After the iPhone the iSlate It is believe income three years back

After the iPhone, the iSlate! It is believe income three years back. In 2007, any Silicon Valley spread rumours about the exact date of the iPhone and its technical characteristics In betting that Apple incursion on the emerging "smartphones" market would profoundly change the gives. It is made. The company Apple has sold over 30 million copies of its terminal and has a portfolio more 100.0000 applications, on a site that has already saved 3 billion downloads. Remains to be seen whether history will repeat itself with the Apple tablet, which could if call iSlate (the slate Web): a device hybrid, somewhere between the iPhone and a mini-Mac...

So far, the market of these electronic terminals communicating, too large to really replace a phone, but too small to be fully used as a portable computer, took off: too limited technologically, not ergonomic enough, or too expensive for what they allow... The shelves designed by computer manufacturers or digital players launched by Amazon (the famous Kindle) or Sony (the Reader) to are not yet taxed heavily. But the iSlate of Apple, announced by the rumor for the month of March, could change the equation.

After a long period of reflection and countless tests, the boss of the firm to Apple, Steve Jobs, have finally given the green light to the launch. According to the American press, Apple should even hold a press conference on 26 or 27 January to unveil the world's famous "slate"... The Cupertino firm course aims to replicate the success stories of the iPhone and the iPod. To do this, the iSlate will have to deliver on its promises of terminal to do everything, connected to the Internet (probably via Wi - Fi networks that mobile phone networks already well congested), with a fast microprocessor, a 10-inch and the main functions of the iPhone touch screen... With these features, the spacecraft could compete directly with SFF PC, the PC booming segment, view Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray star.

So far, the real advantage of this tablet will be "the software", prognostic latter. The Apple iSlate not only would read e-books with unparalleled comfort, but it also presented as a novel to read a newspaper or a magazine in a customizable model. Apple should also capitalize on the great catalog of applications and games developed for the iPhone and will negotiate with television channels in order to provide access to audiovisual content catalogues.

Duel in view with Google

And the California-based firm should take the opportunity to further advance its economic model. After having demonstrated that she could earn money by extracting its tithe on the turnover achieved by the publishers who develop applications for the iPhone, it will gain in this time with online advertising. The favourite playground for Google...

Apple has thus acquired, for nearly 300 million dollars, Quattro Wireless, a Massachusetts firm, specializing in mobile advertising. The idea would monetize applications today downloaded for free from the AppStore (it would be of 80 of them) by integrating advertisements that users would have to look at. Google feeds the same ambitions by launching on the market of mobile telephony with the Nexus One ("Les Echos" of yesterday). The Internet giant has thus to disburse more than 750 million to another company specializing in advertising for mobile, AdMob. That Apple wanted also...