“And then, last week, I got my hands on the big screen version of iPod, the iPad, a device that when it was unveiled was certainly nifty, but in my estimation, still searching for a market,” Goldman reports. I wrote the day after its release in January that the iPad was a case of ‘need versus want,’ and that it might be ‘more the latter than the former.’ I added that ‘I’ll certainly give it a shot, but it’s just not quite the no-brainer iPod and iPhone seemed to be.'”
Goldman reports, “Once again, Apple hasn’t invented something. But because Apple has ‘re-invented’ the tablet as we know it, the company has launched a revolution. Again. There will be tablets hence, and there certainly have been tablets past, but not until iPad has the marketplace truly seen the potential and possibilities of this platform and this technology.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Now, Jim just needs to wake up on the Kindle and he’ll be all set mea culpa-wise.
Good point kevt.
@kevt
I know that. Neither are all those Firefox extensions that duplicate each other. The point, as Jeeve Stobs recognizes but Ms. One can’t admit because of her cyber-world wage-slave status (so she resorts to ad hominem attacks), is short-circuiting black-hat, personal-information, web-stalking thieves. It can’t be done with a locked-in iPad. Three guesses as to why.
“A journalist with integrity, way to go Jim…”
Yeah, how bout not making idiotic comments before you even touch the device next time?
Nah, i get your point, you want privacy, but why do you like IE so much ?