Posting live from the Android…at my desk, in my cubicle, no less. I’ll add to this later, but I think I want an e-reader. There’s this growing suspicion that I could actually read more and, perhaps, faster with, essentially, a virtual library to supplement my personal, physical one. Just a thought for now. What do you think? Yay? Nay?
Upon further consideration, I’m less inclined to purchase an e-reader at this time. My spidey-sense for an undeveloped gadget market continues to tingle. Personally, I think we’re in the uncomfortable early stages, where the discerning customer waits while companies jockey, cajole or swindle their way into marketshare. The truth is no one knows what the future will hold for e-literacy, no matter the prognosticators constantly stampeding RSS feeds to offer a 50-50 bet. This past weekend, I had a choice: buy my latest books online or visit the brick.mortar store. I can’t get past it. The smell of the book. The rigidity of the paper. Even the author photo, complete with black turtlenecks. The switch from CDs to MP3s was so easy, yet there’s something unsettling about the arms race toward a worldwide digital library. Can’t put my finger on it. That aside, the need just isn’t there yet. E-books are the future, but physical books aren’t antiquated. Not yet.
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Four journals. Three pens. A Macbook as my primary unit. Followed by the DROID. Up next, a netbook (tethered to the DROID for 3G web). Then, the desktop PC. A 1940ish typewriter I need to fix. My fiancee’s laptop if necessary. My work laptop (sometimes at work). The iPod touch. I funnel works-in-progress into the cloud. Work on the same project between four journals (remember those?). When the disease is full-blown, I consider reactivating one of two BlackBerry Curves for mobile writing (data-only plans, perhaps).
What are your weapons of choice? How do you decide? How do you manage it all? Are we supposed to be writing??
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So the word’s out—kinda. Invites are making their rounds for Apple’s 1.27.10 “event,” where they’re expected to announce (and finally confirm) the existence of a touch-screen tablet. Its size, according to the rumor mills, can be anywhere from 7″ to 10.5″. Maybe it’ll run the iPhone OS, maybe it’ll run OSX (or a scaled down version, which would make it the iPhone OS).
Now, despite my iPod Touch and Macbook, I’m not an Apple douche; that is, I’m not a fanboy enthralled with all things Jobs. So while I’m curious to see this tablet (if it even exists), I can’t think of a reason why I should own this gadget. Sure, I could use it as an e-reader, but the Kindle would cost me a fraction of the iTablet’s rumored price of $1000. I owned a netbook for a time, and sold it to my brother, so I’m not in the market for a mobile internet device with light word processing capabilities—and besides, there are these things called “smartphones,” such as my DROID, that serves this exact purpose.
We’ll see in a week. When the spec sheet and, you know, an actual announcement of the device are released, I’ll have more to say. As of today, however, the tablet seems unnecessary. Then again, I once thought two-way pagers were dope, so…
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