周三苹果的新闻发布会（有可能就是发布苹果的平板电脑），目前正在加州的Cupertino紧锣密鼓的准备。据称，此次发布会将是苹果公司最令人期待的一场发布会。

1月27日（中国就是今天了，呵呵！），一场主题为“来看我的{zx1}创造”的活动将成为乔布斯续2007年的苹果发布会上所做的演讲以来，史上（亮丽的）一道风景。在2007年的那次活动上，乔布斯介绍了iPhone，并称iPhone具有“三个革命性的功能”。如今，iPhone已经发展成为具有1万多个应用程序的产品，催生了一个全新的数码阵营，并在很多方面重塑了手机行业。

今天，苹果将以其另一款比iPhone更大的姊妹产品，一款公司花了多年研发的触摸屏平板电脑来面对或者说是超越移动设备领域的巨大成功。

坊间传说，乔布斯甚至声称这款平板电脑“是他平生所做的最重要的事情。”

他确实有很多事情在等着他。几十年来，科幻电影一直梦想平板型的电脑设备会取代传统的PC机。有许许多多的公司都在为此而尝试，却告失败。由于用户界面笨拙、耐久性不够，还有用处有限，平板电脑一直一而再、再而三地只成为部分人的特殊产品。但苹果公司，这位行业的{lx}、界面设计和内容发布创新的大师，将有可能最终以新的设计吸引大家的目光。

这能拯救出版业吗？能重新引导教育，或者改变人们就医的方式吗？答案只有等到几年之后的观察了。

发布会乔布斯的演讲将在旧金山的Yerba Buena中心举行，美国时间上午10点，锁定本帖，或者通过twitter的@bxchen和@gadgetlab获取{zx1}的实时报道。

Live Coverage: Apple’s Special Tablet Event

By Brian X. Chen January 26, 2010 | 6:43 pm

Apple’s Wednesday press conference, where we’ll likely see an Apple tablet, is shaping up to be the Cupertino, California, company’s most-anticipated event ever.

The Jan. 27 event, titled “Come see our latest creation,” will likely be marked down in history as the sequel to Steve Jobs’ legendary keynote at Macworld Expo 2007, where the CEO introduced the iPhone. The iPhone, then touted by the CEO as “three revolutionary products,” has grown to encompass more than 100,000 apps, giving birth to a new digital frontier and, in many ways, reshaping the cellphone industry.

Now Apple must meet, and perhaps exceed, the wow factor of the mobile marvel with its bigger sibling — a touchscreen tablet that the company has been developing for several years.

Rumor has it that Jobs has even said the tablet “will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”

He has his work cut out for him. For decades, sci-fi movies have dreamed of a slate-like computing device replacing traditional PCs. Many companies have tried, and failed, to live up to these visions. Thanks to clunky user interfaces, durability issues and limited utility, the tablet has been filed away as a niche device again and again. But Apple, the leader in industry and interface design and master of innovating content distribution, could be the company to finally nail the design.

Could it save the publishing industry, reboot education and maybe even change the way we treat medicine? After years of speculation, we’ll finally get some answers.

Yours truly will live-blog Wednesday’s event right here, so bookmark this page. Wired magazine editor Mark McClusky and GameLife editor Chris Kohler will contribute commentary on the event, with photography by Jon Snyder.

The keynote, which takes place at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, kicks off 10 a.m. PDT. Stay tuned and look for updates to this post, or follow @bxchen and @gadgetlab for real-time news nuggets via Twitter.

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