"Educators simply weren’t asking for them until recently... We don’t want to create technology for technology’s sake"

Translation: "We haven't the slightest clue what the word innovation means or why it's important."

Or is there some hope among the US people that a potential non-Obama future president would be able to solve the economical problems of the US in one swift stroke using his magical superabilities?

I'm looking forward to desktop displays getting increased resolution and 4:3 aspect ratios back some day. It's mildly ridiculous that we'll have the mobile device market to thank for it.

Tear up your paycheck every week, I'm sure your employer would love it.

Oh, you want to get paid for it? Then you must not like your job quite as much as you say. If you did, you'd do it for free.

If you had nothing to do all day, you'd get bored soon enough.

When I drive in cities that use the grid model, I find myself bored. They are far too predictable and lose the power to surprise and entertain. It also is mildly irritating that there are no true short cuts as there are so few diagonals. The distance between any two points is always an integral multiple of "a block". How is that any fun?

Unless the Kindles just magically appear in the wearhouse and market themselves.

Well, I think the issue is that they keep reinventing the wheel, and the result is that instead of people being more productive with a tool they are familiar with, the changes in the UI keeps getting in the way.

I think the news here is that someone is using them to actually render and display graphics, rather than to compute bitcoins.