What Apple announces next week isn’t as exciting as who announces
Yes, Apple will unveil the iPad 2 next Wednesday. Whoopee.
My excitement, as you can tell by the lack of an exclamation point above, is surprisingly muted. Given the rampant speculation and build up, I kinda know what iPad 2 will be packing, and it doesn’t thrill me. Maybe it’s because suddenly I can’t metaphorically walk two feet on the net without tripping over some new tablet announcement and I’m just sick of the whole stupid subject — a year ago everyone laughed at Apple’s folly, a year later these bandwagon-jumping soon-to-be immensely disappointed morons think they’re each going to sell 10 million units.
Maybe Apple will surprise us with something unexpected like it did in a bad way with a non-LTE Verizon iPhone 4, with a minor interim iPad 2 update with a major upgrade delayed until the fall. Maybe Apple will happily surprise. Maybe.
But mostly maybe it’s because I’m afraid, as Snoopy once cynically mused, my anticipation may exceed the actual event. Maybe.
But what maybe appears on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts stage in San Francisco next week to me isn’t as important as who maybe appears.
