Speaking of Apple, they are readying a dizzying amount of new products. I wish I could camp out at an Apple store during the World Wide Developer Conference on August 7th. I wish I could say more, but that'd get me sued by Steve Jobs and I don't need that kind of heck right now.

Could that mean that we're going to see not only the Mac Pro, but a new iPod iteration, a new iPhone, and product refresh of the MacBook lines? As interesting as a new iPod and a new MacBook would be, I don't think it would garner the amount of excitement that would cause Scoble to want to camp out at an Apple store. What do you think, is an iPhone really coming soon? – Jason Chen

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Robert Scoble attempted some sort of preemptive spin yesterday, walking through the categories of 'device killers' that the Origami was not. (Scoble said—to quickly sum up—that the Origami was not an iPod, OQO, PSP, Nokia N90, Treo 700w, or Palm killer, nor was it a portable Xbox.)

Clearly, the Origami is an OQO killer, at least by design. Both devices are pocket-sized computers that run full-blown version of Windows XP, including Tablet PC Edition. (Although the OQO has a built-in keyboard, while the first Origami models do not.) Perhaps Scoble meant "larger and less convenient than an OQO, which would prevent it from killing the device."

More baffled reactions which we anticipate regretting once Apple decides to use this as a Newton revival platform after the jump.

As for everything else, well, it's too big to replace PDAs and smartphones—although we can certainly see a day in the near future when full-blown PC operating systems might supplant PDA-specific OSes—and it's actually less convenient a form factor than a sub-notebook. We're just not buying that a device with a 7-inch screen and a separate keyboard is going to be worth lugging around in a bag when our smartphones already give us mobile email and basic web browsing. And if this is supposed to replace our laptops, why such a funky form factor? How are we supposed to use the Origami models when typing with a Bluetooth keyboard? Even the two-year prototype with a built-in keyboard looks awkward.

The real news here is probably that Microsoft has developed a version of Windows XP (the 'Origami' name comes from Microsoft's work, we gather) that works with the new Intel hardware to provide long battery life. That sounds great, guys. Could we get that in a laptop?