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With everyone expecting Apple to announce a tablet less than 24 hours from now, the CEO of textbook publisher McGraw-Hill let the cat out of the bag in a CNBC interview earlier today. Yes, the tablet is going to be announced at Apple's event today, and yes, "the tablet is going to based on the iPhone operating system." I'm not going to debate whether this was an accidental last-minute leak or a clever push by Apple to get one last round of media hype before they debut the new product. Either way, the announcement should happen today.
More than 90% of developers responding to a recent Appcelerator survey said they were interested in developing tablet apps this year, and it rated third behind iPhone and Android in terms of developer enthusiasm. Mind you, this is before the thing has even launched. If iPhone developers can easily port their apps to the tablet, as most tech pundits are speculating, it will hit the ground running with an impressive software database.
The iTunes Store infrastructure is already in place to deliver eBook content, too, which is where McGraw-Hill and other publishers come in. Expect to hear a lot about content partnerships at launch time.
[via AllThingsD]
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