Steve Jobs: Apple Tablet 'Will Be The Most Important Thing I've Ever Done' (RUMOR)

What does Apple CEO Steve Jobs think about Apple's rumored Apple Tablet device?

According to TechCrunch's sources, Steve Jobs has said, in reference to the forthcoming Tablet, "This will be the most important thing I've ever done."

But just how credible is Jobs' alleged statement?

TechCrunch notes,

We haven't heard this first hand, but we've heard it multiple times second and third hand from completely independent sources. Senior Apple execs and friends of Jobs are telling people that he's about as excited about the upcoming Apple Tablet as he's ever been. Coming from the man who has created so much, that's saying something.

In September 2009, the Industry Standard reported that Jobs had made the Tablet his "personal project:"

I should say the "presumably" forthcoming Apple tablet, which sources inside Apple say is getting their maximum leader's personal and special attention. Jobs apparently sees the device as too important to have a less-than-exciting launch, so it will miss the holidays and launch in 2010.

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Do you think the Apple Tablet will be "the most important thing" Jobs has ever done?

Definitely

No way--his past accomplishments are more impressive

Nope--there will be future developments that eclipse the Tablet

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Comments

[BookKeepersSon]

06:19 PM on 01/27/2010

"This will be the most important thing I've ever done."

Does he have any children?

Is he including buying his way to the top of the organ transplant list so he could stay alive?

[auteur]

02:29 PM on 01/27/2010

Does anyone want to place bets on which I-nerd over at Bloggingheads.tv will be the first to review their purchase?

[Halfwit]

04:28 PM on 01/26/2010

It sound to me like it is going to be a super-expensive novelty toy that will break too easily and all for only $1,000.00.

[Halfwit]

04:24 PM on 01/26/2010

I think the most important thing he has ever done is the same most important thing Bill Gates has ever done: Take the work that Xerox did (Graphical UI, Mouse, etc) and sell it to the world.

[caferide]

11:35 PM on 01/26/2010

Except Apple paid Xerox for their research. Gates stole from Apple.

[OmegaHunter]

12:44 AM on 01/27/2010

They did not pay Xerox for anything.

Jobs bought some stock in Xerox which allowed him and some Apple engineers to pay a visit to Xerox's HQ. They requested to see what Xerox had been working on. The Xerox execs stupidly agreed and Jobs proceeded to steal everything he saw and put it in the Mac.

[chrisclark]

04:00 PM on 01/26/2010

This is getting pathetic. Your headline on Technology front page reads "Steve Jobs: Apple Tablet 'Will Be The Most Important Thing I've Ever Done'" and you come to read the article because you're interested... and the headline adds "(RUMOR)" HP editors, quite trolling and sensationalising your news headlines. There's enough legit news to keep your site in my favs. Don't trick your visitors into clicks- it doesn't look good on you.

[santiagosmagic]

03:02 PM on 01/26/2010

Poll seems to be missing one possible answer:

- No. Getting a new liver is the most important thing Jobs has done.

[Biscuit]

06:01 PM on 01/26/2010

Heh

[GoogleMaster]

01:37 PM on 01/26/2010

The amazing thing about the tablet is that it will be absolutely free. It will come with the purchase of
any Quad-Core Mac Pro priced $2499 or above.

[AmandaBC]

02:31 PM on 01/26/2010

Considering you can buy a faster i7-based PC (the best processor mac pros have is the i5 and you sure can't replace it!) for less than a third of that, not really a bargain...

[Downix]

03:28 PM on 01/26/2010

Not true, the Mac Pros run Bloomfield i7's. And yes, they are upgradeable.

Still spot on for price, but the Mac's do offer i7's.

[Charles Keledjian]

01:28 PM on 01/26/2010

In the beginning humans used to speak and write. Then the keyboard and mouse were invented and humans got accustomed to use their computers silently and most of us also got very bad at handwriting. Now computers want us to talk and write to them with a pen, but we would be embarrased to be talking to a computer at the office and spoil the quiteness and our handwriting has become so bad that no recognition software would be good enough. So, the only solution now is: mind control.

[AmandaBC]

02:33 PM on 01/26/2010

"So, the only solution now is: mind control."

Hmm, what do you think Apple Inc. is all about? ;)

[jalowe1957]

11:34 AM on 01/26/2010

Did Steve Jobs just come back from some Third World country? He obviously looks more like a poster child for WorldVision than a corporate CEO.

[captcct]

06:44 AM on 01/27/2010

He is a poster boy for saying "look, with my billions, I got a new liver ahead of 18,600 others who are on the Alien waiting list". And, as the new Moses, my i-tablet will reveal the new commandments for all the cretins on this pathetic earth. No more dirty Windows. So, byte into that rosy red Apple and no need for you knicks anymore. hahaha.

