Rumors and speculation: No Intel in the tablet, no Flash either

I know that Flash is heavy on the processsor (my laptop heats up like a space warmer every time I visit YoVille...) but Apple has to do SOMETHING to get us iPhone users and tablet users some Flash. Its like driving a car without a radio.

So the consumer will be presented with the choice of a tablet with the iPhone/iPod Touch OS and all the app store restrictions that comes along with it or a tablet that can run anything a full blown Windows 7 computer can run? If this is true, the tablet will be a colossal failure for Apple.

Agreed, I think about 799.00 would be a great price, the iPhone unsubd is 651.00 (with tax) and 751.00 respectively, so 799.00-899.00 is more realistic.

I guess we'll see.....

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Scott Moritz is pretty much a jackass. There's a video of him calling the tablet the iFlop - while knowing absolutely nothing about it.

While I agree with those that are cautious about how big a market there is a for a tablet from Apple it's another thing to flatly declare that the world doesn't need tablets in any form for any use.

Moritz has been accused of manipulating aapl share prices. He's pretty much a hater and an annoying one at that.

Tablets are going to be big in lots of fields. The hybrid tablets we've seen so far were just that, hybrids. Which is a large part of why they failed. The Newton II will be juiced up and far more functional than round one. I wouldn't bet the house against it.

who/what is the target audience for this thing? I fail to see the point of it so far. I only see it useful as POS or doctor's offices note taking devices so far...

Have I missed it or has nobody done a really good analytical article on what they think the price may be? I think I remember reading a tweet go by that said some WSJ dude threw out $1000. Is that really what people think it's gonna cost?

I'm really hoping for something between the highest initial cost of an iPhone and below the cheapest Macbook.

I don't love or hate Flash, it's simply a must-have for any tablet I would ever purchase. How do I know? For all the hundreds (at least) of times I can't use a site on my iPhone because it doesn't support it. I tolerate the lack of the feature on the iPhone, but absolutely not on a tablet. Deal breaker.

I concur with all the people who are going to be upset if this doesn't include flash. Don't get me wrong. I hate flash and I block it in both safari and firefox. But most of you are commenting from a very U.S. centric view of the computing world. However, I live in asia, and most websites here are almost entirely composed of flash (and lame lame activeX but that's another story). There is absolutely no way the tablet will sell at all without flash. The Tablet being mostly used for internety sort of things I would think, but hey no flash, ah can't use the internet, awesome, I love this 800 dollar (plus ridiculous inflation and taxes for asia) small hand mirror! Yes, I like when apple pushes tech forward, but most people aren't willing to switch to something that doesn't let them do what they've always done even if its "better." No flash on the iphone is completely different. No flash on the tablet, unless its alot closer to the iphone than a computer, is like not allowing flash on the new 13 inch macbook pros, in other words absurd.

Hmmm, rumors rumors...
Flash, we need Flash in the Slate !
Come on Cupertino guys, you can make it! (and put it in the iPhone 4)

If the iSlate works just like an iPhone, with a closed app store and a closed file system, I don't think it is viable as a serious working platform.

I want to be able to install software that I have already bought or that is free, and I want to have free access to my tablet's drive, for storing files and taking them to clients.

I don't want a tablet that needs an app for every single little thing that an OS should do automatically, and I want apps to be able to communicate with each other without shutting one app down and then starting the other.

I want my large screen browser to display the internet sites that I surf to, just like safari on my macbook does. Excluding flash from the iPhone was a daring decision already, but excluding it from a tablet computer is just not acceptable.

And how about surfing the web when there's no wifi? Do you need a new 3G subscription plan?