Just one little correction/emendation: Apple's iPhone wasn't first to "put the web in our pocket." As I recall it is not that old. I have phones with browsers and wifi that are TWICE as old! On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
david said:
it's just going to be a smaller version of a keyboardless Macbook Air with ebooks available through iTunes.
man, wouldn't that be something, even all by itself!
the very first thing i wanted to do when i lifted up a macbook air was to rip off that stupid keyboard. (but i didn't think the employees there in the apple store would fully appreciate my marvelous gesture.)
Nothing really revolutionary to see here, unless it out-does what the Nook, Que, Alex or similar devices are doing. Judging from what we've seen from Apple lately, I wouldn't put much faith in it changing the industry
hey dude, i don't know where you're from, but here on planet earth the ipod revolutionized how the masses listened to (and bought) music, and the iphone revolutionized so-called "smart" phones (which had been quite retarded before) and put the web (the _real_ web) in our pockets, which was the biggest revolution of all of these.
and now they've set the table to do it all _again_, not just changing "the industry", but _the_world_.
but again, this is here on planet earth, so please, mr. alien man, tell us what it's like on your planet.
-bowerbird