The Angry Drunk

Add Mike Monteiro to the list of people who actually understand the iPad. The money quote:

The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. And, let’s be really honest, they probably care [...]

Fraser Speirs nails it yet again with a blog post titled iPad Fallacy #1: “It’s not for content creation”. In the post he poses the question:

I keep hearing this thing on the web that the iPad is “a consumption device, not a creation device”. I don’t know why people keep saying that. It’s fast enough, [...]

Courtesy of Penn Jillette, my response to 95% of the iPad “analysis” out there:

Thanks to my pal Peter Cohen for thinking of this first

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Yes, the fucking iPad is finally here. Now, at least, the craptastic blog posts and articles can have some basis in reality…or not, this is the blogosphere we’re talking about here. As we all know, the question burning up the intar-tubes is, what does Darby think of this thing. Well, dear readers fear not, for [...]