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Down from the mountain...

Fake Steve is on fire:

I started with the big questions. What is a tablet? Who will use it? And for what? If the tablet were a tree, what kind of tree would it be? And what of the word tablet itself? Ta is a Sanskrit root, for "gift." Blet is Proto-Indo-European meaning "to be perfect while lacking usefulness." Will you write on a tablet, or just read from it? Or will you just buy it and put it on your desk and look at it a lot and never use it at all? Or will you maybe carry it around and put on the table in restaurants to show the other humanoids in your tribe that you are more advanced and wealthy than they are, and they should fear you because you have powerful magic that they do not understand?

Apple has been on such a roll, so it makes sense that they're being super deliberate with this product. They don't want such a high profile market entry to be anything other than wildly successful. If people are really buying Kindles, though, obviously there is some kind of demand for a better tablet.

posted August 25, 2009 | permalink |