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Baby You Can Touch iPad (for misguided pundits, with apologies to The Beatles)

In General on Monday, 8 February 2010 at 0:45

I asked Thurrott what he thought that it was.
He said a tablet, and that’s because
It’s unimpressive, and does nothing new
Than hardware he’s seen since 2002.

Baby you can touch iPad.
Experience you’ve never had.
Baby you can touch iPad,
And maybe you’ll love it.

He said in his mind it’s all just the same.
I said iPad shows those tablets are lame.
A desktop OS is all very fine,
But for a touch UI it’s not designed.

Baby you can touch iPad.
Experience you’ve never had.
Baby you can touch iPad,
And maybe you’ll love it.

I told him users could start right away.
Thousands of touch apps the very first day.
Apple’s not perfect, plans could fall apart,
But with their touch OS it’s a great start.

Baby you can touch iPad.
Experience you’ve never had.
Baby you can touch iPad,
And maybe you’ll love it.

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The iPad and Future Shock

In General on Friday, 29 January 2010 at 20:49

The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.

The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.

via speirs.org

This is a great article. Read it. Twice.

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Dear Apple iPad Haters: Please Get A Grip (And A Thesaurus).

In General on Thursday, 28 January 2010 at 10:01

Apple’s new device will inspire loads of techno-lust. But it looks more like a toy than a tool.

And so it begins. I chose the above quote from Salon.com out of numerous possibilities because it typifies the Apple-bashing mindset.

What always amazes me isn’t the bashers’ lack of vision or imagination, or their misreading of the target market, or not understanding Apple’s business models, or having learned nothing from previous Apple products’ successes, or even that maybe they need to bash Apple for a living. No, it’s the complete lack of originality in their arguments. I mean, it’s been 25 years since the Macintosh and they’re still calling Apple’s products “toys”. And those who like the iPad are “fanbois”. Yeah, another 25-year old misnomer. You need to work on your lexicon, guys, it’s hard to take you seriously.

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