OMG - Apple tablet confirmed!

08/16/09 09:44

It has been the MacInquirer’s position since we relaunched (which is to say, earlier this week) that the much-discussed Apple tablet computer rumor is a myth, a mirage, a misdirection intended to draw attention away from the company’s actual plans to introduce the Next Big Thing in tech.

We were wrong.

TMI now feels confident that there indeed is a Mac tablet on the horizon, which could be released at almost any moment. What changed our minds? Tech columnist John C. Dvorak.

The puffy pundit’s latest Second Opinion column for Marketwatch.com is headlined “Don’t look for a big announement.” Dvorak confidently states that there’s no way Apple will launch a tablet computer at the rumored Special Event in early September. He also scoffs at the notion that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will make his long-awaited return to the stage to unveil the new product.

John C. Dvorak has never gotten the story right when prognosticating about Apple. Never. TMI considers this to be the final confirmation that the iTablet is for real, and that a hale and hearty Jobs will be on hand next month to lift the curtain. (Or open the mailing envelope. Or pull something out of his pants pocket. Or whatever.) In fact, we now predict that the TV ad for the product will feature Jobs himself dancing, Coyote Ugly style, on the bar of Jax on the Trax in Truckee, Calfornia.

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