The Quest Continues for a Tablet PC - Apple Inc , Steve Jobs, Mac

Apple Working on a Tablet Since At Least 2003? [Apple Tablet]
Gizmodo — ... The paper's write-up is a good recap of all the buzz circulating right now; definitely worth a read (and not just because they quote our own Mr. Lam). [New York Times] ...

Apple Working on “Bathroom Web Surfing” iTablet Since 2003
The iPhone Blog — While the entire industry is increasingly painted as breathlessly holding their breath for an Apple iTablet sometime in 2010, the New York Times re-affirms they’ve been working on just such a device since at least 2003: “It couldn’t be built. The battery life [using PowerPC chips] wasn’t long enough, the graphics performance was not enough to do anything and the components themselves cost more than $500,” said Joshua A. Strickland, a former Apple engineer whose name is on several of the company’s patents for multitouch ...

Steve Jobs wants an ‘iTablet’ that’s good for something besides Web surfing on the throne
MacDailyNews — ... besides surfing the Web in the bathroom," Stone and Vance report. "The success of the iPhone may have partially helped to answer that question. As of last month, developers had created 85,000 applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch — video games, social networking software, restaurant finders and more. Analysts believe that all those programs will immediately work on the new tablet while developers begin to tailor new software for the larger screen." Read more in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.] ...

Apple has been killing tablet ideas since 2003
Infinite Loop — ... to release tablet computing nirvana upon the masses, it turns out that the company has struggled to devise useful hardware and its killer application since 2003. The information comes courtesy of some former Apple employees who say that debates about how a tablet could benefit consumers for "quite some time." ...

From Newton to Bathroom Web Surfing: The History of the Fabled iTablet
TheAppleBlog — ... The New York Times added some noise yesterday to the seemingly-unending buzz surrounding Apple’s legendary Tablet device. I say “legendary” in the sense that, despite a complete and total absence of any sort of confirmation from Apple such a device even exists, it has already generated acres of column inches. ...