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Regarding the iPad

My life at this point is basically a nonstop firehose of Skype calls, delicious links, SSH logins, and googlefests culminating in presentations in strange office parks. I live in the cloud. My music, my photos, my todo lists, my notes, my travel arrangements, my Christmas list, and my pants size are just chilling out there in a distributed fluff of XML. So, yeah, on that level the iPad with a copy of Keynote for presenting and a bluetooth keyboard for server wrangling sounds like the best thing since ever.

On the other hand, I strongly believe that people who write paragraphs like the one I just wrote should be punched in the junk, over and over, until they buy potable water for a village somewhere.

So, conflicted.

Thanks for the reminder.

Interesting take. Have you ever visited http://globalrichlist.com/? I think it's safe to assume we're all a whole lot closer to the top of global economic prosperity than we'd like to believe.

With 2/3 of this planet's population living on less than $2/day forgoing a few toys could change someone's life.

Thanks for the reminder.

The biggest issue with the

The biggest issue with the iPad is it's closeness , this phrase resumes very well the problem "Once we replace the personal computer with a closed-platform device such as the iPad, we replace freedom, choice and the free market with oppression, censorship and monopoly."

I think it's dangerous that comfort it's becoming a more important factor than openness, there is one step from closed devices to closed content access and scenarios like this http://i.imgur.com/K6WwJ.jpg

conflicted.

Jeff, maybe you’d feel less conflicted if your life weren’t a nonstop firehose?

Adjectives

I was conflicted until I watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZS8HqOGTbA

It's a 3 minute clip of the keynote with only the adjectives they said. It was a nice reminder that Apple is drinking way too much of their own Koolaid with this one.

No Innovation

Apple is not creating anything new here.... Seriously.
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

Nothing new

>Apple is not creating anything new here.... Seriously.

Apple has flirted with a notebook-sized tablet for years. The Newton Cadillac dates from 1993. The PenLite, based off a Powerbook Duo, came three years later.

However, the idea of a touch-driven Apple product predates even these. I have a QuickTime TV ad featuring a man in a park, using an Apple II-based tablet, learning to read the newspaper.

-NP

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