Innovation for the sake of innovation
I'm all for new shit. New shit is cool. New shit is fun. But making new stuff for the sake of it being new is stupid. Take Microsofts new book styled tablet prototype, the Courier. Looks sweet right? My first thought was that I definitely need to get one of these when they're released. My second thought was "When would I ever use it?". I honestly can't think of a time where this would be more useful to me that either a laptop or a smartphone.
And what is with this fascination with writing on a screen with a stylus? Not only does my handwriting fucking suck, but I can type a whole hell of a lot faster than I can write. Hell, I can text on my phone faster than I can write. Why would I want to scribble on the screen only to have to go back and type what I meant anyway, because the computer can't understand what I'm writing?
Let's be honest, this will be used by almost nobody for anything productive. You won't see these at work. You won't see these at school (or at least in the hands of a sane person). And you won't see these out and around in public. The only place you'll see these is in Starbucks, in the hands of some smug douchebag wannabe writer.
Then again, maybe not. Apple has that market cornered.