Here' why the WiMAX Tablet will be "the one device to rule them all" for me. Personally, I'm neither a business nor power user of technology, but would be better called a social user of technology.

For me - Connection - is the greatest enabler.

Speaking of generational changes, I realize the Tablets regularly acquire new chassis and form factors, and that the next model after the WiMAX Tablet will feature a platform evolution, but the larger 'generational change' that's contextualizing the products, imho, is occuring within the youth, worldwide.

A good billion, or so, people out there are ready to step, seamlessly, from texting, IMing, e-mailing and blogging into the Always On/Always Connected World.

This is not the iPhone paradigm repeated. Apple is a company full of geniuses, that - somehow, amazingly - blossomed and thrived in a business environment of oppressive Corporate Domination, and they did it by focusing on the end-users of their products. They built an empire by, serially, listening and imagining something better for the User. They are still one of the best in the world at doing it, regularly, with excellence.

In the Age of Consumerism, which most experts say is coming to a close, the key to success was/is targeting the end-user's wallet with desirable products for Personal Use. That's how you get *inspired* to build the "All About Me, Not You"-Pod. Need to make more Money? Just add Dialtone. Yuk. Geniuses, yes, but still building to the "Rebellious Teenager Under the Headphones, in His Room, Who Never Grew-up to Meet the World" paradigm.

That's two things at - way overdue - end-of-life: "Me-and-Not-You" Thinking and Dialtone.

The WiMAX Tablet is not that! It's more like the tool that enables the rest of us to meet in the living room and share, and play and grow together.

Nokia is full of geniuses, too. The difference, imvho, is in the Wholesome Social Paradigm they are working with as a Corporate Culture. They 'go to market' like a healthy, balanced family goes through life - disciplined but supportive, strong but adaptable. They are truly worthy of carrying a significant portion of Finland's fortunes on their backs!

For me, they've earned my admiration with their products, and I trust them to do as good a job bringing us together with technology, facilitating Social Awareness, as Apple did for resourcing Personal Enjoyment - because, in this dawning Age of Community, Nokia are the kinds of people I want to meet...in the living room, at the coffeeshop, in the stands at the match, down the street at the library, on a mountainside, on the bus...