McGraw-Hill accidentally (on purpose?) leaks Apple Tablet on CNBC

By on Jan 26, 2010 at 5:56 PM
News January 26, 2010

MG CEO iPhone Tablet

It wasn’t what McGraw-Hill CEO, Terry McGraw, said; rather it is that he said it at all. When asked by CNBC’s Erin Burnett about the Apple Tablet, McGraw had this to say: “They’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one… And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format…The tablet is going to be just really terrific.” This is either a planned PR stunt by McGraw-Hill/Apple or an enormous flub by MG’s CEO. We have the video queued up for you after the break; the magic begins around 2:49.

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  • Dan

    As if today’s New York Times tablet-lovefest wasn’t enough. Obviously these are AAPL-sanctioned leaks. Way to play along BGR.

  • Mike S.

    And in other news, today (Wednesday) Apple released their new tablet. Oddly absent from the announcement was McGraw-Hill media content…

  • Bustafone

    I already have a tablet, it’s called the Nexus One.

    • TomTpm

      hmm – post when they fix al th eN1 issues, then we might believe you.

    • Christopher Cox

      Anything under 4″ and lets you make phone calls is just a phone, plain and simple. If it can’t make calls its a PDA. That could never be a tablet for most people because the screen size is way too small. Give the Nexus One a 10″ screen and multi-touch and we have a tablet.

  • http://www.twitter.com/iAmMrHD Mr. Hi-Definition

    Great. Now leak some info on that rumored Verizon iPhone.

  • Felix

    It’s definitely an authorized leak, otherwise Apple can sue the hell out of him…

    • Y3k-Bug

      Sue him for what?

      • Aaron

        Breach of an NDA agreement at the very least.

  • Joe

    It’ll be kinda humorous if this thing includes multitasking right away but iPhone 3G/3GS users have to pay 10 bucks for the firmware update…

    It won’t happen to iPhone users, just the iPod Touch havers that want all the features they can’t use anyways, like GPS…

  • joe

    why should this tablet run an iphone os? that doesnt make any sense. think of all the limitations of the iphone. multitasking comes right to mind, why the hell wouldnt they have used a modified os x? and if they want to base it on the iphone then it doesnt make sense that a new iphone would even run the same os, since the smaller screen wouldnt be able to take advantage of things a tablet would. PLEASE dont be a big iphone. i dont have an iphone now, i really dont want one tomorrow. i DO want a nice apple tablet that will handle everything common i do on my laptop. obviously excluding things like typing a lot and stuff like photoshop/illustrator.

    • Drnen

      its going to run on iphone os 4.0, which is rumored to include multi tasking and probly alleviate at least some of your concerns with the larger screen size, etc. Dont be quick to judge before any facts are out. This is apple.. they know what they’re doing.

    • matt

      You forget, the iphone os IS a modified osx.

  • scotty r

    Wait wait wait. Y’all are saying apple has a new product coming out? A tablet?!

  • jeremy

    Not that I know any super secret information…. but has anyone thought that the tablet leaks over the past few weeks have been planned and not because they want the tablet to be leaked but because the tablet will be released along with something else? something that even non apple fans will want? it could be???!!!!

  • kevin

    This may be a silly question, but what is the definition of multitasking on a mobile device? I’ve used an iPhone for business (executive IT support) since the day the 3G came out. I talk on the phone and send/receive emails at the same time all day long… stop an email mid-compose and check a website, go back and finish the email all while talking on the phone… how many things do you want to do at the same time? For what it’s worth, my computer has about 7 programs and 20 windows open at any given time, so I get being busy in front of two 22″ monitors, but on a 3 or 4 inch screen? Really?

    • Dara

      Certainly, if a phone’s OS includes all of the features you want in its normal running state, then you don’t need to multitask additional apps.

      The apps that I regularly multitask on my symbian phone are all enhancements to the phone capabilities that have been developed. As far as I know, both of our phones can sync calendars, contacts, etc. in the background and it sounds like you can properly switch between the core phone programs seamlessly.

