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Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock →

I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they’re thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges. With the iPhone OS as incarnated in the iPad, Apple proposes to do...

Jan 30th

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Jan 29th

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Squashed: You cannot use it effectively with one... →

And yes, the DRM situation is concerning. Maybe 2011 will be the year of Tablet Linux. But keep your pants on.

Jan 29th

furbo.org · iPad liberation →

There’s an inherent benefit to only doing one thing at a time: the load of worrying about other tasks is lifted. Knowing that there isn’t anything else competing for your attention is quite liberating. Of course, the iPad is an extension of this.

Jan 29th

stevenf.com →

The iPad as a particular device is not necessarily the future of computing. But as an ideology, I think it just might be. In hindsight, I think arguments over “why would I buy this if I already have a phone and a laptop?” are going to seem as silly as “why would I buy an iPod if it has less space than a Nomad?”

Jan 28th

Daring Fireball →

Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch pedal and gear shifter and manually change gears for the transmission as you accelerated and decelerated. Then came the automatic transmission. With an automatic, the transmission is entirely abstracted away. The clutch is gone. To go faster, you just press harder on the gas pedal. That’s where Apple is taking computing....

Jan 28th

“The bottom line is, many apps which were cute toys on iPhone can become...”

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Jan 28th

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Jan 28th