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Personally, I abhor abbreviations. I choose to eschew obfuscation, and I really see acronyms as part of the problem. Yea, verily, I can easily infer your meaning from context, being an intelligent machine capable of parsing grossly poor syntax, but that does not mean that I like it.
An let us be honest--lest you are a physician in an emergency department, or a person in a combat zone, do you *really* need to be so quick with your speech, written or spoken?
Also, do not like contractions for the same reason (possible loss of data in transmission), and they have led to some interesting spelling anomalies in the English Language.
As for the device itself, Anything that gets me closer to a colour electrophoretic display coffee table--or best yet a multi-touch colour electrophoretic coffee table--is a boon to science and society as a whole.
Wonder if the item is capable of transferring everything from a phone. For example, depending on transfer speeds, it could be a neat way to improve web-browsing sans computer.
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