At 6:40 AM -0800 4/2/10, David Patrick Henderson wrote:
>On 04 Feb 2010, at 02:47, David Cake wrote:
>
>> The iPads revolutinary aspect will be not what it does, but
>> who can use it. Its a device that offers all the access to the
>> internet, games, communication etc that a laptop does - but that
>> needs minimal knowledge to set up or maintain, and once set up you
>> can hand to a child (of reading age at least), and expect them to be
>> able to use it with reasonable facility.
>
>The iPad doesn't seem all that revolutionary as it does sound
>exactly like this
><http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/docs/bom/anthrophilic.html>
The revolutionary aspect is that rather than merely
*conceiving* of such a device, they actually built it, and built it
with enough care and attention to detail (and supporting
infrastructure etc) that millions of people will actually buy one and
use it.
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