      What else do I multitask every day? I run my Skype app in the background so that my skype account rings through to my phone. I also have Truphone (or sometimes Gizmo) for VOIP calls running as well.

      When I’m in the car, I use my phone for GPS so I’ll have Garmin (now Ovi Maps) running as well as the music player through my stereo. The phone handles the sound mixing between apps quite well so the directions always come through clear.

      In the background of my phone, I’ll occasionally add in Symtorrent to the mix, batch upload media to online accounts, or enable DLNA sharing so I can control my media at home.

      Another thing multitasking is good at is enabling alternate input methods. When I run rocknscroll I can control my phone with gestures, or when I run mobipad I can use a Wiimote.

      Multitasking essentially allows you to combine all of the software that you want to have your device do exactly what you want at any given time. Unrestricted, it also allows you to discover new and exciting incompatibilities between seemingly unrelated programs. To preserve the “user experience” Apple excluded this from the iPhone.

  • ND

    hmm, she really likes to “smell” those text books …

    good luck with that

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  • Fella

    Not that I know, but the real news tomorrow won’t be apps, processors or e-readers, it will be the interface. It seems possible that Mr. Jobs isn’t creating a Kindle killer as much as a keyboard killer. The only thing about this project that could make it the biggest accomplishment of his life is if it’s the first big step toward the next phase in computing. The QWERTY keyboard has lasted for decades and was invented for a very different purpose than it’s used for today. Eventually it will be replaced by an interface that is less beholden to static physical keys that are incapable of adaptation. I wonder if Mr Jobs intends to start that process tomorrow. Every view of computers in the future, from Star Trek to Minority Report envisions non-keyboard computing. It’s just that no one has come up with how to make it work. The tablet introduced tomorrow will be obsolete soon enough, but a new paradigm of interaction could last for decades or longer. Once a ten inch tablet works, then eventually a desktop computer can give way to an actual panel on the top of a desk. Anyway, that may all be wrong, but if the tablet tomorrow has a user interface that leaves people in awe, then it might not be the biggest development in computing for a while, but the biggest development since the typewriter.

  • Rod

    “I like to smell my text books”? What?

  • jarrett

    @Fella,

    You could say that the transition started with the “iOS” on screen keyboard. Apple likes to bring things along slow and steady it seems. Tony Stark style modeling and shaping isn’t to far off really. That sort of widely available tech could show signs tomorrow.

    Cheers

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • San Francisco

    I have always said there is no such thing as leaks.

    But there is such a thing as “planned leaks” and it starts with what BGR has on the front page:

    Blurry shot

    followed by not so blurry shots

    followed by clear shot, but in the distance

    followed by clear shots, multiple

    followed by specs, some

    followed by more specs

    followed by specs, pics and then video

    and finally, debut dates and price lists.

    All of this spans over a few months to maybe six, depending on what a manufacturer and/or carrier’s marketing dept. decides will generate the most hype and excitement.

    And ditto on the other comment, BGR, Engadget, etc. all play along.

    My only question, do these sites get paid to participate in these faux leaks.

  • ifone et

    I have a chubby just thinking of this….

  • StevenGlansburg

    I’m pretty excited for this NOT to come to Verizon

  • dmagic448

    I just love how people without the Nexus one Seem to think it has problems, but those of us who actually have them experience no problems at all

  • MW

    So wait, its a laptop with a soft keyboard? I fail to see the tablet madness.

  • ChrisNYC

    If Erin Burnett was asking me questions, she’d get every answer she was looking for as well.

    That babe is teh hawt!

  • lorie

    dude, both of you should be hung on the guillotine.. and spam to death.. Fuck you :D

  • lorie

    No, I am left… not right…

    Fuck you! Bravo! :D — You’re brain’s competency is synonymous to a retard on an asylum.. :D

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