[captcct]

07:08 AM on 01/27/2010

But, Steve with his billions got a new liver ahead of 18,600. He used his super advanced Gulfstream jet to fly to Mississippi and get one - as California did not have any. And, now as the 21st Century Moses, his i-tablet (which I reported on a year ago: http://web.me.com/captcct/Site/Tech_Review.html ) will provide all the cretins on Earth with the new ten commandments:
1) Work hard.
2) Work smart.
3) Work harder.
4) Work smarter.
5) Play hard.
6) Play with joy.
7) Sail fast.
8) Live slow.
9) Use a Mac.
10) But shares in Apple, and stop looking at Dirty Windows.

Now do you Aliens get it. By the way... I am a registered legal resident Alien in the USA. lol. I wish, however, that I could go to Pandora and intermix (not Unix!) with that fabulous doll. Now that would be an Avatar moment.

[captcct]

07:13 AM on 01/27/2010

Ooops! # 10 was meant to say Buy shares....

[AfroGoddess]

10:12 AM on 01/26/2010

As much as I love the IDEA of the Apple Tablet, I really want something that practically perfect for the price. If that thing is upwards of $1000, then they can hang it up. There are too many people who can get more for less, and who do so much less with their computers, that they won't miss the more that typically comes with a lot of computers and the Apple Tablet. Heck, I know folks who only do personal word processing once a year (resumes).

My computer delimma right now? Netbook vs. Kindle. I'm Apple's target consumer for the tablet, so if that thing can't compete with a netbook in capability, price, and weight (in that order), then Apple might as well sell the thing at granola parties to all their VW/bike-riding brand loyalists.

[AmandaBC]

08:09 AM on 01/26/2010

Biggest success story in the computer world nowadays: netbooks. They're cheap, reliable, powerful enough to get ordinary work done (word processing, net browsing etc.), small and lightweight and the best models come with batteries that last 8-9 hours. You think Apple's tablet: larger, bulkier, heavier, with batteries good for half of that time or less and costing three times as much or more is going to be just as successful? In this economy? Yes, the rich elite will buy it just to show it off, but they'll quickly realize what they really need is a netbook. Too bad Apple will never make one of those: if there isn't an obscene profit behind a product, they're simply not interested... Or maybe eventually (after the tablet flops) they will make one and the cultists will be happy to buy a $1,000 netbook and hail it as yet another of Jobs' extraordinary "inventions"?

[guytaur1]

08:47 AM on 01/26/2010

You ignore history. Wait and see. When rumours surfaced about an Apple cellphone no one predicted the runaway success that is the Iphone. Except perhaps some in Apple.

[caferide]

09:00 AM on 01/26/2010

I remember about 10 years ago when critics were ranting about Apples demise. Steve Jobs was envisioning a small, lightweight, portable music player called the iPod. He approached all of the major music labels to seek their cooperation. They basically laughed him out of their offices. So, he did an end-around and started the iTunes store. Billions of downloads later, the record labels are STILL trying to catch up. Steve Jobs repeated this story when he proposed the iPhone. Virtually every major cellphone carrier told him he was crazy. Now of course they're practically soiling themselves trying to copy the iPhone. You see, Apple does not compromise their products. Are they the cheapest on the market? No, but that's hardly the point. They simply make well-designed, easy-to-use products that work, and work very well. If you want to be like everyone else and buy the cheapest netbook available; fine. But some of us prefer the value-added features that Apple has always included in all of their products since the first Macs.

[AmandaBC]

09:32 AM on 01/26/2010

Reality check: the ipod is NOT the best mp3 player on the market and the iphone is NOT the best smart phone on the market. Also, the mac is not the best personal computer on the market. The best models feature an i5 processor when you can buy much faster i7-based PCs for a lot less.

The only "value" Apple adds is hype.

[Krek]

09:41 AM on 01/26/2010

The Hollywood history of Apple - lol. Jobs the ginger-haired, freckle-faced, gap-toothed orphan, goes from office to office, stopping occasionally on street corners to nuzzle and pet his tousle-haired pooch, and sing hopeful songs about tomorrow.

[jws2346]

07:58 AM on 01/26/2010

While I've never owned an Apple/Macintosh computer (they're currently too expensive for my meager budget) I've always respected and admired Steve Jobs. I wish him luck with his tablet project.

[martiniandabotoxchaser]

06:08 AM on 01/26/2010

Others have attempted to make a tablet work. It is great for certain things....students lilke the ability to follow a lecture and write on a powerpoint presentation...some may find it easier for reading because you can circle, highlight. more quickly...but other than that it has never hit the ground running because it is impossible to digitize human scrawl.

[Givethemhellharry]

07:28 AM on 01/26/2010

You obviously haven't talked with a doctor who has a good EMR system. Any application where there is repetitve entry of data, such as form filling, the tablet is far superior.

[martiniandabotoxchaser]

09:39 AM on 01/26/2010

that is a very specialized application....have you ever used one? I have. It is a good product for certain things...as I said above but it will not be the next biggie. It can take a picture what you scrawl and show it to you ....which makes it good for school notes and whiteboarding but it can't digitize what you write so the information can be pricessed....ER is specialized as there is a limit of fill-ins.

[Darren Denham]

05:32 AM on 01/26/2010

I'm going to wait and see, but sometimes a tablet would better than firing up a tablet or desktop.

[archeDeWashington]

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