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<\/a>We’re realistically no closer to knowing the outcome of next week’s Apple event<\/a> than we were a week, a year, or a decade ago, but rumors are obviously congealing around the mythical tablet<\/a> that users, fans, and media have all but willed into existence recently — and our buddy Clayton Morris says that’s indeed a part of the story. Morris reports having spoken with a source at Apple this morning — prior to the company’s invites going out, interestingly — who said that the event would focus on a new version of iLife, iPhone OS 4.0, and naturally, the tablet.<\/p>\nLoosely speaking, you can see how these would all tie together pretty nicely: the seemingly “creative” theme of Apple’s invite rolls into a new version of iLife, and the announcement of a tablet could have implications for how a suite of artsy tools gets used. Rumblings that the tablet is underpinned by a new version of iPhone OS<\/a> have gone back months, so that would give Apple impetus to tease it at the same time the tablet’s shown off — sans new iPhone hardware, possibly, which the company has done before<\/a>. It’s also possible that Apple will open source its entire catalog of software and shut down, buy an island nation, or do nothing at all — but in fairness, there’s an awful lot of logic to what Clayton’s saying here. We’ll know soon enough.<\/p>\n Next week’s Apple event to be iLife \/ iPhone OS 4.0 \/ tablet trifecta?<\/a> originally appeared on Engadget<\/a> on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Permalink<\/a> | Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/h6>\n
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