Apple Frequent Flying to China Means… iTablet Imminent?
According to Business Insider, the mythical iTablet is imminent due to the unnamed, unverified, unspecified travel of someone at Apple who does… something:
a source tells us a system integration engineer friend of his at Apple has been ramping up his travels back and forth between China lately, broadcasting word of his travels over the Internet.
A friend of a friend — no names! — asked TiPb what will end up being more ridiculous, iPhone rumors or iTablet rumors. We answered — yes!
Anyone have an iTablet case (with or without camera hole!) they want to leak our way?
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You know, the iPhone was just released in china. That just might have something to do with it, even if these rumor were varified.
All this excitement for something that has very questionable practical use.
MacTouch or nothing.
To hell with the tablet!!
Yeah, the tablet is dumb. How are you supposed to type on something like that? Introduce a MacBook with a touch screen and I’ll be interested.
Frequent Flying (if this is not a hoax) could also be related to the addition of WiFi in China iPhones:
CNBC reports: http://www.cnbc.com/id/33549049/for/cnbc/
Presumably, Apple simply disabled the wifi with software, rather than actually making a production run with that chipset ripped out, and they can easily turn it on.
Alternatively the flying could be negotiating another carrier, or perhaps training China Unicom technicians.
But my guess is this integration engineer is there to manage the rollout of the new Sim Card Tray. 8-|
@icebike
according to various sources I have read, the entire wifi hardware is missing, because that’s what beijing was mandating at the time. Recently they loosened their stance, but apple was stuck with all the non wifi iPhones it had made, so that’s what China is getting for now.
“someone who does Something” ey….hmmm. Very vague. Yet insightful.
So there is a potential that “someone” could also be doing “nothing” at Apple????