Unless it’s too late already, Steve Jobs is going to have a stroke when he hears this. In an radio interview this morning, Stéphane Richard, Orange’s CEO-To-Be, confirmed the arrival of Apple’s Tablet, Boum!
According to him, it comes with 3G networking and a webcam.
How on earth did that happened?
Well, Stéphane Richard, Orange/France Telecom’s vice-president, is about to take over the company and was therefore invited this morning on a popular french radio (Europe 1). The interview’s focus was on Orange’s employees recent tendency to defenestrate themselves but they moved on to Google, Smart Phones, Apple and then:
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (the interviewer) : According to Le Point (a french magazine), your partner Apple will be launching a tablet
Stéphane Richard: Yes.
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach: … equipped with a webcam.
Stéphane Richard: Yes.
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach: Will Orange customers also be able to enjoy it?
Stéphane Richard: Of course!, they will actually particularly enjoy it because the webcam will allow live video streaming. It’s a new take on mobile video-conferencing.
Here is the actual video of the interview here, (in french, it comes up at 6:00) :
Orange provides the iPhone in over 25 countries at the moment, so if Apple is indeed planning a 3G powered device, Richard is the one to know.
On the other hand, maybe he just pulled a Jabberwocky (he’s out of the loop so he just acknowledged not to look like a fool).
This is getting out of control…
This is intersting
I cant wait till the 27th !!
I’m going to put my money on 1/26/10 being the date of the announcement. An insider tells me this is definitely the date
Meh.. just give me an iPhone with a user-accessible drive and multitasking.. not really in the mood for a 6-pounder at the moment, thanks.
“user-accessible drive”
http://cydia.saurik.com/package/eu.heinelt.ifile
—Done!
&
“and multitasking”
http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.aaronash.multifl0w
—Done!
;^)…
Woops! Sry AD ;^/… Both already exist. Just “look around” ;^p…
“AV”
this is just so French!
This is ridiculous, he doesn’t acknowledge that Apple is planning on bringing a tablet to the market, he’s just confirming that Le Point has made such a statement. Then he goes on to say that it would be interesting for their customers to have such a device and that it would be cool to have a webcam in said device to make videoconversations.
I’m not saying that Apple isn’t on the verge of announcing a tablet device, but this interview doesn’t prove anything.