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Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry by Ethan Kaplan, VP Product, Live Nation

2009 Year in Cities

New York City – 6x (I think, maybe 7)
Washington DC
Austin, TX
Dallas, TX
San Francisco, CA – 10x
Vancouver, Canada
Las Vegas, NV
San Jose, CA

2010 Anticipated:

Park City, UT
San Francisco, CA
New York (a lot)
Vancouver
London, UK
Toronto
Hawaii

The World Doesn’t Need Tech Pundits

What surprises me most about the excitement and early analyst sales projections: No one is talking about addressable market.”

[From The world doesn't need an Apple tablet, or any other | Betanews]

What bothers me about this article is that it assumes no one uses tablet computers right now. That is a flat out lie. They do. They are Kidle’s, iPhones, Android phones, Archos’, etc.

THe modality of the experience is what makes a tablet a tablet, not simply the screen size or marketed application.

The Kindle itself is probably the most popular tablet computer out there right now. It is a single purpose, underpowered tablet for sure, but a tablet none the less. To say it’s just trying to be an e-book reader ignores the fact that Amazon has more than just E-Book’s in it, and more than just E-Book aspirations for it.

The Apple iTablet Whatever will be a further push into the market they have already established with their first tablet computer: the iPod Touch.