Since you didn’t ask, here’s just a handful of things I’ve read about the iPad the past few days. Be sure to read the top two.
In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the web, playing a game, but not all at once. Applications are sandboxed, then moats dug around the sandboxes, and then barbed wire placed around the moats. As a direct result, New World computers do not need virus scanners, their batteries last longer, and they rarely crash, but their users have lost a degree of freedom. New World computers have unprecedented ease of use, and benefit from decades of research into human-computer interaction. They are immediately understandable, fast, stable, and laser-focused on the 80% of the famous 80/20 rule.
Is the New World better than the Old World? Nothing’s ever simply black or white.
—Old World vs. New World computing
Used to be you could argue that Flash, whatever its merits, delivered content to the entire audience you cared about. That’s no longer true, and Adobe’s Flash penetration is shrinking with each iPhone OS device Apple sells.
What’s Hulu going to do? Sit there and wait? Whine about the blue boxes? Or do the practical thing and write software that delivers video to iPhone OS? The answer is obvious. Hulu doesn’t care about what’s good for Adobe. They care about what’s good for Hulu. Hulu isn’t a Flash site, it’s a video site. Developers go where the users are.
—Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
The Killer App: iPad Board Games
Why My Mom’s Next Computer Is Going To Be An iPad
HTML5 is Great for Mobile, Developers Say
Web developers can rule the iPad
Why Bigger Is Better: The iPad And The Arc of Computing
How many icons on that iPad dock?
What the iPad Tells Us About Mobile Broadband Pricing
The iPad Will Make Apple’s Acquisition Of Quattro Wireless Look Even Smarter
5 Things The iPhone Could Learn From The iPad
Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad
A new class of content for a new class of device
