My fascination with this iPad
April 29, 2010So today, Thursday afternoon, I’m sitting at Starbucks on First Ave. blogging with an iPad. If you’re thinking about getting one, here’s my first blush analysis:
1) It’s REALLY cool. Watched a movie in bed earlier this morning. Read the New York Times without getting ink on my fingers. Checked email, and now typing with a full size keyboard. In case you missed my my point, IT’ S REALLY COOL.
2) I’m not sure if it is user friendly yet. So many things are just like the iPhone that it’s very familiar to me but others who really want to play with it are sometimes a little confused. One of my co-workers kept asking “Where’s the manual?” Apple doesn’t print manuals, they are on the machine. And that made her very uncomfortable.
3) It will change the world. Maybe this isn’t the actual machine that does, but very soon the new world of books, especially college textbooks, will be transformed from paper and ink to electrons and data packets.
Wish i could take two weeks off and play with it.
