My Thoughts on an Apple Tablet

Like all Apple fan kids, I’ve had my head to the ground, listening to the tablet rumblings.

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First of all, Apple’s marketing / not marketing is brilliant

Apple has said nothing about a tablet. However, go to MacRumors, Engadget, Tech Crunch, they’re all talking about an Apple Tablet.

Seth Godin, calls it a tribe.

It adds to that the fact that what people really want is the ability to connect to each other, not to companies. So the permission is used to build a tribe, to build people who want to hear from the company because it helps them connect, it helps them find each other, it gives them a story to tell and something to talk about.

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What the tablet could mean

“This could change the printing industry forever.”
People are saying that the tablet could change the printing industry forever. In fact, a Sports Illustrated mock-up has been floating around on YouTube:

*SARCASTIC GASP* Interactive pictures and videos, mixed in with magazine articles? Revolutionary? *COUGH* Isn’t this exactly what a web page is?

I think we will always have print. Maybe I’m being old fashioned, but until there are standards developed and this type of technology is completely accepted, (I repeat) we will have print.

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I’m a proud Kindle owner

Hopefully, I’m not trying to justify my Kindle purchase, but one of the things that I love about it is the digital ink. I’m gonna burn my eyes out on my laptop. The glow of the display doesn’t make reading easy. How is the tablet going to be any different than reading a book your computer or iPhone?

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