My sarcasm detector is going off the scale here, but part of me thinks you're serious.

No Steve around and a shaky economy? No huge change is going to happen at Apple.

A smaller pad would be... a tampon. Genius!

Unless I'm mistaken, doesn't this marketing buzz just mean auto-adjusting luminosity (aka what's already used on the iPad)?

Exactly. Geeks like us will need to adopt a no-way-Jose protocol when dealing with relatives asking for a our help (aka "I bought a Windows 8 tablet but it won't run my 14 year-old poker game like my laptop used to, make it work!").

Artist or just some dude with way too much time on his hands?

I predict a less-than-stellar refresh à la iPhone 4S, Siri to the rescue?

I just assumed the default browser in Android was already a mobile version of Chrome, I guess I was wrong.

Sweet!

Cashing out now before the trend dies, ie. not wait too long like Groupon did.

Meanwhile, a 240 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD goes for, what, $300 at most?

We're due for a flop anyway, MS follows a one-hit/one-flop pattern.

Well this sounds awesomely fun and totally counter-productive, at least in a professional setting.

Would you like some imaginary peanuts with that Comfort 2.0 chair you can barely fit in?

So we're really just numbers after all.. except me, I'm still a beautiful and unique snowflake.

In other news, reading on the iPad's overly backlit display still annoys my eyes, reading more than a few pages is still the only thing I'm not interesting in doing on my iPad.

I gotta say, I'm impressed there are many foreign universities in there for once; good job on that.

Note and index cards were still in use somewhere?

He takes a stance after it was shelved? What a great activist he is.

And then what?