Here’s something to mull over while you get ready for bed. The Street is reporting that Apple will launch the highly anticipated (and rumored) tablet with Verizon. Now, we’ve heard rumors that Verizon could be getting a CDMA variant of the iPhone at some point in the near future, but no one in China has leaked such a thing.
According to Scott Moritz’s sources, Apple and Verizon “won’t be as tightly integrated” as Apple and AT&T and the rumored tablet has been ready for roughly a year. The kicker here is that, Verizon would subsidize the cost of the tablet without giving potential customers sticker shock.
An always-connected iPod? In my mind, this has been Apple’s plan all along. Apple never set out to be the king of smartphones. They simply wanted an iPod that was always connected to the Internet to power the apps that have made the iPhone and iPod Touch so popular. We (as in Michael and CrunchPad Inc.) better get on their horse and get the CrunchPad out. But then again, the CrunchPad won’t always be connected.
Verizon better find a dance partner quick…
“AT&T Gets Deal for Plastic Logic e-reader
By Jeffry Bartash MarketWatch
7/22/2009 12:01:00 AM
Plastic Logic on Wednesday said AT&T Inc. will supply the wireless connection for a touch-screen device it’s developing to rival Amazon’s Kindle in the electronic-book market.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/att-gets-deal-for-plastic-logic-e-reader?siteid=nbsh
See “the pad” from Star Trek for reference here.
I bet that Star Trek “pad” didn’t have a CONTRACT :)
it worked with the FREE enterprise wireless network.
bad news for crunch pad. a crunch pad suggestion: pullout plastic acting as stand. like if u pullout from back of crunchpad and keep on floor/laps then crunchpad will make 30 degrees with floor.
Verizon will NEVER carry ANY Apple products. EVER. Verizon is a heaping pile of shit and disgust. So is Sprint. Apple is far too good for Verizon
Sta with AT&T, Apple, and ignore what everyone is complaining about. You’re doing fine.
Oh, and by the way, Apple’s not releasing a tablet…
morons!
Yeah stay with AT&T, one of the worst wireless networks, with the worst coverage. Yeah stay with them, who cares that they can’t even manage to properly release the iPhone 3GS with out totally Fu#&ing it up. And who cares that many of their customers cant receive their visual voicemails on the iphone, who cares.
I wonder where you are working – for AT&T or Apple. My guess is the former.
Must say that I’m about ready to jump into the steaming pile myself. The water, or whatever, is warm!
“Apple is far too good for Verizon”
ohhhhh… i guess that is why Apple went to VZW FIRST about the iPhone and Apple got DENIED because the whole deal was not fair or balanced at all. AT&T on the other hand was desperate and picked it up. Oh and the iPhone will probably be on Verizon in 2010 so you are once again WRONG.
Carlos…You sure are eating your words now eh? Watch the news tomorrow about:
- Apple Tablet release w/Verizon wireless’ 4G network
- Verizon Wireless as their premiere provider
- iPhone for Verizon Wireless release
- AT&T’s litigation loss in regard to their substandard network
Shouldn’t flap your gums when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Enjoy :)
“the CrunchPad won’t always be connected.” partner up with someone then. say t-mobile, wait, their egde is slow as heck, thus verizon [oops] is the way to go, crunchpad.
Now I don’t know how it works in America, but fr the European market you could always just add in a sim tray, so that customers could stick in a sim and have it always connected. That’s how mobile networks do it here now. I’d assume it’s the same in America, right? (Except obviously CDMA)
It’s already too late for the crunchpad. You might have initial crunchfan purchases, but with the limitations of the device comes a limitation of the market. Better get back on that open source pulpit and make the device hackable by nature. So, put all that OS stuff back in, and open up the device so that we can turn it into something more viable.
Are the retweets killing tc comments?
I humbly suggest shutting down twitter. More comments, and twitter is gone – it’s win-win!
I am glad that apple is some what agreeing with the media that AT&T is “A heaping pile of failure” but then all iphone users have to switch to verizon. And why have a computer tablet be on a phone data plan or is it a big ipod. But then again that doesn’t need data either. So is it the new iphone? I thought they were going for smaller! What is it anyway!!!!
iPod-version of Kindle, sounds like. Data plan enables device downloads at all times.
Verizon needs SOMETHING from Apple, if not the iPhone. So much freaking potential for a cash cow there.
Verizon realized it MISSED the BOAT when it didn’t do the exclusive with Apple on the original iPhone product. Since then it has been trying UN-successfully to play catch-UP, and the Blackberry Storm has been a MISERABLE failure. It’s a HORRIBLE product, and isn’t even in the same league as the elegant iPhone 3G.
Now with the upcoming Apple iPad™ (pretty good name eh?) it has the chance to regain some of the lost momentum AT&T had stolen.
Good thing for two excellent companies … Apple and Verizon. We are a Verizon family and I can’t wait for this to happen as it will be a great strategic alliance.
Great comment…I could not agree more.
VZW did not miss the boat at all. Apple wanted all of the money and everything in the deal so VZW denied them and AT&T is really not making much money off of the iPhone. And the Storm reviews were all better than the iPhones BY THE WAY. Plus I know MANY MANY MANY more people with Storms than IPhones so……………………………
Not a cash cow at all because all the cash is going to Apple. AT&T isn’t making much money at all off of the iPhone. That is why VZW denied them.
