iPad Revolution
It’s not about the freakin’ camera. Hack the thing if you really need it. Its more than that. It’s more than Windows 7 and “I can make a tablet that is cheap and has many, many inputs.” It’s about a paradigm shift in how we interface with technology. Multi-Touch is not Apple’s “invention”. But they made it theirs and yours, whether you like it or not. And iTunes will not remain the sole reason to get on board or the only way to consume media.
Apple has awakened and made legit on-demand media. Apple has waken you to more than a beige box. Apple has respected your hand and your way of interaction as legit. (Your credit card is valid, too! Wink, Wink.)
What’s most important is not iTunes and consumption; although that is reality. What’s striking about 1/27/2010 is that the iPad is herolding the paradigm shift in computing UI. The mighty mouse and multi-touch pad is the intermediary for those that still want the “traditional” accessory input device that replaced your hand to communicates to the computer. Keyboard and TOUCH will dominate until gestures recognition is 100% accurate and accepted as a universal language, much like universal sign language and its dialects and grammar nuances.
The iPad is the single-cell life-form with no eye that will evolve into…