(Image above of my old iBook used here for nostalgic reasons. Someday not too far in the future, I don't think we'll be wrangling with keyboards like this anymore.)
Now that it's been more than 24 hours since the announcement of the iPad and everyone's had a chance to freak out about all the functionalities it doesn't have and how it's not going to be the tablet-killer everyone thought it was going to be, let us remember a few things:
- what David Pogue calls the three-phase process of the standard Apple new category roll-out.
- Lucian's tweet on an important side-effect of using the device: "No one mentioned the iPad being able to fry eggs on its aluminum back after 30mins of use?"
- sangsara's lengthy, thoughtful meditations on "The Causes of iPad Disappointment".
Edited to add (10:48 am): Oops, except that I forgot about the HP Slate --- which I suppose tells you something about how much mind share it holds with me.
Labels: Geek girl, Life in the internet age, Words words words
2 Comments:
Thanks for the link. I'd say iPad sounds more natural and in-family for Apple than iSlate, which has a tricky sound and can become isolate or iceskate. I definitely prefer it, but was hoping for something else. Then again, Apple just cuts to the chase sometimes, like iPhone and iTV (which became Apple TV by time of launch).
I'm going to come off as a Luddite but so be it. I'm sick and tired of Apple gearing all its new products toward consumption rather than production. I'm sick of all the technological instruments following that lead. E-books... perhaps this is a little premature, but I feel they are leading to a wearing thin of the publishing industry, writers getting paid less to do more patchy work that can consumed more quickly with less thought. I can understand having a mobile device the size of phone that can function like a little Internet browser but if I'm going to get something that big, it won't be to read more on the Internet. YUCK. Perhaps I'll eat my words later on, but the way I feel right now, our civilization based on mass consumption of mostly worthless soulless goods should go to hell.
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