{"id":304,"date":"2010-03-25T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:15:55","slug":"ipad-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/ipad-future\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have asked me about my opinions on the iPad. Here are a couple of good articles that fairly closely match my thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.muledesign.com\/2010\/02\/the_failure_of_empathy.php\">The Failure of Empathy<\/a> (of those who naysay the iPad)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com\/post\/359224392\/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been\">New World and Old World computing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or for a very short summary, here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/entry\/iPad_or_Bust\/\">Ken wrote on the Omni blog<\/a> (Omni Group is the company I work for):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember how Macintosh was intended to be the computer &#8220;<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0093d0; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/toastbucket.com\/apple1984ad\/\">for the rest of us<\/a>&#8220;?\u00a0 That&#8217;s what we feel Apple&#8217;s iPad is:\u00a0 the best computing device for most of the things people use computers for.\u00a0 (Or, as Apple puts it, &#8220;<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0093d0; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px none initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\">the best way to experience the web, email, and photos<\/a>.&#8221;)\u00a0 It&#8217;s the computer people can sit down and start using immediately, without training, whether they&#8217;re 2 or 92.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean you personally are going to want one today. But I&#8217;ll wager that within a few years (five at most), something like this will be your computer of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have asked me about my opinions on the iPad. Here are a couple of good articles that fairly closely match my thinking. The Failure of Empathy (of those who naysay the iPad) New World and Old World computing Or for a very short summary, here&#8217;s what Ken wrote on the Omni &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/ipad-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iPad future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}