Make that three Apple posts in a row, what can I say, a lot of things in my RSS aggregator this morning that are Apple-related. This one, however, I give about a 5% chance of actually coming true. It is a rumour, so don’t anybody get too excited, and comes via Boris Mann:

Here’s my related but somewhat random rumour: Scoble has been talking Apple a lot lately. Jobs has convinced him to come to Apple to do tablet evangelism (that’s the one more thing, and here’s my Mac tablet spec) and kickstart Apple’s entry into the blogosphere.

Hmm, Scoble has indeed been posting more recently about Apple but I doubt he’ll be changing camps, Boris. He’s more likely doing what he recently posted as “penance” for his poorly formed opinion of Gmail not scaling that many of his readers, including I, roasted him over.

However, if Jobs offered to pay Scoble what he’s truly worth — which is more than Microsoft seems to be paying him (Scoble posted awhile back saying that it was less than 100k per year — and in my opinion he’s worth at least double that in PR value alone), IMO — than this would be a curious career move.

Conversely, Apple seems at odds with bloggers. Remember, they recently sued and won over those NDA leaks to bloggers to get their sources exposed. Apple may not want to have an evangelist like Scoble who brings more media — and blogger — scrutiny to their table. Although I’ve never read Scoble has broken any NDA, so if Apple had any concern about this with Scoble it would be unfounded.

As for Apple actually making a Tablet PC? On a positive note for Tablet PCs, I think it would help get Tablet PCs back in retail stores where they need to be if they’re ever going to take off mainstream.

Listen up, Microsoft: you can’t sell to the masses expensive hardware online only, most people want and need to get touchy feely with something that costs over $1,000 USD. This was a major hurdle for me in taking over two years to buy one and I’m a guy who makes technology purchases all the time. If they can’t get somebody like me to pull the trigger faster than 2+ years, then they have a huge uphill battle getting John/Jane Q. Customer to move for his/her checkbook.

Boris seems pretty certain Apple is working on a Tablet PC, though. Apple likes to explore niche markets, so I bet they would design a truly killer tablet, although I’m pretty sure (could be wrong) I’ve read quotes from Jobs saying they had no desire — at that time — in making a Tablet PC. I do have one predicton if Apple does make a Tablet:

It will be white.

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• More Apple Tablet PC speculation
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• B5: The Tabasco Hour begins … watch out, Boris!
• Sub $500 G-4 based iMac rumour