As almost anyone interested in Apple devices knows, today Apple announced it’s tablet device.
Interest on internet has been high. To give the scale of interest, the Arstechnica website, normally a busy site, was unable to cope with the load. I watched a small portion of the presentation live, via TVNZ’s (Television New Zealand, for those outside New Zealand) live streaming on their technology news website.
Caveat: as “breaking news”, please realise there may be errors and there certainly will be omissions. As someone with a hearing “disability”, I would welcome the day when captions were more widely available, the streaming feed is very difficult to follow, so I’ve written most of this from running around the internet picking up other’s reporting, with all the flaws that come with that!
As expected, they use the 9.7″ screens (the rumour-mill started as Apple essentially bought out large volumes of the small screen, without having a product which used them). It features a style very similar to that of the current iMacs, with the screen itself surrounded by black backing, then a thin brushed aluminium border.