The Macalope Weekly: Natural-born category fillers

10.01.2010

Enough about posers. Let's get back to the not-yet-real-deal we love to speculate about. Assuming Apple's laying it on us , we've got just over two weeks to get all of our wild guessing in. Is it irresponsible to wildly guess? No! It is irresponsible to! Here are some of the guesses the Macalope likes.

Chris Breen (aka "The Bouffant of Knowledge") that Apple's might mean that Apple's going to tell content producers "You bring the content, we'll supply the ads." The only fly in this ointment the Macalope sees is timing. Apple bought Quattro and a launch in three weeks doesn't leave much time to sort out the kinks.

suggests the tablet will come in a Wi-Fi-only version and a Wi-Fi and 3G version. This makes sense but the Macalope suspects Jim misspoke when he said "AT&T's 3G data network." This is the data network that's too fragile to handle tethering. If the tablet does come with 3G, it won't be through AT&T.

Further afield, the tablet doesn't just allow giants like the New York Times to publish to the device, but brings publishing to "the rest of us." Great idea. And on , Alex Lindsay ran with and suggested a tablet feature that would be like a help system on the go. Baking a cake? Prop your tablet up in the kitchen and watch a video from Paula Deen (the Macalope suggests the tablet's screen be not only oleophobic, but also butterphobic). Working on your motorcycle? Prop the tablet up in your garage and watch a video from Paul Teutul Sr. and Jr. (and promptly get beaten up by some real bikers, tablet ).