The Angry Drunk

While I was in the midst of my lat­est attempt to prove that a man can be pow­ered by ethanol alone, Betanews ran an utterly retarded opin­ion piece by Joe Wilcox titled: The world doesn’t need an Apple tablet, or any other. There is much that is fun­da­men­tally wrong with Joe’s piece, but I don’t want to talk about that. Fortunately I don’t have to talk about Joe’s errors because the tech pun­di­tards sal­lied forth en masse to white – knight a non-existent prod­uct (remem­ber, until Apple announces the gods damned thing, it ain’t real). Amongst the herd rush­ing to defend all things “tablet” was our good friend, and absolute moron Robert Scoble.

In a pre­co­cious bit of blo­g­or­rhea titled: Oh, Joe, the world doesn’t need a Tablet? Really? Robert springs to the defense of the tablet plat­form. Sadly, he also demon­strates that what Robert Scoble under­stands about tech­nol­ogy could be writ­ten in twenty-four point font on the back of a postage stamp; with room to spare.

Robert’s attempt to defend the maiden honor or the tablet takes the form of a litany of suc­cess­ful tablet com­put­ing devices that have already suc­ceeded in the mar­ket. Items he refers

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