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Everyone is wondering what amazing miracle is next on the slate of successes for Steve Jobs and the folks at Apple. You can bet it will be about making information even more accessible, and more convenient as well.
Because more than anything else, Apple has been about easy interfaces. From the original icons that Windows stole, to the whole click and mouse thing, to the touchscreens of the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, it has been about laborsaving convenience.
Our economy has also looked to Apple to keep us employed. Each new wave of software and hardware has put both innovators and manufacturing folks to work. Not to mention all the countless spin-off jobs created by and for people in the industry of “apps.”
So I predict the next product will save you labor and create a job for someone else at the same time. It’s not an iPod, It’s not an iPad.
It’s an iPal.
The P-A-L- in iPal stands for Personal Assistant Laborsaver. An iPal will do your computing for you. He’ll carry around your iPad and swipe your screen for you. And he’ll respond to voice commands.
Even if you mumble them.
“Look up an app for the transit service.” “Google me some free adult video content.” “Download the latest ‘America Ya Gotta Love It’, now available on iTunes.”
He’ll understand you because the iPal won’t be no creepy robot. The iPal will put someone to work¾a real flesh and blood human being, who’ll follow you around labor-saving your every computer interface whim.
He’ll carry it for you too, along with accessories and peripherals—printer, cables, WiFi extender antennae...
The iPal. It’ll put the unemployed back to work.
They don’t call Steve Jobs for nothing.
America, ya gotta love it.