The rumors about an Apple tablet computer are starting to fly again. As was the case last time I think the press has got it all wrong. An Apple tablet computer is, as I said before, a video play not a phone, music, netbook, or web browser play (although it will probably do most of those things too).Silicone Alley Insider published an article called "A Year Later Apple's iPhone AppStore [is the] Hottest Game Platform on Earth" which talks about the AppStore celebrating its first birthday. According to the article there are about 10,000 game applications on AppStore. To give that number some context: that's ten times as many games as have ever been published for the X-Box and Nintendo Entertainment System combined. And Apple accomplished that in exactly 1 year.
There is no doubt in my mind that after conquering the music business and mobile phone business, Apple's next target is the video game business and not just with an iPhone. Imagine the kinds of games that could be done on a 10" tablet. If the tablet supports AppStore applications it will immediately have a huge ecosystem.
I suspect that is what Apple intends to do; create another gaming platform. But not only a gaming platform, Apple will also try to dominate the movie/TV video business. I go into this business model in more detail in the post,"What Industry Will Apple Try To Dominate Next? Video." , which I made in April of this year.
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