I’ve been using the iPad for around two months now I guess and, although my thoughts on the device have been percolating since February… I think, at last, some words have finalised themselves in my head;
The iPad is a high-end, luxury disposable device. An oxymoron. Social, yet non-committal.
Social, is the key word here and it’s this, as well as the whole damn anthropology of it all that brings me to our conclusion.
- The mobile phone; hyper-personal. Unique. Yours.
- The laptop; still personal, but inclusive. At times, socially unacceptable. Effort.
- The iPad; social. Open. Socially acceptable.
Flat and, like table top space invaders of old, it just works. Around the home, in the pub or even in the office – the iPad is handed ’round like it’s always just been there.
I like the iPad. It’s a social consumption machine and there really is nothing else like it.
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– – – Drawn, written and posted, from my iPad