The very astute among you, or at least the subset who actually read my weekly regurgitation of cool stuff I found during the past week, will note this post is appearing on Monday, rather than last Saturday. I decided there isn’t a lot of feed reading going on over the weekend, so we’ll try this gambit for a few weeks and see if the feature is any more popular on Mondays.
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“As I previously eluded to, I view the Apple tablet and the CrunchPad as non-mainstream products.”
There are two mistakes in this sentence. The first is that he meant to write “alluded”, not “eluded” (which means to escape – kind of different from what I think he meant, unless he’s implying he’s escaping reality) and the second is that there is no such thing as an Apple tablet. It doesn’t exist, but for in the fevered imagination of market pundits and the Apple faithful (and, okay, possibly an undisclosed location somewhere beneath Infinite Loop 1). Comparing a product you like to one that you have absolutely zero information about seems weak, even by tech pundit standards.
Don’t get me wrong, the Courier looks interesting and all, but… I’ve read so many articles about how the Zune is going to kill the iPod, or about how the iPhone is a non-starter, or… whatever your pet anti-Apple theory is to take that kind of stuff seriously. How about we all just wait and see what happens rather than make outlandish and mostly inaccurate predictions about the future? (Oh, wait, that’s no good for page views!)
Um… okay, this should clearly be directed at this Kevin Eklund fellow, but, as a long time reader and someone who feels they trust your discriminating mind and keen spidey-sense, it’s weird to see you repost something like this with only the comment “Very, very interesting. More than very, very interesting, in fact.”
The Courier looks interesting, but that article… ugh, it just made me cringe. Quotes like “When was the last time you heard someone say, ‘I’m going to go home and curl up with my Kindle’?” are so… sophomoric it’s actually kind of painful to read. Really, Kev? REALLY? When was the last time you heard “Hey, Kevin Eklund isn’t a talentless hack who’s trying to drive up page views by posting sensationalistic, content-free drivel”?
Okay, I’m going to stop now. Sorry for… um, dumping this in your comment thread. Feel free to delete it, I just… had to say something, you know? Only You Can Prevent Linkbait and all that.
LOL. Very insightful comment, actually, and you’re more right than you know. First, I believe there will be an Apple tablet of some kind announced in the next 2 months. However, I really couldn’t care less. I’m not an Apple fanatic.
Second, I really didn’t read the article that closely: I skimmed it quickly, but watched the video. The entire time I was watching that video, I was thinking of a review I read last month (or possibly in August) of the Sony e-reader. Without doing a feature-by-feature comparison, the Courier seemed to address–AND satisfactorily resolve–every criticism of the Sony product the reviewer identified. (The only one not addressed, to be fair, was cost, but a price for the Courier hasn’t been announced.)
However, the paradigm is right: Courier is an e-book (reader) that uses the right interface, or so it appears. That puts it head and shoulders above all other current e-book readers. For now.