Orange CEO Delegate confirms Apple tablet?
Orange CEO Delegate, Stéphane Richard, in charge of operations in France, let go a bit of a bombshell when asked by a reporter whether an Apple tablet would be announced before the end of the month he responded, “yes.” Now, our French is a bit rusty, but AppleInsider is reporting a portion of the translation as such:
Elkabbach: According to weekly Le Point, in a couple of days Apple will be launching its tablet computer…
Richard: Yes.
Elkabbach: …equipped with a webcam.
Richard: Yes.
Elkabbach: Are Orange customers going to be able to enjoy it?
Richard: Of course!
Richard hasn’t really admitted to the tablets imminent release, however, by not outright denying the rumored tablets existence he has set off of firestorm amongst Apple fans. For those of you who do speak French we have the video queued up for you after the break. Let us know via the comments if we missed anything.
Oui, oui.. ehhh, how do you say…whoops?
I have to say that dude looks a lil on the sick side… H1N1? Stress has got to him bad he looks like he hasn’t slept in a good 2 days.
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Am I the only human (that loves his ipod but prefers his pc over a mac) who thinks the idea of an apple tablet is pointless? Like the macbook air.
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The MB Air was pointless with the ridiculous price and lack of everything
A Mac Tablet is not pointless at a reasonable price, but a underpowered $1000 tablet, it is.
And you are not the only one, I have my macbook and a Win desktop I can’t live without
If Apple shoots out some crazy new development where it can switch into some type of color e-reader mode, adds a front facing camera, and the ability to use the current app store it will sell like crazy.
A tablet that doesn’t do much and costs $1000, yes, that probably is pointless. However, if I could get a laptop, and for $50-$100 more, the top will pop out and it will become a touchscreen tablet, I would do it.
your not alone… I prefer the ipod as hardware, I cant stand itunes though! and the tablet doesnt make sense, the iphone already fits the market for a handheld pc. They need to focus on a more robust iphone.
BGR, can you please ban this Jarret kid?
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If you talk to anyone involved in the content industry that will be significantly affected by the Apple Tablet (“iSlate”) — comics, magazines, etc. — everyone already knows it’s coming and are already preparing their content for it.
Me too I am tired of seeing Jarrett post his stupid links..
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ya this Jarret Goof is absolutely ridiculous
I speak a little French, not enough to translate the entire video though…
The gist of it though is that the new product (which he only said “yes” in acknowledgement to the questions of rumors as “yes I understand”) will be available to the benefit of Orange customers who chose to use said tablet, if available.
My French is pretty bad when it comes to the French speakers (they speak too fast for me to get it and dont enunciate enough), so I cant really say that Orange is going to carry tablet, but they are going to let the tablet come to their networks as well as home internet.
I m excited for it and hope that new iPhone launches soon along with islate or imagic.
Being bilingual french, Well he said a clear yes but doesn’t say when it is released by Orange..So dont get too excited folks..Whenever you see another french video on this, post it out and I’ll gladly translate it for you..
BGR Administrator, if i can be of any help for french translation, hit me back; would love to serve our community of non french speakers..
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I found a translation in a website (see further below):
Journalist: Selon l’hebdomadaire Le Point, votre partenaire apple va lancer une tablette. (According to the weekly Le point, your partner apple will launch a tablet.)
Exec: Oui. (Yes.)
Journalist: Doté d’une webcam… (Equipped with a webcam…)
Exec: Oui. (Yes)
Journalist: Est-ce-que les usagers d’Orange en bénéficieront aussi? (Will the subscribers of Orange benefit from it too?)
Exec: Bien sur. Ils en bénéficieront, d’autant plus facilement qu’avec la webcam, on pourra se transmettre de l’image en temps réel. On va moderniser en quelque sorte ce visiophone qu’on a connu y a quelques années, et là aussi, la taille du réseau que nous avons mis en place au service des français permettre ces nouveuax usages de se déveloper partout. (Of course. They will benefit, even more easily because with the webcam, we will be able to transmit video in real time. We will modernize in some way this videophone that we have known for some years, and also, the scale of the network that we have put in place in service of the French will allow these new uses to develop everywhere.)
From here :
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/11/orange-exec-confirms-existence-of-apple-tablet/
It sounds to me like Richard is saying that the main feature of the tablet, from the point of view of his telecom company, is a videophone.
we we blah blah tha’s all i need to know thanks
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I´m a native speaker and i can asure you that both yes are only acknowledgements to the questions/suggestions based on what le point magasin reported. He talked in general about what webcams over 3G means for mobility. On the other hand it´s acutally a fact that we´ll get an apple branded slate and that Orange in France (like O2 in UK, T-Mobile in Germany Telefonica in Spain and so on) will carry the Device.
Agreed, he could be saying that if Apple does create a tablet, Orange is behind it 100%.
Completely agree with your statement Tarik… Being French myself, all the CEO is doing is acknowledging the questions that were asked by the reporter.
I really, really, really hope 3G is optional. If it’s only 3G I won’t buy one.
To me it just sounds like he is giving yes responses like we do english to confirm that we are understanding what the other person is saying not necessarily answering a question.
I am a french native. Visiophone was a hold concept they had before France telecom rebrandred to Orange. He is most likely referring to the Tablet to be used with their home phone service and internet not cell phone.
context. taken literally, his comments are merely acknowledgements of the questions, not declarations. Geeesh. come on guys,
well, for apple product lovers, will be glad as there will be Apple Tablet in their hands i a very few days from now….
Apple specs for iSlate Tablet info Leaked http://tiny.cc/wqaEx
check out the document image….
Now just confirm it for Verizon and all will be well.
So here we are again on the verge of unlocking the secret of the apple tablet. Some people just can’t wait don’t they? Roughly 2 weeks from now and Apple
will finally release their ‘credo’ to the world and some curious cat just can’t wait to have a bite.
All the complete details and some funny hoaxes wrapping around the Apple Tablet: http://bit.ly/apple-tablet-details-compiled