That’s it! The day we’ve all been waiting for finally arrived. The hype was really, well, hypey. I actually read somewhere a guy saying that this would be a day he’d be able to talk about with his grand-kids one day. What. The. Fuck. People! Seriously?

Now to be honest I was a bit hopeful, too. I mean, since that wonderful iPhone announcement a few years ago, we’re always kind of waiting for when Apple is going to do its thing again. You know, change the friggin’ world!

As it turned out, it was a historic announcement, just not the way people expected it to be. It was history because Apple finally did it: it disappointed.

I’m not saying the iPad – dude! iPad? Really, Steve? — anyway, I’m not saying the iPad is bad in and on itself. It’s a nice device. It’s just not what I was expecting. I was expecting to see something revolutionary and that the iPad is not. It is essentially a big iPod touch. It. Doesn’t. Even. Cure. Cancer!

I confess I was a lot more interested in an update to the iPhone OS and a new iLife that whatever tablet Apple was going to announce. I intentionally decided not to buy into the whole hype of the "iSlate." I thought it was going to be cool but unaffordable, which it turned out to be. I mean, $500 for an iPod touch? And the 3G model that’s essencially an iPhone without the phone? It’s $829 for an i!

With nothing new for the iPhone and no new iLife, the whole announcement was a non-event, which means it was a disappointment. A utter meh.

#apple #fail

Move along, fanbois, nothing to see here.