Thanks again to Jorgen who dropped off this link to an excellent article at the Telegraph shaped around the notion that the rumored release of Apple’s Tablet on January 27 may be a way to end the onslaught of new hand-held devices and replace “our heaps of disorderly electronic debris with a single, all-purpose device, to use not only in the home, but at work, school and on the move.”
We’ll certainly have to see it before we believe it. And a price point of $900 keeps it out of the practical range for the average family, at least as it fits the eBook Revolution. Reading has been around too long and the behaviors surrounding it are too entrenched to be predictably co-opted into the future-world of phones, videos and email with the simple wave of a wand (or tablet or market study).
It will be up to that venerable reading culture to decide what devices it needs and prefers, yah?
