[ProgrammerJoe]

Yeah, I know. As a previous iPod owner, I am a little annoyed not at the fact that it's a big iPod Touch, but that they marketed it as a revolution. This may be the rumor mill and the reality distortion field interfering with each other, but I think that's a bit too derivative of the iPod Touch to be considered "revolutionary". And yeah, it has a market, even outside the Apple heads, but iPhones have been around for 3 generations, and there have been tablets since more or less the dawn of mobile computing. Granted, I'm sure the iPad will be Apple's darling, and "just work" to Jobs' specifications, but Apple, don't resell your stuff in family size just to squeeze in more adjectives. Actively make me want a tablet, give me a killer app. Something I specifically need a big screen for, and cannot accept substitutions on.

And what really gets me is that the really cool stuff, iWork, the keyboard dock, SD input, VGA output, and the a la carte 3G, are all things they could have easily put out for the iPhone form factor, but didn't/wont/"will, but not just yet" specifically to sell us their new revolution of the month flavor. These are not things specific to a tablet, do not make them specific to your tablet.

And when Apple does invents time travel, it would come with an upload of Steve's brain to work out the paradoxes for you.