Our invitation to an exclusive unveiling of the iPad 2 suggests the much-lauded and highly anticipated device will primarily be a huge red and white calendar that can be peeled away each day to reveal the iPad underneath.
It's an odd design choice not even David Pogue could have predicted. Something certainly seems amiss at Apple, but we'll just have to roll with it (and so will you).
As we count the days before we crank the engine on our Lear jet, perhaps you'll help us ponder the following items:
- Is iCal poised to become the first application to ever work OUTSIDE the bounds of a device?
- Will the packaging include individual screen stickers for each day of the year?
- Will the stickers simply appear on the screen each day at midnight?
- Does Apple have an eco-friendly plan for the disposal of such stickers? With potential customers in the millions, they will certainly pose a threat to the environment.
- Will the stickers automatically display calendar events?
- Will the stickers be hearty enough to act as screen protectors?
- Will we be able to see through the stickers so that we can use the iPad while staring around a large black number?
Only time will tell, but if you have any ideas, assumptions, or actual knowledge of iPad's next iteration, please let us know. We'd love to hear from you.