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Nice screen + long battery life + App Store = WIN!

Seriously, I think iPad is an awesome video game device. Imagine playing multiplayer Mario Kart with a bunch of these devices in your living room. Probably it's better than Wii + big TV + splitscreen multiplayer (which is usually up to 4 players).

Yeah, and most games are cheaper on the App Store (1-2 bucks, compared to 50ish console games).

Oh, did I mention that it's not that expensive? It's even cheaper than Google's Nexus One.

Mind = Blown.

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” – Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet.

Wow dude, that's a bold claim for a mythical-soon-to-be-launched-or-otherwise-the-world-will-go-into-chaos device.

There are 4 sensors on your phone (picture examples are below) - 2 that you can't get to while opening, and the other 2 that you can see. The first one is in the small round hole on top left of the phone (the earpiece hole), and the other one is in the bottom middle that separates the connector. If you shine a light and look at either of these, the sensor will be pink if water has touched this area. Because of this pink sensor, the folks at the Apple store will not honor your warranty

In case you are not aware of these sensors, and planning to get an AppleCare for iPhone / claim warranty / buy used iPhone. Pink sensor = no warranty = you're screwed!

But, I heard there are some tricks to un-pink them.

The software business learned that in the early 1980s, when companies like VisiCorp showed that although the words "software" and "publisher" fit together, the underlying concepts don't. Software isn't like music or books. It's too complicated for a third party to act as an intermediary between developer and user. And yet that's what Apple is trying to be with the App Store: a software publisher. And a particularly overreaching one at that, with fussy tastes and a rigidly enforced house style.

A very interesting take on the Apple App Store approval process, by Paul Graham. You should stop whatever you are doing right now and go read the whole thing.

Seeing is believing.

Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished

Wow. So, Chrome OS is not entirely a joke then.

Anyway, just like Orpheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to the world, my gift to the world is iTablet -- a device that incorporates not just chips and software, but magic. Special secret powers from Mount Olympus, stuff that turns you into a kind of man-god, a semi-divine being with a magic tablet so light that you can't even feel it in your backpack or briefcase but with the ability to connect you to the Internet and enable you to buy anything you want as long as it comes from Apple. In other words, you're a superhero. With super powers. All this for only $899!

This piece from Fake Steve Jobs just made me want the mythical iTablet, seriously.