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You’re considering an iPad. You’re giving it serious thought. But the doubts are mounting, and you can’t quite pull the trigger. You know what

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The Litany of iPad Submission [Apple]

Look. The hype has gotten to all of us. You’re up at some ungodly hour. You said you wouldn’t buy one til the third generation, but now look at your apple.com cart

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The Litany of iPad Resistance [Apple]

This is exactly why the 3G model is the iPad to buy, unless you’re positive it’s never leaving your Wi-Fi-covered house. You can buy data and cancel at any time, right from the iPad.

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How iPad 3G Service Works (Or: Why You Should Buy the 3G iPad) [Ipad]

You can place your iPad pre-order at the Apple Store now. And if you’re still between a few models, it’s not too late to read our iPad Buyer’s Guide . [ Apple ] More

Get ready, the iPad craze starts in two hours ? [ Apple ] More

According to AppleInsider sources, iPhone firmware 4.0 will bring multitasking to the platform this summer. And it may look a lot like Exposé. More

According to Jonathan Schwartz —then Sun’s CEO—that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass , a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz verbally cockpunched His Steveness and shut him up: “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996.

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Steve Jobs’ Threatening Phone Call Revealed [Blockquote]

The German company’s released a few tuner sticks here and there in the US, but like cheese, David Hasselhoff and soccer, Elgato’s far bigger in Europe. Having said that, their latest EyeTV Hybrid dongle could change their situation. The EyeTV Hybrid stick is now both Mac and Windows 7 compatible, with the EyeTV software bundled for Mac users, whereas Windows users can watch TV through Windows Media Center.

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Record Live HD TV On Your Mac or Windows 7 PC With The Updated Elgato EyeTV Hybrid [Tuners]

Though they could’ve fooled me, Barnes & Noble apparently isn’t content to let ebooks and digital mags be a two-horse race between Amazon and Apple. They just made a big hire in Jonathan Shar, from Time, who’s going to be running their “Digital Newsstand and Emerging Content, Barnes & Noble.com” division. Though that division name tells me they’re already kind of fucked. [ MediaMemo ]

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Barnes & Noble Doesn’t Want Digital Magazines to Be All Apple and Amazon After All [Ebooks]

If only this $14 Steve Jobs MacBook decal really looked like Steve Jobs, something more stable could finally replace the black mock turtle lint effigy I’ve constructed in his name. If only.

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Steve Jobs MacBook Decal [Apple]