Well, I ended up not going to my doc appt and (unrelatedly) stayed home to follow the keynote.
All I can say is wow… not because of the keynote, but because it was a strange thing to watch the internet implode. I was watching a few sites (necessary since they kept crashing) to see what was going on and Gizmodo, Engadget, and The Unofficial Apple Weblog all puttered and died at various times. A million people hitting “Refresh” has to do some pretty brutal things to your bandwidth.
No tablet from Apple, though - so, I’m crushed. Don’t they know I want to hurry up and live in the future? I guess I will put all my birthday money into Amazon’s Kindle (if they ever start shipping them). I’m a bit torn, though. The idea of being able to get to almost any book I may want instantly is ridiculously appealing, more to the point - the ability to keep a lot of books with me easily is very appealing (I tend to be reading 4-5 books at a time, aside from school books). Unfortunately, I’m one of those that absolutely hates reading anything very long on a screen. E-Ink evidently fixes that problem. At the same time, the Kindle is ugly as sin and reeks of “first gen device.” Of course, color e-ink is a ways off…. so no telling when we’ll see the next real version of the ebook reader.
What can I say, I’m a technophile… I’ve no substantial vices except a desire to access all of my(and the world’s) information as easily as possible whenever I want. That’s not too much to ask, is it?
Any of you used the Kindle? Have any experience with it? You see the MacBookAir or follow the keynote? Let me know in the comments!
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