The last thing I need is an oversize iPhone, unless it has a projection screen and keyboard, but that is still at least 3-5 years off. Until then what I really wish Apple would come out with is a normal size tablet laptop with full real keyboard, that would be rad.
I m not so sure, why it is required to have a tieup with ANY of the telecom company to provide a computer / netbook / netpad.
Cant i have a freedom of utilizing whichever service provider i want to use?
H/W manufacturer just needs to provide SIM slot!
Rest, you leave it to me if at all i need, i will get a SIM based internet service, or else, i simply will use hotspots or home wifi network.
Today, if we allow Apple to popup a computer tied up with a CONTRACT, rest assured that whole line of their Mac Book Pros and Power Books will be next in line.
You will no longer have a freedom to buy any of mac product WITHOUT a contract!
CONTRACT is Apple’s way of leaching OUR hard earned money from us (“SLAVES”)
They are trying left and right to get these things to work.
Most of the Americans do not realize this. They hopefully will but by that time, it will be too late.
What we Americans do realize for sure, that we don’t like cry baby pussy little sim card bitches.
Verizon will NEVER carry ANY Apple products. EVER. Verizon is a heaping pile of shit and disgust. So is Sprint. Apple is far too good for Verizon
Sta with AT&T, Apple, and ignore what everyone is complaining about. You’re doing fine.
Oh, and by the way, Apple’s not releasing a tablet…
morons.
Oh, well, now that cillian has spoken we should all just shut up because Apple won’t be releasing a tablet. Cuz he says so.
Aren’t you up too late grumpy troll? lol
I have a great idea…
Before posting a comment, or when creating an account, an intelligence test is required. You don’t pass, you don’t get to comment. Now THAT’S a captcha! Just one for idiots, instead of spam bots.
That or just have a rating system like Digg or whatever. That way we don’t have to read stupid comments since they won’t appear unless chosen to.
I agree, CrunchPad needs to strike while the iron is hot… Does that mean release before of after Apple’s tablet? Well, if the CrunchPad specs are good and at $300 I say before Apple…
Anyway, we need more info of some sort / any sort, bloggers and twitters keep rehashing the same CrunchPad specs and pointing to the youtube vid of the previous prototype..
Regardless, count me in for at least one CrunchPad. AND I’ll probably dump my iPhone, switch to an Android dev phone and get a MiFi on an unlimited plan from Verizon to support the CrunchPad.
WillBranch on Twitter
I read this and it only makes me think more about the Crunchpad!
Oh, fuck. I’ve practically been waiting two years to buy a laptop because I was waiting for this thing to be released. Now I won’t be able to buy this because I live in israel.
One feature which would make the crunchpad equal on this particular playing field is the ability for plug-and-play mobile broadband USB device support. Ubuntu does this. Some how the drivers are integrated with-in the OS so I just plug in my Sprint mobile broadband card and it’s good to go. And, from my understanding, It doesn’t even require any partnerships while allowing the rumored web freedom of the Apple tablet.
Hey Nadav, you’ll be able to unlock it if it’s a big phone or just use it to surf on any wireless network if it’s just a MacBook without a keyboard.
Crunchpad would surely be able to run whatever it likes via a web interface – don’t know if you guys are familiar with SaaS and browsers (hehe).
My fear is not that you can’t unlock it (which wouldn’t help because there are no CDMA networks in Israel anymore), my fear is that you can’t buy this without a two year contract. I’ll be ok just with wifi as long as I’ll be able to even buy the damn thing.
A contract with the CrunchPad would make it a no-go – Apple and AT&T have broken me…
m not sure why.. I just fell like im going to need this.. Damm you apple!!! Ugh they make me want to buy everything..
Why is CrunchGear taking Scott Moritz seriously?
I try not to take anything coming out of The Street seriously, but what if this is all true and we didn’t cover the rumor?
I would applaud you for denying Moritz a platform.
What would happen if you published every Apple rumor Moritz generates? You’d look like stupid asshats who have no clue what you are doing.
Isn’t Verizon Wireless’ “HUB” internet-connected home phone platform a wired iphone already?
Stopped reading at ‘According to Scott Moritz’s sources….’ His track record is less than awful.
I think The Apple Pad will set a new standard for computing devices. It will be easy to use and do anything a regular consumer would want from a desktop computer (games, internet, email, apps, etc)… without the hassles and headaches associated with most computers. Simple is the key.
I was extremely excited about the tablet for 2 years straight since the rumor started after the iphone launch. And now……I’m not.
I wonder how many chinese workers were tortured and killed to get the tablet to market. :(
Great another “EXCLUSIVE” partnership that wants me to jump ship from the service I have and like…
That’s one more they won’t sell.
What we really need is a dual touchscreen netbook, tablets aren’t practical:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006986.html
i’d prefer crunchpad to be like this too.
Where’s my CrunchPad?
So we have
iPod, iPhone, iMac, iPad? , iMacPad?….ah confusing!
N’ways Crunchpad is going to rock the world on tablets but that is only if the price is cheap…maybe you guys should make some agreement with Walmart?
No seriously!
Here’s another version of the story: http://www.sachinstyle.com/blog/2009/7/22/hot-new-rumor-apple-to-launch-tablet-on-verizon.html