“Not since Moses came down from on high with those commandments has a tablet generated so much interest,” Jim Goldman reports for CNBC.
MacDailyNews Take: We just knew that graphic would come in handy someday and today’s the day (twice so far)!
Goldman continues, “But such is the case with the Mac Tablet, MacSlate, iPad, or whatever it might be called from Apple. And it all makes sense in a strangely biblical way since Apple was the company that unleashed that so-called ‘Jesus phone.'”
“The world is all a twitter now that the Wall Street Journal has jumped on the tablet train, breaking news this afternoon that the Apple event later this month will in fact be about the tablet, which will be unveiled with a 10 or 11 inch screen and hit store shelves in March,” Goldman writes. “I guess that’s news, but the blogosphere has been rife with other details: the event will be Jan. 27 instead of Jan. 26. The tablet will sell for under $1,000. It’ll sell 10 million units in its first year and generate $1 billion in revenue. Those are the rumors, and they won’t become fact or fiction officially until Jobs walks out on stage (rumored to be at San Fran’s Yerba Buena Gardens, by the way) later this month. Or next. Or whenever.”
“We’ll know when we know, which is about the same time that Steve Jobs has circled on his desk blotter, and highlighted on his iPhone calendar, following the single, most important Apple commandment: When Jobs – and only Jobs – is good and gosh-darned ready,” Goldman writes. “All the rest is just sport.”
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“”All the rest is just sport.””
And what sport it is!!!
Those are some huge “tablets,” MDN…
ken1w,
Click MDN’s image and the size of the tablets will be immediately explained.
Moses’s tablets weren’t all that hyped at the time. In fact, if I remember the story correctly, that group of faithful got bored waiting and started having orgies in tribute to a golden cow.
Today Ballmer doesn’t draw nearly as much excitement and he’s not made of precious metal.
10M iTabs @ $1000 each is $10B, not $1B in revenue.
Where’s the big MS table we’ve been hearing about for a while now?
I’m feelin the wood, are you?
That image is freakin’ hilarious.
Although a painful tangent with the corner of the tablet hitting the frame edge, HILARIOUS none the less.
And he’s considerably fatter and stupider than a cow and outputs more gas.
And to all those Ballmer acolytes….. remember what happened to the apostates and their golden bull
Jim Goldman is so funny…….oh, that jokes been done 1000 times, and he just stole it? Oh well.
The tablet shall be dubbed, iPapy. And she’ll be one BEAUTIFUL chica.
Bet on it.
Apple’s tablets will be much, MUCH bigger. First, as Mel Brooks has pointed out, there were originally THREE tablets with 15 commandments. Original printed on shoddy material (stone). No durability. No warranty. Next, the font on those tablets was God awful (literally in this case). Marker felt, I think. And Hebrew? What kind of language is that? UNIX has that way beat. Moses as spokesperson? Please. Awful, awful public speaker. Jobs has it all over him. Finally, fixed text? C’mon! We want to write our own content. I can see some of the new laws now. Thou shalt buy thee an iTablet. Thou shalt not buy thee from Microsoft or any of their cleft hooven retailers. Thou shalt have good taste. Thou shalt not take any pictures of thy Lord Jobs. And so on and so on and so on…
@ @HMCIV
“…to all those Ballmer acolytes….. remember what happened to the apostates and their golden bull”
They got scammed in a Nigerian barge deal then bought out in a rescue deal by Bank of America?
The Moses comparison is interesting but Michelangelo would be more appropriate.
Michelangelo, when will the ceiling be finished? A: It will be done when it is done.
At least this tablet shouldn’t be banned from public schools and Civic Centers.
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the graphic should have had one of the tablets look like an iPhone-like screen!
Let my people rock!
I hope they call it the:
tMac
“Not since Moses came down from on high has a tablet generated so much interest”
I dunno. These were a pretty big deal until, like, hi schul….
Moses brought tablets of stone with the Law written on them,
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but Jesus Christ piqued far more interest and chagrin
by writing that Law on the tablets of our hearts/minds,
I would have thought.
And I don’t believe Moses wore wear glasses.
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I want the Microsoft Big Ass Table!
Once again another unapologetic shot at religion by liberals! No shame whatsoever!
iMaki,
Are your really saying that MDN is a liberal-leaning website? I mean really.
People with a sense of humour should probably apologise for poking fun at religion: How about we do that when so-called religious types (of all faiths) apologise for ALL the harm they’ve done through the centuries by committing murder, torture, and much more in the name of a distorted view of religious belief.
Amen!!
I would consider myself fairly religious. I thought the graphic was funny. And, no Moses didn’t wear glasses, but as anyone can see, Steve Jobs, does.