You’re all right and smarter than me to boot so I won’t flog the newspaper of the future demands any more. I ain’t so well-spoken as a Mrgan or a Gruber anyhow.

As exciting as turning the publishing world upside down is, there seems to have been scant attention paid to the other thing about the tablet I’m pretty excited about: multitouch for your computer.

Sure, the tablet itself is going to have a slick, high-fidelity haptic interface that’ll let you swipe pages and flip widgets, etc, but I want all this on my computer. And I want the tablet to bring it. Forget touch screen iMacs, that idea’s as dumb as it is obvious, give me something that augments my keyboard and mouse and makes interacting with my computer just a little more natural. Make all of that Cover Flow stuff, currently a vaguely interesting toy, actually useful. 10/GUI without all the boring. Add a pen if you need to do something with all of the handwriting tech you’ve been bottling up but make using all of my fingers the exciting part. I never wanted to lick OS X but I do want to touch it.

My iPhone just sits at my desk all day, charging, my tablet (palette? canvas?) could actually be doing something.

And while I’m on a tablet-as-accessory kick, what if the tablet is also an accessory to your iPhone? I already carry the phone around with me everywhere, it’s already got a big hard drive and connectivity, the tablet could just tether off all of that.