Seemingly they are smart little color TVs and color magazines rolled into one thing. They look like heirloom devices, promise to keep you away from work too hard and evoke a customer/consumer the way media people like them.

That is why especially publishers and TV news people (no need for 30 inches and more) both love to like them and why the german publishers went berserk when ARD launched a tablet app with the contents of tagesschau.de.

Deep in their hearts and their balls sleeps the fear that history will repeat and TV will once more roll over their head. O you poor publishing families and you poor supporters of them. Maybe you will live to see a farce.