Infinite Static by Chris Neuman

iPad: We’re Not In Kansas Anymore.

I love these quotes from Fraser Speirs’ blog post Future Shock:

Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get “real work” done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the “real work”.

It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.

The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.

If the iPad and its successor devices free these people to focus on what they do best, it will dramatically change people’s perceptions of computing from something to fear to something to engage enthusiastically with.

Can you imagine how much more brilliant content will be created when the iPad (and future devices like it) allow most everyone to actually enjoy creating rather than the computer getting in the way? The next 3-5 years are going to be something to behold.

Large iPad Customer Group Ignored In Apple’s Keynote

After watching the full iPad event via Quicktime I found it interesting that Steve Jobs left out a very important customer group whom I believe would have more need for an iPad than the “iPhone and laptop” group he mentions.

I understand that this was mostly a mobile technology keynote, but I believe a good chunk of the population are “iPhone and desktop” users who, other than the small iPhone, have no other way of mobile computing. An iPad would be a perfect mobile companion to the iPhone for customers with just a desktop at home.

I’m one of them.