I made dinner early so I don’t get hungry during the keynote.

I’ll be following Engadget’s.

• They started on time? That’s rare.
• Did Engadget mean to type “a user”, or “our users”? I’m going to “our”.
• There we go: Moses holding up the Ten Commandments.
• “Key tasks” being freeform scribbling and sketching? Please say yes.
• Well, “iPad” is better than “iSlate” and “Canvas”.
• They’re not holding back are they? When’s the last time we’re minutes into a keynote and already we see the new hardware?
• Yes! No Flash!
• I’m liking the new silver UI theme.
• Wishing the bezel’s thinner. Titanium–PowerBook–G4–thin.
• C’mon, we know the iPhone. Show us new stuff. Show me handwriting recognition.
• Yes we get the idea. Clap clap. Move on.
• Did they apply Photoshop’s Bezel and Contour filter to iTunes’ buttons‽ Maybe it’s just Engadget’s photos.
• The YouTube app resembles the site.
• Homegrown Apple PA Semi–at–work chip.
• A month on standby‽
• Tap Tap on this should be interesting.
• Does “pixel double” imply that the screen’s 960 × 640?
• Gameloft again? Something new dammit! Handwriting! Sketching! Scribbling!
• So they’re doing a demo with Brushes. But are you still confined to using fingers only?
• EA again…
• The “iBook” name is back! Yay! Too bad it’s not for the hardware.
• iBooks’ shelf looks horribly like Classics’.
• McGraw–Hill’s not on the list of publishers. I wonder why.
• Maybe they just recruited Kaz and Ryu to help with iBooks.
• EPUB. Is that DRM–free though?
• Yes you can open and edit iWork documents. But can you fucking scribble on it‽
• $30 translates to roughly £20, which is reasonable I think. But can I get an educational discount?
• Whoa. Basic data’s not unlimited‽ Hope that’s not the case in the UK.
• Unlocked! But what’s “micro SIM”? Are you basically forced to either get a new contract in order to get one of these things or beg your provider to give you one?
• Can we do voice chat over 3G now?
• $829, so roughly £550–£600 when it’s in retail?
• Three months. Okay.
• Keyboard dock? It’s becoming a laptop.
• So no handwriting or sketching then.

Over. As far as I can tell, iPad’s still on iPhone OS 3–level. Maybe they’ll have something more exciting to showoff closer to launch. I guess we can look forward to seeing the A4 chip in the next iPhone.

That bezel is really bugging me.