Expectations were high for the rumored Apple tablet. I’d read that it had facial recognition built in, that you could actually lift the thing up, look at it, and it would load up your preferences. According to one whispered intimation, I would be surprised at how I interacted with the new tablet. Oh my! Was it going to read my thoughts?

I set my browser to auto refresh and watched Engadget’s live blog of the press conference. Out came the iPad. Steve Jobs talked about what an amazingly “magical” and “revolutionary” product he was about to show us. Then slowly but surely he revealed that the product was an iPod Touch that had been stretched like taffy.

Perhaps I don’t understand the term “revolutionary” within the context that Apple is using it here.