Oh Ipad…
What Jobs is saying, is that he’s finally found a way to reach the masses of computer noobs that Mac has been aiming for all along. The problem with the original Macs is that they required someone to actually use a computer.
Now that he’s turned computers into toys, he can finally get “Grandma.” But this doesn’t really change anything in the computer world.
It’s something to brag about for sure, on a marketing level. On a features level, he succeeds only by not having them. Kind of like how McDonald’s succeeds by not having a steak dinner.
…so true – I think the device is great, for what it does well – a fun shiny toy for playing with some great apps, social, reading, and for getting a generation of nonusers to pick up a device related to the computer in some distant leg of the gene pool. Certainly not going to revolutionize the computing world IMHO…
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