What makes me kinda giggle is everyone making a big deal about it running a version of the iPhone OS. Um, the iPhone OS is a version of OS X. Apple made a big deal about this when they released the iPhone. So the tablet will run some version of an OS that is based on the main OS that Apple makes. Well, um, duh.

So the tablet will run some version of an OS that is based on the main OS that Apple makes.

ZOMG!!!1!!11111!!ELEVENTY!!!!1!1111

I think the bigger deal is that there's going to be a new iPhone OS version released (and it's nice to know, as a content provider, that current iPhone apps will run on the sooper seekrit new device), but yeah. APPLE IS RELEASING A PRODUCT THAT RUNS THEIR OPERATING SYSTEM! STOP THE PRESSES!!!

I want Steve Jobs to step out ala Paul Reubens at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards.

"Heard any good rumors lately?"

With a GSM I can move from phone to phone by transferring my SIM card, and when I travel I can buy a cheap local SIM card for the trip. It's how I roll.

What mechanisms do Sprint and Verizon phones uses to transfer identities between them? How do they handle international usage?

What mechanisms do Sprint and Verizon phones uses to transfer identities between them?

With a lot of bureaucratic hassle. They way phone companies think it ought to work.

How do they handle international usage?

Lots of other countries have CDMA and EVDO. You can go to Canada! And New Zealand! And uhm, Mongolia!

But with a GSM phone in Kenya I buy a Kenyan SIM card and pay reasonably local rates. I have to roam with Verizon et al., right? Now I'm wondering if the international Droid is worth the risk and up front expense.

le nubian, thanks for the link to ideas for working on a laptop from bed. Exactly the problem to which I've been looking for solutions.

Remember what it was like living in a world without an Apple tablet? It seems like such a long time ago, back before everything was different.

Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet

CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.

Heh.