iPad to be Followed by the iBoard and iMat

Apple’s Next Projects Include the iPad-like iBoard and the iMat

Now that the iPad is here we have to wonder what Apple will launch next. The company seems interested in putting to good use that iPhone OS mobile platform so we might be in for some hot new products in the near future.


This year alone Apple will launch the Wi-Fi iPad versions in March and the 3G iPad models in April. Soon after, in June or July the company will launch the next-gen iPhone, the iPhone 4G but we want more.

Sources close to Cupertino have revealed two Apple projects that are currently being secretly developed. The iBoard and the iMat are based both on the iPad and will further explore the tablet world.

Just like the iPad is an iPhone on steroids the iBoard will be an iPad on steroids too. It will have all the functionalities of the iPad and the iPhone but it will come with a far more impressive touchscreen display. We expect the iBoard to sport at least a 17-inch display and run a next-generation iPhone OS version. Developers have plenty of time to conceive special apps for it as the iBoard is coming only in 2012 or later.

However Cupertino won’t stop there! No matter how generous the screens of the iPad and iBoard really are, they can’t suit all needs. That’s why Apple has come up with the iMat, an iBoard on steroids that looks like a huge iMat, but it’s a lot cooler. Using the iMat, an indoor only tablet, you’ll be able to kiss your home’s desktop and big screen TV goodbye. The iMat will offer you a phenomenal experience but each unit will come bundled with a 2-year lease of an apartment big enough to fit the huge iMat.

Neither the iBoard nor the iMat, scheduled for 2014 will have Flash support but by then HTML5 should be able to replace all our Flash needs. Multitasking will not be supported either since it will be simply to tiring to try to use more than one app at once on the iBoard or the iMat.

Last but not least I hope you do recognize a joke when you see one. The iBoard and iMat are not Apple projects and hopefully they will never be. They are simply the fruit of a wild imagination which we definitely appreciate here on TFTS.

Credit: Source.
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  • 29 Comments / Add Your Response?

    1. William says:

      Funny Article. I really hope thats not the way Steve Jobs is thinking(pod>tablet>board>mat). bookmarked

    2. bob says:

      I laughed! If you could age Jobs’ face a little, that would be a nice touch, don’t you think?

    3. Chris says:

      Well, Bob the pictures do not belong to us. I think there’s a hidden point in them too. By 2014 Steve Jobs will not age anymore! :)

    4. faisal says:

      i have to buy a truck if iam going to get the imat

    5. Larisa Gomez says:

      they should make an iTable or an iWall, that would be awesome (:

    6. Ben winter says:

      I love the look of the iboard I wish it was out earlier than 2012 because I’m going to buy it

    7. Jhon says:

      you do realize they have done this already…
      STOP GIVING APPLE RESTARTED IDEAS!

    8. mark walburg says:

      hhahaha this is not real,right?

    9. james madison says:

      THIS IS SO FAKE JUST LOOK @ THE PICTURE ITS REPEATING APPS THATS NOT EVEN NORMAL LIKE SERIOUS
      GOOD TRY WHO EVER MADE THIS BUT THIS IS SO FAKEEEEE!!!!

    10. Chris Smith says:

      @james, I think we made it pretty clear it’s fake, didn’t we?

    11. Jordan says:

      Haha, I hope this comes out because ill buy it just to say i have an iMat! Lol! Anyone else think that if Apple made an iTV or something it would be a smash hit, only for the fact that you can buy Apps, it would be touchscreen, and you buy Movies and watch T.V :) Whatever im just babbling off I think these projects (considering if they were real) are going to be great, but really expensive!

    12. Secret says:

      sooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!

    13. Anonymous says:

      i like the i mat and i board

    14. Chris Smith says:

      Of course, they’re not real, you know that, right?

    15. …and you only tell us now? :-)

    16. Anonymous says:

      well i guess we are all buying trucks

    17. Anonymous says:

      I really hope apple make these devices, it’s so cool

    18. Anonymous says:

      Can’t I just rent an iHaul?

    19. ujjaval vyas says:

      after i mat , i world
      after i univers

    20. HOLA HOLD THE DOOR says:

      COME TO MY HOUSE HOT MAMA!(: hahahaha smexy little ladyss

    21. Donnica says:

      Wow! I want an iMat.

    22. Anonymous says:

      R.I.P Steve Jobs

      The product announcement for 2012 and 2014 are impossible for Steve now =(

    23. Kristen says:

      I really want to get the imat because you can step on it. Thank you to the creature because he did those wonderful electronic things

    24. m0hamed shiyath says:

      brilliant if i buy this i have no enough space in my home

    25. Anonymous says:

      How much does the iBoard and iMat cost because I want to buy them

    26. natalie says:

      I think iMat will be succeeded by iManiac

    27. Secret says:

      That looks sooooooo dumb

    28. Anonymous says:

      how much will this imat cost??

    29. PePe says:

      steve jobs is dead now…