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Evidence Points to Tablets Now Being Tested Online By Apple

Posted by Editor on Jan 24, 2010 in Apple, Tablets

More in from the folks at Techcrunch. Potentially conclusive evidence that the tablet exists- testing hits of iPhone apps by a device and OS from Cupertino that does not match any existing iPhone or iPhone OS!

Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, has noticed approximately 50 devices in the Cupertino that match the characteristics of Apple’s tablet device. Flurry claims to have reliably placed these devices on Apple’s Cupertino campus, and are confident that they are “observing a group of pre-release tablets in testing.”

This make sense – as the Apple Tablet has to be tested before it is announced this Wednesday, January 27 in San Francisco. Furthermore, Flurry has been an extremely reliable source on analytics data thus far and don’t often break stories unless they are sure they’ve checked their facts.

They’ve noticed that a large number of the apps downloaded were Games (140 total downloads or launches) and the next group was Entertainment, followed by News and Books. Here’s a chart of the usage data: