The iPadcolypse
The Apple iPad is an amazing product no matter what the detractors say. The iPad fits a rather broad market segment which encompasses people who find a full laptop overkill for their needs, who have been looking into netbooks but haven’t been able to be fully convinced for any number of reasons, and/or the people who have been looking at eBooks but haven’t been 100% thrilled with those either.
I’m in love with the iPad. It rather neatly resolves the dillema I’ve documented in the past regarding my computing needs. I have always disliked the idea having more than one computer. I like elegant gadget solutions as I can’t afford to buy different devices frequently and I’m amazingly OCD so I don’t like overcomplicating things. I’ll be saving a huge amount of money getting an iMac and iPad instead of an iMac and MacBook Pro.
The vitriol about what the iPad isn’t has been unending and I think the haters are all just missing the bigger picture. iPad is great, people who don’t like it aren’t required to like it. The people who weren’t planning on buying one anyway need to shut the hell up already, obviously it wasn’t made for them. I had a huge post coming together about this and even I began to get bored with it so I will let far more eloquent and geeky people say it all for me.
TUAW’s amazing Erica Sadun, writer/developer/geek extrordinaire, wrote In praise of the iPad: A contrarian view. Jon Armstrong over at Blurbomat.com made an excellent case for Casual Computing and very clearly explains Who’s Gonna Buy That?
We are not apologists. (I’ve been clear in criticizing Apple in the past and just recently discontinued my subscription to MobileMe.) We are lovers of technology, geeks, who can see a device for what it is and it’s amazing potential as it has been realized.
P.S. Flash is the devil, HTML5 will save us from Adobe’s ever-bloating evil. I’m willing to wait for more widespread adoption.
P.P.S. The Hulett Plumbing Disaster Part II coming tomorrow!!!
29 January 2010 at 6:00 pm
“Flash is the devil, HTML5 will save us from Adobe’s ever-bloating evil. I’m willing to wait for more widespread adoption.”
What!?!
Admittedly, the way some people use Flash is quite annoying; however, programming in Actionscript is heaven, and its consistency between different browsers and operating systems is fantastic.
Programming with html syntax is like flailing around in a tsunami of vomit and sputum. Then, when you’ve weathered the storm of programming you get a hodgepodge of results on different browsers and operating systems. Granted there are often ways of homogenizing the results, but I abhor having to make three hundred separate commands for the exact same thing.
Html syntax is a horrid clutter that drives me insane.
Actionscript’s cleanness makes me very happy.
… maybe I should try just using javascript and DOM for my website programming needs…
Anyway,
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30 January 2010 at 7:16 am
I want one now, and I think it’s mostly your fault for preaching it to me both on your blog and at dinner. LOL!
The eBook reader part gets me… How fantastical.
Loveage!