What’s on  your mind this Thursday?

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What do you think of the unveiling of the new iTab by Apple?

Didn’t Tab already have its day in the sun.  Pretty can, nasty soda inside.  Nod to The Simpsons (and shoutout to Eamonn, our personal gremlin, officially assigned to us by the DNC, Simpsons nut that he is), but no, Tab doesn’t really come out of a keyboard, no matter how many times you push that button (or have a drinking bird toy do it for you).

We’ve seen these tablet PCs in stores for years, but have never in our lives seen an actual person with one before.  There are actual laptops out now that are the size and shape of that iTab.  For people who want a device that’s smaller, but with some functions of a laptop, there’s the iPhone.

Since we were kids, we dreamed about “electronic ink” that would replace newspapers with little tablets you could carry around that would have all the books in the world, and any paper or magazine you wanted on it, at your fingertips, with no paper wasted.

But, really, the iPhone already is that, sort of.  Friends of our that have them can do some pretty amazing, Star Trek, things with them (the coolest, still, is the app that lets you hold the device up to music and the computer will tell you what song is playing, giving you the added option of buying it from the iTunes store).

So, we wonder if people who already have an amazing device in the palm of their hands will want a larger big brother to that to lug around. To us, if they wanted that, they’d just get a laptop.

So, who is the iTab designed for?

But, we still can’t figure out why Avatar makes so much money.  We thought it was essentially Disney’s Pocahontas, but with Smurf-cats and a planet that had about 6 different kinds of animals on it, all of which were just blue, six legged versions of the animals here.  Like they were all bugs doused with Tidy Bowl.  But, it’s the biggest movie ever, and we don’t know why.

Maybe all these Avatar people will buy these iTabs too.

What’s your take?

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