The flood of Apple tablet rumors isn’t abating, especially now that the device is expected to be unveiled as soon as a month from now. Now, a source from inside Apple suggests that Steve Jobs himself may be as excited as anyone to see Apple finally unveil the long-rumored device.

It came out last summer that Jobs was intimately involved with every detail of bringing the tablet to market. It seems that the device has finally gotten Jobs’s seal of approval: when asked if the tablet rumors were true, a senior Apple executive gave The New York Times a rather coy reply. “I can’t really say anything,” he said, “but, let’s just say Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet.”

Such a statement is pretty uncharacteristic of Apple executives (even anonymous ones), but the tablet is arguably past the point of outright denial. One Apple employee who recently left the company also told the Times that the interface won’t be anything expected. “You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet,” the former employee said.

Another former Apple employee named on a number of Apple’s multitouch patents, Joshua A. Strickon, told the Times earlier this year that Apple has been working on a tablet for several years. A PowerPC-based prototype existed as early as 2003, though those early attempts were underpowered and overpriced. However, the concepts and technology developed for those prototypes ended up in several Apple products. The iPhone, Strickon said, is essentially a mini version of some of the early prototypes.

If Apple’s top talent put six years or more into development, and it meets Steve Jobs’s legendary high expectations, we’re sure Apple’s tablet will be yet another game-changer in a long line of game-changing devices.

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