The Apple Tablet: Anyone Else Get The Feeling It’s Going To Suck?
Ah, the Apple Tablet. I honestly wonder how large the market is for an easily breakable sheet of LCD that serves us newspaper articles we don’t read anyway, on a surface that’s hard to read, during a recession.
Other tech gamechangers made complete sense. A little box that carries around my entire music library? Great! A rectangular box that lets me watch hollywood movies from my home? Outstanding! A service that allows me to keep in touch with my college friends 24/7? Sign me up!
What need is the Apple Tablet filling? Our innate desire to carry around a big sheet of metal with our laptops? Why do people keep insisting on shoving a level of device between our cell phone and our laptop?
The iPhone was a great idea because it merged two devices we were carrying around anyway – our iPod and our cell phone. The laptop was a great idea because it merged our need for computing with our need for mobility. What’s the point of something that’s too big to use as a cell phone and too cumbersome to use as a laptop?
I hope I’m wrong about this one, because I like Apple and I’d hate to see them fail. But right now I’m predicting the tablet’s a diehard only device.
