As I believe Descartes once said, “I think, therefore I think I’ll buy an iPad.” What he was really saying, when you get past all the intellectual mumbo-jumbo, is that what we perceive is far more important than reality. I, for example, perceive the McRib to be a valuable foodstuff and I hunt it down yearly when it is available. In reality it is poison.

To wit: Pipar Jaffery’s own Gene Munster

RIM has announced a purchase today—UI developer The Astonishing Tribe (a.k.a TAT). It looks like RIM will be using TAT’s talent to help improve the UI for Blackbery’s new tablet PlayBook as well as for its mobile smartphones. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

As stated in a post: “Today we are pleased to confirm plans for The Astonishing Tribe (TAT)