{"id":576,"date":"2010-01-27T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2010\/01\/im-an-apple-tablet-skeptic-i.html"},"modified":"2010-01-27T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:55:38","slug":"im-an-apple-tablet-skeptic-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2010\/01\/im-an-apple-tablet-skeptic-i.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m an Apple Tablet skeptic – it’s no Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tech blogsphere is obsessed with Apple’s announcement of it’s new iPad tablet device today (personally, I’d have called it Newton 2). Frankly I don’t think the new device makes much sense from a consumer perspective and has zero chance of displacing Amazon’s Kindle<\/a>\"\" from it’s throne – the Kindle is to books as the iPod was to music and iPhone to mobiles, and Apple seems intent on not<\/em> repeating their common formula for success: do one thing superbly better than everyone else, for the same price. Instead, the Apple tablet wants to be all things to everyone, a classic case of being a jack of all trades and master of none.<\/p>\n

If you’re as weary of the Apple hype machine<\/a> as I am, then check out my more detailed argument for Apple Tablet skepticism<\/a> over at my geek blog. Of course I might be totally wrong \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tech blogsphere is obsessed with Apple’s announcement of it’s new iPad tablet device today (personally, I’d have called it Newton 2). Frankly I don’t think the new device makes much sense from a consumer perspective and has zero chance of displacing Amazon’s Kindle from it’s throne – the Kindle is to books as the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"\nI'm an Apple Tablet skeptic - it's no Kindle - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I'm an Apple Tablet skeptic - it's no Kindle - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The tech blogsphere is obsessed with Apple’s announcement of it’s new iPad tablet device today (personally, I’d have called it Newton 2). 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