![]() The main problem with computers as they currently exist is that they make many otherwise intelligent people feel like idiots. I think it could turn out to be a fantastic device for consuming media and information (which is what it is for - more on that below). ![]() So, just for the record: I like the look of the iPad. As an end-user, my reaction can be summed up as: “Pretty cool for a lot of people!” As someone who works on a writing and organisational program for the Mac, my reaction is, in short: “Oh bum.” I think it’s important to establish this up front, in case what follows comes across as me bashing the iPad before it’s even in stores. My views on the iPad as a Mac developer are different from my views as an end-user. That is, as a developer rather than as an end-user, and specifically as a developer who has dedicated the past several years to developing an application for the Mac platform. Most of what follows is my thoughts on, and reaction to, the iPad from my perspective as a Mac developer. I’m split between my thoughts as a user and my thoughts as a Mac developer. My own opinion on the device is somewhat schizophrenic (in the colloquial sense, obviously). ![]() It’s a neat little gadget Apple released last week without much fanfare.) There are commentators out there declaring it the world’s most expensive Etch-a-Sketch (unfair it has no stylus), and others praising it as being as “magical” and “revolutionary” as Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive would have us believe. ![]()
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