The highly expected tablet device from Apple is not exactly a whole new idea that Apple has just come up with. According to the New York Times, former Apple engineer, Joshua A. Strickland, has told that Apple had been working on a tablet based device since at least 2003, and that device, which was only a prototype, was using a PowerPC chip made by I.B.M., and was so power hungry that that it was senseless to manufacture in big numbers, and it stayed as a prototype.
Now, six years later, rumors keep flying around that Apple will announce and release a tablet device next year. A device that Apple CEO, Steve Jobs earlier has described as “good for nothing except surfing the web in the bathroom,” but the success of the iPhone has apparently changed his mind.
