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The personal computer of 2010 is hard to understand for novices and people who struggle with abstract concepts. Macs, PCs, all of them. Folks, it’s us, the freaks who understand drive partitioning, regular expressions, virtual disk images, task switching, and shell scripting — we’re the exception. So while we trump up our skills at designing “easy to use” interfaces for our applications, millions of people are still trying to figure out how to get our beautifully designed application out of its zip file or disk image. Or where in fact the Downloads folder is. Or what, exactly, a folder is.
Steven Frank, rightly calling bullshit on iPad parody coverage like this which takes pride in labeling the typical computer user—who does not (and should not need to) understand the complexities in modern OSes like Windows and even Mac OS X—as “mentally retarded.” (via chartier)
Jackass of the Day: PC Mag's Cisco Cheng »
Really, Cisco Cheng? You’re really going to put out an article titled 42 Reasons Why Netbooks Are Better Than the Apple iPad, comparing an entire class of computers with a new product that won’t ship for 60 days? Really?
If you read over all 42 of his reasons, they really boil down to the fact that unlike netbooks, the iPad doesn’t remind me of this.
OmniGroup: iPad or Bust »
Omni CEO Ken Case:
We’re really excited about Apple’s iPad, and we want to make all of our products available for it as soon as we can. Yes, we already had a big year planned for 2010, with several long-anticipated major product releases—but we think iPad is really important: important enough to spend some time juggling our plans to figure out how we can introduce five new iPad apps.
Yes. Five. We want to bring all five of our productivity apps to iPad: OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher.
I was just thinking before I read this that OmniGraffle was near the top of my Mac-to-iPad-port wish list.
It was appropriate that the iPad was unveiled the same day President Obama gave his first State of the Union speech. Both were centered on Jobs, and both sought to give people something useful they could put their hands on.
John Dickerson, discussing Obama’s SOTU speech for Slate
I love how all the iPad versions of the core iPhone OS apps are designed to look like real-life work accessories, like padfolios or desk planners.
