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Posts about ipad
February 2nd, 2010
I enjoy iPad speculation as much as anyone, but this isn’t written as if it were speculation. Posts with titles like this—and there have been a lot of them—really shouldn’t be written until people have had a chance to try out their iPad for at least a week or two, if not longer. They muddy the discussion, and will make it harder for the community to review the iPad with a fresh perspective when they arrive. (Why yes! I am a user-centered designer.)

I enjoy iPad speculation as much as anyone, but this isn’t written as if it were speculation. Posts with titles like this—and there have been a lot of them—really shouldn’t be written until people have had a chance to try out their iPad for at least a week or two, if not longer. They muddy the discussion, and will make it harder for the community to review the iPad with a fresh perspective when they arrive.

(Why yes! I am a user-centered designer.)

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January 28th, 2010
So too it’ll be with computers. Eventually, most will be like the iPad in terms of the degree to which the underlying computer is abstracted away. Manual computers, like the Mac and Windows PCs, will slowly shift from the standard to the niche, something of interest only to experts and enthusiasts and developers.

Daring Fireball: Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad

Windows has certainly been heading down the “automatic” direction for years—on Vista, I can’t even tell where downloaded files live (much less my non-techy coworkers). Programmers, and future programmers, will always find the command line, and if it’s not available they’ll hack the computer to find the command line. Most users will never know the command line exists.

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This is why it’s worth learning about advertising

superamit, stammy, rinich:

From Apple.com:

Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.

Bam! That’s their selling point! Somebody gets paid lots of money to write that sentence, and they earn it all, because that sentence will sell several billion of these things.

I don’t know that I agree with the “magic” component rinich mentions several times in this post. Delight comes from recognition, and recognition is a fleeting feeling. But I do agree that the price point is absolutely the most compelling selling point of the Apple Tablet*. It’s cheaper than an iPhone and works, and is friendly, out of the box. That’s amazing. The Latitude XT2 costs $2k. Apple is marketing this for the common man, and the prices match up with the intended consumer audience.

*I’m just ignoring the whole ‘iPad’ moniker. Terrible.

—Timoni

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