Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more.

iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets users physically interact with applications and content. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds– thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store.
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“Fueling expectations some more, a new tip today [via TechCrunch] hints that even Apple chief Steve Jobs has high expectations for the tablet rumored to be launching at Wednesday’s special event,” Electronista reports.

Electronista reports, “Several eyewitnesses, allegedly including Apple executives and Jobs’ friends, say they’ve heard Jobs state that the project is the ‘most important thing I’ve ever done.’”

“Jobs has long been rumored as having devoted full attention to the tablet, especially since his return from medical leave in June,” Electronista reports. “Most believe he last gave a similar level of care during the development of the iPhone.”

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“Rest up weary tech investors because come Monday afternoon, Apple might offer up the ultimate party,” Jim Goldman writes for CNBC.

“We touch on Apple’s remarkable story throughout every quarter, but earnings provides the chance to back up so much sizzle with a whole lot of steak, they put meat on the bone, show the fire beneath all that smoke, and give Macolytes the chance to stare down the non-believers,” Goldman writes. “And laugh.”

“Apple has captured a kind of perpetual motion in the market completely elusive to all others who have tried to match its performance,” Goldman writes. “Monday’s numbers should be a knock-out, but longer term, there simply is no better company in a better position than Apple.”
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Justin Kase Conder asks The Associated Press’ Jessica Mintz: “The AP recently reported that Steve Jobs took a $1 salary in 2009. In the same story, it is also indicated that he hasn’t cashed in any of his Apple stock since 1997. The question remains: How does the guy maintain a lavish lifestyle? Where does his money come from?”

Mintz replies, “Apple Inc. won’t let us peek into Steve Jobs’ personal bank account, so we’re going to have to rely on some facts and some educated guesses to answer this one.”

“Apple went public in 1980. From then to when Jobs was forced to resign in 1985, he was likely paid a salary and may have sold some stock,” Mintz reports. “The Associated Press reported that in the summer of 1985, Jobs sold about $14 million worth of Apple shares. So one guess is that Jobs hired a savvy money manager to invest at least some of those earnings.”

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“Steve Jobs and Apple appeared in an extraordinary number of 2009′s ‘Best of’ lists,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. “Our favorite: ‘There’s an app for that,’ the Yale Book of Quotations’ No. 3 quote of the 2009, right before Rep. Joe Wilson’s ‘You lie’ and after Captain Sully Sullenberger’s ‘We’re going to be in the Hudson.’”

Some other citations:
• Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade. Fortune magazine.
• Apple: Brand of the Decade. Adweek’s Best of the 2000s.
• ”Get a Mac”: Campaign of the Decade. Adweek’s Best of the 2000s.
• MacBook Pro: Best Laptop of 2009. Popular Science.

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“Like almost all the people covering technology, I have no doubt that Apple will release a tabletlike device in 2010; there are too many signs that point in this direction,” Nick Biltin reports for The New York Times.

“Let’s put all the rumors aside for a moment and look at the facts. There’s the endless chain of patents, as Brad Stone reported in The New York Times in late September on the rehiring of Michael Tchao, who worked on the Apple Newton. I’ve had many discussions with publishers and content creators that sustain my suspicions,” Biltin reports.

“But the icing on the cake comes from a current senior employee inside Apple,” Biltin reports. “When one of my colleagues here asked if the rumors of the Apple tablet were true, and when we could expect such a device, the response from his source was, ‘I can’t really say anything, but, let’s just say Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet.’”

Biltin reports, “Yet another recently departed Apple employee tipped me: ‘You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.’”

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“Steve Jobs has reportedly taken personal charge of the forthcoming Apple tablet, working to get the details right while aiming for a 2010 launch. Meanwhile, overtime in the Apple TV group, plus last week’s price cut, suggest a new model could be here soon,” David Coursey reports for IDG News Service.

Apple TV “appears on-track for a refresh. I am a tad concerned about the timing for this if units are going to be available in quantity in time for the holidays,” Coursey reports. “Sources tell me the Apple TV teams–hardware and software–have been putting in a lot of hours lately. How that translates into a ship date has yet to be revealed.”

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