The Calm Before the Storm

I'm actually getting somewhat excited to see what they came up with. Up until now, I've found the "Apple must build a tablet or they're DOOOOMED!" crowd only moderately less annoying than the "Apple must build a headless minitower like everybody else is losing their shirts on or they're DOOOOMED!" crowd. (And they're both much less annoying than the "Real professionals can only see a screen through onionskin" crowd and the "Apple must license OS X or they're DOOOOMED!" crowd.)

Dammit, though, I've wanted a "personal computer" like everybody had in The Mote in God's Eye for 35 years now, and maybe this is it.

Honestly I'm pretty excited to see what Apple does too. I have some ideas about what Apple's take on the tablet is but I haven't bothered to enumerate them. Fortunately that means Gruber can't claim chowder me, and I can claim to have seen it all along.