This video by Penguin really shows the potential in rethinking how a book could be presented on a tablet. It’s interactive, non-linear (great for the anatomy book) and takes full advantage of the hardware. Perfect.
I’ve been trying for a few days to write the blog post that sums up both the praise and criticism of Apple’s iPad. It’s really hard, seeing that so many talented people have already written extensively about it, and continue to do so. Don’t forget to follow my collection of articles and Twitter-favorites as well.
So far, my only comment on the iPad is this:
The platform is closed – and it doesn’t matter. There’s no Flash – and it doesn’t matter. It may lack this or that feature – and it doesn’t fucking matter.
It’s not made for me, and it’s not made for you. It’s made for the kids, the grannies and the people who are scared by the way computers work today.
Today, people compute, and the fact that we haven’t moved beyond that yet is absolutely beyond me. However, I think the iPad might be the first step towards a world, where the ones who want to tinker and hack away, are free to do so.
Then everybody else can start actually working with computers, not on them.
As with the previous post, I’m collecting opinions and blurbs on the iPad. This post is tweets of notable quality in one way or the other, and I’ve divided them into tweets about the platform, user experience and humor (Twitter being the way it is, there will certainly be many more tweets and I’ll update this post accordingly).
For the past couple of days since the announcement of Apple’s latest and greatest invention, the iPad, I’ve read everything I can get my hands on about it. The following is a collection of noteworthy quotes and opinions from the articles and blog posts on the matter.
I certainly don’t agree with everything, but what is linked to from this post is interesting to read none the less. I’ve divided the posts into categories on what’s been said about the iPad as a platform, stuff that focus on the user experience, posts about Amazon’s Kindle, what it means for magazines and lastly, interesting stuff that doesn’t fit these categories.
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” – Steve Jobs
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“The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as anyone else’s anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You’re lucky if you can do one that’s one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it’s only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software. As a matter of fact, I think that the leap that we’ve made is at least five years ahead of anybody.” – Steve Jobs.
In 1994.