Thank you Mario! But our multitasking is in another device!

"Once we replace the personal computer with a closed-platform device such as the iPad, we replace freedom, choice and the free market with oppression, censorship and monopoly."

Tom Conlon for Popular Science on the iPad’s closed system

Nate Beeler.

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like Apple may have changed the tech world once again: This morning, Steve Jobs announced the company’s newest product: the iPad.

Some interesting specs:

• About 8 by 10 inches.

• No multitasking applications.

• No Flash built-in, as expected.

• Rebuilt Notes, Safari, Mail, Photos, iTunes, Videos, Calendar, and YouTube apps, specifically for the iPad.

• Syncs with iPhone OS, all apps will be available after purchase.

• Introducing iBook, a new app specifically for purchasing eBooks and interactive reading.

• Contains Apple A4, Apple’s own processor.

• New developer software, SDK 3.2, in beta for iPad.

• Will be able to use both Wi-Fi, and 3G through AT&T.

Starting prices:

• $500 for 16 GB, $600 for 32 GB, and $700 for 64 GB

• $630 for 16 GB on 3G, $730 for 32 GB on 3G, and $830 for 64 GB on 3G

AT&T’s 3G data plans:

• $14.99 for up to 250 MB per month

• $29.99 per month for unlimited data

• New accessories include a add-on keyboard.

• Release date: April 2010

From what I’ve seen so far, it looks fantastic. Very good first attempt at a tablet from Apple. Can’t wait to hear more.

Dear Apple: While it’s clear the iPhone is the best smartphone on the market right now, you have a lot of competition creeping up. We want to help you blow them out of the water with the iPhone OS 4.0. Here are our suggestions. (via The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

"Google’s Chrome browser overtook Apple’s Safari in the final month of 2009 to become the 3rd place browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. Web metrics provider Net Applications has released its full month of December stats, confirming that Chrome (Chrome) had 4.63% of the browser market that month, versus 4.46% for Apple’s Safari."

Mashable

"AT&T has apparently found a workable solution to the reported data congestion in New York City. They’ve quietly stopped selling the iPhone from their web site to customers in the New York metropolitan area."

The Consumerist

Idiotic phone service that decides to, instead of try and fix their shitty network, cut off the main users of their product?

There’s an app for that.

"The Apple tablet is almost here. We hear. Actually, we’re hearing a whole lot lately. With this exhaustive guide to every tablet rumor, we’ve got the clearest picture of the Apple tablet yet."

Gizmodo’s “Exhaustive Guide to Apple Tablet Rumors”

"And when I say that “we” have a hit on our hands, I’m really giving you way too much credit, because let’s be honest, the success of iPhone has nothing to do with you. In fact, iPhone is a smash hit in spite of your network, not because of it. That’s how good we are here at Apple — we’re so good that even you and your team of Bell System frigtards can’t stop us. You know what it’s like being your business partner? It’s like trying to swim the English Channel with a boat anchor tied to my legs. And yes, in case you’re not following me, in that analogy, you, my friend, are the fucking boat anchor."

Fake Steve Jobs on AT&T’s whining and what’s wrong with America

Zack Shapiro:

The Magic Mouse is to Apple what David is to Michelangelo (if Michelangelo’s previous sculpture was absolute rubbish). I know the prediction I’m about to make is wrong, knowing Apple, but I don’t see them making another mouse for a very long time.