Place your bets: An Apple tablet, laptop -- or both?

What is Apple cooking up for a large iPad-like device?
What is Apple cooking up for a large iPad-like device?
(Credit: Mock-up: Brooke Crothers)
Is Apple going to take a crack at a hybrid? Or is it eying a more conventional product?
Those are burning questions that analysts and the supply chain are trying to figure out.
Predicting Apple's next move has become a sport. With the supply chain (in the case of Apple, largely the collection of component suppliers) the arena where, after some trial-and-error, a final product emerges the winner.
Market researchers are the bookies, calculating the odds based on their best educated guess from supply chain sources.
The iPhone 6 is the latest example: the odds seem to favor a 4.8-inch (roughly) phone and, possibly later, a larger phone-like device.

 rather than the iPad line."
"Provided it's actually in development rather than in testing," the source added.
But here's a real product that may give impetus for Apple to bring out a larger iPad-esque device: the 12.2-inch (large by tablet standards) Galaxy Tab Pro, which Samsung has just begun selling.
The South Korean company is marketing it as a business-friendly tablet, with a Samsung-branded keyboard and mouse to go with it. If Samsung makes headway with this in markets untapped by the iPad, that could give Apple reason enough.
And the Windows 8/8.1 camp is already making a play for businesses with detachables. The HP Spectre XT is a 13.3-inch Windows 8.1 tablet that plugs into a battery-powered HP keyboard to become a full-fledged laptop.
Lenovo has the 11.6-inch Miix 2, also a tablet that can covert to a laptop.
Apple could of course decide it doesn't need to go there. Speculation suggests that Apple may also be eying a more conventional 12-inch MacBook (maybe an Air).
But I'm betting it does.
HP Spectre 13 detachable: The Windows 8.1 camp is trying to sell hybrids to business customers who want one device that can serve as a tablet and laptop.
HP Spectre 13 detachable: The Windows 8.1 camp is trying to sell hybrids to business customers who want one device that can serve as a tablet and laptop.
(Credit: Microsoft)

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