Thank you, David Pogue
Jan. 28th, 2010 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acmespaceshipI hadn't been able to put my finger on it, but now David Pogue in the New York Times has managed to articulate exactly the thing that bugs the hell out of me about the iPad:
"It’s designed for consuming — books, newspapers, movies, photos, music, Web, e-mail — more than creating. There’s no physical keyboard and no camera."
That's it exactly. I get the same nagging displeasure when I go to Fry's (oh how I love to go to Fry's...) and look for microphones, only to find three or four mics on display next to an entire aisle of earphones. Or when I read specs for MP3 players trying to find out if they have a recording capacity and a line-in port. Or all those netbook reviews and not a mention of whether you can type on the damn thing. Are people really just sitting there with $500+ devices looking at them and not doing anything? Still, if anyone wants to give me an iPad for free I'll take it. Ooh, shiny.
"It’s designed for consuming — books, newspapers, movies, photos, music, Web, e-mail — more than creating. There’s no physical keyboard and no camera."
That's it exactly. I get the same nagging displeasure when I go to Fry's (oh how I love to go to Fry's...) and look for microphones, only to find three or four mics on display next to an entire aisle of earphones. Or when I read specs for MP3 players trying to find out if they have a recording capacity and a line-in port. Or all those netbook reviews and not a mention of whether you can type on the damn thing. Are people really just sitting there with $500+ devices looking at them and not doing anything? Still, if anyone wants to give me an iPad for free I'll take it. Ooh, shiny.
