Yes, I got an iPad. No, I didn’t sleep out in front of an Apple store. No, I didn’t wait in line for hours. No, I didn’t plan on buying the wi-fi version on release weekend, but the videos and early reviews were too hard to ignore for someone like me.
Everyone has chimed in on iPad; everyone has glorified or bashed it. I’ve only read a few reviews where people seem to really get what’s going on here. Last night I was reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (a book I’ve been intending to read since it came out–and yes I was reading it on my iPad) and I came across this passage that I felt was exactly the computing paradigm shift that’s happening and how the iPad bashers sound:
“If you’re too old in nineteen seventy-five, then you’d already have a job at IBM out of college, and once people started at IBM, they had a real hard time making the transition to the new world,” says Nathan Myhrvold, who was a top executive at Microsoft for many years. “You had this multibillion-dollar company making mainframes, and if you were part of that, you’d think, Why screw around with these pathetic little computers? That was the computer industry to those people, and it had nothing to do with this new revolution. They were blinded by that being the only vision of computing. They made a nice living. It’s just that there was no opportunity to become a zillionaire and make an impact on the world.”
I’ll post more thoughts on this new device when I find time (and that time thing is another post as well, I’ve been busy to say the least).
And yes, I wrote this post on WordPress for iPad. And it was a lovely experience.
