A Little Of iThis And iThat

January 28th, 2010

You’d have to had been under a rock to not know that Steve Jobs introduced Wednesday what Apple hopes will be the coolest device on the planet: a slender tablet computer called the iPad. Apple is positioning the device, some versions of which will be available in March, as a pioneer in a new genre of computing, somewhere between a laptop and a smartphone. “The bar is pretty high,” Mr. Jobs acknowledged. “It has to be far better at doing some key things.” While admittedly cool looking, I am struggling with what exactly the iPad is (besides horribly named) and what need it could possible fulfill. What might very well be a precursor of success was the conversation I had last night. Two of my daughters already thought the iPad was the coolest thing on the planet. Apparently it was the talk of the lunch table at school as kids everywhere whipped out iPhones to show each other the iPad. Steve Jobs might be on to something after all.  (more…)

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