My thoughts on the keynote this morning and the new iPhone, all rapid fire like.

• There are a lot of people out there saying that the announcement of the new phone isn’t enough. I suspect that because a certain blog bought a stolen prototype and splayed it on their site for the world to see that some of the excitement behind the reveal was lost. This unveiling though was a hell of a lot more impactful than the 3GS reveal.
• I can’t wait to see what is done with the gyroscope. No one is talking about that now but i think it will end up being huge.
• All reports indicate a ridiculously thin phone, which is always cool.
• Love that you can now shoot AND edit your video on the phone and that from all appearances it is easy to do.
• The forward camera is made much cooler, obviously, with the new video chat feature (face time). Pretty awesome how you can swap from forward to rear camera on the fly.
• Lots of people complaining that the video chat only works under Wifi. Don’t think it is that big of a deal, have you ever tried to make a call with 3G? That doesn’t even always work

I probably won’t upgrade for a while, not for lack of desire but because my work pays my iPhone bill now and i just got the 3GS. I also kind of want to see which of these new technologies (retina display especially) get rolled into the iPad.

So, i am going to go back to my hypercritical writing style.

Where to start?

There are tons of issues in the news lately to write about so this should be easy:

Arizona – basically, the state sucks. I am glad I don’t live there any longer. The only two things that have stuck with me since leaving are 1) the fact I developed allergies that persist even to this day after moving there and 2) the fact I still have a house there that is being rented out.

Nowadays, I am actually embarrassed to tell people I lived in Arizona due to their stand on immigrants. Notice I didn’t say “immigration” or “illegal immigration.” People can say what they want, but there are a lot of racists in Arizona. I always heard people talking about mexicans and/or hispanics in derogatory tones. These are a people that have come to our country to work – whatever their motivations for doing that may be. It is wrong to stop people in the street and ask to see proof of their citizenship just because they are hispanic. We aren’t doing that for arabs, why do it for hispanics?

Adobe – You guys make second rate stuff. Seriously. If Apple doesn’t want to run your crappy software on top of their phone operating system thats their prerogative. Flash is garbage, there I said it. Make something good and then I am sure Apple will let you play in their sand box.

Gizmodo – hack bloggers – notice I didn’t say “journalists.” You guys paid for a stolen phone and risked legal action all so you could juice your traffic for a few days and sell more banner ad impressions. Hope that was worth it! Its an insult to real journalists that you are trying to hide behind a law designed to shield actual professionals. The public doesn’t have a right to know what secret R&D Apple is doing. Go to hell Jason Chen – or, rather, go to prison.

My lack of an iPad - It is patently absurd that I don’t have one yet.

At this point though, I am not sure if I really need it.

Notice, I didn’t say I am not sure if I really want an Apple tablet. Of course I want one. But having an iPhone and a Mac Book Pro already in my laptop bag, what value could I possibly get from a tablet computer (and don’t say that I’d just look really cool because I am cool anyway, of course).

Some of the fake prototypes of the device that have surfaced leave more questions than answers. For example, how comfortable would it be to type on a glass screen? How would you even hold an oversized iPod touch device? Would you sit it flat on your lap? Well, that doesn’t seem like it would be that comfortable.

I am an Apple fanboy, that is for certain. I’m tempted by every new product they introduce, but this one just doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense for them. And, I wonder about the alleged $700 price tag. Surely they could command a larger price when you can’t even get a 32gb iPod touch for less than $400 and that has a 3 inch screen and no camera.

Would you buy an Apple tablet?