A great read for those of us who want to know as much as pos­si­ble about the rumored Apple tablet, which Andy refers to as RAT. Here are the major sub-sections:

• The RAT will have a “slate” form factor.
• The price will be above $500 but below $800.
• Like the iPhone, it’ll be a closed system.
• It’ll be SSD based.
• A monthly wire­less broad­band con­tract will not be required.
• No hard­ware keyboard.
• It’ll run its own OS (based on OS X) but it’ll be part of the iPhone’s app ecosystem.
• Apple will not sell peri­od­i­cals and books through the iTunes Store.
• The RAT will be as com­pletely unlike the iPod Touch and the MacBook as the iPhone was to the iPod and every other smartphone.
• The RAT will be like a pair of glasses. Not a sheet of paper or a com­puter screen.
• But wait just a minute
• Then again …

I hope Andy is wrong about Apple not directly sell­ing peri­od­i­cals and books through the iTunes Store. I still think Apple should pur­chase Zinio and inte­grate it into the iTunes Store and directly sell not only books but mag­a­zine & news­pa­per sub­scrip­tions. via Daring Fireball