Short note on the iPad
Doctorow’s right, Apple (that is, Steve Jobs) should have opened up the iPad. The iPad will not foster revolutionaries; it won’t be the tool for those who think different. It optimises what we have – email, Internet browsing, watching films, and other established applications. At that, I think it will excel; I think it will sell; I think it will improve the user experience in the shallow sense for most casual computer users; I think it will be the first computer my grandfather could use without hassle; and I think it will change how and where computers are used. But it doesn’t have leverage that excites me the way the smartphone does.
References
Cory Doctorow, Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either), https://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-thi.html ()