This will be a tablet marketed to the education sector.
$199 will get them a 16GB Wifi iPad. Perfect to iBooks Author generated textbooks. $399 each is way too steep for a school to supply all their classrooms. But for $199 each, a school can afford to put one in the hands of each student, or very close to it. K-12 is a market of people with hands that are smaller, just like the iPad Mini will be compared to the original.
What Apple does not want is for Amazon to push into education with a $199 tablet. They need something to compete in that space and they will put something there.
I also believe it will be a possibility for this device to be delivered as the remote for the Apple Television which we will see before the holidays. Custom big button interface will solve any small screen issues with that.
$199 will get them a 16GB Wifi iPad. Perfect to iBooks Author generated textbooks. $399 each is way too steep for a school to supply all their classrooms. But for $199 each, a school can afford to put one in the hands of each student, or very close to it. K-12 is a market of people with hands that are smaller, just like the iPad Mini will be compared to the original.
What Apple does not want is for Amazon to push into education with a $199 tablet. They need something to compete in that space and they will put something there.
I also believe it will be a possibility for this device to be delivered as the remote for the Apple Television which we will see before the holidays. Custom big button interface will solve any small screen issues with that.