14 DAY TRIAL // Apple is said to have scheduled a town hall-style meeting behind closed doors, where Steve Jobs will be talking to fellow colleagues about the importance of the iPad, perhaps even handing out units. The iPad is scheduled to become available in late March starting at $499.
Introduced on January 27th by Apple’s CEO at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the iPad seems like the perfect device for browsing the web, reading and sending emails, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books, and more. Just like with the iPhone, Apple calls the iPad “revolutionary.”
Hopefully, it will prove so, because it has everything it needs to achieve this status. It boasts a very responsive, high-resolution Multi-Touch display, which users can physically interact with and manipulate applications like the Safari web browser, e-books, and games like never before. It’s just 0.5 inches thick and weighs in at around 1.5 pounds, and aims to offer the functionality typical to both the company’s MacBook and the iPhone.
Citing several unnamed sources, Macnn now reveals that, “Apple is set to hold a company-wide, town hall-style meeting sometime today,” with the report dating January 28, 2010, hence the meeting should be well over by now. “The topic is believed to be the just-announced iPad tablet,” these people allegedly told the site, “though beyond this no details have been disclosed.” Macnn, for its part, adds that, “The meeting may however be similar in tone to one held in 2007, before the launch of the iPhone.”
Apple is known to have held a similar important meeting with fellow colleagues following the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, where one attendee reportedly asked about the simultaneous existence of the iPhone and iPod, referring to cannibalization of sales. Steve Jobs reportedly said that if someone was going to cannibalize their sales, it might as well be Apple.
People close to Steve Jobs allegedly overheard the CEO say that the iPad was the most important thing he’d ever done, so the meeting should prove to be a historical one.