The iPad has Changed the World
If you are old enough to remember the Mac in 1984, you remeber how revolutionary the GUI was. Although Xerox invented it, Apple took it to the next level; pioneering a new era in computing. Whether or not you prefer Mac over PC, or even if you hate the Mac, you have to admit it simplified computing for all. And as Apple continues to simplify the computer for the average user, the hard core PC user says that Macs are for "fags" and "retards."
Apple is simplifying the computer, as they did in 1984. I ask you Mac haters; if simifying the computer makes Macs "faggy," then do you consider the GUI that simplified the computer, and replaced command line, "faggy" as well?
Well, Apple took a big leap. Today, the iPad was released to the world. It may seem like a big iPhone, but it's a stepping stone to the future of computing. The iPad will simplify computing, and make it more powerful. It is to the Mac what the Mac was to the Apple][.
It will change things. Because as the iPad becomes more like a computer, and gains more features, becoming simpler in the process, it'll csnibalize your need for a computer. Unless you write programs, and professionally edit video, you may get rid of your computer all together. But eventually, movie editing may come to an iPad-like device. You'd be able to directly handle your video clips. And programming of the future may become totally object oriented, and come to an iPad-like device as well. Slowly but surely, the computer as we know it will disappear... as command line did.
Because being able to just reach out and touch your work... to be able to interact with it that intimately is the true innovation of the iPad.
Before you know it, we'll be writing apps and editing movies on an iPad like device.
In 1984, it was "Welcome to Macintosh."
In 2010,
I welcome you to iPad. Mr. Jobs, you have successfully put a ding into the universe.
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Robert Mozayeni Apr 4, 2010 at 7:46 PM in Apple, Books, Mac vs PC, iPad, iPhone tagged Future, Steve Jobs, future of computing, ipad, mac, the future
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Simplifying the computer, and dumbing it down are very different things, and today, Apple dumbed it down, not simplified it. The iPad is interesting, and a step in the right direction, but it is missing way to much to be a market-changing product. It's features are limited, like it's hard drive. They could have put in a 160gb hard drive like some netbooks, but the max is 64 gigs. There is so much more they could have done with it that would have actually made it a game-changing product.