/iPod Touch owners – why copy the exact same iPhone features and put them on machine that is almost 3 times as big?
Also, remember those Apple job postings for chip designers and engineers? Especially for those chips specially designed for gaming? What happened to that?
I’m pretty sure that an Apple Tablet will be released sooner or later… it just won’t look like this. Maybe this is just one of the first hardware prototypes with premature software with a premature UI and set of features.
Have you seen the Nokia Tablet N800. Well, it’s pretty much this except it doesn’t have the large list of apps the iPhone already has. I think an enlarged Safari on a bigger device might be a hit as an “Internet Tablet”. I don’t think the normal OS X is suitable for it.