If Apple does release a tablet and that tablet is a glorified iPod Touch, I'll never buy one. It had better run a version of Snow Leopard and I had better not be required to go to some specific App Store to get programs for it. OR ELSE. [clenches fists] - Akiva Moskovitz

I'll buy it pretty much regardless. :D - Tad from fftogo

If they go with multiple sizes for a tablet, I think the smaller ones will be glorified iPhones, and the biggers ones would have snow leopard on them. The bigger the screen, the more users are going to want to multitask. - Joshua Schnell

I see 3 possibilities. 1) a tablet that uses an app store and basically is a large iPod Touch. 2) A tablet that is a Mac with a keyboard interface and modified UI to accommodate using a finger as a pointer. 3) A table that is a Mac but has a iPod Touch emulator to allow people to use the touch-based apps from the app store. - Paul Franz

Joshua, I hope they don't do that. That would be HORRIBLY confusing to consumers. Unless maybe they're completely differently marketed. The "little ones" are just big iPods and the "big" ones are a new MacBook line... - Tad from fftogo

Tad, that's kind of how i'm leaning right now. Touches are getting bigger and more tablet like, and then a full tablet release. - Joshua Schnell

No, they won't do that. Thats imbicillic. They'll have one (possibly two, since both Kindle's are selling so well). I can't see iPhone/iTouch Apps running - it'll screw up the graphics and Jobs will never allow that. - Roberto Bonini

Differentiating product lines is imbecilic? Touch gets a little make over, and having a full fledge tablet released isn't really a huge change up. - Joshua Schnell

actually I see the point Roberto's making here. iPhone doesn't come in multiple screen sizes 'cause then the UI for all the apps is screwed up. Making the iPhone OS run on a 10 incher will mean the devs will have to recreate the whole UI for the 10 inch screens. Not very likely that Apple will be taking that route. - vijay

Vijay, that's a good point, but it wouldn't be the first time Apple's screwed over devs. lol - Joshua Schnell

=P - vijay

So this is a screenshot of FreeBSD/MacOS X Snow Leopard version ? - Thierry Lhôte

iPhone/iPod apps will run as windows in Snow Leopard on the new tablet. And it will have A/V out so will replace the AppleTV. I just totally made all that up. - LogEx

Hm. I'm trying to think how I'd want it to work. If anybody could, Apple could. But the idea of making a version of OS X that doesn't need a keyboard just sounds like a bad idea. That's *never* worked out as well as it sounds. Trying to force applications that are used to one size of screen work on another size screen also doesn't work out so well. - Wirehead

I also don't think a iTablet as a separate OS is a good idea. If anything, it's probably easier to get all of the iPhone app writers to iTablet-enable their software, because all of them have been written recently. Hm. Will be interesting to watch. Next iPhone or next Newton? Only the shadow knows, and he's still trying to repress those naked Steve Jobs pictures he found. - Wirehead

LogEx, windowed iPhone apps is a definite possibility. The ( allegedly fake ) screenshot leaks from the iTablet had shown the exact thing - standard iPhone apps running in windows. - vijay from iPhone

Yeah. I saw the fake screenshots. But they did have a good point and that is an Apple Tablet could easily be used to run multiple iPhone at the same time. Because could handle it. There are some things that I have problem with in that regard though. That is would a Table have the accelerator sensors like the iPod Touch/iPhone. If so, that would be very weird to try to play a game with such a big screen. - Paul Franz

This is really cool - FFTornado

HDMI out would be nice. - Adi