Apple's big news

The much-awaited multimedia tablet device - perhaps called the iSlate, perhaps not - will be announced later this month and shipped out starting in March, according to the WSJ. Already heralded as another one of those transformative tech products, the tablet supposedly will let you read books, watch movies, play games, surf the Internet, and lots of other cool stuff. NYT columnist David Carr says "there hasn't been this much hype about a tablet since Moses came down from the mountain." Still, he's excited.

The tablet represents an opportunity to renew the romance between printed material and consumer. Think of sitting in your living room, in your bed or on a plane with a publication you really adore nestled into your lap. Since print was first conceived, people have had an intimate relationship with the text, touching, flipping and paging back and forth.

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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.
 
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