And the world (me) responded with "meh"

OH MY GOD! DID YOU HEAR?! STEVE JOBS AND APPLE INTRODUCED THE iPAD YESTERDAY!

Nerds and hipsters everywhere jerked off into their Mountain Dew and Starbucks (respectively) yesterday afternoon as the latest Apple product was introduced by Steve Jobs and the team that helped develop it. You would think that as a person who makes his living in the IT world that I would also be excited about Apple's latest endeavor. But, as it turns out, I'm not actually a huge dork and I really didn't give a fuck. It had nothing to do with the fact that my particular expertise is in PCs, that I find pretentious Mac users to be disdainful people who deserve to be shot or that their products are over-hyped and over-priced. It had to do with the fact that drooling with anticipation of anything is pathetic.

Having something to look forward to is a good thing. Anticipation is a wonderful feeling. But holy shit were people sporting some serious iPad hard-ons for this damn thing which, frankly, is not all that impressive. It's a big iTouch that lets you enjoy the same functionality as previous Apple products but, wait for it, it's BIGGER!! And the fact that the iPad sounds like a feminine hygiene product and that it is so profoundly unimpressive (seriously, even the development team and Jobs couldn't make it sound exciting) makes me happy. It was a nice, albeit unintentional, F-You to all those people who have been fantasizing about the thing and dreaming up all of the possibilities that could lie before them.

The devastating reality of the iPad's lack of innovation hit no one harder, apparently, than Hitler.