



Does this squelch all the talk that the rumored iPad/iTablet won't have the spiffy ebook/emagazine features everyone's speculating about? Only Apple knows, but here's Abramsky's take on his interview with the Apple execs:
"After music, video content is expected to be the next 'exploding' opportunity, but requires overcoming industry rights dysfunctionality, competing with subsidies (cable box, video), and developing the right consumer 'offer.'. Apple TV, while still a "hobby", is well positioned to benefit from evolving market dynamics. Apple was less enthusiastic about the online book/newspaper market, given unattractive industry structure.
And Fortune notes that it "sounds like they expect an Apple tablet -- should they be building one -- to be used a lot more for watching movies than for reading novels and newspapers." Said tablet is rumored to arrive in early 2010. (The graphic above -- a mock-up, not a real photo, is courtesy of PC World.)



