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Newspaper that reads: "Expect most innovative innovation of innovations"

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Newspaper that reads: "The Chosen product to be announced today by Steve Jobs"

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Maya eating pop corn in front of her laptop, saying "hush, it started!" (about Apple's Keynote)

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Steve Jobs says: "I was out of ideas, so I thought, let's mix what we already have. We have a laptop, and we have an iphone. Let's make something in between".

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Hands shown "baking" the iphone "so we took the iphone and we enlarged it like that"

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Person shown ironing the iphone

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And voila! The iPad is born! Incredible!

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Maya, disappointed: "I just wasted this pop corn for nothing!"

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what we learned today: when something requires THAT MUCH marketing before its announcement, it must mean the product in itself is not enough to convince. Steve Jobs must be mocking us - in my humble opinion. iPass this sophistication tool and stick to my dear macbook.

As you can see I was disappointed by yesterday’s announcement, let alone how the name was ridiculed on Twitter later on with the #iTampon jokes. Anyway, I was expecting all this because of all the media buzz. Have a great day! :) And here’s a song for you (that I heard on the radio yesterday and reminded me of the old days :D )



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19 Comments

  1. Charbel Saad
    Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    haha! i totally feel you, maya, i was as excited and as disappointed :P

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  2. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

    Hilarious! :D Love the roller pin allusion. I am REALLY REALLY REALLY enjoying your blogging. That’s saying something when I work with blogs :)

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  3. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

    I’m disappointed :-(
    What about iBooks? is’n it too cool!
    Ya3ni I guess I agree that the name is silly, but the device is cool!
    Not expected != Not cool :-)
    Ba3den 7aram Steve Jobs ;-(

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  4. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

    Congratulation for your reaction, your not a cheep :)

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  5. Nahil
    Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

    eno hayde kif badna nsaye3a bl jezden :P

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  6. Nahil
    Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    haha ba3den 7abet el roller wel mekweye :D 3anjad maba3rif mn wen btotla3e fiyoun :P

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  7. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

    Great post.. Nice way to flatten an iPod touch :-)

    But on the subject matter of this post I would say: not so hasty. I view this as a process of incremental innovation. I think Apple figured that laptops do their job really well.. so why change them and re-engineer MacOS X as a complex touch interface. That would be a “bolt on” solution. They went for a cleaner solution. Now, app developers can (and will) surprise us with what this device can do.

    I think we’re all stuck with “why isn’t it like a laptop” mindset, and we still have not seen all the possibilities of the new device.

    Lack of a camera is inexcusable though!

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  8. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

    Just one point guys, this “thing” ain’t able to run to apps in the same time … you can surf on the web and have a chat app in the main time … common … even the cheapest cellphone can do two things in the same time :)

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  9. Joe
    Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 9:43 pm | Permalink

    I was disappointed as well (Popcorn prepared as well)
    Though you should admit its a nice product nevertheless!

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  10. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    I just loved your post !

    100% agree with you.

    Did you see the promo video .. So much of marketing for the product in the vid too .

    Good products sell themselves . Bad Products need marketing :P

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  11. Taline
    Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Permalink

    i can’t believe it!!! hahahaha… yesterday i was like this product is mam3ous using el shawbak. and lyoom i seeeee that you illustrated the same! hahhaha so cool so weird!!!
    love ur work :D
    p.s.: i was showing my friend in class one of ur illustrations and he was like ANH she’s my friend! and the guy was johnny abi allam :)

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  12. Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 11:51 pm | Permalink

    very smart as always :)

    I wasn’t on twitter when all this happened & I was shocked today to learn iTampon actually trended!! I watched a few videos on YouTube and yes, unfortunately it does look like one big iPod, which I already own :P will I buy the bigger version? mmmh… lol

    (I won’t lie, hubby was thinking about it… but he hasn’t yet read anything & I have a feeling the geek within him will be quite disappointed :P )

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  13. Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 at 12:07 am | Permalink

    Even though I own most of their products, call me a sucker for also getting the iPad. Just package it in glitter red, and make it useful while facilitating my life, and I’ll give them my clothes.

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  14. mc
    Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8:41 am | Permalink

    did you know that :

    “Steve Jobs est fils d’une mère américaine, Joanne Carole Schieble, et d’un père syrien, Abdulfattah John Jandali, professeur de sciences politiques, il est né à San Francisco en Californie. Il fut adopté peu après sa naissance par Paul Jobs et Clara Jobs vivant à Mountain View en Californie. Ses parents biologiques se marièrent un an plus tard et eurent un autre enfant, l’auteur Mona Simpson.”

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  15. Ahmad Osman
    Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8:52 am | Permalink

    Oh I have just noticed the new – what do you call it – bookmark for the website. You know, that asterisk. Most appropriate.

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  16. FARAH AWADA
    Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 at 3:04 pm | Permalink

    AMAZINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN…..
    BUT THE FUNNY THING IN ALL THIS IS THAT I ACTUALLY LIEKD THE I PAD
    OOOOOOOOPS :-)

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  17. Bassem B.
    Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 at 3:33 pm | Permalink

    Everyone I know with some common sense had the same reaction. This is sillier than the Macbook Air.

    Dear Apple, please page me when you make a version of this that lets me run multiple apps at the same time.

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  18. rebghb
    Posted Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    it’s just that yesterday my friend tagged me in a photo for the ipad, he is a mac freak, and i hate mac, weird, if u consider the timing :D totally agree, lets make it general as u’ve said…

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  19. Rabih
    Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

    Maya do you seriously sit like that? crossing your legs? Coz i’m the only person I know who sits like that on a chair :D I even sit this way at the office on an office chair, which takes some acrobatic moves to achieve :D

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