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Friday Fun: Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet

Category: friday fun
Posted on: January 29, 2010 4:39 PM, by John Dupuis

So far, I'm pretty iPad-agnostic -- mostly curious to see if it can burst out of it's obvious niche applications and become a mass device like the iPod or iPhone.

However, The Onion's article just before the big announcement day really struck a funny bone:

Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think--think, dammit--you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray.

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