So, over the past two days I have written about my thoughts on the iSlate as an eBook and video device, but is it likely to be so much more? Could it have a place in the centre of your home on your coffee table? O2 developed the media thingy which was so successful I can’t remember the name of it and that was supposed to be for the family, but again Apple could step in and make something that displays the weather, news and family planner all of the time. It could synchronise with your smartphone (sorry- iPhone only no doubt) and this would be yet another killer string to its bow.
Throw in many thousands of games which have been scaled up to the bigger screen from the iPhone / iPod Touch resolution and the options are limitless. Key to this will be a robust build which allows the kids to play with it when they want to and a new family centric device will be born.
There is one final possibility which may not happen- a keyboard attachment which could turn it into a NetBook style device? Is this a possibility or something that would overlap other Apple lines which is something it rarely does? I suspect that will never happen, but the other features discussed over the past few days will be more than enough to keep the coffers piling up quite nicely.
