I’m already sick of hearing about Apple’s tablet, and it’s not even been announced yet. It’s not even an official product.

Jesus. This is what it’s come to.

I was looking forward to it at first, because I quite like the iPod Touch. “At first” was about a year ago. Speculation has reached fever pitch, websites have filled page after page with nothing but tedious non-news, even guessing games on what the god damn thing is going to be called are rife. This all basically consists of slavishly pouring over records of Apple’s trademark, patent and domain name registrations. That’s IT journalism for you.

A few months ago, the realisation hit me that this was going to be an expensive product that I wasn’t going to want to wave around in public, and therefore it’s not particularly useful to me. Suddenly, the Kindle looks very attractive. We’ll see, I guess. I think this thing’s being announced sometime today. I should probably know that, it’s been rammed in my face enough, but apathy set in weeks ago. They might have already announced it, I don’t think I’d be able to tell, because the level of frothing would be roughly the same.