Amid all the hoo-ha and pondering based on nothing more than sheer speculation, the best line I've heard about the Apple Tablet device which is set to be announced in two days, 14 hours and 13 minutes (yes I got the desktop widget!!) is from
Leo Laporte on
MacBreak Weekly...
I think it's very clear now what we have (coming) - we have a multi-media content device that will do TV, it will do movies, it will do music, it will do reading (it's aimed at the Kindle). It will do it in full colour with an OLED screen because I'll tell you what, once you go OLED you never go back. I think the key to all this is it's going to have Kindle-style built-in wireless. We've been chewing around this problem - how do you get someone to buy another $60 EVDO or 3G connection? You don't. You build it into the content. That's why it makes it important to make it a content machine.
This is going to be a Media Device - a Content Device. And as for the name, I like John Gruber's take on it (especially folllowing the paint-splatter invites)... What about
Canvas?
Even without considering the invitation design, I love this name. It looks good, it sounds good, and it evokes the right feelings and ideas: thin, light, clean, crisp, blank, the thing great artwork is made upon. It’s a perfect name.
Steve, if you're reading this, tell me I'm wrong. I'm sure you will in exactly two days, 13 hours and 51 minutes!
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