Love the new iPad. Why do I feel like I am being asked to stand and be counted?
Yes, they will add multitasking, yes they will add a front facing camera. Google voice and the iPad anyone? Add bluetooth and we’re done. I see the possibility in the iPad and future revisions. This is the starting point for a new genre and way of using the internet. Notice I didn’t say computer. This is firmly an internet tablet. Most everything you would use it for would be connected to the internet or your file storage at home. This is primarily a content access device not a content creation device. That’s how to think of it. That’s the iPad.
Yes, I do like and have tried to champion OpenSource software. How can I square that with my love of Apple? I’m complicated. I’m a human being. I also believe in a mixed economy and mixed nuts. I love our National Health Service and the National Theatre, but I also love Fortnum and Mason’s and Hollywood movies. “Apple,” Steve Jobs said, “stands at the intersection of Technology and the Liberal Arts.” This statement confused non-Americans who are not familiar with the phrase Liberal Arts (you can look it up here) but I think shows the fundamental cultural seriousness of Jobs and Apple which in turn explains their huge success and impact. He might perhaps more accurately have said that Apple stands at the intersection of Technology, the Liberal Arts and Commerce.”
Stephen Fry succinctly quells the arguments with Apple.
