Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts [LWN.net]

Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Posted Nov 22, 2012 4:25 UTC (Thu) by zenaan (guest, #3778)
Parent article: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Hi Jon, knowing your traditionally dry humour, I read the following:

"But tablets are quickly becoming both more powerful and less expensive — a pattern that a few of us have seen in this industry before."

as:
"But tablets are quickly becoming both more powerful and less expensive — a pattern that few of us have seen in this industry before."

Please, I hope your standards of dry-ness have not dropped. Let's keep the chuckles coming :)

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Posted Nov 22, 2012 8:48 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

I also did the same sarcastic reading at first; for some reason the sentence as is didn't parse well. But then I noticed it was just an understatement, which worked well. Our editor's dry humor would have read:

But tablets are quickly becoming both more powerful and less expensive — a pattern that none of us have seen in this industry before.

Emphasis mine. They are all variations on the same theme, which should be followed by a "bazinga!" for maximum comedy effect.

Now that the joke has been utterly ruined for everyone, keep them coming!

Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Posted Nov 22, 2012 18:36 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (guest, #4458) [Link]

Reads fine to me. Our esteemed editor is certainly in the group of the very select few who have seen this phenomenon first hand ;-)