Oh yeah -- it's on! (But...what is it?)

01/18/10 12:53

Apple had finally made it official -- they’ve sent select members of the Mac media elite email invites to a special event on January 27th. The relevant graphic looks like this:

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The tagline implies a brand new product, not just a speed-bump of MacBook Pros or a preview of iPhone OS v4.0. But there are no clear clues to what the latest creation might be, unless you count the rounded-rectangle shape in the background. (Look -- it’s the same shape as a tablet! And the splotches spilling out over the borders of the rectangle suggest communicatio and sharing capabilities -- which means both Wi-Fi and multiple carriers for 3G!! Suck it, AT&T!!!)

Actually, the rectangle tells us nothing. At this point, neither do the multicolor paint splotches. You could make an argument that the clean white logo over the drippy blobs implies that the tablet market is a splotchy, disorganized, multicolor fustercluck, and that Apple sees itself eventually coming out on top of the whole mess with a clean, iconic design. Yeah -- we’ll go with that. Makes as much sense as anything else we’ve seen lately.

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