The Case is the Trojan Horse
Adam Lisagor on the iPad and the difficulty implied by computing without a keyboard and mouse. We get have to touch our data.
I think for obvious reasons, most commentators seem to be thinking about how they go about computing today and then picture doing it on a tablet. Apple seems to have taken for granted that tablet computing is going to exist and be it’s own thing. This has led to a fully articulated vision of what tablet computing means de novo. My prediction: when people actually use an iPad, they’ll understand it and the choices that have been made by Apple will make much more sense.
UPDATE: John Gruber (who’s one of the select few that’s actually used an iPad) reports that you do in fact need to use it to understand it. On my walk, I just listened to both this little Spark podcast and most of Dan Benjamin’s first episode of The Conversation which together generated a good deal of nostalgia for The Talk Show – the first podcast I ever enjoyed.
