Fortune is reporting on research from a Piper Jaffray analyst named Gene Munster who has provided a mockup of what he thinks the rumored Apple tablet will look like.
In addition to the mockup he offers sales estimates for 2010, the year he believes the device will launch. How many many will they sell you ask? Two million. That would add an additional 3% to Apple’s current revenue stream.
Here’s an except from the report outlining munster’s estimates:
– Be similar to an iPod touch, only larger, capable of running most of the 70,000 applications on the iPhone App Store plus a new category of apps designed for the bigger screen.
– Will be used primarily for Web surfing, e-mail, and digital media, competing with netbooks without being a netbook.
– Will be priced between an iPhone and a MacBook — between $500 and $700.
– Is likely to include a 3G cellular modem and could be subsidized by a carrier — either AT&T or Verizon.
– Will sell better than Apple TV did its first year (1.2 million units).
– Could in fact sell 2 million units at $600 each to generate $1.2 billion and add about 3% to Apple’s revenue stream in calendar 2010.
Opinion: This is crap. He’s making all of these blind guesses on a mythical product few people, if anyone, outside of Apple have ever seen. And that’s if this thing actually exists. Simply put, we won’t know what this thing looks like, or costs, or does, until it’s introduced by Apple.
Image courtesy of Piper Jaffray
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