At this point it has been years of speculation and rumor about a tablet to be released by Apple.  Current information says that Steve Jobs has finally signed off on the design and it is being prepped for an early January to March release of 2010.  According to Apple Insider the project as been on and off again for 4 years or so with various revision.  This time it looks like we will finally get a device somewhere between an iPhone and MacBook that will be an all-in-one device.  There is little information available at this point, but the market is ready for a reasonable priced revolutionary tablet Mac.  Lets hope this rumor does not get extended over and over.

  Smashing any expectations one might have had just over 1 year ago when the App Store launched, Apple has proved and created a hugely successful market for apps.  The recent news of an amazing 1.5 billion applications being downloaded in such a short time has completely shake the cell industry as to rethink what it should do next.  So far there has been no sign of a slowdown when it comes to the download rates.  Right now there are over 40 million iPhones in 77 different countries and that rate continues to grow rapidly. Here is to an amazing year and many more.

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  Apple Insider has posted that a vendor in "the know" has brought to our attention that AT&T is working on a major upgrade to their data network prior to the new iPhone hardware rumored to be arriving in June. AT&T has had their network stressed greatly due to the iPhone data traffic since the iPhone 3G.  The iPhone accounts for about two thirds of all of AT&T’s data consumption and has caused numerous outages and slow downs in the past.  If the new iPhone does include a video camera with upload capability as we suspect, AT&T will certainly need such bandwidth increases to meet demand.  It will be interesting to see if there is real world speed increases that we iPhone users will see.  At this point we can only hold out and anticipate what Apple has for us in June.

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  For almost a year or so we have been hearing rumors of a new Mac Mini being dropped upon us.  So far we have all been in utter disappointment at the lack of care the wee little Mac has received as compared with the rest of the Mac line.  Apple Insider has found what they believe to be an early photo of the new Mac Mini.  As rumored, the photo shows the two separate display port options, both mini DVI and mini Display Port.  Lets hope our little friend will gets the recognition it deserves soon.

  At long last we have confirmation that Apple finally sees that one major deterring factor for their iPhone is the lack of Adobe’s Flash.  Apple has long claimed "the web in your pocket", which is only partially true, because half of the web uses flash to play media.  

Steve Jobs has said that Flash is too much for a mobile processor and Flash Lite does not deliver enough to satisfy the consumer.  Adobe’s Chief, Shantanu Narayen was recently quoted in an interview saying:

"It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating," he says. "The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver."

Since this is a hard technical challenge, could this be the reason for the rumored new iPhone?  Perhaps the reason that Apple is looking into different processors for the iPhone is the need for more power to run Flash and much more?  Only time will tell, but it will be a good day when Apple finally has Flash on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

[Apple Insider]