Matthew Yglesias on the hype about the Apple Tablet:
But why do I want a tablet? Magazine publishers seem to want me to want a tablet because after I have my tablet I’m allegedly supposed to want to pay them for tablet versions of their magazines. But that can’t be why I want a tablet. Is it supposed to replace my laptop? Is the idea that conventional laptops are too easy to type on? Or does it replace my kindle somehow? If you could make an iPhone-esque touch screen much bigger and do it at an affordable price, that might be a cool feature to add to future MacBooks or iMacs—I’m sure programmers could devise something interesting to do with a new user interface—but nothing about typing on an iPhone has ever made me say if only I could replicate this experience in a device that doesn’t fit in my pocket!!!!
