Blocked.
These days, when my iPhone says that on the screen it's likely PoonGirl calling to berate me.
So when I answered it saying "oh, oh, here comes trouble" it was a bit embarrassing to be greeted with the voice of a pleasant woman (is there any other kind employed there?) from the CBC asking if I was excited about tomorrow's expected announcement of a new Apple Tablet.
Excited? Boy, am I ever!
How excited would you like me to be? Radio excited or TV excited or web page excited?
We haven't even seen the product yet, let alone know what it's going to be able to do. But, almost as much as the iPhone, this is the product we've been waiting for, even if most people don't realize it yet.
Now it's only fair that I say at the outset that I'm another one of those religious zealots who has long subscribed to the cult of Mac. If you're going to spend thousands of hours in front of a computer, it might as well be a good experience, and Apple computers are the only ones truly made for human beings. They are a work of art. Even to this day, I will occasionally lean back, look at the screen and say "this is amazing. Perfect. Beautiful." My experience has been that very creative people and very dumb people who need things to be simple are the ones most drawn to the Apple operating system. I fit right in with this demographic.
The iPhone was a major breakthrough.
Before it came along, I was carrying around a cellphone, an iPod and a camera, and wishing I had the internet too. But laptops are so bulky, and expensive to replace when they inevitably fall to the floor or have Gatorade spilled on them.
With the iPhone I was able to do away with all those devices and have the internet in the palm of my hand.
Over the moon.
And haven't even mentioned the App Store and Bejewelled. Or the program that let's me see and control what's on the screen of my home computer.
But still I wasn't satisfied.
Yes, I could listen to thousands of radio stations, watch a full broadcast of Rachel Maddow, take a picture and immediately post it for all the world to see. And YouTube. Wow. Never bored again no matter where I was. The screen and clarity of the picture blew everything else away.
But what a pain that screen was for reading the internet, or a pdf or a book.
Clearly what I wanted was a larger screen. (also the ability one day to do video conferencing with family in Vancouver or friends in New York).
And that touch screen keyboard. The only thing keeping Blackberry in business. Fine for Twitter, but gruelling to try and do a blog post when thumbs aren't pinkies.
I've seen the tablet readers that are selling like hotcakes. Kindle, Sony, Barnes & Noble. But they're book readers, with boring black and whit text.
It's the internet you want. The world's biggest encyclopedia, and the Huffington Post too.
A book-sized, lightweight, beautiful colour screen from which to read every newspaper in the world and Google Books too.
Video, music, speakerphone, photo album and games, all come second.
A waterproof screen so you can read in the bathtub.
A larger optional, and preferably tactile, keyboard. Perhaps one embedded in a slipcover that travels with the tablet. That would be just the ticket.
I'm not asking that it run Photoshop or burn DVD's.
Just a simple, comfortable reader that gives me the internet in all its wondrous, colourful glory.
We know it's coming tomorrow, just not the details.
But it doesn't matter. Already the iPhone has evolved in just one year, and a tablet will too.
The only thing I need to hear is - how soon can I buy it?
the name and pictures are guesswork ...
Apple announcement at 1 PM Eastern time
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