The Apple user community is well known (notorious ?) for speculations about not yet (never ?) released products. With the last announcement of Apple to hold a media event on January 27th, almost every Web Site that publishes Apple related news and rumors is reporting that a Apple Tablet is imminent.

From a developer’s perspective, new hardware is always exiting: new features need to be investigated, new APIs need to be learned and existing software needs to be adapted. The last couple of month saw no changes in the existing iPhone OS and based on past experiences one can speculate that a version 4.0 of the iPhone OS will be introduced soon.
This is further backed by the factor that the API description remained relatively untouched for several months now and we saw only minor changes there.
Even if we do not benefit from speculating about future Apple products, it’s fun to do so and we from ikangai would like to give our personal estimation for what is going to happen at the Apple Media Event:

iPhone OS 4.0 beta will be introduced

New iPod Touches will be introduced

We won’t see a new version of the iPhone (later this year though)

and

Yes! We think that a Tablet prototype will be shown (released date June)

We are aware that our speculations are based on other speculations which in turn are based on other speculations. But it appears to be exactly the same what analysts do and we always wanted to know how it feels like to be analyst . Well, it’s really cool .

Your speculating and “analyzing” ikangai team

Tags: Analysis, Apple Tablet, Speculation