Users of Blippy want people to know about what they are buying... one more step towards having your entire life open to the world.

This brings up a point that needs to be looked in to a bit further as our personal information becomes digitized: at what point do you just let go of trying to hide personal numbers (such as credit card and social security) and make them as public as possible and force the system to make sure that YOUR numbers are really your numbers? Honestly, if the banking systems that we use for credit transactions notified me EVERY TIME that my SS# went through their systems , then I would know when it is being used and wouldn't worry so much about someone "stealing" my identity. It's a 9 digit number that will NEVER be reissued as long as I live; credit card numbers are 16 digits long and are 'throw-away'. As soon as the systems are in place that link me directly to my SS, I won't be worrying about trying to hide these numbers.

I'll be worrying about Big Brother watching my every move...

I think part of the reason why tablets have failed in the past is because the developers haven't made tablets more 'data appropriate'. They make the tablets in such a way as to display/use data in laptop form. That is, the nearly full ability to manage information (cut, paste, copy, image manipulation, database queries, etc.), but in a form factor that should be attached to a laptop, not a tablet.

The smartphones of today are displaying 'data appropriate' information in a form factor designed for a ~3" screen; that is why they succeed. Typing out a thesis on an iPhone isn't 'data appropriate', but viewing a PDF of a thesis is more 'data appropriate' for the smartphone form factor. I'm hoping Apple will develop a UI that will allow the tablet to be displaying/manipulating data appropriate for its size.

Based on what Apple has been able to do with the iPhone, I think that you have limited yourself to what you THINK it can only be. What is the iPhone? Is it JUST a phone? Is it a phone with an iPod built in? No... it's a platform on which creative developers have changed a piece of hardware with phone/data functionality into a gaming device, mapping device, social networking device, news/information gathering device, radio streaming device, etc. YOU may only limit it to what you can come up with; Apple will outsource the creative development to the software engineers of the world and this product has the potential of doing many, many things, just like they have done with the iPhone.

The production values of many video games rivals many movies in terms of cinematics, storyline, and musical score. The Final Fantasy series of video games are great, but the 40+ hours one spends in experiencing the game can't be easily shared with others. If a demo mode was set into the game in which the story was allowed to play out, I believe more people would be pulled into wanting to get that game. The lines are starting to blur between game and movie...

That's exactly what I thought about this when I saw this: Google Maps or Google Earth. It is probably also something similar to technology used in video games that keeps progressively updating the details of an object that is far away that steadily comes closer and closer and adds detail.