One of online media giant Gawker’s blogs Valleywag is offering up to $100,000 in a hunt for details, pictures and videos of the heavily rumoured Apple Tablet, the oft-quoted iSlate if you will. Looking back at the episode which resulted in a Foxconn employee’s suicide over 2 missing iPhone prototypes, any potential leak would be big and juicy for the rest of the industry to tag on.
The likes of Dell, HP and Microsoft had tried to preempt Apple by showing off prototypes and pre-release tablet form factors at the annual CES just a week ago. It looks like the tablet craze would be set to continue all the way till the 27th of this month where Apple are rumoured(again!) to book a stage to announce its wares for the new year.
Valleywag will only pay up after the announcement so photoshoppers need not get your hopes up (too) high. Rewards for information on the iSlate range from $10,000 for in the flesh(metal?) pictures to the full hundred grand for a prototype to be loaned to Valleywag for an hour. They promise “Spy-craft level” secrecy to protect potential leakers from being hunted down by what would be probably a whole score of Apple’s attorneys out for their own paycheck.
Apple’s renowned secrecy have just given a new definition to paparazzi…
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