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Big dark cloud that has hung over every CES2010 Tablet / Slate announcement continues to build on the horizon as a great gadget to show in the desert to begin to draw near. There are lots of new Apple Tablet / Slate rumors as has happened only Tablet / Slate launched the device appears.

One of the few pupils come from an article that says NYTimes : the company has “spent the last few years working on a multitouch version of iWork,” Apple’s answer to Microsoft Office software suite. This could indicate that Apple wanted a tablet into a fully functional computer, rather than the more passive devices for reading books and watching movies.

Now, this really should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the leaks, rumors and myths. Of smart GBM readers will remember this post from March 2008 where we reported that Apple has put up a sign looking for the following:

Handwriting Recognition team is seeking an engineer who will be responsible for advancing Apple’s handwriting recognition technology for Mac OS X. The ideal candidate will be an expert in the field of pattern recognition, with a very good understanding of handwriting recognition issues. People also will take primary responsibility for maintaining and improving existing code and tools. The recognition technology you create may be beyond the Mac OS X to other applications and the iPhone.

And then this September we reported the news that Apple has hired back Michael Tchao, who had been instrumental in the design of ill fated Apple Newton.

Are these rumors filtering and reading the tea leaves then we will see a kind of ink or the data on the Tablet creation myth? Who knows. But look this way. Steve Jobs is not stupid and he likes ecosytem controlled. If there are people who will make the creation of documents on the device, it will be the first and foremost Apple. If I had to guess, and in the next few weeks, I’ll be proven a fool or a good guesser, I would say that there is likely to be a form of movement / pen / touch input by offering to introduce a new Tablet. Will not stupid in my opinion. IWork suite scheduled to update, (which usually comes in the announcement of Apple’s MacWorld) and when all the work. But once again, we can only see a big remote control for Apple TV.

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