Blowin' in the Fan (with apologies to Bob Dylan)

How many tablet PCs must be built
Before people get that they're wrong?
How many demos must Microsoft give
Propped up by their own dance and song?
And after a decade of failure in this
Do they know that we won't tag along?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the fan
The answer is blowin' in the fan.

How many years can an OS exist
Before its best days have gone by?
How many new paradigms can be shown
That much better methods apply?
And how many times to the well will they go
Before seeing it's finally run dry?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the fan
The answer is blowin' in the fan.

How many vendors were pulled on a chain
Building tablets unfriendly to hands?
How many failures and misguided tries
Were continued according to plans?
And when will they get the futility of
Shoehorning PCs into cans?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the fan
The answer is blowin' in the fan.

(Inspired by this tidbit about a prototype Windows 8 tablet.)

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Tablet Haikus

Motorola XOOM
Many specs but not ready
Prematurely born 

Google's Honeycomb
Forget smartphones, rush forward!
Left out the QA

RIM Playbook puzzling
No email or calendar
Yet they've announced four

HP TouchPad odd
webOS less impressive
While the Veer's tanking

Samsung got a deal
On numerous screen sizes
Plans to ship them all

Toshiba tablet 
Includes what iPad didn't  
Never tried before

Dell tablet delayed
Not that they likely had one
Still on drawing board

Sony is "cautious"
Which is really code words for
Caught with our pants down

Asus plans something
Like a PC but flatter
90s are preserved

All these tablets have
The "full web" with Adobe
Not yet, "coming soon"

Apple in command
No competition in sight
Laughing to the bank
Tagged Acer Adobe Android Apple Dell Flash Google HP Honeycomb Humor Motorola PlayBook RIM Samsung Sony Toshiba TouchPad XOOM iPad iPad2

Dear HP: I took the liberty of rewriting your new ad

(See the ad here.)

Everybody tap
Everybody touch
We got a fake Lou Reed
The real one cost too much

Everybody Digg
Everybody Skype 
Here's our hip commercial
To build a lot of hype

Everybody dream
Everybody sprint
Though everybody knows it
Let's mention that we print

Everybody Tweet
Everybody move
They say our thinking's old
Which this ad tends to prove

Everybody mobile
Everybody cloud
We’re hittin’ every buzzword
We’re followin’ the crowd

Everybody nimble
Everybody bond
If this is our new image
Our client base is… Gone
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10 steps to write a bullshit headline

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Is this the new MacBook Air? [Update: Probably not]

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Check out the spy photo obtained by The Small Wave. Not great image quality, but no doubt taken by someone fearing for his life.

Analysis reveals a beautiful aluminum unibody with a round top that appears to remove for access to memory and other components. No visible screen, but it may be on the other side, or perhaps Apple's latest laptop is even more radical than anyone expected. MacBook Shuffle, anyone?

An obvious feature is that Apple has brought back the handle from the original iBook over a decade ago.

No information on processor, graphics (if needed), etc., but TSW will report additional information as we (well, I) get it.

[UPDATE:] On further inspection and review, the item has revealed itself to likely just be a coffee mug.

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