Apple tablet launch
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Well mono I agree with you too...
In our house (we both work from home most days), we have 2 macbooks, about 3 ipods (one for the car, one for running and one on some speakers in the kitchen, which also holds recipes), 2 iphones, a wireless printer, an airport for music in the house.
I read books on the 13in macbook pro, watch footie through Sky on the iphone. Read the guardian an other papers on an iphone app, run with nike + which is stunning, watch films on demand through Sky movies online. My wife a food writer blogs via her iphone in restaurants, and sometimes it leads to chefs coming out to say hello during the meal because they have a mac in the building monitoring themselves. I travel a lot and often review creative on my iphone, doing creative reviews on Skype on a laptop, accessing and writing email across various devices.
Our lives are fragmenting this way because it JUST works when you operate that way. I can see this device replacing have the apple shit I've accrued over time. I cant remember the last album or paper I bought, or movie I went and rented or when I watched a TV programme when the schedules told me too, I on demanded it.
Like you I can transfer files at work to a device like this, commute with it and make amends, get home and Mobile Me or via a basecamp app send back all my amends or thoughts. Get home and read the paper and answer some emails. Download a recipe, send my sister in Australia a photo or voicemail (and maybe down the line video skype). Access the Sky Sports app to watch football and download the papers for the morning commute or download a tv programme.
Its not perfect, but I dont think Flash is useful at all. Cant think of anything useful it does. Sure it looks great for advertising, but very little else...
This won't be hugely popular imo, but Apple will fasttrak the next version for xmas this year.
One thing id say is I watched the whole endgadget stream hating the fucking thing on esthetics alone, but the more i think about it, I get it.
Im sure the CEO of the BBC, EMI, PENGUIN, EA GAMES and the rest get it. They hype up apple because absolutely no one else is doing anything approaching this properly They need it, and if they need it they will produce amazing shit for it and we will use it.
The coolest shit on the iphone is the stuff other people supply... Google, Sky, etc etc
"Build it and they will come" and Costner once said. Just wait...
Just before everyone thinks im a complete twat i've developed and design half a dozen top apps for the app store, and my brains bouncing at the moment. I'll be on the phone to all my clients tomorrow with ideas, and that is what makes apple different.