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Gregory Huang and Wade Roush from Xconomy teamed up today to capture reaction from the Boston and Seattle start-up communities to Apple's newly announced tablet. Their article, "The Apple iPad’s Impact on Mobile, Gaming, and E-Books: Local Techies and Startups React", is well worth reading.
Our CEO, John Chuang, added his perspective, concluding that we're pursuing a fundamentally different vision for the future of personal computing:
Ultimately, we are about a much bigger change in how operating systems work and how computers work. We are about [the] operating-system-as-a-service, about being extremely maintenance-free, about content, about synching. [The iPad] is more of a traditional device—an extension of the mobile platform, which we’ve seen, but at the end of the day it’s still local hardware, with local storage, and that’s not what we’re trying to accomplish.
As John's previously described, litl is premised on the fundamental belief that personal computing, especially at home, will continue its rapid move to the cloud. Email and photos transitioned first, but casual gaming, web video, video chat, social networking, and even productivity apps are all following fast. And yet, the hardware and software tools we use to enjoy the web are still mostly based on "pre-web" thinking: powerful on-board processors with large hard drives supporting local operating systems and standalone software.
We don't think this mismatch between consumer behavior and computing devices can endure. More than anything, it creates unnecessary complexity and compels consumers to become de facto systems administrators. Outside of the technical community, few consumers have an interest in updating software, backing up hard drives, or patching their operating system: they want the web to be fun and they want it to be easy.
The mismatch also stunts innovation by tying manufacturers and consumers to outdated thinking. John Gruber, technology observer and pundit, lamented the dearth of innovative thinking, "If a small startup can build the Litl, why couldn’t a big company like Dell or Sony? People today still love HP calculators made 30 or even 40 years ago. Has HP made anything this decade that anyone will remember fondly even five years from now? Inkjet printers?".
So, we at litl have chosen a very different path from the tablet and other traditional computing devices. Learn more about it on our website. And, if you agree with our thinking, please tell your friends and help us change the world a "litl" bit 
Photo credit: John Harvey
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