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"As it is built now, the iPad is the ultimate consumer device, meant
primarily to consume media, not to produce it. That's why, in its first
iteration, it has no native printing application, no camera, no USB ports
for peripherals. But the impulse to make it into something else, a
lightweight computer that can stand in for a PC in the classroom, at a
meeting, on the road, wherever, is strong. This is why iPad users have been
buying keyboards to bypass the touchscreen, and finding apps that allow for
rudimentary multitasking, printing, and remote access to one's home computer
in order to use non-iPad-enabled software like Microsoft Word. The paradox
of having designed the ultimate consumer device is that ultimately the
consumers will make of it what they want-if Google, with its rumored Chrome
Tablet, doesn't get there first."
from http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/jun/08/what-ipad-cant-do/
- [Flashcoders] on the iPad Jim Andrews
- Re: [Flashcoders] on the iPad Cedric Muller
